The most expensive webpage

19 May 2004

…that I’ve ever accessed is this one.  At the dentist (or, nuisu, as I imaginatively managed to spell it in an SMS to someone), this afternoon.  I’m pleased to note that this page displays pretty nicely on a WAP browser, although the 3c/KB cost is somewhat prohibitive.

I checked the size of the front page when I got home, and I’m thinking the most it could have cost me is 51c, which I can deal with, I guess…  I was thinking about making my “most expensive post ever” FROM my phone… now THAT would have been cool… but then I realised that would be two webpages away, and I could see this getting ridiculous – especially seeing that (of course), I would have to check the front page again (another 51c + the amount of data in the message posted x 3c) just to make sure that it worked… putting an entry up via WAP could easily come to $2 without blinking.

Which is kind of scary, seeing the most I’d ever paid for internet before then was $2.50/five minutes for 33.6k dialup in a dodgy Western Australia hotel.  But anyway.  That is an experience I’d rather not reflect on, thankyou.

This experience, however, rates as downright cool… I so better not make this a habit, or my mobile bill will be… lets just say several kilobytes in length.