Your ISP History

[trmiv]

Prodigy (no internet really at that time though)>Netcom>Some other Dial up ISP>Earthlink>Pacbell DSL (SBC Yahoo)>DSL Extreme>Sonic.net>SBC Yahoo>Just switched back to Sonic.net

 

[eplebnista]

First: AOL, 7 Months
Second: Mindspring(merged with Earthlink after a while), a little over 3 years
Current: Comcast HSI, a little over 3 years and counting

 

[AMDZen]

My first internet account was a shell account, back when the only internet you could have was a shell account. Netcom.

Then I moved to AOL, then to various different local ISP's, then to AT&T Broadband, then to WOW (Wide Open West which was DSDN) then to Comcast which I have currently. I pay for the 6 Mbps service but I get between 8-10 Mbps downstream. I was the first person I knew that had internet, the first person to get AOL, and then the first person to ditch dial-up. I was always on the cutting edge. Now that Verizon doesn't have FIOS in my area, I'm no longer on the edge

EDIT: And after looking through all of these reply's, I bet I was one of the first people on this board to have internet other then Aimster (who sounds like he had netcom shell based as well). If you didn't experience the net before it was all colorful and pretty, a la a shell based unix account, you didn't experience the net. Which is kind of funny because I'm only 25 yo, and I got my first internet in 1990 or 91.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Aimster
I had this thing called net something in the early 1990s.

I forgot what it was called.

Someone help me out?

Netgear?

I forgot..

Netcom

 

[AmdEmAll]

Im not really sure what we had back in the day, prolly aol

AOL-->Mindspring-->They turned into Earthlink?-->MediaOne-->Comcast-->WideOpenWest

Im sure I missed a few in between.

 

[Jasiek]

AOL --->Comcast

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

How do you guys remember your list of ISP's?? Weird!

Mine's easy: GCI and nothing else. Always been GCI.

 

[MikeMike]

AOL --- Juno ---- Alltel dsl

 

[jfall]

local dialups > local dsl > local cable > t1

 

[Homerboy]

Local ISP 14.4K -> Local ISP: 33.6K -> Local ISP: 56K -> Local ISP ISDN -> defunct national ISP SDSL 1.8MBps -> defunct nation ISP SDSL 1.0MBps -> TWRR -> 3MPBs -> TWRR 6MBPs

 

[Cawchy87]

mts dialup ---> Shaw cable

 

[TBone48]

AOL
Prodigy
Earthlink
Optimum Online
Verizon

 

[pikachu656]

AOL --> Earthlink dial up --> Charter

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

swbell dial-up cira 1997 to 2000;
Charter Cable 256k -> 3MBit;

 

[MuffD]

AOL and then Cox communications since 1996.

 

[imported_Beavis]

AOL then had Verizon DSL for 5 years now Adelphia HSI

went from 14.4K to 768K now 6000M

 

[dbk]

aol->erol dial-up->stickdog dsl->cox cable->verizon dsl

 

[Engineer]

Compuserv in 1984-5: 300 baud. No web
IBM Internet Service (late 90's)
@Home: 99 and later

InsightBB (formed after @Home went down) <--- Current

Compuserv (BBS form)---->IBM----->@Home----->InsightBB

 

[JMWarren]

BBS Compuserve > Compuserve Windows > Local Provider > Bell DSL

 

[feelingshorter]

several dial up companies -> comcast

 

[SKORPI0]

Prodigy---- AT&T ---AOL/Netzero --- MSN/Winfire DSL --- Earthlink/Mindspring DSL via Covad --- ComCast HSI.

 

[tomt4535]

AOL-->Compuserve-->AOL-->MSN-->Optimum Online. When fios is available here, I might switch to that.

 

[Albis]

AOL -> ADSL (some local provider) -> Comcast Cable -> UMich Dorm Internet -> Comcast Cable

Time Warner next yr when I move

 

[eminemrh25]

Prodigy -> AOL -> Qwest MSN DSL -> Comcast -> Qwest MSN DSL -> Comcast -> Verizon FIOs as soon as they put it in my area!

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
How do you guys remember your list of ISP's?? Weird!

Mine's easy: GCI and nothing else. Always been GCI.

How do you remember that?