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[ArsTechnica] The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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[ArsTechnica] The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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I made sure that my dual bonded ISDN were 64k lines not those cheap 56k! 128k was living large back then!

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