It was a great way to get porn!
Turn on the connection before you got to bed and wake up with a fresh batch
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anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year agoNo, back in the 90s, ISPs had local clones of the entire Usenet subscribers could access directly.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As someone who had to pay 13 cents per minute in the 90s, this sadly was not an option.
MycoBro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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. Or would do all the sounds but end in a busy signal.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year 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.