The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine. Signed Abraham Lincoln. A sign in a shop window at Echuca, Victoria

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine. Signed Abraham Lincoln. A sign in a shop window at Echuca, Victoria in December 2018

An Internet web site blocked by Malaysian authorities as "it violates Malaysian Law", seen in Malacca, Malaysia

An Internet web site blocked by Malaysian authorities as "it violates Malaysian Law", seen in Malacca, Malaysia in August 2017

QR codes at Brightwater Commons, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. Scan me, and me, and me!

QR codes at Brightwater Commons, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa in February 2015, Scan me, and me, and me!

Cafe in Trang, Thailand. chicken rice.com

Cafe in Trang, Thailand in May 2016. chicken rice.com

Free Yarra Wi-Fi sign on the pavement in North Fitzroy, Melbourne

Free Yarra Wi-Fi sign on the pavement in North Fitzroy, Melbourne in November 2016

Internet advert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rotana Internet Cafe advert in English and Arabic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2012

Internet café

An internet café in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia in June 2011

Korean internet gaming

Mural at the entrance to the Sky PC Cafe and Billiard cafe in Civic, Canberra in March 2013. Targeted at the Korean gaming market

Free WiFi in Hong Kong

Free WiFi sign seen in Hong Kong in September 2012

In an internet cafe

Men at an internet cafe in Pai, Northern Thailand, in December 2009

IT corner

Free internet in a Hong Kong shopping mall, taken in July 2009