Too many years ago to remember I got my first lesson in
creating HTM pages and here's what an entire HTM file
with the letter X then looked like.
«html»«body»X«/body»«/html»
The world moves on, as does technology. HTML is just a container; the
biggest growth area online at the moment is Flash based video... and
that certainly won't work over a 56k modem. It's the way of things; if
you don't keep up with technology you get left behind and left out.
Should the world slow down because you've not kept up? No. I agree
that there is a lot of bloat on the net, but there's nothing that can
really be done about it. I was reading in the paper today that there
are tentative plans (if they find the money) to upgrade the UK cable
networks to 240Mbit. Even a HUGE bloated page would load in a fraction
of a second, a page that would take a year to load on 56Kb...
))))