Who was your first internet provider?

[Reecejackox 399]

In your life

Mine was virgin media.

 

[Pentium100 2,128]

The landline phone company (it's called Telia right now, but back then the name was "Lietuvos Telekomas"), as my first internet connection at home was dial-up.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

My first internet provider was TalkTalk (what a shitty internet provider they were)

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I think it was AT&T, which is still my internet provider.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,576]

It was either AOL or Netzero dial-up. I have had both services, just can't quite remember which was the first one. Twas a magical time of me having the world of the internet yet not knowing what to do with it.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

S.N.I.P. net.

Southern New Jersey Internet Providers. I don't think they even still exist.

Ah, the days of dial-up!

LOL!

 

It took me DAYS to figure out how to disable the sound on my computer's internal dial-up modem. Some idiot thought it was a good idea for it to have it's own speaker inside the tower! I hated listening to that every time I wanted to go online!

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[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,260]

AOL and SBC Global were my first internet service providers

[Samurai Equine 51,713]

I'm really not sure anymore. I want to say it was AT&T, back in the mid 90's when Dial-Up was practically the only way to connect to the internet.

[Prospekt 11,018]

My family had AOL when I was little and switched to EarthLink. 

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I honestly don't remember what my FIRST was. Though when I moved, I remember our internet was through WildBlue. Not the best internet, but it is better than the local internet provider... The internet they offered might as well have come straight from the days of white (BF says they're beige) computers, and we changed over in 2013 or so I think.

[Pastel Heart 6,466]

AOL was king~

I never used the internet myself until a lil later in my life but it was definitely still AOL. I miss the rush of excitement when the dialup loading reached the third step.

...Jpegs loaded pretty slow though.

[Guest]

Telekom. Still use that one, too. 

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

I don't remember the first internet provider my parents used...but I remember the dial up internet.  I still share internet with my parents, because I still live with them. They use Spectrum right now.

[applesjck 5,601]

I believe it may have been AOL! 

[LegoDashie 1,806]

my verry first one was dial up or well kinda it only had 1.2mbs of download soo ya XD but i cant remember the name but now im fully upgraded to gigabit :3

[Splashee 28,564]

My first ISP was a company called (still is called) TELE2. It cost a monthly fee for a dial-up, and you had to pay the phone company a minute fee for calling the number.

 

When I finally got broadband (ADSL), I tried to cancel my TELE2, but they didn't like that. I had to pay monthly for 2 years, the dial-up service, even when people usually by that time had stolen ISP numbers and was dialing-up for free. With ADSL, I never have to pay the minute fee, and there is no data download limit.

 

TELE2 is still exploiting their customers, but now with cell phones, and expensive limited internet.

[Prince Doopliss 2,351]

My first internet provider I don't remember. Might have been Dish. Though I actually more so remeber using something called Internet TV you young whippersnappers. That and I used AOL (dial up).

[Phosphor 11,529]

I think it was CompuServe dial up, but I used several different providers in the late 90's and early 2000's. AOL and Netscape come to mind.

Nowadays, I have Viasat satellite internet. It's fast enough for my needs but I wish there were more options instead of that or crappy cellular data plans. That's one of the downsides to living in a rural area.

[Splashee 28,564]

I plan to bring back my dial-up experience in the future. My own analog telephone system will reserve a phone number to a server.... But I need one of those Cisco servers that were used for dial-up, to get the right sound in my modem.... Well, I need to get a dial-up modem too.

[Astralshy 26,795]

German Telekom and I havent been happy with them xD

[Tom Gallagher 33,588]

Years ago, we had one that some guy made by himself. It wasn’t excellent. These days, we use Virgin.

[Scarlet02 493]

We used to use Century Link and god was it terrible! Our internet connection was getting so low that we had to switch to Spectrum so we could actually use the internet. When it started going downhill, I would just drop out of Discord calls and that kept happening until my mom switched to Spectrum. 

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,473]

NetScape Navigator, the 90s, watching those stars and hearing their sounds as they flew by on that little corner image as each webpage slowly loaded on the screen  

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

my neighbor! if you get my drift!

[Northern Star 1,024]

The local co-ops.

Co-ops because the electric co-OP got impatient with the telephone Co-oP and started their own telephone/cable/internet service...then merged years later.

We avoided dialup...everyone around us constantly complained about it so when DSL became available again, we did that. It was ok, until one tried to watch a video or Skype or found out about Steam...lol. Take down the entire farm's 3.7mbps peak download link and take out the 1.6mbps upload link uploading photos to Kodak.