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I'm from the UK and in my forties, and I've never heard of 'Cix'. Just me?
by Underphil 4y ago
I'm from the UK and in my forties, and I've never heard of 'Cix'. Just me?
- happymellon 4y agoI remember Cix, though I never had it. We had Demon giving me access to this incredible Internet thing, on the super fast 14.4kbps modem!
- iso1631 4y agoWith email delivered to you via SMTP when you dialed up
- Starwatcher2001 4y agoI'm an ex-demonite too. Had all the telehone numbers of the local pops (point of presence) in a file to copy to the moden after the ADT command. As the pops were heavily subscribed and would often just give engaged tones, I used to use the net at 6am. The phone rates were cheaper then too.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI was on Cix for several years. I can't remember what my username was. They had a really rather good mail and new client. A lot of the users were tech journalists and (oddly) airplane pilots. I originally connected using an acoustic coupler that ran at 9,600 baud. I later migrated to Demon, which was originally formed by members of the Cix "tenner-a-month club" - a group that banded together to get real internet, instead of using Cix's curated internet gateways. Demon was a great ISP, until they were taken over by Scottish Power.
- duncans 4y agoI'm a bit older than you and it passed me by along with CompuServe and other BBSs. It was mentioned in magazines such as PC Pro but I didn't get a modem until Windows 95 came out. After a quick play with the Microsoft Network the web took over for me.
- iso1631 4y agoBack in the 90s every computer magazine columnist had a cix account at the end of their articles, certainly in Computer Shopper, PC Pro and PC Plus