[GLLUG] Free Juno/NetZero Accounts

[Benjamin Cathey]

WOW - Juno.  I remember that from when I was a pre-teen.  That and Prodigy and what was the other one - Compusomething or . . . Well it started with a C.

I was busy using KA9Q to figure out how to get into MSU's internet via dialup (and use gopher!) and my dad signed us up for Prodigy or Juno - I know we used them both but don't remember the order.  I thought it was the dumbest thing - just like I think about AOL.  Although, I suppose that back then it wasn't a BAD idea.  Personally (and I suppose I'm just and elitest ahole :) ) I liked it better when the net was text based - it kept out all the CRAP that is out there now.  If you ran into someone on a MUD like Foothills, you know they had to have been smart enough to get on in the first place :)

Boy I'm smarmy this morning.  More coffee . . .


Benjamin Cathey
System Administrator
Cathey Company
4917 Tranter St.
Lansing, MI 48910 USA
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----- Original Message -----
From: Chick Tower
[mailto:c.e.tower at gmail.com]
To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep
2007 00:45:11 -0400
Subject: [GLLUG] Free Juno/NetZero Accounts


>->> My current dial-up ISP, VTISP, has no phone support and offers tech 
>->> support only via e-mail.  Therefore, I wanted a secondary ISP that I 
>->> could use to contact VTISP in the case of not being able to use VTISP. 
>->> I had seen ads claiming that Juno and NetZero (essentially the same 
>->> company, but different brands) offered ten free hours a month, so I 
>->> visited Juno's website.  I could find mention of it on their home page, 
>->> but clicking on the links for the free internet access deal lead me only 
>->> to their basic $9.95 a month sign-up page for Linux, and they claimed to 
>->> support only one distro (which I don't recall now, perhaps Xandros).  It 
>->> occurred to me to try using Konqueror configured to represent itself as 
>->> IE on WinXP to see if I had any better luck.  I did; the free option 
>->> presented itself when I clicked on the same link on the home page.  So, 
>->> if anyone wants a free ten hours a month dial-up ISP, the trick is to 
>->> make Juno/NetZero think you're running some version of Windows. 
>->> Although you don't need to use their dialer software to connect, they 
>->> obviously want you to; they sent me an e-mail saying I failed to 
>->> download it, so I did to shut them up.
>->> 
>->>                                 Chick
>->> 
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