*grin*....I sure am HOPING for DSL or cable one of these days, but right now it is still out of my price range and the providers are getting articles written about them everyday detailing service horror stories. In a few years, I imagine big images and complex scripts will make little difference, but right now there are still people trying to access the WWW at 14,400...and often getting less than that. DSL runs from 360,000 to 1 or 2 millon, but they have still not done the wiring to get signals thru cleanly at those speeds for most of us.

(That is a great background image at that site...I saw the original at the NASA site Earth by night)

interesting note....one guy at a newsgroup I read said he tried to use that picture as his computer wallpaper, but it slowed his entire computer down to a crawl....