MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au on Nostr: Speaking of good memories -- I recall when the Internet was free. You did not sign up ...

Speaking of good memories -- I recall when the Internet was free.

You did not sign up to use the Internet. You dialed the local access numbers and without any username or password, you were online. No subscription required.

This was a very brief time during the start of the Internet. When the older network that it replaced was being retired. When I was young, the early network was called the "proto net" (not it's actual name, just the slang term people used to describe the network before).