- You have to buy some expensive piece of hardware called a modem even if you already have a computer
- You tie up your entire phone line or have to buy an additional phone line just to use it
- Barely anyone has an email address, so who are you going to send email to?
- Hardly any companies have ways to buy things, plus it's not secure enough to send your credit card
- You have to be an expert to install software to connect to the internet
- Criminals and terrorists might use it.
I created the thread you're running a parody of here, and those are all good points.
I had planned to jump in here and play devil's advocate again, pointing out that the Internet has obvious benefits from the start ... tons of conveniences...
But in reality, at *this stage* ... the internet was new, and it was nothing more than a place you could go (on AOL) and find fat chicks to hook up with.