Rural Internet Access Cooperative

These days we are so used to lighting fast Internet that we get upset when it takes even ten seconds to load your FaceBook page. We are now so used to having all the information in the world at our fingertips that if it were taken away, a lot of people wouldn't know what to do. Some of you may be too young to remember, but the Internet wasn't all ways that fast or useful. It was called'DIAL-UP!! 'GASP'
Believe it or not, dial up Internet was our only way of getting connected to the thing we love the most, the Internet. It was just a phone line that plugged right into your computer. Your computer would then dial a phone number to connect to the Internet. That's right a phone number as if you were going to call a person. This process could sometimes take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. What? That's too long? How are you going to check your MySpace? YOU'D HAVE TO WAIT!!
Unbelievably, this monster that we call dial-up is still being used, mostly in rural America. This is where the population is so low that the cable and DSL companies that provide us with Internet, won't run lines in those areas because they would not make enough profit. The only alternative solution for dial-up customers in those kinds of areas, that I have found is satellite Internet.