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nstorytoday at 4:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Here in the Boston area, the first commercial ISP https://www.theworld.com/ appears to still be up and running, and is similarly frozen in time.


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ssl-3today at 4:50 PM

What a strange time machine.

The website offered to sell unlimited dialup for me, in Ohio, using a local phone number.

I Googled that number, and it appears that it may belong to another (related? different?) time machine: https://www.panix.com/dialup/

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MontgomeryPytoday at 4:58 PM

What a blast from the past. I completely forgot that I was a The World customer way back when.