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twas the year 1996, I had been online for 3 years, 28.8kbps wasnt doing it anymore, got a 56kbps US Robotics modem (wikipedia says 56k wasnt available until 1998 but that's wrong, 1998 was when I started college and I had a 56k modem at least 2 years prior to that).
internet access was run by the county, so we dialed into a server (named "homer") and then it either acted as a proxy or basic NAT to provide access to the public internet. speeds were glacially slow compared to modern day standards, I played a lot of MUD's (smaug codebase mostly - Realms of Despair, etc). the internet was very much a different animal back in those days.