I didn't misunderstand you. My point was that I do remember what it was like, and that I realized that some people still have to (or choose to) use the now old-fashioned phone modems, and still end up paying for every time they connect. Just a couple of years ago, I still had a limited AOL account, and it was very frustrating because I would inevitably use up all my hours halfway through the month. Some months I had to cancel my service because I couldn't afford it. Yes, I know there are still a lot of people using phone modems, either because they don't have Cable or DSL connections available in their area, or some other reason. Even when I was still on a limited AOL account, using a phone modem, checking e-mail only used up about a minute of my allotted time, so e-mail was no big deal anyway. Now surfing the net was a different story; that's where I used up all my hours. If I had to pay for every minute to my ISP and a phone company for internet service, I wouldn't have it at all - it would be way too costly, and not worth it.
on 10/13/02 8:59 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 07:54 PM, Gerald Uhlan wrote: > >> I see your point. I had forgotten about the way it was in the old >> days, >> when you had to pay for every minute you were online. I've never even >> used >> the phone modem on this iMac. I don't even know if it works! On the >> other >> hand, when I did have to pay by the hour, I used to use a function >> where it >> would sign on just long enough to send and retrieve my e-mail. Then I >> did >> my reading and composing offline. It was a nice, money-saving feature. > > I think you misunderstood me. For YOU paying per minute is "the good > old days." For other members of this list, paying per minute is today > and probably the foreseeable future. In some countries, ALL phone calls > are toll calls, not just ones to other cities or area codes. In some > places, they not only pay their ISP per-minute or per-hour charges, > they have to pay their phone company per-minute as well. > > Some people even here in the US don't have local dialup numbers and, in > order to even get on the internet, they have to make a long distance > call to another city to get even a 14.4kbps connection to the internet. > > This isn't "the good old days" for some people. > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
