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Re:AOL Pretends to Be the Internet by bdavbdav on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:18AM (#37431388)
I’m sure we fairly quickly (as in fairly quickly after 56k became a thing) had zero call rate ISPs who just charged a small monthly. We used to use FreeUK (eventually taken over by Clara), and had a second line dedicated to it.
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Re:AOL Pretends to Be the Internet by lproven on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:16AM (#37432104)
Yes, it did come, you're right.

It was about 15 years or so after the BBS boom in the USA, though, which was driven by free local calls.

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