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29 lines
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Top 10 Signs You Picked The Wrong Internet Service Provider
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10. Their company logo is two tin cans and a length of string.
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9. You check out their address, and it's a phone booth containing a
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Compaq portable and an acoustic coupler.
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8. Their chief technical officer lives in a 10-foot-by-7-foot shack in
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the woods.
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7. Their proud boast: "We've been on the Internet since it was CB
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radio."
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6. Their promo materials use the words "information" and
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"superhighway" in the same sentence.
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5. You order an SLIP/PPP connection, email, and 2MB of server space
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for your personal Web site, and the voice on the other end of the
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phone asks, "Would you like fries with that?"
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4. "As seen in Better Business Bureau special reports."
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3. "Access speeds up to 9,600 bps in most areas."
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2. They hawk both domain names and Rolexes on the street corner.
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1. They charge for e-mail and downloads by the word.
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