{"id":746,"date":"2004-04-19T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=746"},"modified":"2004-04-19T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T09:23:08","slug":"for-all-you-dial-up-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/for-all-you-dial-up-users\/","title":{"rendered":"For all you dial-up users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/19\/technology\/19DIAL.html\">The New York Times says you have lots of company. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up to now, the market for high-speed connections has been dominated by the young, educated, affluent and tech-savvy. In some circles, it is considered not just functional, but an essential bit of modernity, like knowing what happened on &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; or that Diesel refers to jeans, not fuel. Some users of dial-up sheepishly acknowledge that they avoid admitting their low network speeds when they are with their better-connected friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Confession: I have Comcast&#8217;s fastest digital-cable broadband and I still didn&#8217;t know that Diesel refers to jeans, not fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times says you have lots of company. Up to now, the market for high-speed connections has been dominated by the young, educated, affluent and tech-savvy. In some circles, it is considered not just functional, but an essential&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/for-all-you-dial-up-users\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}