{"id":65,"date":"2005-11-19T06:08:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T04:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2005\/content-for-narrowband\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:48:03","slug":"content-for-narrowband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Content for Narrowband"},"content":{"rendered":"

There once was a time when Internet did not come in megabit speeds. In those days, people connected though modems hooked up to noisy analog telephone lines. Just ten years ago, I used a 28k8 baud modem – barely usable with the World Wide Web – but a huge upgrade from my previous 2k4 baud modem I had before. The thing is that I have become so accustomed to speed, that I have (almost) forgotten the chores of optimizing code and images. I have a 100-megabit pipe straight into my living room: over four thousand<\/em> times faster than my first modem.<\/p>\n

A lot can be said about the wonders of video broadcasting on the Internet, but for a majority of the world’s population, data is still transmitted over extremely low bandwidth carriers. (Let me remind you that GSM for example, can only handle 9k6 kbit\/s in its original configuration.)<\/p>\n

Lately I’ve been experimenting with trying to provide access to content trough narrowband channels, and for clients with a very small (and\/or low-res) screen. Luckily, the tools are very easy to use. HTML is very adaptable and works well for most computers, micro-browsers and handhelds, and most mobile phones contain a WAP-browser that handle WML-documents.<\/p>\n

Using (slightly modified) plug-ins (wp-mobile.php<\/a> and wp-wap.php<\/a>) to my blogging software, enabling access for other terminals proved to be a breeze.<\/p>\n

My perspective is simple: By enabling WAP-access, for example, I enable an exchange of ideas with virtually all mobile phones on the planet. Needless to say, there are a lot of people who lack access to computers, but own – and know how to operate – has a cell phone. Isolated, as in this blog, it is irrelevant. No one cares.<\/p>\n

But, if we are serious about projects like One Laptop Per Child<\/a>, we must also be better at enabling content for those without fiber optic Internet connections, or Apple Cinema Displays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s not as sexy as Podcasting. Not as cool as IPTV. But, if it can bring millions of eyeballs – I’m game.<\/p>\n

This blog through text only HTML<\/a>
\nThis blog through WAP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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