Some friends were looking for Internet Providers so I updated a survey I first did back in 1995 and a followup in 1995. It’s not all inclusive (there’s a LOT of ISP’s in Japan now) and it just gives costs of basic services like dial-up access, but it should give a rough comparison of some [...]

Hiro’s web server was hacked by a worm. Everyones pages were changed to say “Ramen Crew. Hackers love noodles”. He shut his server down so I moved my pages to CI Host.

Cool links from the 1990′s!

Last updated: 17th February 1999 This is a sample of Internet providers available in Japan. The rates below are for standard dial-up services. Most providers offer selection of different services which may increase or reduce the costs shown below. Check each providers service pages carefully to see what’s included in each package. Some charge extra [...]

If you don’t care what address your web pages are at, there are a number of free web page providers such as Geocities, Yahoo, MSN and 50Megs, to name but a few. Search for more at Yahoo If you want your web pages to be located at www.yourdomain.com, you’ll need a virtual hosting account. These [...]

Join the Parti Community on Twics Many of your fellow Twicsters meet in a virtual hangout called “Parti”. Parti is mouse-free and lightning-fast, so more yen stays in your pocket instead of “GUI-ing” into NTT’s. You can download all your Parti notes in one batch and read them off-line. There are many “topics” in Parti. Here [...]

I got tired of the green background on my old pages. I reckon it was the reason I never updated them. I decided today to start again and make a sort of journal of projects I’m working on and interesting pages I find. First I going to try organising my photo albums.

I bought a Casio QV-700 about a year ago. The software that comes with it is in Japanese and is unreadable in English Windows 95 even with NJwin (why do Japanese software makers do this?). A quick search on the web revealed QV-Autocam from Beausoft. It’s a nice piece of software, with a good selection [...]

Last updated: 3rd September 1995 Provider Initial Fee Monthly Fee Usage Fee IIJ ･30000 (･10000 online signup) ･2000 ･30/min IFNET ･9000 ･18000/year none IBM Internet Service ･2000 ･2000 (up to 4 hours) ･6 per 36 secs Asahi Net ･3000 ･1000 (up to 2 hours) ･10/min after 2 hours ASCII ･1000 none ･10/min Internet WIN ･5000 [...]