On 1/7/19 7:55 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

[snip]

I didn't know much about
internet access and browsers. I had Compuserve (I actually had a way to
determine if it had any local phone numbers then)

What do you mean by the bit in brackets?
In the eighties, I belonged to a Commodore home computer user group. In
one of their newsletters, there was an article on some free things you
could do with your modem. There was a toll-free number to connect to
Telenet (one of the dial-up services you could use to access Compuserve)
and find out if there were any local numbers for Compuserve. I live in a
small enough town, there were no local numbers here, until 1995 when the
phone company extended the local calling area. Compuserve was the only
online service I knew how to check accessibility for without signing up
first.

I had a 28.8Kbps modem that worked fine on bulletin boards, but was
erratic with Windows, Making the Compuserve experience even worse.

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