300 baud, call-back security (you dial up but don't connect - it will dial you back and make the connection). I still remember running around the house yelling "don't pick up the phone! don't pick up the phone!". Hop on Usenet rec.games.roguelike.moria and look up cheats and spoilers. Good stuff, that.
William Page
Evan N. McNabb wrote:
P.S. Anyone remember back when there were several free Internet dial-up
services? It wasn't that long ago, really. I can remember Netzero,
Juno, and FreeWWW. Which ones do you all remember and why?
My first ISP was prairienet.org back in Illinois (1993 - 1994). It was
an organization funded by the U of I that was pretty popular back in the
day. I'd dial up with the 2600 baud modem on my new laptop and telnet
into their menu system. I remember the day Andrew showed me a backdoor
in the menu system that gave you shell access (although I had no clue
what to type, but it seemed cool). Ah, the chess servers, gopher, pine,
and the text-based web.
-Evan
P.S. I have to admit that Andrew was the one that got me started with computers. And to think I used to call him a nerd...
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