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AOL hometown pages: personal communities inside an access provider's world | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How AOL Hometown gave millions of subscribers a public page inside the company's walled-garden community, how residents found each other through screen names, and what the 2008 shutdown did to their on-service identities.

What We Can Prove About Dial-Up Costs in Kirksville

Kirksville had documented dial-up providers in the 1990s, but a trustworthy local period rate sheet has not yet been recovered; this article separates known provider history from unverified price memory.

Kirksville’s First Internet Providers: Reconstructing the Local Dial-Up Market

Evidence currently supports NEMR regionally by 1995, CableONE.net in Kirksville by the late 1990s and Southwestern Bell in later local support material, but the first city ISP remains unresolved.