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Fun:Dial Up

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A horrible way to access teh internets by primitive means, Dial up is connecting to the internet via phone line dialing to an internet service provider (ISP).

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The connectivity is agonizingly slow, leading to many murderous rampages through impatience of disconnects and slow page loading speeds.

Garry Trudeau even lampooned it in a Doonesbury cartoon, circa 2001, by having his Sunday strip barely half load by the last panel.

However, before broadband, a nice 56k modem and decent ISP was teh new whirled order!!!onewone@!@#!!31eclventy!

Connecting to teh internets via dial up