Slow Internet Quotes

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.

I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.