Post your first ISP's home page from archive.org around the time you first got online

[shortylickens]

LOL- funny to type in porn sites and see what you had to deal with back in the mid 90's

They didnt have whitehouse.com.
Site is fail.

 

[JM Aggie08]

http://web.archive.org/web/19980109031025/http://anandtech.com/

Glad I was still in Elementary School.

 

[lxskllr]

It didn't show anything good for mine. I was on WebTV back in 98 or 99 :^D

 

[AstroManLuca]

http://web.archive.org/web/19961103130400/http://www.earthlink.net/

Don't remember exactly when we ditched AOL in favor of "real" internet access through Earthlink, but 1996-97 sounds about right.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I had AOL for 3 months back in 1995 and then switched to net something or earthlink...can't recall. I switched to Cox cable internet as soon as it was available in my area and I've been with them ever since.

 

[rudeguy]

My vote is that AOL doesn't count.

Also, that site couldn't find ATT@Home.

 

[PM650]

Good ol' mindspring...
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128130859/http://mindspring.net/

 

[ahenkel]

I don't recall my first ISP it was something local through the phone company. I know I rocked a Netzero account for a while

 

[Mike Gayner]

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610023338/http://www.ihug.co.nz/

 

[Homerboy]

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221022216/http://www.pitnet.net/

As far back as it will go.

 

[alkemyst]

most are probably hunting down the very first by default.

This was mine in 1996

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221043715/http://www.shadow.net/

prior to that I was on X.25 and other 'open' backdoors.

 

[bobdole369]

Mine predates the WWW and archive.org's cache. Quantum-Link from 1987ish on to 1990.

Prior to that, mostly BBSing and backdoors like FIDO and dialups to connected machines, such as m-net.arbornet.org and grex.cyberspace.org.

 

[bobdole369]

Holy crap aggie I remember when the boy wonders site actually looked like that. I remember reading about the k6-3 and the celeron 300a right here.

 

[FelixDeCat]

1996 Flash.net

http://web.archive.org/web/19961222070251/http://www.flash.net/

 

[zanejohnson]

had standard dial up from this company back then... actually still use the same company, just now it's 10mbps cable instead.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000619053545/www.ntin.net/ntin/index.html

 

[KeithTalent]

http://web.archive.org/web/19990502003343/www.axion.net/green/residential.cfm

I posted the rates page because I find it interesting that it was cheaper back then. :hmm: Obviously slow as molasses and limit of 100 hours per month ($1.00/hour after that), but still.

KT

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Surfsouth in July 1997

http://web.archive.org/web/19970408144423/http://www.surfsouth.com/index.html

Shit has me tripping all over memory lane now. Thanks OP

 

[alkemyst]

Mine predates the WWW and archive.org's cache. Quantum-Link from 1987ish on to 1990.

Prior to that, mostly BBSing and backdoors like FIDO and dialups to connected machines, such as m-net.arbornet.org and grex.cyberspace.org.

apranet/milnet I was on. 1983 ish.

 

[zanejohnson]

oh man what was the name of that awesome hardware review site way back in the day... was it overclockers.net? possible...

 

[JimmiG]

The one I used was unavailable because of robots.txt, but here's the one some of my friends used:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970414141023/www.internet.telia.com/

Lots of talk about ISDN and how superior it is to 56k

Also a security flaw in IE 3.0 and 3.01, and a warning about a phisher on IRC (didn't even know phising existed in 1997..).

 

[Patranus]

Man, I forgot how ghetto the web was....