I think I still see "56k no way" on various sites sometimes. Last time I saw anyone use dialup was 2004 when my friend's mom was dialing into AOL.

2/2/2010 10:42:55 AM

lol this girl the other day in lab was like "remember when the internet made that weird noise before you could get on it?"

2/2/2010 10:44:27 AM

My wife's Great Aunt still uses it and every time we go visit I have to fix something on her computer.

2/2/2010 10:46:09 AM

i helped my grandfather fix his dialup over christmas. Then we got him DSL while we were out there. Ended up being the same price.

2/2/2010 10:46:50 AM

I still make sure websites are easily accessible from dialup - as 12% or so of the 'net users still use it.

Plus it's comparable to all those AT&T iPhone users and their EDGE speed, cause their 3G suckssssss.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0804/

2/2/2010 10:47:56 AM

I thought I saw a NetZero commercial a few months ago with the CEO who was saying "in economic times like these, you should get dialup with NetZero to save money." riiiiight... maybe he should start selling horse-drawn carriages

2/2/2010 10:48:09 AM

I see TreeTwista10 use it everytime we play on xbox live

2/2/2010 10:48:56 AM

We had it 'til 2005 because cable, dsl is not offered at my house. We live too far away. Then in 2005, the phone company stopped providing dial-up service OR we switched landline phone companies (I don't remember which, but the end result was no more dial-up). Not sure how they could do that...I thought telephone companies were required by law not to discriminate how you used your phone line?

So, it's 2010, and still no high-speed. I know people that had satellite internet and it was terrible. Now, we have to use a USB Alltel wireless card that barely gets signal. Sometimes it's slightly faster than dial-up. Sometimes it doesn't work at all. And it costs about the same as high-speed

2/2/2010 10:48:59 AM

My part-time job was at an indirect cellular store that also did computer repair and was an ISP. At their headquarters in Emporia, VA they did a lot of ISDN, DSL, and microwave internet, and even supply that around the north side of Lake Gaston, but in RR 99.99% of their customers were in the country and on dial-up. I couldn't believe the number of folks coming in and still paying $20/month for "unlimited" dialup. They were either too cheap/poor, too stupid, or had such bad credit that they couldn't afford to get satellite internet or cellular internet access.

2/2/2010 10:50:41 AM

lol I remember back in the 90s people used to pay AOL by the minute. You'd always get diskettes in the mail for like 300 free hours or whatever.

2/2/2010 11:00:20 AM

long ago

2/2/2010 11:01:49 AM

last year i used a nokia old school cellphone connected to my laptop to get the internet, this was in Brazil though.

2/2/2010 11:07:21 AM

everyday for the past few months.

the people i've been working with use one to update pricing on equipment at their stores (locations away from the office).

2/2/2010 11:21:06 AM

I work for an ISP, and pretty much every day I switch people from dial-up. Most of them are over the age of 60 though.

and yeah, i also run across a lot of people who only have 2 options: dial-up or expensive ass satellite internet.

[Edited on February 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM. Reason : a]

2/2/2010 11:21:45 AM

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee buuuuuululululluululuulup

2/2/2010 11:23:14 AM

i have never seen dial up irl

2/2/2010 11:23:33 AM

you lie

2/2/2010 11:25:06 AM

Kinda miss the nostalgia of beating while waiting for the the pamela anderson pics to fully load on the screen

2/2/2010 11:26:38 AM

Your mom

2/2/2010 11:29:35 AM

yeah

it was like christmas morning, knowing that when i wake up, those three songs i queued up on napster may or may not be finished downloading

2/2/2010 11:29:43 AM

hahaha, i used to queue up 5 or so before leaving for school in the morning so they'd be there when i got home.

2/2/2010 11:30:24 AM

so we gave a guy at work an old computer for his kids to use

he came in today saying he couldn't get on the internet with it

"something about can't find the modem" he says

:palmface:

yeahh i didn't install drivers for the modem bc i figured no one even used them anymore

guess i was wrong

2/2/2010 11:32:11 AM

Quote :

"the people i've been working with use one to update pricing on equipment at their stores (locations away from the office)."

I've also used this technique for logging into servers. You can't beat the security. Tell the phone company you need old-school analog lines ran to your building and with a solid password you're junk is near infinitely more secure. Plus you really don't need all the bandwidth to run a terminal client with just text scrolling by as things restart/reboot.

