Comment by jakemauer

3 years ago

This brings back memories. I remember marveling at this with my best friend when it came out. I got into BeOS around the same time.

I used to use those ad-supported dial up ISP’s and found one that worked with a standard PPP dialer so I didn’t need their software. I remember carrying around the QNX disk and login info so I could get online with basically any computer.

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jakemauer

Scoundreller 3 years ago

> I used to use those ad-supported dial up ISP’s and found one that worked with a standard PPP dialer so I didn’t need their software

Juno? Netzero?

jakemauer 3 years ago

I feel like it was literally called “freeinternetaccess”, definitely not one of the major ones like NetZero.

grendelt 3 years ago

I got into these back in the late 90s because of the hackable 3Com Audrey "internet appliance" (remember that term?)

I never hear about QNX anymore, so this is def a blast from the past.