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I remember when Xtra bought out their $27.95/month unlimited dialup plan.

It changed our internet browsing habits so much. With hourly charges, you would try to plan out what you would do before connecting and instead of reading webpages, you would save them to disk for reading later.

With unlimited, you could just sit there and browse. Or leave it on overnight to download files.

At some point we got a second phoneline and I was downloading torrents on dialup all day and night for years before we finally moved somewhere with ADSL in 2006.



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