Remember what the Internet was like back in 1995-7? You enter the url and then go get a cup of coffee, make a snack, read a few pages in a book while the website loads. The younger people have no idea how much time we all spent waiting for Web pages to load.
This is how my Charter Internet connection works this week. It’s super annoying. Maybe I should switch to the AT&T U-verse. I have AT&T on my phone and it never disappoints.
Does any one of you have U-verse? What’s the experience like? We have the most expensive Internet package that Charter offers, and it sucks royally. Should we just kick it?
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The young people? Does that make me old, then, because my internet was that slow partway through high school? My best friend didn’t get a decent internet connection until her second year of college. We’d do homework while waiting for things to load.
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You always make me feel a lot less ancient, Pen. 🙂
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Ahhh, good old dial up. I still remember listening in on the phone to the sounds it made while it was connecting and then while it was running. We had a very data-limited dial-up connection long after everyone else switched to broadband since my parents were worried about me doing hell knows what online. Thankfully, the university one of my relatives taught at offered a dial-up connection for professors which showed up on the telephone bill as a local phonecall, and said relative had a very predictable new password-generating algorithm.
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Oh, the crick crack clack yeeee sounds of a dialup modem! They mean so much to people of my generation. I was one of the very first people with home Internet connection in all of Ukraine (marriage to a hacker does have its pluses), and I soon acquired the reputation of a total weirdo who kept bugging everybody with insane stories of this new big thing called “the Web” that allowed one to connect to people on other continents from one’s apartment. Everybody laughed at my stories of “Hey, last night I talked to this student in Canada” and thought I was inventing it all.
Guess who’s laughing now.
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I had A T & T internet a while ago (I don’t think it was U-Verse but it was A T&T) and I didn’t have a good experience. It was always down, slow speeds, absolutely terrible customer service etc. etc. But that was about 10 years ago, so my experience may not be representative.
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They do have the worst customer service but now they are saying they are working hard on improving it.
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For what it’s worth, the FCC fined AT&T $100 million today for playing games with internet speeds. Who you gonna trust?
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