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by jlardinois 3410 days ago
> In the U.S., AOL alone had over 2 million dialup users in 2015.

I've seen this figure a few times before, and I wonder every time who these users are. Specifically I'm curious what the breakdown is between people who

- Really don't have a better option available (infrastructure in this country is unbelievably bad in some places, so I wouldn't be surprised at a large size for this group)

- Are perfectly happy with the dialup experience so they don't switch to something better

- Don't know there are better options so they stay with dialup

- Don't even realize they never cancelled AOL and are still having it auto-debited every month

- Some other option I didn't think of