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Reminds me of those old "dial up" Internet access offers that offered to pay you to surf the web. Being a broke college kid, my friends and I quickly learned w
by josefresco 8y ago
Reminds me of those old "dial up" Internet access offers that offered to pay you to surf the web. Being a broke college kid, my friends and I quickly learned we could game the system by installing software that moved our mouse and clicked randomly. Made for a pleasant and sometimes shocking surprise when waking up in the morning and checking to see where your PC navigated to the previous night.
- degenerate 8y agoYes, AllAdvantage was the biggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage I only got paid $31 for a month. Even as a kid, it wasn't worth the effort required due to their constant updates. The real hidden gems were NetZero and K-Mart's BlueLight. Both were completely free dial-up internet providers, paid for by a banner ad program that was easy to hide with window killers. Netzero went on to acquire BlueLight and many other free internet providers, and eventually turned into a paid internet service: https://www.mybluelight.com/ https://www.mybluelight.com/
- josefresco 8y ago>I only got paid $31 for a month. Even as a kid, it wasn't worth the effort My exp exactly. >The real hidden gems were NetZero and K-Mart's BlueLight. Yes and Yes! Used both, both were a giant pain but fun to mess around with. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure why I bothered as our family had dialup (I was probably just bored)