I love all the anecdotes here. The mid-90s were a time of the creation, explosive growth, and decline and fall of the Internet Service Provider industry. Like m

I love all the anecdotes here. The mid-90s were a time of the creation, explosive growth, and decline and fall of the Internet Service Provider industry. Like many other people here, apparently, it was a big part of my life. I worked at three nascent ISPs, the third of which I started with a friend from college, and it was where I learned a ton about networking, sysadmin (FreeBSD), software development, handling customers, etc., that turned out to be foundational to my career decades later. And I did have ISDN at my house for a time. (Bonded, blazing 128k!) We used the Centrex trick that was mentioned elsewhere in the comments.