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The age of the Internet has, for many products and services, also become the age of the obsolete. The folding on Monday of zip.ca – a company that shipped DVDs to doorsteps when its customers were increasingly streaming content – made it just another causality of an old business model.
But some seemingly outdated industries are still in business and their services are sought out by Ottawans, albeit often in smaller numbers.
Dial-up Internet
One of Ottawa’s first Internet service providers still offers dial-up service to 400 people in the Ottawa area each month.
That’s down from more than 1,000 in 2012, but National Capital FreeNet executive director Nick Ouzas said it’s a service that he expects will stay.
“Dial-up is their only reasonable option,” Ouzas said of the rural pockets that don’t have access to high-speed, for those who can’t afford broadband and for the cottagers that want Internet but aren’t around enough to justify anything but dial-up.
Customers pay a recommended $5 a month.
Magazine stores
Even as tablets take over and readers turn to screens to access the world’s scribes, two magazine shops remain staples in Ottawa.
Found in two of Ottawa’s busy neighbourhoods, Britton’s Glebe Inc. and Mags & Fags rely on customers who still enjoy the texture of turning a page.
The latter, an Elgin Street store, has been around since 1981 and, according to its website, is a “neighbourhood hub that has transformed from the traditional newsstand to what one might describe as an urban mercantile.”
Music stores
Despite the proliferation of podcasts and downloadable tunes, CD Warehouse has made a name for itself in Ottawa.
It still sells CDs and does repairs, but with records rebranded among audiophiles as a the hip way to listen, the store has another business channel. Around since 1991, it was named Canada’s independent record store of the year in 2009.
The CD and DVD store HMV also has three locations in Ottawa, though it has been public about its drop in revenue.
Watch repair
Though many of us keep our wrists bare and rely on a cell screen to track time, watch repair shops can be found all over the city.
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But some seemingly outdated industries are still in business and their services are sought out by Ottawans, albeit often in smaller numbers.
Dial-up Internet
One of Ottawa’s first Internet service providers still offers dial-up service to 400 people in the Ottawa area each month.
That’s down from more than 1,000 in 2012, but National Capital FreeNet executive director Nick Ouzas said it’s a service that he expects will stay.
“Dial-up is their only reasonable option,” Ouzas said of the rural pockets that don’t have access to high-speed, for those who can’t afford broadband and for the cottagers that want Internet but aren’t around enough to justify anything but dial-up.
Customers pay a recommended $5 a month.
Magazine stores
Even as tablets take over and readers turn to screens to access the world’s scribes, two magazine shops remain staples in Ottawa.
Found in two of Ottawa’s busy neighbourhoods, Britton’s Glebe Inc. and Mags & Fags rely on customers who still enjoy the texture of turning a page.
The latter, an Elgin Street store, has been around since 1981 and, according to its website, is a “neighbourhood hub that has transformed from the traditional newsstand to what one might describe as an urban mercantile.”
Music stores
Despite the proliferation of podcasts and downloadable tunes, CD Warehouse has made a name for itself in Ottawa.
It still sells CDs and does repairs, but with records rebranded among audiophiles as a the hip way to listen, the store has another business channel. Around since 1991, it was named Canada’s independent record store of the year in 2009.
The CD and DVD store HMV also has three locations in Ottawa, though it has been public about its drop in revenue.
Watch repair
Though many of us keep our wrists bare and rely on a cell screen to track time, watch repair shops can be found all over the city.
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