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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20041221/ap_on_hi_te/ye_broadband_nation

As prices dropped over the past year, broadband use at home has surpassed that of dial-up in the United States, reaching 53 percent of residential Web users in October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

We are now the majority! Get in your cages, 56Kers!

 

[ManaByte]

Does this mean no more 56k warnings in thread titles?

 

[BigJonsson]

Awww you guys finally made it

 

[SlickWilly223]

Nice.

I have DSL but I'm switching to Cable soon

 

[Drexon]

Glad you joined the club, finally!

 

[tedtropy]

Wow, that's actually surprising. I figured the vast majority of porn-jockies out there were still on dialsuck. Well, now I feel like even more of an Internet pariah. Wippe!

 

[madara]

So does that mean RR can finally drop below $50 month now?

 

[Mainline]

I have dsl and cable highspeed, does that make me a bad person? It's just so cheap here.

 

[Zilch]

Good. I don't think there's any excuse to still have dial-up these days if you're a serious computer user.

 

[tedtropy]

Good. I don't think there's any excuse to still have dial-up these days if you're a serious computer user.

Except that not everyone (such as myself) has access to broadband in their area. Yeah, there's satellite, but it's ridiculously expensive and has horrible latency issues, making it about as useful in multiplayer gaming as dialup.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Porno WINS fatality!

 

[UltimateMarioMan]

I'm the majority?! WOO!!

 

[SKluck]

As prices dropped over the past year....

Can someone tell me when this happened? I've been paying the same for my comcast for 2 years. They have their $20/month for 1 year but that is for new subscribers, and I'm not going through the hassle of cancelling and resigning up to get that.

 

[tedtropy]

Can someone tell me when this happened? I've been paying the same for my comcast for 2 years. They have their $20/month for 1 year but that is for new subscribers, and I'm not going through the hassle of cancelling and resigning up to get that.

Seems a fairly minor hassle to save a nice chunk of change...

 

[OmniGamer]

Finally[/Homer Simpson]

 

[Drensch]

It was me. I finally surrendered a two weeks ago.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

we dial-up users still have the ukraine!!!

 

[Joe]

i hope verizons fiber optics comes to my area sometime in 2005.

 

[Hollywood]

56K isn't bad when you only surf the web ... then again my hard drive is a little less than 2 GB with room to spare, so I'm the anti technology age here.

 

[demon]

Haha. I remember the threads in ~99 or so about how broadband would NEVER overtake 56k (of course those debates always in some way related to the Dreamcast). This was obvious (broadband overtaking dial-up) at least as early as a couple years ago.

 

[Rorschach]

Bah, now my e-penis is average.