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My first dial-up ISP in the mid-90s was originally a local BBS that transitioned into an ISP - Golden Triangle in Kitchener, Ontario. I still remember picking up and installing the four 3.5" floppy disks they provided with Nutscrape Navigator. 14.4baud on a USR Robotics sportster.
Accessing Usenet newsgroups through Outlook Distress - having to manually decode the binary pics with a UUencode app after downloading.
But life was good...it was all new. BBSes were fading into obscurity (or going telnet) and the internet was gaining popularity. ABPEB (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage) was still getting sometimes a thousand posts a day - it was rockin'. We began postin' our original content to Usenet on a regular basis and attracting a modest-but-steadily growing following.
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