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Dial-Up Internet Having A Resurgence

People are broker than ever, and some of them are heading back to dial-up internet access as a solution. Every little bit helps when you’ve lost your job and you have to make do with less. People who once proudly surfed the web with the latest broadband account are now scaling back to life in the slow lane.

“I didn’t think I would ever go back,” said Zimmerman, 66, of Davenport, Fla. “I had to wait to get online. It was terrible. But with this economy, you got to look to cut wherever you can.” You remember dial-up, don’t you? It’s the beep, crackle, pop method of sending e-mail and browsing the Web that was pretty much the only option in the early days of the Internet.

Of course this trend is nothing to get too excited about for beleaguered dial-up providers. Although some people might be switching back to dial up for the savings, there’s no indications that this is being done on a broad scale.

Most people who have switched to broadband will never switch back to dialup.