threegee Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Our first Internet connection was £45 a month at a heady 14,400 bits/second! Mind you that was a theoretical maximum, you never got that sort of speed in practice.Oh yes, and you had to pay for the phone call at BT rip-off rates on top of that! We had a four figure phone bill one month. There was also a download limit - yes, seriously! I guess even AOL is better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sw@lnalla Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Our first Internet connection was £45 a month at a heady 14,400 bits/second! Mind you that was a theoretical maximum, you never got that sort of speed in practice.Oh yes, and you had to pay for the phone call at BT rip-off rates on top of that! We had a four figure phone bill one month. There was also a download limit - yes, seriously! I guess even AOL is better than that. 1994..... A block of 90 hours cost C$15. with a 14k modem, no extra phone charges. by 2004 this had increased to C$10 a month unlimited on a 56k modem again with no extra phone charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Darn Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 i remember my old "BT Click" days, where it was a 56k dial up and a penny a minute!And i thought that was GREAT! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threegee Posted November 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 My first "on-line experience" was browsing round the Zenith "Heathkit" store on the North side of Dallas in February 1982. I heard relays clicking in a quiet corner of the mostly deserted place, and when I walked over to investigate discovered they'd lashed up an electronic bulletin board. You could see the messages coming in on a dumb terminal. There was probably only one or two lines and of course on POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) no way to share access - you just had to wait for a free line to read the board and post a reply. However the idea instantly appealed to me and I just had to do something back in the UK.I'd actually gone there to buy one of their terminals, and amongst other items brought back a kit of parts (including the green phosphor CRT) in the overhead luggage rack of a Braniff 747! Back in the UK I imported an early 300 baud free-standing modem. There never was very much to connect to in the UK, and it was excruciatingly expensive to access US services. Just getting a bit of text dribbling back was an achievement. But... one day !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 First i ever saw was on the Amiga B boards with ripped off games and demos, musta been 88 - 89 . wasnt the web then tho i think... then i fell out of computers for a long while, didnt get a e mail address until 2000 .. its good tho isnt it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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