So, not a lot of money, and, with two sons to support, plenty of higher priorities for its use than $50 or better a month for broadband Internet access. (Given the nature of the modern web, dialup is more or less equivalent to nothing at all; mobile Internet is faster, much easier to obtain, and probably cheaper than any local dialup provider you can even still find in 2016.)
It's the same on CodeCademy with some of their exercises. "Well shouldn't it really be like this?!" No. The accepted answer works fine. Don't over-engineer a simple solution.
While I could see where it was coming from, this would be incredibly confusing for a beginner, who wouldn't even know to report this as a problem - they might conclude that "piece of bread" was just incorrect.