When I was growing up, my dad ran an income tax return business from home. What that meant was that he stayed at least reasonably current on computer technology from the time programs like TurboTax came out, although in his last few years he had to get increasingly esoteric equipment to satisfy the requirements of the program he was using(he used a program called Orrtax, which is a great program meant for a tax office and operated by people who knew what they were doing, but the last year he bought it, it was still a DOS program).
In any case, in the 1980s he treated himself to a Tandy 1000a. A modem was a practical necessity for him to do electronic filing, but he also used BBSs. He really tricked that computer out with dual floppies, 640K of RAM, and even a 30mb HDD.
His computers trickled down to me, and I can remember playing games on that Tandy probably when I was 2 or 3. Later on, I remember getting on AOL(dial-up) from a 486 in the mid-90s.
Occasionally, I get tempted to get nostalgic and seeing if I can a free AOL account with dial-up to play with. I don't know if older versions will still connect-I'd need to hunt down the newest version for my Leopard on my G5.