Darwin, CA, the town trapped by dialup internet.

[longship]

12. Try rural Newaygo County, MI!

A mere 40 miles N of Grand Rapids. No cable TV here (not that I'd want it, or could afford to pay for it). No broadband either. And if you think you can actually get 28K dial up here in the midst of the Manistee National Forest, you're delusional.

Luckily I have a sister who's willing to put me on her AT&T account and can use my iPhone to get a couple of bars on EDGE data network. It's about dialip speed, no better. But at least I can get DU, which has reasonable software which tolerates low bandwidth and supports iPhones. (Thank you Skinner et al)

I thought Obama was going to do the equivalent of FDR's rural electrification, only it was to be a rural broadband project, employing thousands. He talked about it after he took office. What happened to that? Does anybody know?

on edit: I hear that the most connected country is Suomi (Finland), which has a small population density in rural areas, but has managed to connect the whole country with broadband. Hell! The Netherlands is trying to go all fiber optic! What's wrong with this country? I know the US is big, but for Christ sakes, we put people on the moon in less than ten years.