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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

It wasn’t hard, not for me growing up. Parents paid for a second, dedicated phone line and we used that for AOL, which we were subbed to for most of the 90’s. From my end, it was simple. Username + Password, hit connect, modem dialed in, internet. It wasn’t fast by any means but the web and what you did on it was a lot different. Nowhere near as many images, video was nowhere to be seen, and gaming online was a lag fest at the best of times. But we didn’t have anything else, so it was fine. We didn’t know any better. It was good enough to find the info we needed to find, and Lord knows I was having plenty of fun in chat rooms talking with random people from God only knows where.