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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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Its gotta take them a least a week just to load their yahoo home page on dialup. What are they even able to access on the web these days at 56k?
I don't know, but if I had to guess: email, bank, & government sites are probably the bulk of their use. Those pages don't change all that often, so once they're in the browser cache they'll probably still load at reasonable enough speeds for their use I'd imagine. Those people probably see it as a tool to get certain things done, and that's about it. They're likely much older, and so never had much interest in being terminally online.