I hate 56k.

I remember when 36k baud modems came out, and the rush for internet service providers to well... provide this. It was lightning fast for the time, everyone was like, ooo, like how fast I downloaded this web page.

Of course, webpages looked like crap back then. We're talkin about boring regular new times roman text, with the occasional annoying fucker who made everything black and made the font DARK grey so that people had to squint to read it. Unfortunately, this soon caught on as the craze, and every damn webpage was a dark background with some annoyingly dark text.

Me personally, I got into the habit of highlighting all the text I tried to read with my mouse. It helped resolve the problem by making everything I read white on a blue background. To this day, I still do that. So to the people who inspired the internet to be dark with dark text, a resounding FUCK YOU to all of you.

Then 56k came out and it was suppose to revolutionize the internet. Wow. How quickly my days of mudding became lightning fast and my summer was eaten away by hours of online gaming... of plain text.

A year or so later, college started and I was introduced to high speed dedicated T1 at Drexel University. Now i'm spoiled. 56k? It's like trying to watch a snail crawl. It's agonizing. If 56k were a snail, i'd pour salt on it to put it out of it's misery.

So here I am at home, literally crawling the web on my laptap.

I really don't want to pour salt on my laptop.. that would just be stupid.