Sign up with ISP, fill out phone number & info into modem settings, click connect, wait, use ISPs server space they provided for free to each customer. Done?
In many ways I find that easier than dealing with cable companies and their systems.
A basic internet connection was easier in some ways. There were disks with free hours all over the place. And hosting wasn't hard. Tripod, Geocities, Angelfire, ISP-provided hosting were all available, and easy enough for me to figure out when I was 10 years old. I had a few sites up on Geocities in the mid-to-late 90s.
