Post #2187045
2026-04-09 08:38 UTC
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
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@graf@poa.st 2026-04-09 08:40
(not that you could utilize it because PATA drives were 66MB/s peak avg 45-50MB/s but still)
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@Herman_Hetherington@poa.st 2026-04-09 08:45
I'm in Oz so while we did get cable here around that time, the two companies who cabled streets were both very expensive and capped downloads pretty low so unless you needed the ping it wasn't worth getting. DSL came around 2000 so that's what my family hopped on at blazing fast 128kb. I do remember the company that cabled my street had Optus@home interestingly enough