Portable, computer-peripheral apparatus including a universal serial bus (USB) connector

A portable computer-peripheral apparatus comprising a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector, the apparatus being operable to communicate with a computer terminal such that, following connection to the terminal, the apparatus initialises or presents itself as a HID keyboard and then sends to the terminal a first predefined sequence of keycodes automatically without manual interaction;

• the keycodes complying with the human interface device (HID) keyboard standard protocol and in which the apparatus has pre-stored on it, without prior user input, the address of a website together with unique data enabling unique identification of the apparatus at a remote server via the terminal;
• and in which the HID keyboard sequence and without any prior input of a website address or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the apparatus at any earlier time by a user automates the direct access, over the internet, to the pre-stored web site address.