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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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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I don’t know about offices, but for home use, you just didn’t use two computers online at once. There may have been homes with multiple phone lines to enable something like this, but keep in mind that the role of computers and the internet just wasn’t as prominent as it is now. A house may have only had one computer and just connecting to the internet was a huge process, so it wasn’t done nearly as often as it is now.