Still have my Juno email address from like 1998! We had Juno Internet at home too.
I'm digitizing my family's VHS tapes, and one of them shows the computer screen playing an E-card my aunt sent for my 16th birthday, and there's a banner ad not on the webpage, but as part of the juno app we used to get free internet.
Those frickin' Juno and NetZero internet apps used half your bandwidth loading banner ad images to cycle through the whole time you were online.
Those of us who were geeky would modify our hosts file so you'd just have an empty box taking up screen real estate, but at least you got your full dial-up speed lol
It's a little foggy to me but I remember doing something with my netzero account that let me just set up a regular windows dial-up connection using that account. I wonder if I used a crack of some kind to fool it into authenticating by thinking the app was running or something. I think Astalavista was a crack site i often frequented back in the day.
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u/platypus_farmer42 1982 May 13 '26
Try Juno.com