Dial-up internet paid for by the minute.
Whenever I hear people bleating that they can't get a reliable 80 Meg download speed from their shitty ecoshack up in the arse end of some mountain in some fucked up part of Wales it makes my blood boil.

When I first started using the interwebs I had a 14.4k modem that would take 5 minutes to download half an image of Lindsey Dawn McKenzie's tits before giving up because invariably my girlfriend had decided to call her mum on the downstairs phone - which cut off the modem. While she was blathering on to her mother on about pottery mugs or whatever other shit she'd gibber on about I had to sit upstairs with a slowly diminishing semi.

And for the privelege of this we got to pay BT for every minute we were connected. When my girlfriend and I were hooked on Ultima Online we were sometimes online for 4 or 5 hours a night. Our quarterly phone bill was often over £300.

I remember the glee when NYNEX cable did a deal that you could make a local weekend phonecall for as long as you liked for 50p.

Demon Internet's local telephone number in my town: 01625 509666 - 3 day long phonecalls, bitches.

....aaaand relax
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 9:57, 3 replies)

You could have just bought a copy of Razzle for £2.50, she was always in it in them days

(McChinaman banned, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 12:19, closed)

14.4k? - luxury!
I remember saving up 3 months paper-round money for a 9k6 faxmodem. The electricity bill for that fucker was more than £300 a quarter even before you'd made any calls.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 17:18, closed)

Luxury, I had to spend 20 hours a day memorising 2600 hertz tones and then achieveing perfection.
Don't even get me started on multi frequency. Just to even get our kicks later we had to hack Prestel. Internet, LUXURY.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 21:32, closed)