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look out! Ninjas!:
Dad got dial-up put in in 1996, on a separate phone line so he could use the net and talk on the phone at the same time. At the time this was considered pretty cool, and calling my friends would often be an exercise in calling, hearing the familiar signal noise, and waiting an hour to call again.
We got a faster modem in 1999, but didn't get ADSL until 2004, which was amazing. I remember having to wait hours to get onto some flash games on miniclip, and spending more hours waiting for 'all the small things' to download off Napster because I couldn't wait for it to come on the radio again.

I also remember having to use the internet at school, with Netscape because we were using macs. Although the memory that sticks out most in my mind is that the printer network was horrible and if two computers tried to print at the same time they would both lock up and not respond to anything short of hitting the power button, and wouldn't print. Many a six year old's work would be lost amid many tears.

Orbert:
Ha ha, oh yeah I remember having two phone lines, one for voice and one for the modem.  The Dark Ages of the Internet.

Bastardous Bassist:
I remember wanting two phone lines, but my parents did not acquiesce.

ackblom12:
I'm curious how upset phone companies were when cable came on the scene.

Orbert:
They might've been bummed for a little while, but now that everyone and his dog has a cell phone, the same family that used to have one phone line, maybe two, now has five or six, so they're still making tons of money.

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