I was fortunate enough to get to cheat the system in those days. I met the guy who started the ISP, he was friends with one of my friends. He gave me a job going in and changing the backup tapes out on all the computers in the office every night. I had 2 hours a night to sit right at the head of the t1, and download anything i could find. The bitch was transport. then that writable CD hit... solved. I still have some of those old written CDs from those days.