Remember the name of your first ISP?

[fluxquantum]

the infamous AOHell.

 

[ThunderGirl]

wolfnet a local isp in WI then he merged w/ a loser and went under and now runs under wolfmark I believe.

I have att broadband cable now =)

And proud to say I have never used AOL!

 

[eplebnista]

AOL

 

[N8Magic]

Interactive Online
Bell Sympatico
Bell Sympatico HSE
Rogers Cable
Bell Sympatico HSE
Look Ultrafast2 Wireless
Rogers Cable
Internet Gateway Services (800Kb/3Mb for $49.99CDN/mo!)

 

[Scouzer]

Internet Connect. Small Edmonton, Canada based company. Extremely good service, great speed, excellent overall. $20/month for unlimited and 5 emails...this was...'97 I think? Back on the P200...

After that I switched to Shaw@Home Cable and those are my only 2 ISP's.

 

[murphy55d]

AOL

 

[dakata24]

non-isp online experience: prodigy..

first isp other than my s.f. state univ account: jps.net

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Prodigy came with out Packard Bell
it was AOL after that

 

[Electrode]

My ISPs in order:

AOL
Iserv (local)
Novagate (local)
Charter (after they ate the local cable company and my ISP)

 

[KEV1N]

CompuServe. My dad got so mad at me, I racked up like a $70 bill being an online dating superstud/pioneer.

 

[Maggotry]

First ISP was Prodigy back in '90 or so. Ran in DOS on a 286 with a 2400 baud modem.

 

[Bullhonkie]

My first was AOL back in 93 or 94. I remember racking up quite the monthly bill when I would play text-based MUDs all day and night before AOL went to unlimited billing. I'm still using the same screenname that I started with back then, but now with AIM.

After AOL came IDT (that was god awful), then Tsoft (now known as Raw Bandwidth Communications I think), then Earthlink, and now Covad.

 

[VFAA]

Followme Online or some BS 10 years ago...

 

[SgtBuddy]

AOL freebie for a month (1996)
Earthlink (1996-1998)
IBM (Friggen fast!) (1998)
Sprint (1998) Bad run of bad ISPs in 1998
AT&T Jens (Japan) (1998-2001) $120 a month for almost 24 hour coverage :Q
Comcast Cable (Drool) (2001-Now)

 

[Nafets]

Sadly, it was pseudo-ISP, America Online. Was free, so I couldn't complain...

 

[440sixpack]

If you want to count CompuServe, that was my first online service apart from BBS's, but my first real ISP was (and still is) a local one called Channel 1.

 

[Mem]

Compuserve was my first ISP many years ago,how times have changed .

 

[beyonddc]

I think it's 1997 or 1996 with AOL 2.5. I use my Intel Inside 486DX2 at 66 mhz.

La, La, La, America Online was so easy to use, no wonder it's number ONE!

Proud AOL member from 1996 or 1997 till PRESENT

Well, I am using AT&T Cable Broadband right now, but I still kept my AOL because I don't want to change e-mail address.....

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: minendo
AOL.

Same here, started back in 97, along with my 1st new computer.

 

[SuperSix]

Prodigy.. On my blazing 386DX-40... @ 2400 Baud

 

[geno]

Compu-global-hyper-mega-net

 

[dum]

AOL
NTG Cybernet
Carolina Online --> State Communications --> Trivergent --> Nuvox (now i work for them)
Charter

 

[Mist3rMischi3f]

Damn...when I first learned about what the Internet REALLY was in 1998 or so(read: NOT AOL), I was nursing an AOL screenname from a friend. After that, during the rush of all those free ISPs, I jumped about with Netzero, Juno, Freewwweb, FreeI.net, and almost all the others...never had a real pay ISP.

 

[Piano Man]

1994 - 1995 Avalon.net (remembers having to wait an hour just to log on because they didn't have enough modems) :disgust:
1995 - 1998 Pionet.net
1998 - 1999 Iowa State University
1999 - 2000 University of Northern Iowa:frown:
2000 - 2002 CFU.net

 

[erikistired]

i had AOL pre-internet, then my college dialup shell account. after that i had another shell account from random access, local guys who got bought out eventually.

~erik

anyone remember the maze game (labarynth?) that prodigy had? way back in the day, gosh, 10 years ago? at least? prodigy sucked pretty bad, not much you could do with it. i think my dad checked stock prices or something. maybe sports scores? actually, had to be more like 12-13 years ago. yikes.