I did the same in the UK, same time period. Running up frequent bills and trying to carefully manage being online enough without hitting an unspoken £ spend thr

I did the same in the UK, same time period. Running up frequent bills and trying to carefully manage being online enough without hitting an unspoken £ spend threshold. But, lots of ISPs made it very easy to get online with accounts paid through the dial-in number, so I didn’t need parent credit cards. Could just dial in and get access. Then we got a second line as soon as ISPs offered an 0800 freephone number to call and she realized that the tenner a month for the ISP and a tenner for a second line was far cheaper and easier and she’d get internet too.