I remember the day a 56kbps frame relay circuit was installed in our house in 1997. It was connected back to my dad's office and I could use it to access the Internet via their connection. It was amazing the day that I didn't have to dial anything.

I think I was the only person who was in my freshman college class in 1998 that knew you didn't need disk up to connect to the Internet. Sharing that single T1 with 2000 other students sucked.