Surf the Net While Surfing

Web Design High Wycombe took to the beach last week, visiting Woolacombe in North Devon, where in 2004 the first surfboard was made that allowed you to surf the net from your surfboard.

The term surfing traditionally describes the act of riding ocean waves and over the course of the past two decades has come to mean browsing the internet. The internet fuelled surfboard was built by Jools Matthews of Gulfstream surfboards and was launched at the Intel GoldCoast Oceanfest on June 18 June 2004, with its maiden outing taking place at the event, when international pro surfer Duncan Scott took to the waves.

The board provides surfers with access to their emails and the ability to literally surf the web. There is even the ability for surfers to record themselves surfing the seas. The tablet laptop based on Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology allows a wireless Internet connection from the surfboard to a ‘hotspot’ on the beach.