• Kaplya@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I remember the time when someone gets on the dial-up internet, nobody at home could use the landline phone. And this was before the time when every single person gets their own personal cell phone.

    Imagine not being able to use the internet for much of the day because your parents or someone else in the family might have to call home.

    • Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      I remember not being on the internet as it was metered and it would cost too much. So if I wanted to do something on the internet I went to the library. But harder to jack off in a library so I had to make do with women’s clothing catalogs, sheer underwear so you could see a nipple or some bush was hitting the jackpot.

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        11 months ago

        My family’s dial up service was capped at 500 megabytes a month and then it became like an extra 10 cents per megabyte after the cap. I remember breaking that limit all the time and my parents would have me pay the overage. At some point like fuckit and started paying for the who thing myself to avoid the hassle.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      here the telco had a deal where if you made a call after 6, the charge would be limited to a small maximum. so essentially nobody with internet was reachable between 18:00 and 07:00.