{"id":402,"date":"2006-04-18T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T11:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/who-cares-about-visitors-connecting-by-dial-up\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:44:58","slug":"who-cares-about-visitors-connecting-by-dial-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/who-cares-about-visitors-connecting-by-dial-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares about Visitors Connecting by Dial-Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(heard about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/theescape.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/who_uses_dial_u.html\">The Escape Blog<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingexperimentsblog.com\/\">Nick Usborne and Marketing Experiments<\/a> has a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingexperimentsblog.com\/who_cares_about_visitors_connecting_by_dialup.htm\">Dial-up service<\/a> and all I can say is &#8216;Amen&#8217;! I just spent the good part of a week on dial-up and it was painful. Broken images, downloads that never downloaded, &#8216;files not found&#8217; all make for a tedious experience. The biggest drag, outside of frustration, is time wasted.  Forget deep linking on a dial-up. You can also forget image heavy websites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<br \/>\nNick makes a great point though about the 35% of us that exist on dial-up. This all reminds me of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\">Guy Kawasaki <\/a>line about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netpreneur.org\/events\/angels\/article.html\">eating your own dog food<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(heard about it on The Escape Blog) Nick Usborne and Marketing Experiments has a piece on Dial-up service and all I can say is &#8216;Amen&#8217;! I just spent the good part of a week on dial-up and it was painful. Broken images, downloads that never downloaded, &#8216;files not found&#8217; all make for a tedious experience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}