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Listening to the dialup Connection at my daughter’s house I remember that sound and that feeling of will I get a good connection this time? We would be hoping that our connection that day would be good enough to get a web page to open. I think of those days and wonder how I ever did stand to wait so long for anything to come up on the screen.

Now of course we have a broadband connection and while it still isn’t DSL, it’s much better than the dial-up we once had to use. Off-line was more likely to happen back then. Off-line because we might as well shut it all down than wait for a server time out.

With the web designing we have on these websites today, there isn’t any way my dial-up of old would have been able to get a connection at all. I have reminded my brother of those days on several occasions and all he says is that’s the price you had to pay to live in the total peace and quiet. He’s probably right I guess.

The Chat Room my daughter tried to enter that morning is full of people she knows and of course this chat room is moving so slow for her on dial-up she might as well be off-line doing something else.

The text is moving so slow for her that by the time she gets her text into the chat room the subject she is talking about has nothing to do with what everyone else is talking about then. I told her she needs to just shut it down for now. She insists her friends won't mind and that they all know that she is on dial-up. I will be glad when she moves back to town. I miss her so much out here in the middle of nowhere. I guess this is how my mom felt when we moved off from her.

The days of dial-up I think are just about over. The information highway has moved on without her, and it's time is at end. I can say without hesitation, I won't go back to it. I don't think anybody who's had it ever would.