Eli5 In the days of dial up internet how would large organisations (or even homes with more than 1 computer) enable multiple computers to use the internet at once
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Organizations that actually used the Internet for their business weren’t on dial-up. They had a permanent connection to the Internet, something like ISDN on a small-scale or a T1 line for a larger organization.
Organizations that did have dial-up were basically organizations that weren’t high-tech yet. They probably did everything by phone and on paper. Accessing the Internet was just something on the side, not the main way they contacted customers or other businesses.
For home, most people just had one home computer. Computers were expensive and they weren’t portable. It was unusual for there to be more than one computer in a home. In the rare case there was, only one would be online at a time, or you’d just get two phone lines.
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