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When some snobby P-Forker who likes digging through record bins finds an album like Broken Social Scene’s “You Forgot It In People”, and then gives it a 9.2 rating, all of a sudden, anyone with a dialup connection can hear about it and seek it out. The good, non-commercial music is no longer the sole domain of the chumps...
Other new offerings from FAS Computer Services include a Dial-Up networking installer on CD-ROM, which includes new versions of Netscape and other programs; full networking support for Windows 98; Windows NT Workstation software on Science Center labs; and 56K and ISDN-compatibility on the dialup modem pool, enabling users with these high-speed modems to access the FAS network
...high as $500 last month after using a special AOL 800 number in order to circumvent the busy signals which have plagued the network since the introduction of its flat-rate plan in December. The line was set up for users in remote areas that have no local dialup access. Subscribers who learned about the special access line from AOL marketing personnel were warned that they would be charged special usage fees of $6 per hour. But once news of the number hit bulletin boards and chat rooms on the service, legions of frustrated subscribers started dialing in without realizing...
...made a mistake. All it takes is one mistake for those thoughts and secrets you held most dear to be distributed to anyone I choose. Your mistake? You left your terminal for only a second in the Science Center basement. Or you were accidentally disconnected over a dialup connection. Or I ripped your password...
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