Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Hug an early adopter

Stories like this one piss me off because the "average" person reads this and thinks that they are getting screwed by bandwidth hogs. You should really thank the early adopters and leave them alone. These crazy idiots (myself included) buy or use the latest and greatest technology when it first comes out and when it costs a fortune. So virtually every piece of technology you use exists because there were brave early adopters that were willing to throw their money away on technology that may or may not prevail.

This is also true of the internet. I've been a DSL subscriber since 1997, back when most of you were banging on fucking drums to send messages to each other. For the first couple of years DSL cost $80/month for relatively slow 768k service. It was "pioneers" like me that allow you to pay $20/month for a 3MBs DSL line today. Early adopters drive innovation on the internet making it a richer experience for you.

Besides, the 12 year old next door who spends all day watching soft core porn on Youtube is using more bandwidth than me now.

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