justinahn

“Adrienne, how old are you?”

Me: this was my high school phone

everyone out here flexing phones

meanwhile, this is how i first connected to the world wide web - 28.8k, eat your hearts out

and shoutout to anyone who grew up in the dc area and used erol's instead of AOL!

building /quidli 🦑, casting in /justinahn, daoing in /🍊 & /🟪

and shoutout to anyone who grew up in the dc area and used erol's instead of AOL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol%27s

this one for me was the first and in Italy we connected with IOL (Italia On Line), not much fantasy I suppose... 😅

TIL there was Italia Online 😂

did the rest of europe skip the whole minitel period they had in france?

we had the ISDN dream before DSL arrived... a dedicated digital line (slower than the 56K but symmetrical and you could yous the phone while connected). but it was only for professionals, too costly for students like us.

56k was definitely a big deal, for sure. but then came the DSL game changer 😂

back in days the phone lines which supported modems were very few. for the first 3 years of my high school I went to my best friend apartment (son of an architect) to connect with a 14.4 modem. that was all of my "online" experience. mainly BBS, no internet yet. then they created IOL and the entry point was 56K for everyone and internet was a thing even in Italy.