Looking back, the early days of our internet use were so weird. We had a dial-up connection and a computer well before anyone else in our county/tri-county are

Looking back, the early days of our internet use were so weird. We had a dial-up connection and a computer well before anyone else in our county/tri-county area in the mid-west. We also had a home line that was a party line. All the old ladies in our small (<50) town were pissed that anytime they picked the phone up, they heard that robotic screeching noise. We were pissed that we kept getting booted every fifteen seconds. Weird times. Why did the company even offer internet connections to a party line? What an odd thing to do.