From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Rich  wrote at 12:29 this Thursday (GMT):   
   > Retrograde  wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:11:54 -0000 (UTC)   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> US-based ISP America On-Line (AOL) will finally turn off its dialup   
   >>> Internet service at the end of September   
   >>   
   >> There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.  That kind of connection   
   >> is only good for email however and maybe Usenet.  Impossible to surf   
   >> the modern web.  I remember when webpages strove to keep an individual   
   >> page size below 30KB.  Long ago.   
   >   
   > Indeed.  Testing "cnn.com" just now, I'm up to 258 requests and 27.95MB   
   > of "compressed" data transferred, and its JavaScript continues to   
   > "ping" the server side for something, adding to the number and amount   
   > of data.   
   >   
   > Browsing that, over 56k dialup, would be a very slow endeavor.   
   >   
   > Now up to 359 requests and 38.1MB of compressed data, from the JS pings   
   > while I typed the above bits.   
      
      
   You could use something like Protoweb to find less bandwidth-intensive   
   sites with up to date info.   
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