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Many ISPs set a portal as your browsers homepage with their installers. Most people didn't know how to manually set up dial-up networking and would just run an
by giantrobot 1y ago
Many ISPs set a portal as your browsers homepage with their installers. Most people didn't know how to manually set up dial-up networking and would just run an installer their ISP provided. Since they didn't know how/why a portal was set they just assumed it was how things were.