Who was your first isp and what year was it
16-06-2011, 18:16
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Tiny Dial-up 1998. It came bundled on a mates PC (obviously bought from tiny computers). Was an 0845 so not free but was as cheap as I could get because my Dad wouldn't pay for a subscription.
Switched to Xtream for a while from 1999 until It got to the point where even an hour of dialing couldn't get a connection.
Eventually wore my Dad down and we got AOL, not my best decision but it was mostly reliable.
Then in 2000 or 2001 we got Cable and wireless broadband through the pace stb I had in my room. Think it was 512k. Been with cable in one form or another ever since asside from 1 year when I lived in an un-cabled street and went with SKY BB.
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17-06-2011, 19:27
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
AOL dial up,2002,it was ok for the time but£15 a month was steep. 
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17-06-2011, 21:46
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Dam u guys got Internet really early
My first ISP was pipex 2005-2009
my second ISP which I got in 2009 was virgin media 20mb broadband also with tv, phone
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17-06-2011, 21:58
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Those who used AOL dialup and may have used the room UK Computing Chat that was changed to Computing Chat UK may know me i was a regular and well known in there and still am :-D
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17-06-2011, 23:29
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Does anyone remember IC24?
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18-06-2011, 01:53
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
I think mine was WHSmithnet 1998
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18-06-2011, 02:15
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
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Originally Posted by Graham M
Does anyone remember IC24?
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my mate was on that isnt it part of madasafish now.
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18-06-2011, 05:37
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
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my mate was on that isnt it part of madasafish now.
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Given their site directs to MAAF I'm guessing so, used to use the 0800 Free Offpeak number but sometimes getting on was a nightmare, constant engaged tone, upgraded to AOL (lol) but at least you got the service as it was subscription based and then went to NTL:Broadband as soon as it arrived in our area, 128k supposedly but got 256 which I believe is down to the bandwidth being shared with the interactive
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19-06-2011, 08:24
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Mine was with AOL on dial up as broadband was not yet available to me as the telephone exchange was not set up for it then, about 1996 i think it was.
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19-06-2011, 16:52
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
2002 AOL dial-up. I miss the sounds of the modem, though not after 10 at night.
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19-06-2011, 18:05
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
when i packed it in with AOL i had to use a recovery disc to get rid of them,,,the AOL logo came up and wouldnt let me get into some sites.lass at PC world put me right,,,,one of the very few times they were any good too!!!BT now,,,,,very brill!!!
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19-06-2011, 18:52
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
ive never had a problem with AOL software aslong as u know what ur doing is fine.
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22-06-2011, 02:43
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
95ish Demon Internet.
I remember some of the conversations...
"Hello Demon Internet?"
"Hello, your Black Romp is down"
"It Might be your Modem Sir, What modem are you using?"
"US Robotics Courier V.Everything"
"Ok Sir, I'll get in touch with our networking people and let them know the Black Romp is down"
I still have that modem, and it still works.
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22-06-2011, 13:50
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon
"US Robotics Courier V.Everything"
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Old School USR Modems were bomb proof - I means the ones that actually did everything, not the later ones that emulated some stuff in the CPU
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22-06-2011, 14:17
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Re: Who was your first isp and what year was it
Black Romp down... im sure i saw that on DVD :-x
I used to use Intel HAM V.92 Modems mainly they seemed fine.
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