[citation][nom]amk-aka-Phantom[/nom]Read www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/aols- [...] ars-212535 They still have a few million dial-up subscribers. Can you imagine that?![/citation]
Yes, I imagine there are more dial-up users than we might think, on first blush. The idea seems absolutely archaic, but every once in while it's worth keeping in mind that the widespread availability of broadband is probably less than a decade old.
Hell, I had a cell phone the size of a brick in 2001. It's amazing how quickly things change these days; how many decades, I wonder, did it take the whole of society to adopt far more important things like electricity or indoor heating/plumbing? There are probably people in the United States right now who still use an outhouse.