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Anyone remember that period where FREE dialup was everywhere - even freaking KMart had one- little ad appeared at the top of the screen.

Here it is: https://archive.org/details/bluelight_201711




Ahh yes, in the UK there was one called X-stream (and another called ic24) for a while which did exactly the same thing with an ad banner in exchange for a toll-free number. I think it was only free at weekends, and you’d have to retry hundreds of times to get through once word got out, only to end up with a crappy connection so slow you could barely use it. Still, it was free!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Stream_Network


Someone I knew wrote a little program that killed the ad window...


Figuring out how to game those systems so you could connect without the ads was always fun




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