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[Arcadio]

AOL Dial-up
Verizon Online DSL
Time Warner Cable

 

[zebano]

1990s: Prodigy then some local telephone company
1999-2001 - University
2002-2008 - Mediacom cable
2009-now Qwest DSL

 

[acheron]

Used Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL (mostly Prodigy) all before they became ISPs, in the 80s and early 90s, but that doesn't count. Did continue using Prodigy for awhile after it started offering Internet access though, though never used them as an actual ISP. Started using a local freenet in the early 90s too, but that's not really an "ISP" either, though it did give telnet and gopher access from their system. (And www via Lynx and Slipknot later.)

First real ISP was an AT&T thing called "Worldnet" around 94 I think. Then used a local dialup ISP for a few years until TimeWarner started offering cable modems in 1998. Lived in a college dorm 2000-2001, had Speakeasy DSL the rest of my time at college, after graduating have had cable via various companies: had Cox for a couple years, then briefly Adelphia right before they got bought by Comcast, who I still have now though I dumped them for TV years ago.

 

[Anubis]

its easy as ive only had 3

95-97
Piggybacking off the local college illigally

97-2001
Servtech - Local Dial up company

2001-
Time Warner RR

 

[amdhunter]

Cox.

How do you like Cox? Do you like Cox a lot?

EDIT: Oh and I had...

AOL Dial Up
8mbit Verizon DSL
15mbit Optimum Online
30mbit Optimum Online

 

[tokie]

Dialup:
AT&T Canada

Highspeed:
Rogers@Home (cable)
Shaw@Home (cable
Telus (DSL)
Shaw (no more @Home)
Cogeco (cable
Bell (DSL)
TekSavvy (Bell DSL reseller)

That's all.

 

[TwiceOver]

Late 80's - Early '90s AOL when it was only chat rooms and was pretty much just a BBS.
Early - Mid '90s we ran a BBS in our basement 4-line. Awesome.
96-99 Webtite Dialup (local company)
99-2000 HickoryTech dialup
2000-2004 Charter Cable
2004 1 month of HickoryTech DSL (ditched that shit)
2004 - 2006 Back to charter Cable
2006 - 2008 Prairie Wave (now Knology) cable
2008 - Present Local WISP that I work with because its free.

 

[ViviTheMage]

AOL in the 90's, qwest DSL for the late 90's, time warner cable for early 2000's comcast around 2007+

 

[bignateyk]

AOL, Adelphia, Comcast

 

[zerogear]

Prodigy -> AOL -> Netplex -> Comcast

 

[mrCide]

Southeast Florida here..

90s dial-up - started with SEFLIN
- AOL (phony accounts)
- shadow.net
- netcom.com (phony accounts, although their shellz were mad leet)
- laker.net

MediaOne hybrid cable downstream dial-up upstream
- full on mediaone broadband
- bellsouth DSL
- some DSL that started with a T
- i forget
- Comcast garbage cable.

 

[nageov3t]

mid 90's: AOL
late 90's: IDT
1999-2002: college network
2002-2003: Adelphia
2003-2007: verizon DSL
2007-now: cablevision

probably moving over to comcast when I move this summer... I've got the option for verizon fios, but TBH I really fucking hate their TV service and I'm a little worried about whether or not it would screw up the house's landline (I'm moving into a 2-family house where my 90 year-old aunt is the other resident... she'd be practically adrift if anything ever happened to her land line)

 

[Fritzo]

Dialup with my C64 and Compuserve
Prodigy
AOL (actually I used Prominade, which was the East Coast version of AOL before merging)
Netcomm
Delphi
Local ISP
Another local ISP, which I eventually came to work for. We went national, and I made a career of it.

What's cool about working for a big ISP is you get to try out a lot of connection technologies before they go mainstream. ATT paid me to be a beta tester for DSL back in 1999, I had ISDN through the 90's, I got to play with WiMax, and now we're experimenting with things like Broadband over Powerlines, Ultra High Speed fiber, home Ethernet, and some others.

