The Internet 25 years ago.

[AVB]

For you youngsters under the age of 45 or so.
This was pretty much the bible of getting on-line when it was published. <--Linky

 

[CMontoya79]

$3-$5 an hour for dial up access. Some areas had unlimited for about 17-20 a month with automatic billing at up to a blazing 96000 bps!!!

 

[AVB]

$3-$5 an hour for dial up access. Some areas had unlimited for about 17-20 a month with automatic billing at up to a blazing 96000 bps!!!

Don't you mean 9600? No dial up could go 96K.

 

[CMontoya79]

Don't you mean 9600? No dial up could go 96K.

Yes. That.

 

[kann]

I fully expected a photo of Al Gore with one arm extended and one arm on the shoulders of that creepy Information Superhighway girl, captioned, "Welcome to my Internet!" in WordArt.

So disappointed...

 

[tone-ny]

Modems at the speed of light, 300 BPS! Talking about blazing fast, 9600 opened up a new realm!

 

[The Black Cloud]

14400 baud rate, for the win.

 

[AVB]

14400 baud rate, for the win.

14.4 came out in 1992 @ $400, they dropped to ~$250 in 1993 which was way more than I wanted to spend and nobody I knew had one so I wasn't gaining anything. 28.8 showed up in '94 along with the odd 33.6 and finally 56K in early '97. I got my first USR 56 on Black Friday of '97 for the incredibly low price of $100. Still have it in a box in the attic unless the ex yard sale-ed it.

 

[bfreebern]

14.4 came out in 1992 @ $400, they dropped to ~$250 in 1993 which was way more than I wanted to spend and nobody I knew had one so I wasn't gaining anything. 28.8 showed up in '94 along with the odd 33.6 and finally 56K in early '97. I got my first USR 56 on Black Friday of '97 for the incredibly low price of $100. Still have it in a box in the attic unless the ex yard sale-ed it.

LOL, we were still installing 9.6k circuits, back when I started in Telecom, in 1999. Fax lines/etc, but still.

 

[golfgar]

 

[thinde]

Now...this I remember! All those otherr numbers don't mean anything to me.

 

[CBoukal]

Kids these days have no idea what its like to look at a womans face for WAY to long while surfing porn...

 

[George Scott]

14.4 came out in 1992 @ $400, they dropped to ~$250 in 1993 which was way more than I wanted to spend and nobody I knew had one so I wasn't gaining anything. 28.8 showed up in '94 along with the odd 33.6 and finally 56K in early '97. I got my first USR 56 on Black Friday of '97 for the incredibly low price of $100. Still have it in a box in the attic unless the ex yard sale-ed it.

Nice history lesson. In '97 I came super close to starting an ISP with a whole bank of 56K modems! So glad I changed my mind.

 

[Not A Nice Person]

Map of the ENTIRE internet .... circa 1973.

~Boar