• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No, back in the 90s, ISPs had local clones of the entire Usenet subscribers could access directly.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Which always bewildered me whenever my dad would tell me to “search usenet” whenever I couldn’t find something. He got into the 'net early-ish, the first time I became aware of it was around 2004, it was already closed (no public registrations) by then.

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        11 months ago

        As someone who had to pay 13 cents per minute in the 90s, this sadly was not an option.

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          If we left our internet on over night they would cut us off for a few days for “internet abuse”. It would be so hard to connect at peak hours. The modem would make all the silly sounds but end in a busy signal.