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  • The only internet we could get was from landline telephone operator. Maybe there already was coaxial from cable TV, but cable TV was very expensive in itself. And we weren’t rich

    So that external usb modem was actually the hardware our ISP gave us, and it was fed with telephone plug, not RJ45

    But it might be also true that in those times having a network card on MB was not a standard



  • I switched in 2003 or 2005. I don’t remember now

    In those times, in order to connect to the internet, in our country one had to compile kernel modules for the usb modem. I copied (from a CD maybe?) some files my parent brought from work, copied the commands make config, make something, make magic,please work, reboot… And a piece of plastic that does nothing after connecting to the usb, started blinking happily with sweet packets of the link to the whole world. I was hooked