As a septuagenarian, my father’s story was typical of long-time AOL dial-up subscribers. His subscription was a safety blanket. He was certain he didn’t want the dial-up part, however he didn’t wish to threat shedding entry to his inventory portfolio, investor boards, and e-mail. His setup labored, and he might afford to maintain paying the subscription he had dutifully paid for over a decade.
With my assist, we have been in a position to migrate every thing he used on AOL to the ad-supported and open web that was already being delivered into his home through the broadband part of his cable bundle. Even after issues have been absolutely mirrored, he nonetheless felt trepidation when the time got here to choose up the telephone and terminate his dial-up account (regardless of AOL’s greatest try and obscure and complicate the process). Months later he advised me he felt foolish for letting the ruse go on for therefore lengthy.