Heh - I remember when AOL started trumpeting its "20 hours a month" plan, or whatever it was, and I was online 3-4 hours a day most days and thinking what a crappy plan that was -- but still so much better than it had been!
ahaha I just found an AOL old press release, where AOL had undercut Prodigy by lowering their rates from $25/month for five hours to $10/month for five hours:
"America Online expects that 90 percent of its customers will not use more than 5 hours per month so they’ll just pay a fixed rate of $9.95. Heavy users will be able to purchase additional online time (beyond the initial 5 free hours) at the rate of $3.50 per hour."
5 hours a month works out to about 10 minutes a day -- which at the connection and download speeds of the day meant you could download half a dozen emails, pretty much. Man. And that was their best value plan.
I was never on compuserve, but wow I hated the addies. *g* Who could remember those! The only way I could ever write to someone on compuserve was to find one of their emails to reply to, and strip everything out of it to start fresh.
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ahaha I just found an AOL old press release, where AOL had undercut Prodigy by lowering their rates from $25/month for five hours to $10/month for five hours:
"America Online expects that 90 percent of its customers will not use more than 5 hours per month so they’ll just pay a fixed rate of $9.95. Heavy users will be able to purchase additional online time (beyond the initial 5 free hours) at the rate of $3.50 per hour."
5 hours a month works out to about 10 minutes a day -- which at the connection and download speeds of the day meant you could download half a dozen emails, pretty much. Man. And that was their best value plan.
I was never on compuserve, but wow I hated the addies. *g* Who could remember those! The only way I could ever write to someone on compuserve was to find one of their emails to reply to, and strip everything out of it to start fresh.