13th July 2004, 9:35 PM
No different than XBox Live really. That too would perfectly allow web browsing via the right software, but they decided not to make that software and focus entirely on the gaming end of things. Same with all the online games I've played on PS2 actually, not a single one has a web browser app in them though they are perfectly capable of accessing the standard internet. Indeed, ANYTHING that accesses an online service is capable of that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)