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To: Educator who wrote (18121)	12/21/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 29970

Ed you are terrific! How i would of loved ot be one of your parents have a super day. There is the web as i see and later children getting homework help . I dont like chat rooms i think children lead children and it doesn't work. You made my day happy.

To: Educator who wrote (18121)	12/21/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

This family is money conscious though, and I doubt that they would pay the extra $9.95. Lets see now. They house & feed three teenagers. They own a computer. They pay $22 a month for AOL and ~$20/month for a spare phone line. I'll bet they pay $35/month for cable TV too. And they can't afford 30 cents a day to get 50x the speed? Note also that in many cases @home is cheaper than AOL+ a spare phone line so the additional cost could be more like $7 a month. Ask the kids. I'll bet they'd find a way to come up with the $3/month each themselves. For now, they will go with the masses. I believe this is the mindset of many people. This is what I call "the herding instinct". The switch to broadband is inevitable, its just that @home will benefit more if it is sooner rather than later. Fortunately the herds have a moment of critical mass when suddenly something no one wanted becomes a "gotta have". We are almost to that point. Suddenly the herd becomes a stampede. Just a little longer... Eric