<blockquote>he only ‘good’ thing about dialup internet was you had to spend time wisely on the internet, couldn’t really be on the internet for hours on end like you can today without much of a problem.</blockquote> I worked for 9 years at a local ISP during the dial-up era. There were several customers with extra phone lines who stayed connected near-continuously. It became a problem when the business grew and busy signals sometimes occurred on dial-up attempts. I'd occasionally each day check the active connection list in RADIUS then log-in to the modem units and disconnect the long-terms, which they'd immediately reconnect anyway. A few complained. The service was advertised as "unlimited" which was intended to mean no limit on how many times per day/week/month one could dial-in ... not that a connection could stay up continuously until the user was in his grave.
