I'm old enough to remember a time when you did actually have to pay extra to play games online through services like HEAT and TEN. That shit didn't last long at all, though. Was mostly in the transitory state between when multiplayer was LAN only and the introduction of TCP/IP internet play. I had to use these for Shadow Warrior and Duke3D. Before that, CompuServe (the ISP that introduced me to the internet) also had games that had a separate charge in addition to the service itself, such as the original Neverwinter Nights (not the Bioware game).

I remember having free Internet because my local library offered dialup service to everyone in the county.

It wasn't fast, but no dialup ever was.

One of my favorite stories from those days was trying to get Doom set up to play head-to-head via modem with a friend of ours. We had all kinds of trouble getting it to work, and I swear at some point we actually heard our friends voice coming through the computer speaker or somewhere from the computer! Lol