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Who was your first ISP?

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Initially, I could get my e-mail by dialing into my law school. I also had AOL at the time, but did not use it for anything. That was followed by Earthlink dial-up.

I have had PacBell/AT&T DSL for about 10 years since then.

MotionMan
 
Execpc. Back before the internet or anything. Was a local BBS system that got on the internet when it was available. Had my same email account for years and years until I finally switched to Gmail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExecPC_BBS

...It quickly grew to be the world's largest bulletin board system in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, competing with the likes of Compuserve and Prodigy...
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I really don't know who powered it but my first pc was a gateway and it came with a free year of "Gateway Online". Something like that. It was in 1999.
 
(1) Peganet
(2) Mindspring
(3) MSN (free account a friend had to pay for since he got in on one of those rebate deals)
(4) Roadrunner
(5) Comcast
 
I had several before, but anybody remember WOW? I think it was the first to have a monthly premium with unlimited use.
 
First "Internet" (non BBS dial up) connection was through CompuServe. Although you couldn't really do much "internet browsing" with NavCIS. Think of AOL, but without the ability to type in a URL.

Upgraded to Prodigy for the color weather maps (CompuServe was pretty much mono-chrome at the time.) At the time, you still couldn't get on the web with Prodigy. 🙁

My first real ISP was GNN (Global Network Navigator). I actually got the GNN Netscape 2.0 setup floppies bundled inside a Diamond Supra Express 28.8 modem box. AOL eventually dumped GNN and tried to migrate their customers into AOL. That's when I dumped them. I switched over to GTE (who also used Netscape, but they replaced the orbited "N" logo with a pacing dog). When they were bought by Verizon, I finally got broadband by going with Road Runner through Time Warner.
 
I wouldn't count it because it only provided email, but I remember using Juno's email dial-in.

First service that actually provided WWW access was a local dialup provider, not sure who serviced them.
Second was local cable company, serviced by AT&T.
Third, which I've been on for quite a while now, is Qwest DSL.
 
Nortex Communications.... local 56K ISP and cable TV service back in those days...

we first got them in the 28.8 days, and then they moved to V90, and KFLEX, i remember getting 31,600 KFLEX and i thought it was FLYING at a whopping 4.5-5KB/s, that was the best connection i could ever get with them, even with newer 56K modems, we were just a good bit away from the telco's machines...

 
netcom, still have their installation CD with netscape (1997, parents got the intarwebs)
prodigy 2001
earthlink highspeed/TW 2004
 
AOL - for those of us without 'real internet' this was one way to get those mass mails ( you know what i'm talkin about ).

 
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