Woman Who Still Uses Dial-Up Internet Says She Has No Desire To Upgrade
Cicely James is not new to the world wide web. In fact, sheâs had a computer with internet access in her home since December of 1998, when her brother gave her his old Dell for Christmas and signed her up for NetZero, an internet service provider who used to offer free dial-up internet service to its customers.The thing about Cicely James, though, is that since 1998 she has been using that same Dell tower and her same free NetZero dial-up subscription. While most people throughout the world have upgraded to high-speed internet through cable or telephone providers, Ms. James says she has no reason to âspeed through the web.ââIâve never been a woman who needed to get where she was going lightning fast. I am too old now, especially, and too set in my ways to worry about upgrading and fast speed interwebs and the ePads and the smartyphones, and all that nonsense.âMs. James was recently contacted by NetZero, who long ago switched to offering DSL based broadband internet, to let her know she was the last person on their network still using the antiquated dial-up system.âThey contact me every month or so, asking me to get into their new packages. I donât wanna any of it. This dial-in service is all free, and I donât mind the ads that pop up all the time. Usually theyâre about pills I donât need because I donât need a bigger erection, and sometimes they try to trickÂ me into meeting single girls in my area. That one I clicked once, actually, when I was looking for a new friend to play Spades with, but it wasnât the kind of thing I thought it was.âNetZero representatives say that are actually willing to offer to upgrade Ms. James to a new, faster service and keep her at the free monthly subscriber rate sheâs had for the last 16 years. Plus, as a long-time customer they offered to gift her with a brand new Windows 8 laptop, but even to that Ms. James has passed.âNope, nope. Just let me be. Between you media people, the NetZero people, and my grandkids, I get enough hounding about my old technology. I donât want to get anything new. Besides, why would they want to give me Windows number 8 when Iâm already using Windows number 95?âÂ