Who was your first ISP?

metalmackey · 17 May 2006 at 18:12

Hi,

Just a quick poll (i'm bored). Who was your first ISP and are they still around?

My first ISP was called Direct Connection (dircon.co.uk) and I don't think they are still around. there was no subscription (paid only for the phone calls) and I got a free 33k modem.

madman045 · 17 May 2006 at 18:13

Demon Internet, dial up with their turnpike software!!

crashuk · 17 May 2006 at 18:13

at&t world i think? my 1st free dial up isp was xtreme it was 0800 number

marc2003 · 17 May 2006 at 18:14

connectfree.co.uk pay as you go dialup internet. would have been around october 2002.

Gaverick · 17 May 2006 at 18:14

My first internet connection was Freeserve Anytime 56k, now Wanadoo and soon to become orange.

Peve · 17 May 2006 at 18:15

Gaverick said:
My first internet connection was Freeserve Anytime 56k, now Wanadoo and soon to become orange.

Same here

xb8browney · 17 May 2006 at 18:20

Freeserve 56k 1998

crashuk · 17 May 2006 at 18:23

so no1 ever used x-streme or xtreme the 1st free 0800 dail up service? it had adverts and stuff to pay for t=your time on line.

hp7909 · 17 May 2006 at 18:27

With my own hard-earned money (student), ntl:home Broadband @ 150k

Trigger · 17 May 2006 at 18:29

Freeserve Pay as you go > Freeserve Anytime > Wanadoo Broadband > soon to be 'Orange Broadband'

lemonkettaz · 17 May 2006 at 18:30

xstream 0800.. what a joke that was.. but was incredible cool!

used to get up on a saturday at like 7am just to set it off trying to connect.. i was connected by 9/10am

0800 fun

that must have been 98/99... 33k fun

crashuk · 17 May 2006 at 18:32

lemonkettaz said:
xstream 0800.. what a joke that was.. but was incredible cool!

used to get up on a saturday at like 7am just to set it off trying to connect.. i was connected by 9/10am

0800 fun

that must have been 98/99... 33k fun

but it was free evey1 else was paying a fortune

Gman · 17 May 2006 at 18:34

arrr good old Xstreme, can remember the days when I used to set the computer on a constant redial to attempt to connect. Usualy managed to connect after about 100 tries

lemonkettaz · 17 May 2006 at 18:35

true..

but tbh.. id rather pay for a service than get a free service which was.

slow.
unreliable
buggy
irritating
lasted 2hrs

it came with that dodgy bar across the top of the screen too... that used to annoy me.

i then jumped to ic24 for a while

me parents let me use it an hour a night as it was 1p min after 6pm...

before finally resting with freeserve, now wanadoo 1mb (only thing i can get in this area)

obviously now being 19 i pay for my own crap

VaderDSL · 17 May 2006 at 18:35

Was with Zen on dial-up back in the days of it being 1-2p a minute

used to rack up a lot of coinage then hehe.

Then went onto Nildram when broadband came out

Then left Nildram behind when I came to university and logged onto JANET

Planning on going back to Zen for boradband when I move into my house

Macca · 17 May 2006 at 18:38

Blueyonder broadband when it first came out.

lemonkettaz · 17 May 2006 at 18:42

i racked up me parents phone bill to £150 from internet bills by secretly going on when it was day time.. i.e. 5p a min.

our phone bills are hardly anything so it was a big deal.

hehe, then they thought it would be best to get the £15 a month 24/7 internet... so i was rewarded in a way.

hyper_piper45 · 17 May 2006 at 18:59

First i used Lineone which was free evenings and weekends. It then changed it's name to tiscali.

Then i first got 512 with pipex which used to be excellent.
Then i changed to fast24 to get 2mb as early as possible.
Now im on plusnet maxdsl.

Jez · 17 May 2006 at 19:01

AOL using AOL3 on windows 3.1, AFAIR it was around £10pm+£2ph online+local call rates

malefic · 17 May 2006 at 20:41

Does compuserve count as a proper ISP?

Oooo them were the days....or not