[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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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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Dude, I’d long been dual ISDN by then. If my connection to my ISP ever went down, it was a race to see which of us called the other first and they’d work to resolve it with me right then.

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