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.
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.
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u/shdhdhhxdheh3u3h Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21
Lol
Arses must've been kicked when he saw the dial up bills.