The internet and you!

[dps]

We may have had a poll about this on the old board.  I was just wondering, based on some replies in the thread about what were the last 2 decades.

[Martinus]

2000-2003. 

[Monoriu]

95.  One of my university profs made us look for stuff from her website, for homework.  If it was school related, my parents would give it to me, no questions asked. 

[Josquius]

Second half of the 90s I guess.
Though it was very spotty with long months without access. I remember my first internet with AOL advertised as being free- what they meant was just a free ISP, when the phone bill came in at well over £100 it was a horrific shock.
I even remember at one point there was even one big computerless period where I had to go the library all the time.
The internet was a precious commodity back then, something I could only get by waking up early on the weekends and trying for a long time to dial up- there was this ISP which was utterly free off peak though it was very in demand and hard to connect to. And of course my parents didn't like the phone line taken up.
Me and my friends conned BT into installing broadband in our area in my last year of school....so about....2002 I think.

[Ed Anger]

If you count Compuserve, 80's. But I didn't, so around '96-97.

I miss the old BBS's though.

[Tamas]

about 1998 or so

[merithyn]

1995

[syk]

about 1998 or so

same

[Razgovory]

I think it was 1995, though I don't recall exactly.

[Syt]

1997 or 98.

[The Larch]

97, IIRC.

[Grey Fox]

2001

[Jacob]

I remember arguing about politics on alt.skinhead on usenet back before I graduated from high school - so I'm guessing 91 or 92.  I don't recall exactly.  I was checking out bbses too when I moved to Vancouver but they didn't do much for me.  So dial up connections probably in 92.

[Razgovory]

Never figured you for a Nazi.

[Zanza]

I think it was 1995 or maybe 1996. That's when ISDN became available here.