A question you probably have not bothered to think about. Somewhere in cyberspace is a term I have often heard used.

If you live in Christleton then you probably think it is round the corner in Pepper Street. Well you are half right. There is certainly a working copy of the Christleton web site on my computer. This gets updated many times each week and is sent to another computer somewhere else.

Up until now I have not known where this other computer resides. Being curious I started to investigate and my search came up with a surprising answer. When you type in www.christleton.org.uk in your computer or better still call it up from your list of favourite web sites where does your request end up.

Depending on where you are or who is your internet provider the request will probably take between 10 and 30 hops passing through Herndon, Virginia before it speeds on across the United States to the town of Englewood just five miles from Denver in Colorado. Up and down the streets before it pops into 8005 South Chester Street which seems quite an appropriate address for the Christleton web site. All this way while you have blinked a couple of times.

If you would like to know more about Englewood where the Christleton web site lives just click here. You probably think the Englewood web site might be in the same room as the Christleton site. You would be a few thousand miles out as this web site lives in Randolph, Maryland. Its a strange world!