Remember?

[Laquer Head]

I remember playing these text games and black and green screen (blip, blip, blop) games.

Sorry I dont know the terminology but this was like 1992/1993 era. and we played from one townhome to the next in this area we lived in.

It was crazy slow, ultra primitive, and overall not very fun-- ahh grade school!!

 

[TankerHC]

I wasn't arguing with you that some BBSes cost $$, I was saying that I don't remember paying to be on any!

I live in a rural area (still don't have access to DSL or Cable internet) but Prodigy had a local number for me to call from here. I paid a flat fee and never anything more, even when they made the change to 30 emails/month limit (I just didn't send more than 30).

Compuserve is the service that scared the heck out of me since they charged on a per minute basis and varying access fees to call their scattered access points. I didn't want to be sent a huge bill at the end of the month so avoided Compuserve like the plague.

Compuserve launched WOW!. 19.95 a month, unlimited and toll free numbers from everywhere with no additional charges. Compuserve itself was a business service. They werent going after the Consumer Market and offered very little to Consumers to begin with.

 

[gigabiteme]

i remember local dial ups at 9600 baud, like a fax modem,and a lot of chat programs like mirc/icq/ it was during the 1st gulf war i think, windows was version 3.2.2. i think, downloads took days, we had a program that if u were disconnected from dial up<-- happened a lot. this program wud save the bit of file and next time you started downlaoding it wud start from thepoint u exited on not from the beginning- that was like a saviour program.i don't miss the lag and slow time, but our isp was 12.00 month all in- unlimited.i don't miss the price