The first bus ride in cyberspace

The Internet, to borrow a phrase from Alice in Wonderland, just gets curiouser and curiouser.

The Diary was bewildered to discover that Buckinghamshire County Council is about to put Milton Keynes public transport timetable on the World Wide Web.

To quote from the press release that landed on the Diary’s desk, the move will “allow worldwide access to information about transport in the Milton Keynes area”.

Why would someone halfway across the world want access to this?

It is difficult to conceive of a male in Los Angeles taking time out from surfing the Web for porn (the Web’s most popular sites), to enquire about the time of the last bus back from the Milton Keynes’ Red Lion.

What’s more, the good burghers of the new town have stumped up 8,000 for the project. Granted this will not break the bank, but a waste of money is a waste of money.

All this goes to show that the Net is still in its teenage sex phase; there is a great deal of fumbling, but the results are rarely satisfactory.