Who was your first ISP?

Duke · 19 May 2006 at 19:31

Hmmm Compuserve I think?

Radiation · 19 May 2006 at 20:17

Freeserve pay as you go in 98/99 i think it was.

Tosk · 19 May 2006 at 20:53

my first isp was Claranet i think it cost me £15.00 a month and that was with out the cost of calls back then lol. then about 5 or 6 months after freeserve came out with no monthly fee and all you had to pay with the cost of the call

good old 56k days hey, who misses them?

not me

oh yea i use to use wireplay dialup as well.

be for that i used my colleges net from 1995 to 1997

CurlyWhirly · 19 May 2006 at 21:50

My first ISP was AOL - first on dial-up and then broadband.

kip02 · 19 May 2006 at 22:26

Mine was ntlworld back in the day when it was free with a 2 hour cut off. I think it was back in 99 and took about 10 months for the CD to arrive!

Went to ntl broadband 512 in 2002 then gradually increased 1mb > 3mb >10mb

I miss the dialing tone :cool:

CurlyWhirly · 19 May 2006 at 23:14

kip02 said:
I miss the dialing tone

I don't miss it as it used to get on my nerves!

Lt. Manlove · 20 May 2006 at 03:31

Does anybody remember...

LibertySurf, it was £20 for the CD from comet and you had unlimited 56K for a YEAR! Magical stuff they soon sold out, I was lucky

edit:

EYEREX said:
Liberty surf which was only £20 for the year for free off peak

Lol, I should have read the thread first

Felix Da Housecat · 20 May 2006 at 08:00

1) Tesco.net 56k dial up

Have also used Breathe, Freeserve, Xtreame, then went back to Tesco before getting NTL broadband a few years back.

Jasperado · 20 May 2006 at 09:36

EYEREX said:
Liberty surf which was only £20 for the year for free off peak

Had that too ! Had to get used to unmetered surfing with that !! The good old days of 56k.

tmileson · 20 May 2006 at 11:08

Initialy it used to be BBS for me which were direct dial ups (one or two I used even had 3 modems so could support simultaneous users). Fondly remember a lOndon based BBS called "Gnome at home" Used Prestel type graphics and connected at 1200/75

For the internet "proper" it was compuserve for me follwed by CIX, Demon, RedHotAnt, ClaraNet and then BTinternet broadband, Nildram etc..

Think my first modem was either 2400 or 4800 baud max...

PieMaster · 20 May 2006 at 11:22

Lt. Manlove said:
Does anybody remember...

LibertySurf, it was £20 for the CD from comet and you had unlimited 56K for a YEAR! Magical stuff they soon sold out, I was lucky

Yeah, I had that. Shame they got bought out by tiscali really

Clarkey · 20 May 2006 at 12:02

Freeserve PAYG I think. After that I used a whole bunch of 56k ISP's, because i got kicked off all of them for excessive use, when I first got ADSL it was a blessing.

DanMc07 · 20 May 2006 at 12:38

Blueyonder, Started on 56k.. then upgraded to 1mb.. then got free upgrades over the years and now on 10mb for the same price, cant belive we used to pay £35 for 1mb backin then :O

Inferno99 · 20 May 2006 at 12:41

Nildram 1998, Fixed monthly for 0845

dandan556 · 20 May 2006 at 16:39

Blueyonder 56k

PikeyPriest · 21 May 2006 at 00:20

Compuserve (4800 bps) -> Freeserve (33.6) -> AOL (33.6) -> AOL (56k) -> BT (or yahoo or whatever the new name is) 512/56 -> Bulldog (8mb)

Seft · 21 May 2006 at 01:41

Compuserve, back when 14.4k modems were the bomb and my 486-DX2 66 was top dog.

KiNgPiN83 · 21 May 2006 at 03:21

Started with Freeserve back in 99(dial up). Then went on to 512k ADSL with Freeserve. Then the other day i upgraded to 2Mb with Wanadoo(Freeserve)

And in all those years ive never had a problem or had to phone them up.

loltim · 21 May 2006 at 03:57

AOL dial up

Syngress · 21 May 2006 at 10:27

Compuserv.....and then Demon using their own Turnpike dialup software.....

wow how things have changed