They did evolve (to be more user friendly) but you have missed about ten years of that evolution by jumping from 9 to Lion.
And I was blissful in my ignorance. {sigh}
Dial up? Don't you have broadband there? (another can of worms...)
Yes indeed. And it costs 4-5x what I'm laying out for dial-up service. Given that I'm on the Internet less than 3 hours per day, it'd be an even greater waste of resources (which I'd rather put to wine acquisition).
When my current dial-up contract runs out, I'll likely have to switch to a monthly plan, to which I'll tack on "accelerated access', which compresses web files for ca 5x faster access. And so on, and so forth.
