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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Arpnet
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    Who cares?
  • virgo17
    virgo17 Posts: 1,009 Forumite
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    Demon Internet via dialup :/
  • Paully28
    Paully28 Posts: 291 Forumite
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    surely this should have been better as a poll.
    mine was either tiscali or freeserve
  • onomatopoeia99
    onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,218 Forumite
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    JANET, in 1988 when it was still X25 based rather than IP.
    Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 2023
  • libra10
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    Libertysurf.  You had a disc, couldn't go online until after 6pm, and had to dial up.  Took ages to connect.  Then, from memory, either Freeserve or Tiscali.
  • RumRat
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    libra10 said:
    Libertysurf.  You had a disc, couldn't go online until after 6pm, and had to dial up.  Took ages to connect.  Then, from memory, either Freeserve or Tiscali.
    That was the other one I couldn't remember, I had them and was with them when Tiscali took them over.....From French to Italian ISP...Those were the days.
    Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
    A PIRATE
    Not an Alcoholic...!
  • renegadefm
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    Wanadoo
  • renegadefm
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    tarzanette said:
    AOL
    Yeah what happened to AOL? 
  • hollie.weimeraner
    hollie.weimeraner Posts: 2,155 Forumite
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    edited 24 February 2020 at 3:14PM
    Oh those were the days Freeserve, Tiscali etc but I also had a little orange flashing plug in light to warn of incoming calls which always flashed just as you got connected 😂. Then it was 1.6mbps until Origin started with the failed South Yorkshire Digital Region in 2012. The good old days eh? Plusnet 60mbps now
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