[cr0sh]

> At the dawn of the public internet there were no call centers or AOL discs.

In some areas - probably. Here in Phoenix, I got the internet in 1993 - dialup shell access - from Internet Direct.

Yes - that Internet Direct.

[Diederich]

Do you remember netcom.com? https://web.archive.org/web/19981212031322/http://www.netcom... I got dialup access from them in 1992 or 1993 after college. My first access to the Internet was in 1988 via https://web.archive.org/web/19970628122429/http://www.csupom... (Of course that was before the www. Everything was via telnet, ftp and gopher.)