Date:         Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:33:36 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: microbus website
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>

If you can't afford ISDN, you can't afford a new VW, I guess.

Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: microbus website


> At 05:39 AM 1/11/2001, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> >IE & Goto.com can't open the vw.com/microbus website, at least on my
> >computer it can't (Mac w/damaged hard drive & 14.4k modem, faulty IE
copy).
>
> That site is clearly intended for people with fast connections.  With
> Netscape it just popped up a 600x400 window and sat there; with IE5 the
> popup then downloaded the Flash 5.0 plugin and has so far d/l one and a
> quarter megabytes comprising two 10-second video clips with a one-second
> ghost view of the right front quarter and a three-second one looking up
the
> right side from the rear, both blended in with shots of people on
> windsurfers, bicycles, rocks etc.  Now it's up to 1.6 MB and hasn't
> finished loading the third video.  I like pain, but not this much
> pain...apparently if you want a microbus 56k isn't enough.
>
> Ok, so I hit the button to skip all that yaya (apologies to any yiayias on
> the list), and now I have a screen that says "Welcome to th eworld of the
> Microbus.  Want to know more abou tthis concept?  Just click your cursor
> once, wherever it is, to reveal our navigation."  So I click the cursor
> once.  And  I  walked     around     the      wheel     house
> twice... and nothing happened so I clicked again...   ...and
> again...   ....and againagainagainagain....and nothing happened.  So I
> clicked the button to shut the bleeding sound off!!!  And it shut
> off.   And a minute later it came on again all by itself.
>
>
> Diagnosis: not cooked yet.
>
> david
>
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
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