OFF-TOPIC (sorry Barkuti, but couldn’t pass this up)

Me neither…

I still have it (1).

There are millions of people in this country with no access to broadband and no one really gives a crap. Everyone just tells me to move somewhere else. Next time they want a hamburger, maybe I can tell them to move to where they can have “access” to cattle :wink: . (we raise beef cattle)

People that are on the Internet and use its many services are unlikely to know about people who are not on the Internet and cannot use those services. Such people basically no longer exist. On the plus side, they aren’t having their minds poisoned by Twitter…

(1) - I’m not on dial-up right now because, after years of trying, I finally discovered a very specific location in my home that receives a weak LTE signal from Verizon, which claims to offer no service here. I got lucky and now tether my laptop to my phone. I went from 19Kbps to about 900Kbps. Even though the reception goes in and out from night to night, I’m thankful for each and every bit. When I hear people complain about getting 10Mbps or something, I just laugh to avoid punching them :wink: .

My father still uses my dial-up account and I can still check e-mail with it when the LTE drops out, so technically I still have dial-up. I certainly still pay for it. The ISP has warned me that their access numbers could stop working at any moment. We lost 2 out of 3 local numbers last year.

There’s a lot of rambling story behind all of this, but it’s not appropriate to do that here.

Now that I have a phone with no hand crank on the side, I think I’ll try one of those newfangled “compact disc” machines…

(yes, I’ve had a cellular phone for 20 years; they just never worked at home, which was not necessarily a bad thing as business almost never followed me home :crown: . Once I left town, I was effectively off the grid.)