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- JerichoSam, on 07/03/2008, -1/+106I can't imagine returning to dial-up!
- geoff1210, on 07/03/2008, -9/+99Who has the letter Q and the symbol @ on the same key? wtf?
- AmyVernon, on 07/03/2008, -0/+59i already think my broadband is too slow. i can't fathom going back to dialup!
- taylorblue, on 07/03/2008, -3/+56Dial up....they still have that??? OMG!
- Malevolant, on 07/03/2008, -0/+36Obviously those people have never heard of torrents...
- ZombieSociety, on 07/03/2008, -2/+36Whenever anyone tells me they're on AOL, I automatically punch them.
- daxxer, on 07/03/2008, -3/+36YouTube with dialup? OMG no thanks.
- BaudiIROCZ, on 07/03/2008, -1/+29The other day I mentioned dial up to my 16 year old sister, she had no idea what I was talking about. "Wait, the internet used to come through the phone line? What do you mean you had to wait for websites to load?"
- tinus, on 07/03/2008, -0/+25Those people should visit Holland. 20mbps - € 19,95 - No limits
- Peintros, on 07/03/2008, -0/+26If i had no choice, Dial up is still better than nothing... But in reality, no thanks :)
- celticanglican, on 07/03/2008, -1/+25I'd have to be paid very handsomely to go back to dial-up!
- jecruzs, on 07/03/2008, -1/+23Spanish keyboards.
- tvanwyk, on 07/03/2008, -1/+23On the other hand, time is money. So how much are you saving sitting on a slow connection?
- shauncorleone, on 07/03/2008, -0/+21"Plus, you couldn't use the landline phone while you were online."
"What's a landline phone?" - BaudiIROCZ, on 07/03/2008, -0/+20Dug for your spelling of satellite.
BRILLIANT!!! - swanny89, on 07/03/2008, -0/+18Seriously? I was under the impression that most providers had some sort of plan offering broadband at around $20 a month.
- TheMachine1, on 07/03/2008, -2/+20Yeah how can we trust a story from the Twilight Zone?
- doskir, on 07/03/2008, -0/+18german keyboards
- Sludgehammer, on 07/03/2008, -0/+18Availability is why I don't have broadband. Not only do I not have broadband in my area, but thanks to the stunning quality of the local phone lines, I get under half (26.6kb to be exact) of the bandwidth from dial up that I should be. The most frustrating thing is that other options are available around my area, just not at my location. If my house were a mile in any direction from where it is, I could get something better.
Also, I have a hard time imagining how someone could be happy with dial-up, a couple megabyte down load will take a hour or so thanks to breaks in the download (god help you if the server doesn't support resuming), I have to use ad-block constantly because of the popularity of huge flash animation ads, and any sort of video viewing site is utterly unusable. - tvanwyk, on 07/03/2008, -0/+13You know that happens in America, too, right? I don't know how many people I know who can't get broadband because they're on the wrong side of a county trunk...
- Kvasaari, on 07/03/2008, -0/+12You do know that there are other languages which have more letters than English? Somehow, they have to fit all those extra keys in the keyboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+13Yes, nothing like waiting 5 minutes for a 5 seconds porn clip to download...
- GeorgeStone2, on 07/03/2008, -1/+13Same with my Dad. Now he's moving to thailand to live with some thai woman he met online. Even bought a house out there that he can't afford. And it's all in her name due to the strange laws out there.
Basically, some people are better left in the dark. They can't be trusted on the internet. - munkyxtc, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10My parents were reluctant to switch over to broadband until I just called up Comcast had the service installed at their house, now they love it. I think part of the problem is many people don't understand that the "internet" is more than your email and IM so they tend to feel dial up is all they'll ever need. Once my folks saw broadband they were hooked they now have started to explore and take a more active interest in the PC
- arjie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8Oh come on, you miss the sweet whisper of your modem.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+12Some people deserve to stay in the dark...
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10buried for ***** calling yourself a "digital guru"
- luchid, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8Maybe that's all they do BECAUSE their Internet connection is crappy? I'm guessing if they got used to broadband speed they would take better advantage of what the internet has to offer (even the non-porn stuff).
- dullnation, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8I believe you mean terrifying scream.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE - arjie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Ha ha, that is so true actually. I once accidentally set up my old machine to start up when a call is received on the phone (to be frank I have no clue how this happened but it did) , but when I installed linux I also set it up to automatically bring up the ppp0 interface on startup, so starting the computer would start up the connection.
One night the phone rings, and then stops because no one picks it up. The computer boots. The modem starts dialing out. The house is woken by a horrific screaming at 2 am in the morning. Not the best way to wake up. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Digg users: Claiming to want to help the poor in one thread, then making fun of the poor in the next.
- geobay, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Non-porn? I don't understand.
- duewydo, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7I cannot, I live WAY out in bumble *****, or close too it. The best I can get is satellite service. What I ended up doing is getting two linksys WRT-54gl's loading them with DD-WRT, getting some 24dBi dishes connected them to the WRT's put them on some old windmill towers I have on my land and I am running an 8 mile directional WIFI shot to the nearest broadband uplink. My wifi link is pretty stable, 11mbit, although I have only a 1 meg up 10 down connection, so its just perfect. the wifi only adds about 1~2ms to the connection. but I very fortunate to be able to do this.
- NessDan, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7No, those people should visit Japan.
61 mbps for the same price.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... - manzplan, on 07/03/2008, -2/+9I have dial up, where we live its all we can get... well we can get satelight.. but its too expensive.. no DSL here yet.. which sucks..
- upick, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7Man broadband is the way to go can't imagine life without it... actually I can't imagine working without it....
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+8Dial up network? uhhh no thanks.
- fakeid781, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6I wanted to show my grandma a 3 minute youtube video I and it took over 20 minutes for the video to show up on dial up. If I have to use dial up I almost always decline using the Internet.
- cerejota, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6My heartfelt condolences go out to you!
- rkuchiki, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5My internet still comes through the phone line, although in the form of DSL signals.
- latisha1903, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Wow. I haven't had dial up in about 7-8 years. I can't imagine going back. Wait yes I can, when I got my FIRST apartment at age 20, before I got my broadband hooked up I was using free AOL disks for about 2mons it is better than anything.
The price is too high for broadband? I've seen some dial-up with a 10-12 $ difference..it's a sacrifice that I'm willing to make. Seriously I make sure I get this bill paid..it's a luxury that I like to have. - Shivetya, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5"Of the Americans with no Internet access at all, about a third say they have no interest in logging on, even at dial-up speeds. Nearly 20 percent of nonusers had access in the past but dropped it. Older and lower-income Americans are most likely to be offline."
Better headline would have been, poll finds large number of Americans with lives. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4The Americans with no Internet access at all, they say that they have no interest in logging on, even at dial-up speeds.
- cbartlett, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4From who?
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4oh i did. but it was much more short and to the point to just say what I did
- CosmicJustice, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5Move
- metamorfoza, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4not to mention time saved, as did the poster above me...but almost every webiste that you visit (not only digg) is optimised for broadband technology.
I can't imagine torture of waiting for page to load.
...and there is porn.... - sgtcaboose, on 07/03/2008, -13/+17And here I am in Australia where 2 houses down the road they can't get it because of Telstra's call sucking.
***** you America, you don't know how good you had it... before your downfall as a result of Bush/Economic crisis which.. is kind of the same thing. -
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