Bubble Dreams Come True

21 Dec 2004

Grab your sock puppets, order some bags of dog food to be delivered, and start selling pots and pans to the gold miners: Broadband usage has passed dial-up in the United States! I bet all the people that Om covered in Broadbandits must be rolling over in their prison cells.

Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at 1:34 PM

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Huzzah and hey-nonny-nonny! Residential broadband access to the Web has finally exceeded dial-up. Certainly, of the hotels I stay in, over half have some sort of broadband (increasingly wireless). And... Read More »
Broadband | December 21, 2004 2:58 PM

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Hi Anil, what effect do you think this will have? Should people make one site which works regardless of connection speed, or is the "alternate content" approach okay here? (Or is it okay to make sites which dial-up people can't use?)

tx,
jd

Author Profile Page John Dowdell | December 21, 2004 3:01 PM | Reply

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