Broadband: Section 2

All Personal Computers (PCs) begin life as stand alone machines. They are not connected to any other machine.

The only way that data can be imported into them is via a floppy disk or (more likely these days) a CD-ROM.

Communication in the form of emails or Web browsing is impossible.

You can still do a lot with such a machine. It's just that it's not very easy to share information between this machine and any other.