I was a kid back then but I remember people liking it overall. The speed was standard for its time. The UX was quite good, in some way better than the web for p

I was a kid back then but I remember people liking it overall. The speed was standard for its time. The UX was quite good, in some way better than the web for people who had a hard time with computers (punch a number on your phone, press a button on the machine, enter a code, usually just a word or the company name) et voilà! This needs to be put in perspective, it was the first network of its scale, and it preceded the web for interactive services. When it was rolled out personal computers were far from being a common thing in households, many people in the computer field believing that PCs were toys with not much purposes