We've Been Spoiled!

At least most of us have. I'm referring to the ready availability of broadband access to the internet that most of us enjoy, either at our place of employment, favorite Wifi cafe, and yes, even at home! ( I don't know about you, but my cable access at home is consistently faster than my T-1 access at school ever was. )
Now, what brings all this on? I just returned home from a week at our lake house in Wisconsin. Sure, lots of sun, golf, the lake, the wildlife refuge, a nearby casino, but NO BROADBAND! Since I'm retired, I can't really justify the expense of a wireless broadband plan for my laptop, especially since I'd only be using it for several weeks during the summer. This leaves me with dial-up as my only economical connection option. When you fall back on dial-up after getting accustomed to broadband, you begin to realize just how many web developers seem to assume that everyone is accessing their pages on high speed connections. A page that pops up fairly quickly at home can take an agonizingly long time at 45.0 bps. I know, it says 56, but how many dial-up providers actually hit that number?
I can understand that it's probably unrealistic to have two versions of a site to accommodate this difference, but developers should, perhaps, try to remember the days when everyone had dial-up, and try not to throw all the bells & whistles of the multi-media web right there on the home page! Sorry to say, some of the worst offenders are bloggers who seem to feel their pages are the greatest thing since sliced-bread ( does that expression date me? ) and throw all kinds of peripheral content into the blog's sidebars. I don't intend to single anyone out on this, but, bloggers, check your page, load it on a dial-up connection, if possible, and if needed, try to accommodate your bandwidth challenged fans.
And that's all I have to say about that, at least for now.
( Apologies to Forrest Gump )