[chondl]

What was really cool back then was ISDN to your home.

I was doing work with SGI back then and had an Indy at home. It was a nice computer, but there wasn't that much software that really made a difference day-to-day. Sure the debugger could render 3D graphic representations of data in memory, but who cares?

ISDN was a huge upgrade over dial-up. Latency and packet loss was much much lower than dial up which made accessing the early web a totally different experience.

[bserge]

We got ADSL, which was just as impressive. Unlimited data for one monthly fee, no more hogging the phone line. And now nobody bats an eye at gigabit fiber straight to their home.

[timthorn]

Ahh, I did work experience at SGI in the UK and one of my tasks was to process the BABT approval invoice for the Indy's ISDN modem. Four days of fairly boring tasks, and one day of wonder spent in the Reality Centre in the week before it officially opened.

http://www.decision-concepts.com/reality-centre.html

[jdkee]

I got home ISDN in 1994 or so. It was a fantastic upgrade over dial-up. Faster transmission was great but oh, the latency.

[geerlingguy]

Not to mention your sister's picking up the phone booting you off the Internet.