It really was though. A lot of people with computers got their first modem to dial into BBS systems or the compuserve type systems. Small ISPs got started up and you usually found out about them through BBSes as well because they didn’t really have ad budgets and it was so niche.
A friend of mine and I split the cost of a 1200 baud modem for the c64 and took turns with it.
A friend of mine and I split the cost of a 1200 baud modem for the c64 and took turns with it.
This was magic back then: 80 column terminal on a c64: http://kobolt.website/infocenter/images/novaterm-top.jpg