93 million americans are heathensFollow

93 million americans lack broadband? wth?



What on earth. 93 million? I did not realise you were breeding a generation fit the previous century over there. Or are these Yankees just scared of joining the internet and finding out that there is a world outside the US borders

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I thought that was the attitude of Austalian politicians?

The internet is of the devil, haven't you heard?

Wonder what percentage are just using their neighbors' unsecured access.

This internet thing is just a fad, you mark my words.

All those baby boomers think teh interwebs is for the birds.

We also have a lot of old people who wouldn't know what an internet was if they tripped over it.

I don't think Anna's quite as old as the memes would have you believe.

But either way, for every story of an older person who uses the net, you have stories like that of my maternal grandmother. About eight years ago, we bought a cumputer for my grandfather, who had just taken a learning course on how to do simple things like email(for keeping in touch with his grandkids) and checking sports scores, as a Christmas gift. My grandmother made him throw it in the garbage. Fast forward to about two years ago. My mom and her sisters chipped in and bought my grandparents a 32" flat screen TV for Christmas. As soon as they opened it, the first words out of my Grandmother's mouth were "That better not be a computer. If it is you can just take it back right now."

For every badass net granny out there, there are people who not only don't use the internet, but actively rail against it.

Yeah, it was probably the fact that you also referenced Nobby that threw me off. You can't be joking when you call him old.

Edited, Feb 24th 2010 6:37am by Poldaran

If we had one mile of string for every one of those Americans without broadband, we could reach the sun.

zomg

That and knock off another 33 million for people who have access to the net, just not "broadband internet access at home". So they use dial-up or libraries, schools, whatever.

I already said that.

Oopsy.

My in-laws wouldn't mind broadband access, but they're too rural to have any access besides satellite.