I vividly remember how big AOL was in Germany in the 1990s. It was that (the easy option) - or the rather complicated "traditional ISPs" which required no small

I vividly remember how big AOL was in Germany in the 1990s. It was that (the easy option) - or the rather complicated "traditional ISPs" which required no small amount of technical expertise to get to work. AOL only really died when they decided to block port 25 to make you use their webmailer.