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Monday, December 01, 2003

DSL ROCKS

Oh. My. GAWRRSHH. I feel like I just emerged from the Stone Age into downtown Los Angeles, or something. LTL, where have you been all my life? My test page was Getty Images, which was a useful but painfully slow page with 56K access (which, back in the dark ages when we first connected to the Internet with a 33.6 modem, was lightning-fast). I used to do a search and then go make a cup of tea or something while the results loaded. Now I barely had time to inhale. I will have a fond feeling for that phone-check guy who was just here for the rest of my life. What a nice man, opening up this whole world of non-waiting.


ooh, I'm gonna go try downloading something. Just for fun.

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update: It is downloading an 11.5M file in 3 minutes. Download speed 80 KB/sec. I am just totally speechless. Think of the MUSIC I could download! (that is, if I weren't an ethical-type person who is way too afraid of getting in trouble to download any... more... music). But... more CHRISTMAS music! it's almost tempting. But not quite.

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