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"The mid-90s was a race to get the world online. Every month, magazines such as PC Pro carried CDs from faceless [Internet Service Provider]s desperate to bag sign-ups, but there was one ISP that was radically different from the rest, spearheaded by a man who was used to shifting millions of CDs of his own."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Any ISP that provided a walled-garden experience like AOL doesn’t really count as the real Internet. I had an ISP where I just dialed in and then it then the rest was up to me, with no restrictions or shoving me into a curated corner.