[ArrogantBustard]

9. Dial-up Internet access: It's hard to see why anyone would use a phone line to connect to the Internet when there are so many feasible alternatives.

Obviously written by an effete, urban pansy.

[Sunshine Sister]

Exactly right. I live in an area where you have to go outside to use a cell phone. Not very practical. I use a VCR to tape Limbaugh. That's not going any where for a while. That lets me listen when I want without tying up my phone line to listen on my dial up computer connection.

I have a cell phone but use it to call the tow truck when my vehicle dies on me. To my knowledge it doesn't have a clock so I wear a wrist watch when I have to be somewhere at a certain time.

[martin_fierro]

1. Landline phones: Walk into any college dorm room and ask to use a landline. You'll be met with blank stares. With cell-phone technology continually evolving, it seems that these days only a handful of people are still moving into a new house and having the landline turned on

Not if you live in the mountains like moi. Cell phone signals can be sketchy, and teh Intarweb cable frequently is down during heavy winds/rain.

Agree, some effete metrosexual wrote this.

[paulycy]

9. Dial-up Internet access: It's hard to see why anyone would use a phone line to connect to the Internet when there are so many feasible alternatives.

Not in my neighborhood. No alternative to my stupid, slow dial-up including satellite because of the mountains. Kill dial-up and I have no access whatsoever.