I thought everyone in the US was on AOL or Compuserve. Like, it was law. I didn't have a local ISP--I connected from FIDOnet. And I had an email address with sojourn.com, but I don't think they provided dialup.
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§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 10:46:06 am PDT #17778 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2011 11:04:46 am PDT #17779 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was definitely compuserve. I had a couple of aol ids, but I don't remember what they were.
hell, I don't remember my compuserve id any more either.
tommyrot - Sep 10, 2011 11:13:07 am PDT #17780 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was briefly on AOL. I used 'kruegz' as my ID, like I did on The Well before. I still use kruegz on some places today. (It's the first five letters of my last name, plus a 'z'--a friend's nickname for me.)
I was also on Compuserve back in '94. I thought it was cool how you could send faxes and snail-mail from Compuserve.
I remember trying to find internet access back in '93 or so while living in Minneapolis. The only thing I could find required you to be a University of Minnesota student or alumnus. So my roommate could get the internet, but not me. But there were some text-based BBSs that could give me text-based access to the internet, so that was fun.
amych - Sep 10, 2011 11:15:02 am PDT #17781 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wasn't ever on AOL (or CServe either) - I eventually picked up a couple of IDs to use AIM after they opened it up to other people, but I never had the actual dial-in, mail, chatroom, AOL-content kind of account with them. Like -t, I went .edu -> local ISP.
Gris - Sep 10, 2011 11:20:00 am PDT #17782 of 25501
Hey. New board.
We used Prodigy back in the mammoth online service days. Then switched to a normal ISP.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 11:27:03 am PDT #17783 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I tried Prodigy too, because I've always been compulsive. Also, Juno. I sign up for just about anything that catches my cursor. But they were never primary. Only AOL was. A local ISP wouldn't work because I worked in a different area code from where I lived, and I totally had to sneak on-line with the only personal modem at the office.
meara - Sep 10, 2011 11:42:27 am PDT #17784 of 25501
Yeah, I have memories from high school of rationing my monthly hours on prodigy so I could get on chat boards...
Typo Boy - Sep 10, 2011 11:49:47 am PDT #17785 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I was never on AOL. I hated AOL before hating AOL was cool.
quester - Sep 10, 2011 12:08:17 pm PDT #17786 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I think Juno was my first or second. Never did AOL or Compuserve. I was late to the party and didn't have a computer until the lollipop iMacs, mine was green.
Jessica - Sep 10, 2011 12:25:26 pm PDT #17787 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Prodigy was my first ISP, and I never had an AOL handle until I needed one for AIM. I wish I could remember my Prodigy ID, but it's gone.