Oh with the same bullshit story, I got the new internet cable technology. Many hours on CS, the bill racked up to about $500 USD at that time. I got chewed out for it, but he never found out it was CS, the computer shop guy told him it must be some background internet cache thingy, the guy told him I must be watching porn. That was easier to handle coz he was too embarrassed to confront me about it.
Uh, not knowing their parent's financial situation - getting an unexpected $500 bill be pretty harsh, and there would definitely be some 'splainin to do.
I caught a break in the 90s because my dad was a sales rep that worked from home, so our internet bill was paid by his employer. Many ours on CS and SC: Brood War, and they replaced his computer every year so I always got the hand me downs!
When I was in high school, my Grandparents had a PC for the sole purpose of my Grandad buying stuff on ebay. He went to live auctions a lot so this was really exciting for him. My uncle, who was maybe 25-26 at the time, stayed there with my Aunt off and on, dude looked at something porn related and racked up the dial up bill and then denied it. I am pretty sure they thought it was me. I remember them showing me a desktop icon of a girl with her mouth open and asking if I knew anything about it.
Fast forward 15 years later, staying at the Aunt's while in town, late night sleeping down stairs by myself, everyone is in bed so I go to look for a DVD to watch and find behind the first row of DVDs... an entire hardcore porn collection....and then it clicked...like when Hank found out about Heisenberg.
Not the person you are responding to, but in my last weeks of high school, I sneaked a floppy disk into the drive of the internet computer (yes, the 1 computer that could access the internet) and copied the winsock dialer onto the disk and then tried running it from the floppy instead of the hard drive.
When I realised that worked, I took the disk home and my school paid for my home internet then!
This was in the times when dialup was by the hour and I pretty much stayed online permanently (set up a redial for when the ISP kicked me at the end of a 4 hr session) until a year later when the account finally stopped working.
My wife went to the same school, but 2 years below me.
When I told her the story, she said "THAT WAS YOU‽" Apparently the "nerds" had been banned from using the internet (it was on 3 library computers by then) and people were threatened with suspension or expulsion if anyone was caught, it apparently cost the school thousands of dollars. I kinda felt bad about the cost, but proud I was never caught!
Haha! I was going to say, you f it for everyone else but your proud deep inside. Also, don't think anyone was was caught back in the days for using others accounts, unless you was doing really Dodgy stuff.
In 1995 or so I got a permanent dialup modem internet connection with a fixed ip address. I had a 33.6k modem and it cost me a flat 4c/megabyte. The catch was it had a $500 setup fee.
My average monthly bill at that time was around $40-65, so I was downloading between 1 and 1.5gb each month.
I had it for a couple of years and then adsl started to be a thing.
Holy crap all these years later and thats all I had to do? My innocent mind just lived with the fact I couldn't play Quake on my machine. I did get really good at Doom Deathmatch because of that though.
Oh man, reminds me of the time my dad cut the ethernet cable that ran to my room when I was in high school because I was gaming too much back in like 1998. Shortly after, he went on a 1 week fishing trip and while he was gone I walked down to the hardware store, bought an ethernet cable crimping tool kit, taught myself how to crimp a cable and got my internet back up and running. When he got home I was waiting for him to do something but he never did. A few years later he told me that he was so impressed that I was able to do that all by myself that he let it slide.
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