2/2/2010 11:35:46 AM

Last time I used dialup? 2004-ish I believe. My friend had dial up until last year or so, but that's what you get for living in the boooonies.

2/2/2010 11:43:28 AM

^^ it's been setup that way for years and they don't want to change it if it's not broken. shit works just fine for what they are using it for.

2/2/2010 11:44:20 AM

I don't even remember, it's been so long...

2/2/2010 11:55:23 AM

they finallllllly, this last year, started offereing DSL where my grandma lives....

now she is rockin that macbook all over the house with the wireless network we set up for her.

2/2/2010 12:09:38 PM

had dialup till ten days ago

2/9/2010 3:07:58 AM

Over Christmas...my grandparents are in one of those areas where dialup is the only option. Its awful.

2/9/2010 9:35:55 AM

2/9/2010 9:37:36 AM

i remember dial up with aol. i also remember the YOUVE GOT MAIL

2/9/2010 9:41:36 AM

I know someone at work who still uses dialup to connect to the VPN when working from home.
I can only imagine how much time is wasted uploading/downloading from her team's network storage space throughout the day.

I'm not sure that cable or DSL is available in her area though. She's way out in the county.

2/9/2010 9:47:36 AM

i remember when my family used Prodigy for dial up. chat rooms ftw





[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM. Reason : this was mid 90's on our sweet Packard-Bell]

2/9/2010 10:09:51 AM

A lot of lesser-funded government agencies still use dial-up. They don't like change, and don't have a lot of change to upgrade either.

2/9/2010 10:15:08 AM

prodigy was the shit

you'd be downloading news articles and amaze the piss out of all your friends

at that point in my life, prodigy and beckett baseball card inventory application were like, the supreme pinnacles of awesome in my life


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld <- i got in trouble as a kid for downloading movie previews on an eworld line from raleigh b/c it was faster. the only one i remember was bio-dome. the long distance bill was high

[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM. Reason : e]

2/9/2010 10:17:39 AM

thats your second bio dome post in the last few weeks

makes me think you have a thing for stephen baldwin

2/9/2010 10:26:08 AM

the best thing about dial-up AOL was the ability to "Punt" people offline with a simple code inserted into an Instant Message..."Good Bye!"

2/9/2010 10:46:54 AM

i had to use it just over a year ago in bumfuck vermont

2/9/2010 4:09:19 PM

what was the deal with that noise

2/9/2010 4:23:00 PM

Quote :

"I still make sure websites are easily accessible from dialup - as 12% or so of the 'net users still use it."

i truly don't believe there's a single customer worth having that still has dialup (in my business, at least)

2/9/2010 4:27:27 PM

^^ It was converting to the analog signal to digital.

I liked being able to kick people off the Internet by unhooking the phone. Now I have to use the circuit breaker.

2/9/2010 4:28:49 PM

AOL punters were soo much fun. that and the warez chat rooms. i thought i was so l33t.

2/9/2010 4:37:24 PM

Probably 2007 or 2008 when I went to visit my step-grandma in this small town in Illinois

2/9/2010 4:45:13 PM

^^ I loved warez! I believed my community called them "progies". One of them destroyed my OS (Windows 95). Fucking sweet.

I have some friends on the coast in MD that still have to use dial-up. Broadband isn't profitable out there (yet, Nielsen's Law ftw).

2/9/2010 5:02:50 PM

One of the lab techs at work still uses dial-up. She pays $7/mo or something.

2/9/2010 7:20:23 PM

I wonder what the oldest computer connected to the internet is...

2/9/2010 7:22:30 PM

I went to an ATM a few months ago that was dial up.

2/9/2010 8:17:00 PM

some older friends of mine (early 40s) just canceled their AOL and switch to cable last month.

2/9/2010 9:22:37 PM

My dad still uses dial-up. And he only just got a cell phone a few months ago. But he won't give me his number

2/9/2010 10:16:19 PM

Quote :

"it was like christmas morning, knowing that when i wake up, those three songs i queued up on napster may or may not be finished downloading"

YES

[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM. Reason : Kazaa K++ fools. Cut them ads and spyware out ]

2/9/2010 10:20:38 PM