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I can understand the need for someone using dial up but I have no idea how they get anything accomplished. I had the unpleasant experience of having to go back to it for a week last year after a house fire just so I could manage my sites and get my email. Everything took an excruciatingly long time. Sites like this one with low bandwidth pages aren't such a problem but even trying to pay my cable bill took forever to load.
The web has really moved beyond 56K over the last decade, pages that don't necessarily need to be bloated are. You have a lot of use of very large JS files, video, flash etc. Simple example I can think of from my own site which is generally very light is the use of .png images on my index page. These are the only images compatible with browsers that provide alpha transparency that could provide the effect I wanted and are generally a lot larger than .jpg.
They do not turnover much of what you do to computer. Just as many still have no computer and get a long as before. Actually I am not getting things done has much to do with sitting in front of a computer much.
I wasn't using dial up in 2001. I no longer have a landline, and never will again. I remember when I first got cable internet... going from 4-5 kilobytes per second to 234 kilobytes per second, was just the most amazing experience I've ever had. I still appreciate the speeds to this day.
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