Who was your first ISP?

[Eos]

pond.net - $20 per month for 300 hours of 56k dialup in 1995
earthlink after the pond closed. like $14.95 for unlimited dialup until 2002.
Comcast cable
Comcast cable in another location
bmi.net DSL with Qwest telco
Charter cable
Verizon DSL

 

[Finalnight]

Very first was ATT Worldnet for a few years (1996-1998)
Then AOL for a brief time. Then I had some dialup company whose name I can't remember right now from 1999-2001. Then I had ATT Broadband from 2002 on which then became comcast.

 

[lozina]

Prodigy
AOL
local dial-up
another local dial-up
yet another local dial-up
verizon DSL
verizon FIOS

 

[Electric Amish]

Some local place called Rocky Mountain something or other....I think.

They shutdown and I moved to Softcom.

Then I got cable. =D

 

[EKKC]

GNN (AOL sister company)
GNN died, rolled all subscribers to AOL, so I was AOL for quite a while
then Netcom
then Bell Atlantic (now verizon)
then Earthlink
then Earthlink DSL
then (now) Earthlink Road Runner/Time Warner Cable

 

[Chiboy]

AOL when I first hit the net in 1995.

 

[KoolDrew]

AOL

 

[Al Neri]

First service I had that offered the web - I think it may have been the first mainstream service to do such was P*.... btw P* is prodigy for you noobs

albeit it was not asked I'll answer anyway

From ~1989 (second grade) through 2000 (when I was 18) I did something similar to this: P*/Compuserve > AOL > P*/Compuserve > Compuserve's WOW > AOL > GNN > IDT > AOL

the reason I bounced around was a mixture of me getting > $150 bills and my parents refusing to pay and scheming for trial offers month to month.

when I first signed up for AOL (around 1992) they only offered 300 baud dialup in my area code (718) - my dad had gotten a 14.4kbps modem from work - it wasn't until they offered 9600 that I realized how great "fast online" was ... it took until 2000 for reasonable broadband to surface in NYC (reasonable meaning < $100 > a DSL connection requiring 2 phone lines and only getting 25k/s... crazy when you think about it.

Pre internet - the best online service was Prodigy I still remember my ID, WWKP36A.

-Don

 

[Aquila76]

A bunch of local guys, NetZero with the banner-kill hack (what was that called?), FreeDSL (worked great as long as I disabled my Creative sound card), Verizon DSL (until it just flat out stopped working and nobody could figure out why), Comcast Cable ever since.

 

[secretanchitman]

flash.net

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

AOL : Puke;

 

[bigal40]

internetjunction.net

I just checked their site and they're still around, 56k for only 6.99 a month.

 

[KeypoX]

aol, prodigy, compuserve was the first one i had though.... was on a BBS at the same time as aol, had aol for dos

 

[yhelothar]

flashnet

 

[ScottMac]

(on before commercialization), then CICNET, Mindspring, and PSI after.