24 Oct
2024
24 Oct
'24
12:24 p.m.
I did compuserve. It was about $10 a month. They had a lot of local numbers so you didn’t
have to pay Toll charges. Never had any problems logging in except during a “construction
event”.
Meaning some backhoe operator sliced a cable in the street somewhere. No graphics, just
text. Used Archie a lot to find stuff.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 24, 2024, at 12:18, ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2024-10-24 11:49 a.m., Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote:
Was all that stuff like $10 a hour + long distance charges ?
That was a good reason to ignore it back then, if you could
log on.
The
author, presumably a heavy Reddit, TikTok and Facebook user, seemed to
have never heard about existence of computers before internet, nor about
Y'all are ignoring CompuServe and that is hurting my feelings :-)