40% of AOL subscribers don't have computers?!?

[JohnnyRingo]

Though this is older news, I guess it got past me with all the cabinet news last week.

I had to think about it awhile ...40% don't know what the internet is!
Then I realized how many people thought Saddam orchestrated the 9/11 attack....Or how many thought GW cut taxes for working people.....
Or how many believe they could "have a beer" with George Buxh.

Has America devolved mentally? The ex-employee of AOL leaked this memo to the right media...Fox News.

How many loyal Fox viewers were watching the story on TV and turned to their spouse and said: Hey honey....Don't we get that there "AOL"?

http://watleyreview.com/2004/111604-3.html

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"Well, I got the disk in the mail, and it said if I wanted to subscribed I should send money to these people," said Carl Lewen, an AOL subscriber in Kentucky who does not own a computer. "It never said anything about having to do anything with the disk. I thought it was kind of like a souvenir."
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AOL was able to get away with this, apparently, because so many people are unclear as to what the internet is, or what benefits to expect from an online account.

"I kind of thought it was like subscribing to the yellow pages," said Lewen. "We kept getting copies of the phone book, so I thought AOL was doing that. I also wanted the virus protection, because it was flu season."
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"Well, these documents do explain one thing," said Kowshik. "I always wondered how AOL managed to maintain a customer satisfaction rate of 40%. Now we know exactly which 40% of their client base that is."