And were happy!

(T1s came later)

I even organized a huge women's march in Houston in 92,
attended by women from all over the country...

using a Mac Classic, an external modem, a meatspace
answering service, and two landlines.

And it turned out great!

Haven't gotten around to recycling them yet. Guess there's no point now in enrolling in AOL.

A few rare ones are somewhat valuable. From Google AI:

That's very helpful.

I may end up getting a few bucks out of them after all.

I have them on floppy disks as well.

This was in the pre-DSL days when dial-up was the only path to the Internet. I was inundated with people who just bought their first computer and wanted to connect to the Internet. They had their 3-1/2" floppy from AOL and off we went. AOL wasn't even a year old at the time.

What cracked me up is that, on a frequent basis, a customer with an unusual name had trouble. For example (using a fake but similarly-unusual name for this,) the customer's name would be Poindexter Pentameter. When the AOL setup program asked to set up an email account, I'd enter Poindexter.Pentameter and, more often that you might expect, it would say it wasn't available! So my customer would end up with Poindexter.Pentameter1 or something like that. I always wondered who the other Poindexter Pentameter was who got the pure email name. A relative? The customer was as stumped as I was.

Let's see, it was maybe 1992 or 93? That sounds about right. I can't believe they've actually stayed in business this long.

I use fiber optic now.

part of his Infrastructure plan that would get HSI to rural areas. To bad so sad fuckers..............

All the services we in the suburbs and cities take for granted. That’s all going to be privatized, and if the GOP and their billionaire buddies aren’t stopped, circumstances for the rural folk will devolve to pre-TVA status.

Blame the GOP politicians.

... and I used them as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I've been on the internet a long time, since the late 'seventies, when I'd dial in to my university accounts using a 300 Baud modem.

Long Distance telephone fees were a killer then, you'd take any local dial up number you could get.

The original internet scam!

I saved mine for a while as people were doing art with them. Also experimented with them to see what a microwave oven did to a disc. It was cool to watch the sparks fly around and then see the etching they left behind. But it was also very stinky. I only did it once.

I can't decide if it is weirder that people still use dial up or if people still use AOL. The whole thing makes me feel like I've gone about 25 years back in time.