Not to sound elitist here, but after a few days of tending to my online presence through a dial-up connection, I have a newfound feeling of respect for anyone who maintains a site without the benefit of a DSL, cable, or other high-speed connection.
I never realized how heavily I rely on the big, fat pipe that runs into every computer I've got. Without it, I feel like I have to selectively choose what I do, when I do it, and how deeply I can dig before I have maxed out the phone line's ability to feed my research need.
Lots of bandwidth changes the way one works. I didn't realize it until I had it removed from my midst for a little while. Hmm, possible fodder for future writings, I believe.
End of elitist techno-whine. Without the generosity of my in-laws letting me disrupt their phone line ad infinitum, I'd be thoroughly disconnected. I'm thankful that I have any link at all to the world of writing that so sustains me.
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I am Oh So a fan of the DSL and or the Cable access for my computer!!!
Just wanted to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas!
While at my in laws' house over Thanksgiving, I was relegated to dial up. I was shocked and amazed in the remembrance that I, too, used to wait that long for connections, downloads, heck, just for a simple plain text page to load. Thoroughly spoiled am I now, with DSL and wi fi; and I hope never to face a dial up connection again.
"How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Pareee?"
You say "respect," I say "pity."
Just kidding. Kind of.
There are a lot of people who are terriffied of learning the newwe technologies. I've heard people proudly say they dont even know how to turn a computer on and when faced with one they want everything set up to Icons on the desk top.
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