My first was CompuServe, December 26th, 1993. I was on maternity leave waiting for my daughter to be born and my (now ex) husband said "Why don't you check out this internet thing?". We had DOS 6.22 and a 1200 baud modem. CServe, at that time, cost $9.60 an hour and it was a "toll call" from our house, so after I got those first bills, I had to cut down a lot!
Now I have:
1) personal email addy for friends/ family/ bills
2) work email addy JUST FOR WORK
3) sorority email addy, for official fraternity business stuff
4) yahoo account, mainly for junk, posting on usenet, and a couple yahoo groups
And what I used to pay for one hour (cserve + phone), I pay for a whole month of cable internet. Go figure!
Dee
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