The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
20 hours… … …what were you doing?!
Downloading a short video?
Downloading Linux
Downloading Slackware.
I’ll give you 69 guesses
…pixel line…
…pixel line…
…pixe- nipple!!!
Interlaced GIF was a godsend. You got the low res naughty bits early.
And by the time it’s done downloading in its full 320x180 glory, you’re ready to go again!
Didn’t RTA.
Some sort of game, idling for gold.