What is this dial up you seek of? I'm from the future we don't understand 56k modems.
Man 1998 was the best year - everything was free. Free VoIP phone calls (dialpad.com - which now costs money and was bought out by Yahoo!), Free dial access (netzero.com - why pay 9.95/mo when it was free
), Free .com's (can't remember where but they had little iframe bars on the bottom of your page)
Oh, and radioshack were giving away those "Cats" (the future of the mouse) which could scan barcodes on any product and automatically launch the product website in your default browser. Not only that but it could "hear" also and when an infocommerical was on tv the cat would auto launch your browser again. That thing kicked ass I think I still have one in my closet.