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C Moon

(12,213 posts)

14. Wow. Crazy.

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #12)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 03:29 AM

Nov 2017

I started dial up in 1995. That was when they allowed a certain amount of MB per month. If you went over, you were charged.
I fear that's what may be returning.
Hopefully, some brilliant minds will create ways to get around it and frustrate the hell out of the big dogs. That's what always seems to happen.

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Reddit just put out the call to action against ending net neutrality. [View all] joshcryer Nov 2017 OP

With this asshole in the White Trash House it's not unbelievable. His only Kirk Lover Nov 2017 #1

IT'S NOT TRUMP! If he drops dead today, Hortensis Nov 2017 #10

And trashbag installed this new FCC prick who is all in for repealing Kirk Lover Nov 2017 #17

Trump wouldn't know an FCC if he fell over one. Hortensis Nov 2017 #18

Good, Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #2

Thank you Reddit LibArts Nov 2017 #3

Welcome to DU, LibArts! calimary Nov 2017 #7

"It's unbelievable that we're still fighting this shit a decade or more on.' - a 'decade" huh?... PoliticAverse Nov 2017 #4

The problem was being disputed as far back as 2005: joshcryer Nov 2017 #5

I remember the early days of the internet when companies charged you per MB of usage. C Moon Nov 2017 #6

I remember when access to the internet was several thousand dollars a month. Kablooie Nov 2017 #9

Several Thousand a month? Was that for a business? That's crazy! C Moon Nov 2017 #11

You had to get a T1 line. A direct connection. Kablooie Nov 2017 #12

Wow. Crazy. C Moon Nov 2017 #14

If your isp management is conservative this website could be blocked. Kablooie Nov 2017 #15

I agree. That's the big fear. That's why I was saying, I hope smaller companies can come about C Moon Nov 2017 #16

Get it yet? world wide wally Nov 2017 #8

They Plan to Make the Internet Like Cable TV AndyTiedye Nov 2017 #13