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In Dial-Up Revelations, Meg talks about her latest experience in Paris where the internet isn’t free (or cheap, for that matter) and isn’t fast:

Lately I’ve grown lazy around the issue of page size and images. When designing something for a client or posting a picture to my own web site, I’d often think to myself, “everyone I know has a high-speed connection now-a-days” and with little more than a cursory glance at the file size, I’d post or design in happy, dial-upless oblivion.

Oh what a spoiled fool I’d become.

It’s no longer true that everyone I know has a high-speed connection, for I found myself sitting at the end of painfully slow and expensive dial-up connection in Paris, France

The rest of the article is great, and helps those web developers that are leading the design of future websites refocus their energies on the user experience, something that’s sorely lacking on many sites I frequent (even the one my company runs).

Coming Soon: an inluminent/weblog without graphics, for those of us on dialup (don’t worry, the graphic heavy version will stick around for the rest of you).

[via kottke.org]