 rickmahn says: While extremely useful, do people actually need broadband connectivity to survive? I'm a big 'Net user myself, but also wish for some time away from connectivity. Any thoughts? If I could move to the beach and not worry about making money, I could probably live without broadband. I would have to ask my family elders to teach me to communicate in a web-less world. Skwirly is already teetering. This could push him over the edge. Hang in there, Sir Skwirlinator. I agree with Adam. But I would since I am in rural PA, I can seek the Amish for assistence to teach me to communicate, before I move to a beach  I'd actually prefer to get to a simpler existence, meaning less services vying for my attention. For example, did I have more time on my hands back in 1986 for doing things with friends & family than I do today? I'm with rickmahn on this. I have broadband and am hooked ... but I kind of wish I could give it up. I don't really think it's making my life any btter, and it's not cheap. I was expecting the article to be about someone committing suicide because his connection went down or something. I almost did! I had dial-up from 1996 to 2004 and I experianced decent connections and very lousy(12400) connections. Then I got cable internet- I loved it. My impression was that this is how computing is supposed to be. Then WHAM, Lost cable. dial-up at 49500 almost gave me high blood pressure. I was dying. Couldn't sleep, downloads took forever (2wks for 1 demo game and the file corrupted so it wanted me to redownload it), No shoutcast or streaming, no video, no live clipmarks. Computer just flat out went Slooooow. Now I have yahoo DSL and I will Kill to keep it lit. I even pay insurance on my phone line now in case a dog chews my wires or something like that. Just thinking about dial-up... Heh, that cracked me up. |
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