Shoved off the Grid

Jacquie is at her parent's house this week.  They have dial-up internet access.  Yes, you read that right:  Dial-up.  This is the kind of car Jacquie was driving when dial-up was invented:

These are the kind of clothes she was wearing when dial-up was invented:

Chances are she used one of these phones to call her parents and tell them that this cool new thing, the internet, had been invented, and all they had to do was call it:

Jacquie's parents got so excited they rushed right out, paid a bunch for an extra phone line, then had the phone guy come out and install another phone jack just for the internet, and he'd heard about this thing, too, but predicted it wouldn't last because people would have to get two phone lines and the system couldn't handle it, and besides, who were they going to talk to, but Jacquie's parents signed up anyway, because they are eternal optimists, which, in this case, backfired because now they've been using their brand-new call-the-internet system for one thousand years and while it doesn't work too well anymore, they are optimistic that it will someday because they don't see any need to spend any money on a new computer that doesn't need a phone line because there is absolutely nothing wrong with the one they have.

Jacquie can't get online.  She has officially been shoved off the grid.

So while we wait for Jacquie to crawl back onto the grid, tell us what technology you never had before, but have now, and cannot live without? What technology did you keep hanging on to until it was pried out of your hands?

Happy 4th of July, Whiners!

 

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