And that would be roughly $45 per hour in today's dollars. That's why you largely worked offline and periodically synced. Every connection was billed in 1 minute increments. You'd have a connection manager that dialed up, brought down your email, and brought down community topics for the communities you were interested in and then go offline. While offline you would respond to your emails, indicate which community topics you want to download to look at further and then sync. The emails in your outbox would be sent, and the content of your selected community topics would be brought down. That was the work stream.
2 connections per day is going to cost you 60 minutes of billing for the month. You managed your connections judiciously!
