<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Similar….<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In ’93 I had a 2400bps modem and an $40/month ISP dialup account for 10 hours a month - my Mac IIci was zooming!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I quickly upgraded to 9600, then 14400, then 56k. I rocked the 56k till about 2003 - mind you all my email was over telnet/ssh/pine and websites in 2003 still worked somewhat well on 56k.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried getting ISDN in the late 90s, but at the time Bell Atlantic had horrible pricing for ISDN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In those early days I remember setting up a download to start before bed so it could run all night, then wake up the morning to see my freshly downloaded 300KB file — assuming the phone line remained stable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-John</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2020, at 6:26 PM, Ben Cannon <<a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Ben.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" class="">bzs@theworld.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 <a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" class="">aaron1@gvtc.com</a> (Aaron Gould) wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Point of History:<br class=""><br class="">When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the<br class="">internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1<br class="">(1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers<br class="">shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them.<br class=""><br class="">* It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area<br class="">customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""> -Barry Shein<br class=""><br class="">Software Tool & Die | <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" class="">bzs@TheWorld.com</a> | <a href="http://www.theworld.com/" class="">http://www.TheWorld.com</a><br class="">Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD<br class="">The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>