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Back then the only place in my home town was a city over at a military surplus hilariously enough. My parents bought us an IBM (at the time their canadian brand of the Aptiva was called Ambra) full black vcr pizza-box shaped desktop with a cyrix media GX processor in it. within a week or two of the warranty expiring the CPU died so we went out to the city to the surplus and they tested the CPU and then took it and a screw and screwed it to one of the joists near the test bench and said "you need a new CPU" and to this day it's still screwed to that joist. I remember that day like it was yesterday and I was like 8 or 9 at the time, Cyrix MediaGX 266

actually come to think of it we were the first family in my friends group I knew to have internet that wasn't dialup. we skipped it entirely because my family was so behind with everything. we signed on with Rogers Wave @ Home I think in 1995? Do you remember that @Herman_Hetherington? There was ONE company in North America that was distributing WAN over COAX and it was Wave@Home so if you had whatever cable company in the US it was Cable Company Wave @ Home, and then they all dropped the Wave part and it was just Company @Home until some merger with Yahoo then everything was Yahoo@Home. Back when they still offered NNTP for free 😭

They fucked up the roll out with the original LANCity modems (pic related) so every one of them was unlocked so if you had a 10/100 ethernet card in your computer you got the full 100mbit up and down for like, 6 or 7 months before they pushed an update to fix it but people had backed up the original firmware so you could downgrade it and restore the same speed for another like 2-3 years. shit was so ca$h. second pic also related, me and my bitch during 1995