tatara kogasa (touhou) drawn by mizuki_hitoshi

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    Hang in There, Kogasa-san 3472

    The internet had only just been opened to the private sector, so I didn't know what was what. I could apparently be connected even with 7.5.2., but I had to get this MacTCP thing from somewhere, which was a royal pain. You could even get browsers from bonus CD-ROMs in magazines, and I feel like those contained the aforementioned tool. I've forgotten all the little details, of course. (^^;)

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    ftahgn
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    Only got internet a little later than that. It was an era of prepaid internet cards. Without relatively high speed internet, all that mattered was how many hours an internet card gave you. Best one was a buy one take one deal, which was around 8-12 hours per card, so you got two cards for the price of one.

    Even then, the postpaid one which we had because it was from the company my parents worked in, internet hours was limited and speed was no better, so cards was the way to go since I'd get scolded if I used up the postpaid internet time.

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    Jarlath
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    Claverhouse said:

    Information Superhighway

    Looks at present-day Internet...

    How's that working out ?

    To be fair, most highways these days are basically as clogged up due to getting more traffic than they were designed for. And the more capacity you add, the more traffic expands to choke it out.

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