Remember the good old dial-up days?
The truth is, I’ve been using one form or another of cable Internet access since 1999 and never looked back.
Back then it was Media One, a Jacksonville, FL cable and Internet access provider that offered 1 Mbps Internet access. My employer of that time, an Internet service provider of the mom-and-pop era offered both dial-up and ADSL.
Even then, it was not a secret that fiber as an Internet access medium would eventually beat the living daylights out of both the dial-up and ADSL copper cables.
Twelve years later, my Internet access is Roadrunner at 40 Mbps. There are even faster home-office providers and nobody in their right mind would even consider dial-up as a back up method to access the Internet, in the days of wireless and cellular networks.
Today, while doing some belated spring cleaning, I tossed out the humble phone jack cables used by dial-up modems, but I kept my first dial-up modem as a relic of an era which, for better or worse, does not exist anymore.
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