{"id":171170,"date":"2023-09-03T03:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:23:39","slug":"the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president","title":{"rendered":"The \u201890s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours,\u201d begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. \u201cOur service is unlimited, but we ask that you actually be using the connection while logged in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself\u2014why do I have an email from 1998?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours,\u201d begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. \u201cOur service is unlimited, but we ask that you actually be using the connection while logged in.\u201d But I\u2019m getting ahead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}