Thankful
My weekend visiting friends was a violent reminder of dial-up connections and Microsoft operating systems.
"Let me just check that on the internet," meant booting into some sort of Windows operating system.
Beep. Ssssh.
Internet Explorer - another blast from the past - apparently hasn't evolved tabbed browsing yet, or the ability not to crash the entire OS when surfing more than one page.
Beep. Ding. Ding.
The fantastically slow connection would also sympathetically die occassionally and downloads would have to be started again. Why do people do this to themselves?
It really made me thankful that I use a completely different setup devoid of such problems: Firebird + Linux + ADSL + Wireless (bonus component).
So be thankful for what you have, and be aware that there are some poor souls out there still at the mercy of their OS and dialup connections.
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I will say your site loads quickly and it is fast. I am not an unlucky soul that has dial up, but I am still windows and IE. Someday I will be more techie, but it just hurts my head to think that hard. I like your site though.
I know the feeling...I spent Thanksgiving on dialup going from almost a T1 to a dialup is a hassle and a "If I ever have to do this again somethings going to blow up," type of thing.
Thank you Cindra. :) You can start Firebirding today! I believe they have versions for Macs and Windows. Try a tabbed browsing experience, you won't look back. Heh, I can just see a user's head exploding as they can't take any more of their dialup lines.