Who was your first ISP?

[MotionMan]

Initially, I could get my e-mail by dialing into my law school. I also had AOL at the time, but did not use it for anything. That was followed by Earthlink dial-up.

I have had PacBell/AT&T DSL for about 10 years since then.

MotionMan

 

[Epic Fail]

AOL

 

[tasmanian]

Aol, then qwest dsl. Now comcast.

 

[trmiv]

My first real ISP was Netcom. Back in the pre-internet days I had Prodigy.

 

[MaxDepth]

University of Kentucky (1985-87)
CompuServe (1985-1989)
Nando (1992-95)

 

[Squisher]

rust.net then I went to dual line IDSN. ($100/mo.) I was such a playa.

 

[Kelemvor]

Execpc. Back before the internet or anything. Was a local BBS system that got on the internet when it was available. Had my same email account for years and years until I finally switched to Gmail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExecPC_BBS

...It quickly grew to be the world's largest bulletin board system in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, competing with the likes of Compuserve and Prodigy...

 

[Captante]

(1) Compuserv
(2) AOL
(3) Prodigy
(4) AT&T Worldnet

Kept AT&T until DSL became available in my area.

 

[raystorm]

I really don't know who powered it but my first pc was a gateway and it came with a free year of "Gateway Online". Something like that. It was in 1999.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
AOL...

 

[melchoir]

(1) Peganet
(2) Mindspring
(3) MSN (free account a friend had to pay for since he got in on one of those rebate deals)
(4) Roadrunner
(5) Comcast

 

[CptCrunch]

prodigy

 

[Twista]

compuserve

 

[NL5]

I had several before, but anybody remember WOW? I think it was the first to have a monthly premium with unlimited use.

 

[jonnyGURU]

First "Internet" (non BBS dial up) connection was through CompuServe. Although you couldn't really do much "internet browsing" with NavCIS. Think of AOL, but without the ability to type in a URL.

Upgraded to Prodigy for the color weather maps (CompuServe was pretty much mono-chrome at the time.) At the time, you still couldn't get on the web with Prodigy.

My first real ISP was GNN (Global Network Navigator). I actually got the GNN Netscape 2.0 setup floppies bundled inside a Diamond Supra Express 28.8 modem box. AOL eventually dumped GNN and tried to migrate their customers into AOL. That's when I dumped them. I switched over to GTE (who also used Netscape, but they replaced the orbited "N" logo with a pacing dog). When they were bought by Verizon, I finally got broadband by going with Road Runner through Time Warner.

 

[middlehead]

I wouldn't count it because it only provided email, but I remember using Juno's email dial-in.

First service that actually provided WWW access was a local dialup provider, not sure who serviced them.
Second was local cable company, serviced by AT&T.
Third, which I've been on for quite a while now, is Qwest DSL.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
AOL...

 

[crab]

Bell Atlantic dial-up

 

[RossMAN]

Local ISP back when $15/mo would buy 180 hours a month.

Those were the days.

 

[Bootprint]

iStar after they bought up Canada Remote Systems BBS/CRS Online.

My first real access to the net was via University of Toronto's dialup, doing gopher and veronica searches.

 

[zanejohnson]

Nortex Communications.... local 56K ISP and cable TV service back in those days...

we first got them in the 28.8 days, and then they moved to V90, and KFLEX, i remember getting 31,600 KFLEX and i thought it was FLYING at a whopping 4.5-5KB/s, that was the best connection i could ever get with them, even with newer 56K modems, we were just a good bit away from the telco's machines...

 

[drinkmorejava]

netcom, still have their installation CD with netscape (1997, parents got the intarwebs)
prodigy 2001
earthlink highspeed/TW 2004

 

[IronWing]

Microtek

 

[PottedMeat]

AOL - for those of us without 'real internet' this was one way to get those mass mails ( you know what i'm talkin about ).

 

[Muadib]

My first ISP was IBM. It came with OS/2 Warp.