tebop opened this issue on Jul 05, 2011 · 47 posts
Cage posted Wed, 06 July 2011 at 2:15 PM
I had a slow dialup connection until 2009. By the time I had a better connection, many sites, including forums, were beginning to employ so many coding gimmicks and whizwhams on their pages that there weren't many places I could go. I'd spend two hours checking basic messages at a handful of locations. Youtube? Absolutely useless to me, then. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, couldn't do it. Even 'Rosity gave me troubles. Updating my web space could take hours. Downloading freebies could take hours, too, but I'd stopped even paying attention to Poser freebies because the Free Stuff page was too slow-loading and freebie file sizes had been steadily increasing until I just couldn't accommodate them. With large, slow downloads, my ISP had a tendency to drop my connection after so many minutes. It was pretty hellish. I wasted huge amounts of time online doing simple things, not much at all.
Now I can do all the things I used to do in a short period of time, access the formerly forbidding sites, and much more. The only trouble is that browsing is now so easy that I readily end up wasting too much time online. So I'm starting to wonder if some kind of limits might be desirable, but I can't seem to impose them on myself (weak as water!).
There are pros and cons to high speed internet. As more sites assume a user will have such access, the pros do seem to increase.
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below. His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.