ISP History

[DnetMHZ]

I was just thinking back over all the ISPs i've been with over the years.
here's my list starting with the earliest.

1. University network (my first web experience)
2. AOL
3. IDT.net
4. Monmouth.com
5. RCN
6. Comcast @home
7. back to RCN
8. Optimum Online
9. soon to be RCN Cable (I'm moving again)

how bout you guys?

 

[Geekbabe]

Delphi

Prodigy

AOL

Earthlink

AT&T Broadband

 

[kt]

1. University network (dialup)
2. Earthlink dialup
3. Cox@Home
4. Telocity DSL

 

[Viper GTS]

1) Library at school (if that counts)
2) Teleport
3) Sold to OneMain
4) Sold to Earthlink
5) Switched to VEI

3 & 4 may be reversed, they sucked so bad by the end I really didn't know who they were anymore. And frankly I didn't care either.

Viper GTS

 

[GTaudiophile]

1) Peachnet Dialup, back in 1993 (text-based Internet)
2) CompuServe
3) AOL (for like 5 months)
4) Mindspring
5A) I leave for college, get T3.
5B) My dad switches to Earthlink at home.

(A few months later, Earthlink and Mindspring merge.)

 

HRmm
Want a list of the ones I payed for or hacked?

 

[DnetMHZ]

<< Want a list of the ones I payed for or hacked? >>



whatever floats your boat...

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

AOL
Delphi (had at the same time as AOL)
Prodigy
Starlink (local)
Cloverleaf (local, really viacom)
Bridgewater (local)
Earthlink (had about a month, sucked total ass)
Bridgewater (local)
Cableone (current)

 

[LiQiCE]

1) I had free Internet email through a couple of different Bulletin Board Systems (the ones you dialed into) when the Internet was less common (I believe it was through FIDONet or one of the other Front Door style message networks.)
2) Internet e-mail through Cybercomm a small NJ based Chat Bulletin Board System and eventually got web access through SLIP, but I had to go into Windows for that
3) Netlabs a small ISP in NJ was probably the first real ISP I had
4) Went to college, got Internet access through the college on a T1, and eventually a DS3
5) Convinced my mom while I was in college to get Comcast@Home
6) Graduated from college, moved to Virginia and started using Highstream.net since cablemodem/dsl wasn't (and still isn't) available in my area
7) Found out Highstream.net only allows for 150 hours per month, dropped them and went to Earthlink for free for 30 days thinking I would get DSL installed
8) When I found out DSL couldn't be installed in my apartment, I switched to myyellowstone.net for $9.95 a month unlimited access but looking for a new ISP since myyellowstone.net's SMTP server is all messed up (can't send mail to half of the people I know) and they block any attempts to use another SMTP server. (If anyone has any suggestions around this or suggestions on a better ISP for the same money, let me know!)

There's a few other ISPs that I used briefly like Imperial Fortress (another small local NJ ISP) and one other that I can't remember, but thats about it!

 

[Deeko]

1) AOL (my family still uses it)
2) Lycos Free Internet
3) NetZero(bannerless until they banned me )
4) Some other free one that didn't have a banner
5) Sega.Net(until they sold their customers to...)
6) Earthlink

 

[GhettoFob]

<<

<< Want a list of the ones I payed for or hacked? >>



whatever floats your boat... >>


ok
aol
prodigy
msn
some local internet (grid.net?)
dorm connection (t1 or t3?)
uc berkeley dialup
telocity dsl

 

[Beau]

Shadowlink.net -> local dialup
141.com wireless T1.

 

[Linflas]

Online Service (No internet)
Compu$erve
Prodigy (Ancient days before timed charges)
AOL (Very brief)

Internet Specific
Naval Research Lab DARPANET
Netcom (shell account opened 1990 due contract ending and losing NRL access)
Delphi
Monumental (Long since absorbed by Verio)
Tidalwave (small local dialup)
Mindspring/Earthlink (Netcom was absorbed and shell services shutdown by these folks)
Speakeasy (iDSL)
Comcast@Home

 

[woodly6]

1.Prodigy(on a Mac Classic with a 14.4 modem)
2.Softcom
3.Crapuserve
4.MSN
5.Road Runner

 

[MrCodeDude]

1. AOL (for like a few weeks)
2. MSN (for a 6 months)
3. JPS.net (3 years or so..)
4. Sprint Broadband (got it in August)
-- mrcodedude

 

[cyclistca]

1. TotalNet - Eastern Canadian ISP. Since bought up and renamed.
2. Bell Sympatico ADSL
3. Telus ADSL

This does not include of course the ISP services that I have gotten through my employer

 

[IscareCuzICare]

1. Hebrew University in Jerusalem Web Access (1st experience in 1997, was quite fast as a matter of fact).
2. Universoty of California Berkeley Web Access (Was slower then the former one...).
3. Corecomm dial up.
4. Pacific Bell DSL.
5. Juno *ugh*.
6. AT&T Cable.

 

[ppaik]

1) Baudtown BBS
2) AOL
3) CSULB
4) Earthstink
5) Surfside Internet
6) Speakeasy

 

[crab]

BellAtlantic.net
AT&T Worldnet
Earthlink

 

[LoneWolf1]

Prodigy

AOHell

at&t worldnet

Back to Prodigy

AT&T@Home come monday...WOOHOO

 

[Skoalboy]

Hrm!!!!

AOL
PacBell
AT&T
Slip.net
InReach
Intelenet
Firstworld
Mediaone

 

[reitz]

1. Prodigy
2. Earthlink
3. Stargate Shameless promotion for my employer

 

[MWink]

I think this list is right.

Oldest -> newest:

Prodigy
Compuserve
Erol's
Earthlink
Bluelight (for 1 month) (is suck)
Yellowstone.net (for 1 month) (is also suck)
Erol's/Starpower

 

[Antoneo]

I have used: 1. Netcom 2. At&t 3. Verizon DSL

 

[NetworkDad]

1. BBS
2. Shell internet (form of telnet text-based internet)
3. Prodigy
4. AOL
5. Qwest
6. Local ISP provider