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Only $1 an hour for access! Actually I think Prodigy was more expensive. AOL made money hand over fist during that brief window before Web Browsers became mai
by jandrese 5y ago
Only $1 an hour for access! Actually I think Prodigy was more expensive. AOL made money hand over fist during that brief window before Web Browsers became mainstream.
As soon as ISPs starting showing up that were $10 or $15 for an entire month of Internet all of those dial up services were doomed. They had grown way too fat on per-hour billing and couldn't hope to compete.
- arminiusreturns 5y agoThen you had to have a collection of local isp numbers (and for the cracker scene user/pass lists) so you could connect while away from home. I just remembered how happy I was when I had my palm pilot 14k attachment and could get internet in class because often live POTS were available in many more rooms than these days.