The other day I was downloading a file on my smart phone via wifi that only took about twenty minute. Not a big deal you say? This file was a gig and a half! A gig and a half, via wifi, in just 20 minutes. I remember a time when it took 30 minutes to download a 16 colored gif image of Spider-Man the size of a postage stamp! We’ve come so far, and yet it’s still not fast enough. We’ve become a culture of now, now, NOW.
I have to wait 20 seconds? Forget that!
In some ways we’ve progressed because of broadband, but in others we’ve developed less patience for everything else. And not just in our on-demand media culture. But in life. We’ve forgotten to simply take our time, and see what happens. We need to just chill. Be it now, 30 seconds from now, or 30 days from now, as long as the overall outcome is the same, then who the hell cares if you need to watch something RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE?
In other news, I recently started a Tumblr art blog for the Frumps. See some work in progress, and sneak peeks at upcoming strips.
I also have a Facebook page, and Twitter account that you should probably check out. Both are full of so much awesome sauce you’ll need a napkin!
The perspective of whatever oval symbol that is on the lid doesn’t seem right.There sometimes are insights to gain, if you stare at an image for a long time,
I couldn’t imagine going back to dial up now after broadband. Tis comic is very accurate
Oh the good old days. Not.
Boobs…that is all.
My daughter once said “My internet is so slow” and I instantly became 90 years old, “Why, in my day we had dial up and we LIKED it!”
Take the internet away from her for an hour. Let’s see how much she appreciates her “slow” internet.
I tried to read your entire post, but it was going too slow. To be fair, it is long. Any chance you have an audio version I coud listen too while I do thirty other things at the same time?
I do actually. But I first have to free up my bandwidth from all this amazing smut I recently discovered.
I recently had to downgrade my internet connection. It is so sucky.
I’m sorry, man.
Back in my day the internet was called a phone book and “porn” was short for pornomag! Kids today… now, go wash your hands and turn down your music!
Bah! You kids today! 14.4 K? I got my start on 300 bps modems. That was text only, and printed at about the same speed you can read.
On a few occasions I used 100 bps modems. Now those were SLOW!
Oh man that sounds painful. Where those the modems you actually had to put the telephone receiver onto a separate device?
It’s true. This era has become impatient. I for one will gladly wait for a file to download, be it taking 10 minutes or 10 days. There are times I have wished for a faster speed but have taken steps to prevent it (Gaming and reading helps). I only run on 180kbs at max speed most times and for today’s era, that is to slow.
That’s some discipline you have there. Despite what I say about having patience, I do like having a fast internet connection. I guess what I was getting at with impatience what the on-demand entertainment mentality we have developed.
But how does gaming help curb your thirst for faster internet? I thought that would entice it. Or are you talking about console gaming?
Yes a console gamer since I first picked up the Master System Controller (I was 2 years old). The only gaming on PC I do, is even done with a usb controller for emulators. Online gaming is not my cup of tea.
The beard is a nice “Rip van winkle” touch.
It’s real too.
That’s exactly how I felt when I had 56k. Watching YouTube was like watching a film-strip in verrry slow motion.
YouTube on a modem? Oh man, that must have been brutal. You might as well have turned on the TV.
Wait for porn? So he doesn’t have any saved to his laptop to view instead?
This is evil, even for Virgil.
His evilness knows no bounds.