Do You Mostly Use a Computer or a Phone for Internet? Why? - Page 2

I HATE PHONES! Hate typing bout as much! Having said that for you edification, have had an iphone for years. On the plus side, when printing customers send jobs, I can review them while I am fishing and send the order in-between baiting. When the shop asks where I am... I just say that I am out...doing a little banking

I'm about as old school as you can get. I do have a cell phone though, but only use it for phone calls. For the internet, I use an old HP desktop complete with dial-up!

I'm surprised at all this actually. It seems the computers or mostly computers, are far ahead of the phones or mostly phones.
I really didn't expect such an outstanding difference

but then, a lot of us get our computers for free hahaha ; )

Bear....I use a desktop for internet mostly because I can type just fine but I'm textologically disadvantaged. I have farmer fingers that just don't do well with those tiny buttons (or touch keypads). I've told friends that I wanted a rotary cell phone and that they can text me anything they want as long as it ends in a yes or no question. I did get a Galaxy S4 recently when I lost my flip phone, so I now can use "swipe" for texting and it's better.

I go online on the phone only when I'm not at home, but given the choice, it's desktop by leaps and bounds. I find it hard to read that tiny screen and can NEVER find reading glasses when I need 'em.

BTW, we have the same phone line you've got with most of the bulldozing, bushhogging, etc done by yours truly.

I'm on dial up too Ohio, with a delapidated old phone line. Haha Peanut, has yours got electric fence on it? : D (pop....pop....pop...)

The computer/mostly computer now stands at exactly 84% (not counting the = phone/computer users)

Originally Posted by ScrappinRed

I get really grumpy without an actual keyboard... and I'm only 33

maybe they should make phones with a keyboard connector ; )

Bear....I forgot about that electric fence pop. We don't currently have that feature, but it's only because my brother moved his cows to a wheat field another 1/2 mile away. When they come back, so will that wonderful popping noise.

I found out last summer that some houses in our town are still on party line. I was working on a clean out of a house that had been vacant for about 8 years. A buddy and I were bagging some clothes out of the bedroom closet and the phone rang!! That just about scared us silly and we both jumped, then laughed about it. It was a rotary phone with a loud bell. We found out that it was on party line and rang once any time someone else used the line.

I hope you grabbed that phone! I had one for years in Tennessee. Put a little phone shelf by the door on the front porch and wired that old phone out to it. I could hear that thing ringing if working down at the barn, or all the way down to the mailbox. Went and left it there when I moved

My buddy got that one, but I do have an old rotary hooked up at home. My wife was happy I had it when our power went out week before last in the freezing rain storm. Lots of people don't know that the wired phones will work when the power is out and cordless are shut down. Yes, cell phones work too, but wait long enough and the battery will die.

Call your old number and ask whoever answers to mail your phone to you. They might want to get rid of it.

I use my Desktop, laptop, and now a Kindle Fire. I use my cell sometimes, mainly to check how gold, etc is doing in prices, some online things. Hard for me to reply with my cell tho, cause of the small keyboard, an I Have fat fingers. I think my fire will be replacing my cell for most on the go things. Keyboard is much bigger, more viewing screen, etc.

Sirscrapalot - Waiting on some snow.

desktop when im upstairs laptop when im downstairs and i try to have a laptop, charger, inverter and extra batteries with me if im gonna be working all day