Stumbled across a cached version of a 2004 Geocities shrine to dial-up ISPs

I was looking up old ISP history for a blog post and found a cached page from some Geocities site that ranked AOL, NetZero, and Juno by how many hours you could stay online before getting kicked. The person who made it even had a screenshot of their NetZero connection speed at like 28.8kbps. Has anyone else run across those old ISP fan sites that are now just ghost pages with broken images?

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seana1412d ago

Funny you mention that, I actually found a Geocities page once where this guy had a whole shrine to his Prodigy account. Had a whole countdown timer to when his monthly hours would reset, like it was a holiday. He posted his favorite chat room logs from 1996 too. Made me wonder how many of those old ISP fan pages are just sitting there in some archive, waiting for someone to accidentally stumble on them.

ivangrant12d ago

Prodigy didn't have monthly hours, actually it charged by the minute back then.