 

[SunnyD]

Late 80's - BBS's. Hell, I even ran one.

The internet era begins:
Late 80's - One BBS had an email link to the internet (mail gateway, FIDONET).
Early 90's to mid 90's - iinc.com
1995-1998 - College network/dialin
1997-???? - Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner)
1998 - Frontier Internet
2000 - Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner)
2002 - Verizon DSL
2003 - Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner)
2004-2007 - Brighthouse Networks (Roadrunner)
Late 2007-2008 - Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner)
2009 - Knology Internet
2009-Current - Mediacom Internet

I've also had brief stints on AOL and NetZero (while I was transitioning)

 

[Nitemare]

something at college
prodigy
compuserve
AOL
AT&T
Walmart
Time Warner Cable

 

[puffff]

Netcom dialup
AOL dialup
Campus network
Stargate DSL
Verizon DSL

 

[DesiPower]

AOL - paid shit load of money
NetZero - discovered free shit, yaaaa!!! was tired of ads after a while
Compuserve - got into a 3 year contract with the bastards for a free computer!
Comcast - got it as soon as they started in our town! was 1 of their 1st 100 customers!
Time Warner - using it for the last 7 years... since i moved to this town...

 

[dennilfloss]

IIRC

1999-2001 idirect 56k winmodem
2002-now Bell Sympatico ADSL (Ultra first and now Performance)

 

[BoomerD]

4800 Baud FTMFW!!

WHAT? 9600 Baud? I gotta have one of those!!

Early newsgroup/BBL internet...Compuserve? Late 80's?

Prodigy in the early 90's?

When Windows 95 came out, we switched over to PacBell internet (dial-up) and haven't changed ISP's since. (other than the various name changes they've been through...pacbell--> SBC--> AT&T)

 

[PepePeru]

1997 to 1999 - couple dial-up accounts - various local ISPs
1999 to 2002 - ethernet in apartment complex
2002 to 2004 - DSL - Local phone company
2004 - 2006 - Cable - Comcast
2006-2007- DSL - AT&T
2007 - Present - Cable - Cox

 

[Blayze]

Dial-up - Prodigy, Local ISP, AOL, WOW!, Mindspring, Earthlink
DSL - Alltel, Windstream
Fiber - Windstream

 

[AnonymouseUser]

North Carolina
1999 AOL
2000 North State Communications Dial-up
2001 North State Communications DSL 768x768
2004 North State Communications DSL 3.0x512

Texas
2008 AT&T DSL 3.0x512
2008 AT&T DSL 6.0x512
2009 Earthlink Cable (Time Warner Cable) 3.0x512
2010 Time Warner Cable (shared with neighbor)
2010 Clear 4G (6.0x1.0 plan, 3.0x0.1 actual so far 😡)

Texas has me really missing North State Communications. In 7 years with NSC DSL I had 2 or 3 outages. Now I get 2 or 3 outages per week. fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu AT&T/Time Warner Duopoly!

 

[Crusty]

First 'Internet' access I used was dialing in and using telnet on the TENET(Texas Education Network).
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/35/4b.pdf

Then we had Prodigy for some time, then eventually Flash.NET dialup service, then SBC DSL, then TWC Cable.

 

[BW86]

AOL
Earthlink
OOL
FIOS
OOL

 

[HardcoreRobot]

First 'Internet' access I used was dialing in and using telnet on the TENET(Texas Education Network).
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/35/4b.pdf

Then we had Prodigy for some time, then eventually Flash.NET dialup service, then SBC DSL, then TWC Cable.

I think CompuServe was in the mix for a little, and you are forgetting the glory days of Sprint ION! Best service ever! While it lasted...

Since I stopped living with Crusty, I have also had Verizon DSL (dry loop), Cox, and now FIOS.