how did you get online using dialup?

[Semidevil]

so before all this broadband and all that, how did you use to get online?

aol? compuserve?

I use to get free internet by using the free hours from aol, canceled, and wait for new CD...then I used netzero, and then, since the unversity had free internet, I would dial up their number....

btw, how do you enable pm?? so many years, but I dont know how to enable pm

 

[EagleKeeper]

CompuServe in early 90s, then a local ISP in mid 90s'. Broadband showed via cable up in 2000.

 

[sswingle]

Always used a local provider. Until Road Runner was invented.

 

[T3C]

local ISP

 

[Pepsi90919]

PPP

 

[Maximus96]

local isp, Access4less.net. ~$5 a month for unlimited.

 

[Supermercado]

I think we had AOL for about two weeks before we decided that we hated it and got CompuServe. I'm pretty sure we had another service between then and when we got cable but I can't remember what it was.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

free internet... well someone was paying for it.

 

[aplefka]

Local ISP, started out at ~$6 a month, which was damn good in 1995. Highest it ever got was ~$8 a month in the 00-03 range.

 

[intogamer]

eh ish AOL, then ish MSN, then ish Verizon omg bbq!

 

[Baked]

Free dial-up through school server.

 

[RossMAN]

1) Enable PM's by going to your personal options.

2) If you are paying more than $4.95/mo for dialup internet you are paying way too much.
http://www.freedomlist.com/find.php3?id=865&state=127

3) Just for the heck of it I called a few Norman, OK research companies this morning. One is offering a focus group next week paying $50 for 45 minutes to talk about bottled water. Have you called them yet?

 

[Bassyhead]

Free dial up through a BBS that provided it

 

[conjur]

Free MSN account for 11 years now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Semidevil
so before all this broadband and all that, how did you use to get online?
aol? compuserve?
I use to get free internet by using the free hours from aol, canceled, and wait for new CD...then I used netzero, and then, since the unversity had free internet, I would dial up their number....

Juno/Netzero. Was nearly a charter member. Juno was free dialup for years, and not limited to 10hr/mo like NetZero.

 

[spaceman]

local isp.

 

[xSauronx]

local isp until i got broadband a year or two ago

 

[nakedfrog]

PPP
I used to have all manner of modem commands memorized... ath 0 and such
Thankfully I've been dial-up free since 2/2000. I :heart: broadband.

 

[kyparrish]

local isp

 

[icejunkie]

Compuserve, then AOL for like 2 days, already figured it was crap back then...

Then some form of secret access that I cannot spill any information regarding on these forums.

And..... 88mph, bla bla bla ... roadrunner

 

[Electrode]

AOL for a few months in 1996, then local ISP until 2001, then cable

 

[Svnla]

Local ISP, then Earthlink, now Access4less for about 5 bucks a month for unlimit useage.

Will have DSL/cable in a month.

For those of you think current dial up is too slow, we used to have to put up with 2400 bps for internet. Yup, not a typo, 2400 bps..LOL.

 

[CraigRT]

some local ISP, WWDC, and then Rogers cable internet about a million years ago.
I've had broadband forever.

 

[johnjbruin]

AOL in the mid to late 90's

 

[Mayfriday0529]

AOL until Cable Modem came out.