As in the case of telephone communication, subscribers pay per minute, awesome online services are provided at separate daytime and evening/weekend hours rates. Service providers provided only through The Internet, like uunet, the pipeline, panix, netcom, the world, earthlink and mindspring, did not provide their own content, focusing their energy on simplifying for non-technical users the installation of various software, necessary for "exit to network", before consumer operating systems went out of control. box.