DialUp

The Boston Globe recently reported that a lack of high speed Internet connections are keeping many rural homes from selling. With more than 55% of the nation currently using broadband and many people, including myself, placing it up there with breathing on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it's no...

This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. When I was growing up, any attempt to hop on the Internet was met with the tell-tale squeaks and...