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2026-04-09 08:24 UTC
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@graf@poa.st 2026-04-09 08:38
actually come to think of it we were the first family in my friends group I knew to have internet that wasn't dialup. we skipped it entirely because my family was so behind with everything. we signed on with Rogers Wave @ Home I think in 1995? Do you remember that @Herman_Hetherington@poa.st? There was ONE company in North America that was distributing WAN over COAX and it was Wave@Home so if you had whatever cable company in the US it was Cable Company Wave @ Home, and then they all dropped the Wave part and it was just Company @Home until some merger with Yahoo then everything was Yahoo@Home. Back when they still offered NNTP for free 😭 They fucked up the roll out with the original LANCity modems (pic related) so every one of them was unlocked so if you had a 10/100 ethernet card in your computer you got the full 100mbit up and down for like, 6 or 7 months before they pushed an update to fix it but people had backed up the original firmware so you could downgrade it and restore the same speed for another like 2-3 years. shit was so ca$h. second pic also related, me and my bitch during 1995