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Many Americans Still Don't Have Home Net Access

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the willing-luddites dept.

Weather Storm wrote in with a story about those who see no need for home net access. Surprisingly, it's not the cost that is a barrier to entry. Instead, most say they don't see the value of having a net connection at home. "A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a new survey. Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months."

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  1. Does that include by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People using their neighbor's "free" wifi?

    1. Re:Does that include by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The only communication they need at home is "a large pizza with everything", a phone is enough for that.

    2. Re:Does that include by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      He wouldn't be liable as he'd be protected as an internet service provider.

    3. Re:Does that include by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      so if i enable my wireless so someone else can connect, then the internet police will jump out of nowhere and arrest me?

    4. Re:Does that include by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >"terrists"

      ? Oh, I thought he said 'tourists', and so closed all the borders...

  2. Even a caveman can do it by SuperCharlie · · Score: 2, Funny

    As I type on my computer hooked-up 42" TV, look over at my PDA which says I have new email and surf the local weather on my phone I dont get it.

    What is this "No Internet" of which you speak?

  3. Re:I would be willing to bet... by kamapuaa · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would be willing to bet that the majority of these people are not lesbian eskimos, or if they are, that they must do their research at the library or the local school system.

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  4. Obligatory Sherlock Holmes by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're posting on a Saturday, sir.

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  5. Re:Idiots exist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You elected Democrats in both of your last two elections also? Sucks to be where we live.

  6. In other news.... by Low+Key · · Score: 2, Funny

    29 percent of American households consist of "really old people".

  7. Re:Self selected sample by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not funny! Global warming killed my father...and raped my mother!

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  8. Re:I can understand this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It seems clear to me, that these people all have friends working in video rental places, and can acquire porn without great expense or embarrassment that way, thus making the internet redundant.

  9. Re:Those numbers are comparable to cable TV. by nuzak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Note to self: don't google for "penetration" at work.

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  10. Perhaps that is the 29% of Americans by gatkinso · · Score: 4, Funny

    who are not obese.

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  11. Re:And? by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was a time when almost nobody had internet access. Back then, the internet was a beautiful place.

    You sound just like our IT department. "If it wasn't for all the users, we'd have a really smooth running operation."
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