I feel you. Already quite some years into the age of DSL I was hospitalized. I needed to stay there for a couple of weeks and had my parents bring my laptop. There was no WiFi or anything. Then I that my laptop had a dial-up socket and also say the telephone on my night table. I introduced the two and managed to get online for the rest of my stay. I used it sparsely because I knew it would cost money.

When fired from the hospital my mother was very happy I survived everything but she looked also very angry. I was very confused. Only found out later that the phone line was really at a premium and racked up, converted, a 2000 euro bill.