Similar…. In ’93 I had a 2400bps modem and an $40/month ISP dialup account for 10 hours a month - my Mac IIci was zooming!
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. I tried getting ISDN in the late 90s, but at the time Bell Atlantic had horrible pricing for ISDN. 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. -John > On Jan 24, 2020, at 6:26 PM, Ben Cannon <b...@6by7.net> wrote: > > I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… > > in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…) > > -Ben. > > > -Ben Cannon > CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC > b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > > > > >> On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, b...@theworld.com <mailto:b...@theworld.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aar...@gvtc.com <mailto:aar...@gvtc.com> (Aaron >> Gould) wrote: >>> Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this >>> telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol >> >> Point of History: >> >> When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the >> internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1 >> (1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers >> shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them. >> >> * It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area >> customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many. >> >> -- >> -Barry Shein >> >> Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com <mailto:b...@theworld.com> >> | http://www.TheWorld.com <http://www.theworld.com/> >> Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD >> The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo* >
