It's hard to remember what the Internet was like in 1996. I do it by remembering that in 1997 I started an ISP to offer blazing-fast 56K dialup to the indiffer

It's hard to remember what the Internet was like in 1996. I do it by remembering that in 1997 I started an ISP to offer blazing-fast 56K dialup to the indifferent grandparents of Long Island for $19.95/month. We had a computer on display in the front of our office so the skeptical could poke around and see what the web had to offer. Windows did not come with a browser installed, so many of our new customers had to wait for us to mail them a Netscape CD-ROM. People frequently got upset at us for high phone bills when they discovered too late that their local calling area did not include our POP. The writing was on the wall, of course.. dialup wasn't going to be around forever, and I already had the future of telecommunications installed in my apartment: ISDN.