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Now the dial is being turned back, and comments sections are beginning to be seen as tacky.

Amazon as a whole is dial-a-yield depending on the rate of profit reinvested to grow existing/new capabilities.

A dial each for temperature, fan speed, and where the air is blowing.

What's worse is that there are still plenty of places that haven't actually progressed beyond 1999 using 56k dial-up.

Having to use a computer you don't own (or mobile) feels like traveling back to 1999 using 56k dial-up.

The transition from dial-up to broadband rendered them irrelevant, except as an also-ran Yahoo style portal.

Kudos to AOL for managing the transition from closed network to dial-up internet service; after that they went off the rails.

That kind of thing was moderately acceptable when Average Windows User was behind a dial-up line, but those are going away, too.

In my opinion, leaving them with dial up or satellite Internet isn't an option.

That and (i think) it requires an internet connection to dial out to google.

If the only way you could get to Hacker News was over a dial-up connection, would you switch to dial-up or would you just go to a different site that loads a broadband speed?

I know with GV you can dial your GV number to dial the number you actually want to call (So the recipient sees your GV number in their caller ID).

Thanks to digipeaters and an Internet gateway (for the "converse" server), I was able to sit in my (very rural) home and chat with folks on other continents a couple of years before dial-up was even available in my area and my station's hostname and IP address are still present in the ampr.org DNS zone twenty years later.

What you call "nutty" I call "a dial-up Internet connection" or "a congested network due to streaming content or large downloads." If Win10 only did this while the entire network is guaranteed to be idle, and if it can guarantee it is on a landline DSL or better connection whose usage isn't tracked, then it would be okay.