Roger Blake wrote:

On 2008-09-21, William Sommerwerck wrote:
There's lots wrong with dialup when you're downloading multi-megabyte files.

I have no need to do that. (Of course others might need that capability
and they would require a faster connection.)

Yeah, I guess the interstate highways were a really lousy idea, too.
Eisenhower, that damned socialist.

The internet is of no real importance. Roads are.

Really ?

In some instances like teleworking the internet can REPLACE the road.

Graham