From the press office (56k warning)

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Bangor, Wales - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web and senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has announced that so-called 56k warnings, thought to be issued as a gesture of convienience and solidarity towards less well endowed Internet Surfers, should be phased out with immediate effect. Describing the thought process that lead to this decision, Berners-Lee put forth that the number of Internet Surfers still utilizing such legacy technology were so few that the wear and tear inflicted on one's fingertips in the process of issuing such a warning was irrefutably unwarranted. When probed regarding the few Internet Surfers who do still, in fact, find themselves in those most regretable of connectivity circumstances, Berners-Lee forcefully communicated that they would either already be painfully aware that the entirely of their Internet Surfing experience would be distressingly slow and bandwidth intensive, or that such infrequent or less technically minded Surfers would not recognise the term used in the warning, thus rendering it futile.

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So true.

NOTHING is more pointless and annoying than a 56k warning. What purpose does it serve? Does a 56k modem explode if the user opens a thread with images? Is the users back button rendered inoperable?
 
Is anyone still on a 56k modem, or any kind of ye old dial up?

I feel nostalga thinking about my Openworld 1MB ADSL (from the days when a BT engineer would install it for you), now I am on a 20MB cable connection.
 
I think there should still be a warning for mobile internet users. Especially 1st gen iphone users such as myself, as if I were to open a webpage with a large picture in it (i.e. most of the photography section of this forum) I'd be there ages waiting for it to download as it only uses 2g :p

Of course, I can't wait to get with the times once my contract is over next may and I'll stop moaning then :(
 
I think there should still be a warning for mobile internet users. Especially 1st gen iphone users such as myself, as if I were to open a webpage with a large picture in it (i.e. most of the photography section of this forum) I'd be there ages waiting for it to download as it only uses 2g :p

Of course, I can't wait to get with the times once my contract is over next may and I'll stop moaning then :(

You surf the net on your phone? I make calls on mine and have a PC with a big monitor to do my surfing ;-)
 
You surf the net on your phone? I make calls on mine and have a PC with a big monitor to do my surfing ;-)

lol :p I see your point! and raise you that due to the nature of my lifestyle it means I spend a lot of my time travelling, moaning at the bassist and generally being away from my computer :p
 
lol :p I see your point! and raise you that due to the nature of my lifestyle it means I spend a lot of my time travelling, moaning at the bassist and generally being away from my computer :p

I am only jealous that you have an iphone, when I have an n95.
 
I am only jealous that you have an iphone, when I have an n95.

I hated my n95, hence why I sold it and bought the iphone whilst I still had the chance, I was lucky though to be fair.

Personally I'm jealous of all those people who are able to get new contracts with the 3g phone.

Damn you orange and your ridiculous 18 month contracts that have stupid tariffs :(

Edit: also nice beemer, and cool to see you have a couple of models up from TW_fox :p
 
Is anyone still on a 56k modem, or any kind of ye old dial up?

I feel nostalga thinking about my Openworld 1MB ADSL (from the days when a BT engineer would install it for you), now I am on a 20MB cable connection.

I think nostalgically of my old 14.4k modem and waiting ages for a dodgy picture of pammy anderson to load only for it to stop halfway! Or playing Unreal online through a 28.8k modem 10yrs ago, now that was laggy!
 
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