It’s just like crack, I tell you
16:52 on Friday, July 25, 2003 • 3 responses
In 1995 I moved from a dialup connection to ISDN in Chicago. Two years later, in Portland, Maine, I had Road Runner cable modem service. When I moved to California, the first thing I did was sign up for DSL (really—I arranged this before I even had electric and gas turned on).
Broadband made the internet convenient enough to use. For the first week during this stay in Chicago, I’ve been operating off a dialup connection, and quite frankly, the internet has proven inconvenient enough to shy away from it. While I’m glad that this experience has re-introduced me to corporeal reality, it’s difficult for me to say which is harder: climbing a set of stairs after back surgery or using a modem after having broadband.
Well, today my new dealer came by and hooked me up with the good stuff. I’m cable-modemed, wired-less, ready to try out my new iSight, and ready to start uploading pictures.
A few people have suggested that I get all Kronenberg next time I need surgery and just have them wire a 1000BT ethernet jack into my back. That’s not an upgrade I’m considering. Yet.
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