aDSL here..
damn, I get chills when I remember the dialup days. We had to pay $100 for dialup access and that was only for 6-7 hours per day, not 24/7. 24/7 was like $350...
even the adsl I'm on now isn't very fast, 384 down / 128 kbits up (40kb down, 10kb up) but still its much better than dialup, at least you're 24/7 online. Took me 8 years enduring dialup hell!