This rather straightforward way to create your own ISP resulted in an ever-increasing number of small local ISP’s through the mid-1990’s. When a user would dial-in, one in a pool of modems that was connected to a computer would authenticate the user and connect them up to the ISP’s dedicated Internet access. They would then also lease a bank of phone lines that could be dialed into using one phone number. Local Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), often with just one office location, bought dedicated access to the Internet through a telecom provider. Internet access in the early ’90s was an almost clandestine thing. This is what the Internet was like back in the day. Here’s what I remember about my first dial-up internet account and Internet apps we used twenty-five years ago. But lets just agree that the modern Internet, when it became popular for mainstream use, was “new” in the early 90’s. Yeah, the Internet itself existed for decades before then. I remember discovering the Internet when it was “new”, back in the early 1990’s. In the beginning, we didn’t really have any Internet apps, just protocols for hypothetical apps.
But since nobody had Internet, that meant nobody had an Internet email address. And other than the web browser, there wasn’t really any great reason to access the Internet. Because how could they? The web browser had just been invented. Even America Online, the most popular online service at the time, didn’t have Internet access. Otherwise, it was a long-distance call using your landline. And even that required hoping that an Internet Service Provider had a local dial-up phone number.
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