People Watching and High Speed Internet Services

The human nature and spirit are very fascinating to me. I love to people watch. I marvel at what complex people we are. In so many ways, we want to be the same and yet each of us want to be unique or special. It comes through in the way we interact with others, how we dress ourselves and how we adapt to new and different situations. The ability to adapt over night is the most far out human trait of all.

I was thinking about how quickly we things as I was turning on my PC. I wanted to look something up on the Internet. We installed high speed Internet services almost a year ago. Within minutes of searching, I was reading the web page that I wanted. This instant access was something that I had come to expect. Yet prior to high speed Internet fiber optics, I was content with our dial up system because that is what I was accustom to.

The End of Dial Up Services
I was reminded of how slow our dial up service was when I was over at my neighbor's house. I had to walk over to her house to give her a message because their phone line was tied up with being on the Internet. She had just disconnected the Internet when I arrived. They try to be on for shorter periods of time so they are not tying up their phone line, but once they get on they like to complete as many things as possible because it takes so long.

I was telling her about a community site I had found that outlined an event we were planning on attending. She asked me about a specific time detail that I could not remember. She said she would pull up the site. I forgot the amount of time that is wasted in doing dial up Internet services, especially with our service provider. When it was peak use time, as it was when I was over at the neighbors, it is even slower. I could have walked back to my house turned on my computer and accessed the site with my high speed Internet in the time it took hers to make the connection.

The next day she came to my house to finalize the plans for our outing to the community event. She had to walk over because her husband was on the Internet and had the phone line tied up. As we were talking another detail came up where we needed clarification from the website information.