1930s Electricity Co-Ops Take Internet Initiative

DENVER (AP) – When sisters Caroline Clark and Dianne Rissman set up their quilt shop in the house on their family farm in Iowa 2004, vendors they would call about fabric or thread would helpfully tell them it would be easier to order online.
“And we’d say, ‘Yeah, it would, if we could get on the Internet,'” Clark said and laughed.
She remembered when it could take an hour to download a Web page using their old dial-up connection. Or, once they switched to satellite,