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Discussion on: DON'T add a video background to your landing page to make it more gorgeous [TW: gratuitous swearing]

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

I remember spending a summer holiday on an island with limited internet connectivity and, back then, a limited data plan where everything above 1 MB data transfer per month became quite costly. And at that time, there were extra charges to pay if you dared to use your phone and mobile internet outside of your home country.

Near the beach bar, I saw a poster announcing a live concert by some local singer and wanted to check their website to see if there were any upcoming gigs around our place. The musician's website featured their current music video which started to play automatically. Soon, the music stopped. And so did my data plan.

Never went to see the artists (not due to the website, but probably didn't fancy their music) but I still remember the story!

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GrahamTheDev

Cool where was the island?

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Ingo Steinke, web developer

not sure ;-) either Sardegna or Corsica, one of them was where my data plan ran out, the other one where I was offline 2 weeks on purpose ... some years ago obviously

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GrahamTheDev

Obviously, we all know it is impossible to be offline for 2 hours nowadays never mind 2 whole weeks! 🤣