Connecting to the Internet
The way in which people connect to the Internet greatly affects how we design for it. In the old days we used to have to make all the web files as small as humanly possible to increase the load times. Pages that would load slowly would frustrate users. Today, load times are not that big of a concern with the majority of people connecting online with a high speed connection. “Dial-Up Internet Going the Way of Rotary Phones” from less than 5 years ago when the general public was just transitioning from dial-up to broadband. How things have changed. Here is an April 2010 poll from CNET:
| Cable modem |  58.1% |
| DSL, man, DSL | 27.5% |
| Fiber | 9.2% |
| Other (explain in the comments section) | 2.0% |
| WiMax | 1.4% |
| Tethering from my phone | 1.1% |
| Dial-up | 0.7% |
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