You Gotta Love Technology…
It’s the 6th day since Chinese New Year. As I’m loitering around my in law’s houses, desperately scrounging around for morsels of Internet connection, I’ve come across this old piece of artifact…
It’s called a 56k Modem.
Back then, when Starbucks never existed in our social radar, there was a time when people actually connected to the Internet using this machine.
It was a time when being connected to the Internet meant that people couldn’t use the phone at the same time.
If Internet marketing existed years ago, (and assuming that I’m staying with an adolescent sibling…) I can imagine myself sending out emails to my subscribers only to be interrupted by my sibling’s constant cries for a free phone line.
That’s why you gotta love technology…
Can you imagine the following if you were using the dinosaur 56k? You would be:
- Unable to login to standard Gmail. You would have to wait for minutes for all the components to load up. Gtalk would work if you are unlucky and you would have to resort to standard HTML to get your email.
- Forget Facebook too… I won’t need to elaborate much here.
- You can’t do many multiple tabs. Whenever I switch on my computer, I would have 10-20 tabs opened at once (emails, blogs, autoresponder, Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs, Wikipedia and many more) in order to get my work done. On a 56k, you running TWO tabs at once is already a luxury.
- Connecting to the Internet takes TIME… and to imagine that we gripe about resetting our modems and waiting about 20 seconds for the connection to load up. However hearing the squeaks and chimes of a connecting 56k modem really brings back nostalgic memories.
- With a 56k, you might even forget to DISCONNECT your connection - often resulting in an exorbitant phone bill if you leave your computer on.
Anyway… having half a connection is better than no connection at all. Otherwise, you would be answering over 100 emails after a week of not logging in.
5 responses so far
1 Charlie wrote:
31 Jan 2009 at 10:18 pm
Unfortunately, dial up modems are still the only way for many people to get connected to the internet (and many marketers forget that in their web page design). People who live in rural areas do not have high speed available, unless they want to pay the high price for a satellite service. Charlie
2 Tonee Brown wrote:
31 Jan 2009 at 11:09 pm
Brings back loads of fond memories, Trying to make phone calls and forgetting the line tied up, even getting cut off in the middle of a download when someone called. Then theirs waiting for downloads of files which sometimes said 17 hours to download. I love technology too.
3 Carl wrote:
1 Feb 2009 at 12:32 am
I often have to resort to modem when my wireless internet is out of range of the mobile phone network. I find modem dial-up a lot more reliable than the wireless mobile alternative, although wireless broadband is fast when it works. Broadband is available in this area, but I can’t get it because the previous occupants of this rented flat didn’t have the connection removed nor did they pay their bill, so the company (AOL!) have decided to take control of the line until someone pays them. I spent 6 months fighting with the 3 companies involved & had to give up in the end. Anyway, enough waffle!
I agree about a lot of websites not taking into consideration those of us who still do use 56K modems. I have a setting in my browser to disable pictures and scripts. Makes things go a lot faster
Carl.
4 Geoffrey Rodgers wrote:
13 Feb 2009 at 9:44 pm
I must agree you just gotta love technology, so felt obliged to make people aware of somthing I recently stumbled across, and it is nothing short of revolutionary. I bet Microsoft wished they had thought of it first.
The Web 2.0 Upgrade and BuzzBot are being predicted to become The Google of Social Networking - and when you find out WHY you will be Blown Away!
The Biggest Trend to hit the web is without a doubt, Social Networking. With sites like Facebook, youTube and mySpace having memberships in the Hundreds of Millions of users, it’s easy to see that this is not just some passing trend…This is the next step in the evolution of the web.
The only problem is, YOU HAVE TO BE ON THEIR WEBSITES to use these Social Networking features and way LESS THAN 5% of all websites on the Internet have Web 2.0 Social Networking (interactive) features.
BuzzBot Technology IS THE FIRST solution that brings Social Networking TO EVERY website on the Internet - INSTANTLY…All at a click of a button, your ENTIRE Internet (every website you visit) is Upgraded to Web 2.0 Interactive Functionality!
This means that ANY Website that you can type into your Browser NOW has the features that have become so popular on those BIG Social Networking websites.
Go to ANY site and start a Blog on that website, leave a Comment on that website and even join in and Chat with other users on that website! ANY WEBSITE!!!
And the best part is - It’s Free for ALL to use!
With the BuzzBot Social Networking Technology, this is not only the next step in the evolution of the Internet, it’s the next step in the Evolution of Social Networking!
If you would like to hear more about this just email me at:
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Geoff
5 Irick Imby wrote:
14 Feb 2009 at 8:53 pm
If you think that is old, I used to work on a computer that used a cassette recorder for storing data. It took 15 minutes to load a simple program. The good old days
Rick
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