How much do you remember? Post your ISP history!

[Linflas]

BBS's
Dial ups:
Netcom (Unix shell account from 1990 until they killed off the remaining emails/shell users around 1999)
Compu$erve
Delphi
Prodigy
AOL

Dial up PPP:
Tidalwave
Erols

iDSL
Speakeasy

Broadband:
Comcast
FIOS (current)

 

[Matthiasa]

Aol
DSL
Cable or DSL- depending.

 

[MotF Bane]

Dialup: AOL, NetZero, CompuServe, EarthLink, NetZero again.
DSL: Verizon
FiOS: Verizon :awe:

 

[JoeKing]

-Prodigy - Got in major doo doo with my dad when I racked up a $200 phone bill... long distance woot! - 9600bps
-Kingsnet - local ISP. Kicked off for staying on nonstop almost 24/7 for 2 months. Unlimited my ass!-14.4kbps
-Tigernet - High School Dial up. Knew the admin so 24/7 was cool- 33.6kbps
-Kmart Bluelight - for when high school dial-up was busy 33.6k
-PacBell DSL
-College LAN- unthrottled T-1 access + Napster in full glory
-ATT DSL
-SBC DSL
-ATT DSL
-Comcast Cable
-FIOS 20/20mb... oh how I miss thee!
-Crappy Italian ISP Alice DSL ~100kB/s

 

[Deeko]

Living At Home (~94-2002)
AOL (dialup)
Netzero (dialup)
Some Smaller But Better Netzero Clone (dialup)
SegaNet (dialup & the best dialup ISP ever)
Earthlink (dialup)

College in Philly (2002-2007)
College network (LAN, very fast)
Some Small Cable Company I can't Remember (cable)
Verizon (DSL)
Timewarner (cable)
Comcast (cable)

Philly (2007-2008)
Verizon (DSL)
Comcast (cable)

Seattle (2008-present)
Broadstripe (cable)
Qwest (DSL)
Comcast(cable)
Verizon (FIOS)

 

[Kev]

1993: Prodigy trial

1996: AOL

1999: College Dorm

2001: Netzero

2002-present: Verizon

 

[Nik]

juno
comcast
fios

 

[coloumb]

80-ish

Local Dial ups in South Dakota [c-64 bbs's]
Q-link [ Q-link was awesome - I made a lot of friends [and a few romantic connections] across the country. We had annual meets which were a blast]
prodigy
compuserve
more local dial-up's [metropolis BBS in Kansas - weekly meets at King Arthur's were awesome]

90s-ish

more local dial-up's in Sunnyvale
Cable

2000-ish
Satellite DSL
AT&T ISDN until Comcast finally installed cable - then Comcast

 

[oogabooga]

My history is pretty short compared to some, but I remember it pretty well.

1998-1999 : AT&T Dialup - 33.6k
1999-2000 : AOL Dialup - 56k
2000-2002 : Earthlink DSL - 256kb
2002-2003 : Dorm Internet at UCI (T3 lines)
2003-2007 : Living in Irvine, using Cox Cable connection - 1.5 down
2007-2010 : Moved to San Diego, using Time Warner Cable - 15 down
2010 : Moved to San Luis Obispo - Using Charter internet service. This shit sucks real bad.- barely every works, but when it does 12 down
2010 : also had to get AT&T DSL so I can maintain a stable internet connection when I'm working from home. - 1.0 down

 

[destrekor]

oh sweet one of those threads where no one cares about or will read my reply

1200 baud modem on c=64
something
something
cable
DSL

awww need some :wub: ?
^_^

C64 eh? Never got to play with one of those. Before my time I reckon. Could have been cool.
Did get to play with Apple IIe's in classrooms when I was young, the big 5.25" disks and the various games on them.

 

[Fayd]

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

if you're trying to make a penis joke, you're failing miserably.

as an ISP, cox are, well, a bunch of cocks. piece of shit for reliability's sake.

but i'm kinda stuck with them, no other real options offered in my area.

 

[Red Squirrel]

We got our first computer around year 2000, with dialup. Then sometimes down the line, maybe 2005 high speed internet was available, and we got it maybe a year later. It was actually a Christmas present.

 

[dbk]

AOL Dialup
Erol's Dialup
Verizon DSL
Cox Cable
Fios next month

 

[eldorado99]

-Sympatico Dialup
-Telus Dialup
-Uniserve Dialup
-Shaw broadband
-Telus broadband

 

[Possessed Freak]

14.4 uplink through Info-90 BBS.
56k Through Penn Tele Data
Penn State dorm connection
56k Through Penn Tele Data
Cable through Service Electric
DSL through Penn Tele Data
Cable through Service Electric
DSL through Windstream

Other than the Penn State dorms, this is all the same house. Yeah I did not like our home ISP choices and kept switching back and forth.

 

[Kaido]

Proud to say I have never partaken of AOL or DSL.

Cox Cable, Comcast Cable (yuck), Cox Cable, and some local dial-up before that. And a Verizon 3G card in there for awhile.

 

[bobsmith1492]

First thing I did online was download Wacky Wheels from a BBS... it took all night if I recall. Grade school, I think?

 

[Newbian]

I would post it but it would only make them easier to track my accounts and get this one in trouble...

 

[Muse]

I was with AOL for a while but got increasingly disenchanted until I hated it. Then I had dialup with a local outfit. Went from there to pacbell.net DSL and been with them ever since. Boosted speed a few times. Pretty simple history.

 

[TheVrolok]

AOL dialup (with NetZero to post on AT )
Prolog DSL
D+E cable
Comcast cable

 

[RbSX]

Starting in 96

Smarttnet (Dial-Up)
Telus ADSL
Queen's University Network
Telus ADSL
Bell ADSL
Telus ADSL
TekSavvy/Montreal DSL
Shaw Cable and Telus ADSL (at the same time)
Now just Shaw

 

[Svnla]

One of my old ISP was Softdisk.

A bit of history, that was the computer/internet company the guys that created id software (Commander Keen/Doom/Quake/etc.) worked for before they became rich and famous.

 

[Spoooon]

Don't remember dates:

2.6k Prodigy
2.6k Compuserve
2.6k, 14.4k, 56.6k AOL<- I remember how you couldn't do anything else while you were downloading a file
COX Cable
SuddenLink Cable

Did anyone do those "sli" modems? Where you could use 2 56k modems, 2 land lines, and double the speed?

 

[gaidensensei]

Started on 28.8, was on 56k till late 90's.

Earthlink - someone else's account
Mindspring " "
Pacbell - " "
Netsol
GTE DSL
Charter Cable
GTE-> Verizon Fios

 

[HeXen]

Aol
earthlink
MSN
Comcast

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