Nostalgia - my first ISP

[silent tone]

Does anybody remember an (national?) ISP around 1995 that had a toolbar with ftp, telnet, gopher, www buttons on it in their connection software? It had a picture of the earth that you could click on and connect to a server in that region. I think the ISP name was printed in an arc above the earth. I know they had local access numbers for Dallas TX.

 

[ndee]

My was bluewindow from Swisscom. Ah the memories.

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: ndee
My was bluewindow from Swisscom. Ah the memories.

Bluewindow... you sure you not referring to the blue window in windows???

 

[Nocturnal]

We had an shell account through my mother's school. Well a dial up account actually. We couldn't figure out why we couldn't start chatting with people! We didn't even have internet explorer installed! I remember waiting two whole days for Netscape Navigator to download!

 

[pyonir]

Wasn't that Prodigy?

 

[rh71]

I had Prodigy back in '92 or '93. $35 package came with a 2400 baud modem. Sweet!

 

[MeanMeosh]

prodigy back in the day... sounds like that... i think.

 

[Sid59]

my first ISP was Freelane and then Netzero and a slew of free dial ups.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: DaFinn

Originally posted by: ndee
My was bluewindow from Swisscom. Ah the memories.

Bluewindow... you sure you not referring to the blue window in windows???

back then, windows 95-98 gave me tons of blue windows

 

[TallBill]

Ugh.. i cant mention my first isp.. its a swear word

 

[yoda291]

I started on the intarweb by riding a bunch of free trials from various isps.

 

[TheShiz]

aol free trials here, anyone remember aohell? I remember all this stuff like tricking aol into thinking you were in the free area when you were really surfing the net, I never used any of it though.

 

[Feanor727]

Originally posted by: istallion
Does anybody remember an (national?) ISP around 1995 that had a toolbar with ftp, telnet, gopher, www buttons on it in their connection software? It had a picture of the earth that you could click on and connect to a server in that region. I think the ISP name was printed in an arc above the earth. I know they had local access numbers for Dallas TX.

That would be Netcom! I had them too (in the DFW area) after they bought out PicNET. Ahhh... the greatness.

 

[nicowju]

GNN=Global Network Navigator? If that's it, I remember that too... FAST. And Free (yay for free trials)

 

[TallBill]

yeah, i paid for 2 of my 8 months of aol.. then moved on to dsl..

 

[Maverick]

mine was prodigy, then compuserve. Then I got a real ISP that was run by the local community called Fortnet. That was slow as hell so I eventually got a local ISP that served me well till my DSL days.

 

[anno]

I was gonna guess netcom.. I never left! been absorbed many a time, been billed by many different people (time warner, currently), still wearin' that netcom.com at the end of my e-mail address, been 8 years now I guess.

prodigy in '91
aol for a couple months in '92
genie in '93
nvn in '93
aol again for a month in '94
delphi in '94
delphi/mci beta thing that never actually went public.. but it was free for a while!
netcom in '95
absorbed by mindspring
absorbed by earthlink
finally earthlink offered me cable last year..

anno

 

[silent tone]

Wow, it was Netcom!

Before that I had prodigy and first tried to access the internet to read rec.sports.paintball. It took me a while to find somebody that wasn't clueless about how I could access usenet.

After Netcom, it was Internet America, then some free ones and now swbell. Oh yeah, they recently changed up their service to cut my bandwidth in half. They're so great.

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: nicowju
GNN=Global Network Navigator? If that's it, I remember that too... FAST. And Free (yay for free trials)

That's the one I'm thinking of. Used that one for a while, quite nice too. Then went back to free AOL 2.5 trials, then stratos.net and now adelphia broadband.

 

[Eli]

I still have my Welcome email from my first ISP. First thing in my inbox.

From: root <root@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Welcome message

Greetings,


Welcom to Pacifier! We are happy to have you as a customer and will do
everything we can to help you succesfully use and enjoy the Internet.

If you have questions please feel free to ask them, there is a newsgroup
section on the system that you will that you will find many other users
are active in.

 

[IcemanJer]

Hm... started out with Internet Direct (western Canada), then switched to AT&T Canada, then went to @Home. Gosh, come to think of it, I've been on the web for 7 years snow.

 

[Martin]

I remember mine. First it was Pathcom on 33.6Kb/s, had only 30 hrs/month on that! Then I switched to an unlimited dialup with an ISP called Myna, then switched to Bell Sympatico DSL, then to Golden DSL.

 

[Hammer]

i had dos prodigy lol. i remember it was bundled with a 2400 baud modem that plugged directly into an ac outlet.

 

[bunker]

1. Compuserve (1996)
2. Prodigy
3. MSN - got it when it first started and had it for about 2 years. Actually good service for a while.
4. Earthlink
5. Bellsouth (DSL)

A few AOL free trials in there as well.

 

[MrCodeDude]

We had AOL and MSN for a bit, like for a few months. But then we got JPS.net which got bought out. It was pretty good for $9.99 / month though
-- mrcodedude