Despite the fact that we live in a culture where most of us carry telephones in our pockets that can access any piece of information ever recorded (and also make phone calls), there are still countless people around the world who depend on painfully outdated technology as part of their daily routine.

4 AOL Dial-Up

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Remember dial-up? That was when modems required the use of a telephone line, so you could only hop on the Internet to check the Lost World: Jurassic Park website when your mom wasn't on the phone with child psychologists or your dad wasn't waiting for a call from the temp agency. The connection was as slow as naturalization -- you could easily wait all evening for a photo of the Spice Girls to finish loading onscreen.