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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The short answer is with multiple phone lines.

Don’t know how intuitive this is to someone too young to really know what a phone line is but a house could have more than one.

In general, a house usually only had one line for a computer. The internet was just… not that interesting at the time. It was slow and there wasn’t much on it. People simply weren’t online all the time until we’ll after broadband.