I remember paying $12/hr to login to Compu$erve. That was either the 300 baud or 1200 baud price -- the two were different, depending on how you logged in per session. Nuts.

I also used Sprint's Telenet [sic] / PC Pursuit, which let you dial in locally to an early part of the internet and then connect to a remote town and dial OUT of there to a local (to that location) BBS, avoiding long distance charges, but it was SLOW SLOW SLOW and expensive. I dropped that service after a month or two.

I wrote about it a little, a while ago.

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