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Small nitpick: this was not the dawn of the dial-up age. This was the end of 1999. I had been dialing up for at least 5 years at this point and I'm sure there w
Small nitpick: this was not the dawn of the dial-up age. This was the end of 1999. I had been dialing up for at least 5 years at this point and I'm sure there where many who had it before me.
I'm a child of the early eighties. I cannot recall a time that there was not a functioning 1200 baud (or faster) modem in our house.
I got my first modem (without direct Internet access, only BIX and a Vax at college) in 1992.
Must have been nice. In '82 I got a third-party 600 baud (nonstandard, can't recall the brand) modem which was better than 300 and Atari hadn't come out with a 1200 yet.
Depends. On 1999 I joined my second ISP, and in Portugal that's when we hit the mainstream.