Brutkey

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Another thing is that sites like https://stopdelaying.com/demoscene/nanoscopic.svgz (a 3081-byte JavaScript demoscene work I did that I moved to someone's host due to my last one) can still look good AND be safe for 56K. This one only loads in less than half a second.

TVTropes mentions a Not Safe For 56K warning which means something like https://stgiga.sourceforge.io/8KstgigaAssetsGalaxyBrain.png or https://stgiga.sourceforge.io/sgigapfp.gif will take inordinately-long to load on 56K, considering X-Face load times. And yes, the Australian Outback, as well as neighboring areas like rural New Zealand also have the same need for dialup. If you go to Northern Canada which is very snowy and very rural, a la Alaska, you find this too. Island regions like rural Hawaii may also have shoddy Internet. Go to the deep tropics or close to the poles, and you start to get into bad Internet territory. So yes, ad blockers actually make the Internet usable for the most rural and/or poor of people. AOL cutting off dial-up service could very well impede job hunting for some given how many jobs have online access, and given how even my nearest library at my town hall lacks computers. It's literally one modest room that had been cut down in 2013 in front of my eyes in the same building as the operations center for my town/HOA and an actual restaurant on the opposite side, AND it's also our only local polling place. Yeah, it doesn't get more rural than that, but at least I'm not in a region of only 500 people. That being said, some family friends of ours who are Native Hawaiian are literally the ONLY members of their demographic on my region's census. That's how rural we are. You'd think you were in Texas if you visited my area of California. My family used to live in the city before having kids but they thought they would have a better rustic life. Yeah that didn't age so well. Rural living was one of the worst things to ever happen to me. It still is, in fact. Very few upsides, MANY fucking downsides. It's not worth it. Like, seriously, it's not.