Poll
Question:
When did you first get internet access in your home?
Option 1: Before 1990 (gasp!)
votes: 0
Option 2: 1990-1995
votes: 21
Option 3: 1996-1999
votes: 22
Option 4: 2000-2003
votes: 9
Option 5: 2004-2007
votes: 0
Option 6: 2008 or 2009
votes: 0
Option 7: Still don't have it (post from work, school, etc.)
votes: 0
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.
2000-2003. :blush:
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.
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.
If you count Compuserve, 80's. But I didn't, so around '96-97.
I miss the old BBS's though.
about 1998 or so
1995
I think it was 1995, though I don't recall exactly.
1997 or 98.
97, IIRC.
2001
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.
Never figured you for a Nazi.
I think it was 1995 or maybe 1996. That's when ISDN became available here.
1991 or 1992 as my mother worked for UCSD so I could dial up to their school internet.
1999 through dialup.
right in time to join the last few months of the Volition BB (Freespace eh) and become one of the older inhabitants (though by no means among the first) of the Hardlight Freespace Community.
by the end of 2000 we were on broadband
1996, when AOL was cool. :lol:
I remember when I used to pirate dial up from the local bank.
Quote from: Fate on December 25, 2009, 03:19:10 PM
1996, when AOL was cool. :lol:
Wrong, it was never cool.
Junior or senior year of high school via a BBS... so 1992 or 1993.
2000 IIRC. Pay-by-minute dialup :bleeding:
November 1998 and broadband (cable).
In 94, I was of the firm opinion that the internet was a stupid fad and that BBS should be enough for everyone. BRE FTW.
In 95, I had built my homepage and was competing with a buddy on getting hits. He won, mainly by making subsections on the xfiles, monkey island and michael jackson.
94. On AOL.
IT WAS THE ONLY THING AVAILABLE OK.
Sometime around 1992, through Delphi (it had full Usenet, email, gopher, etc.).
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 25, 2009, 05:43:20 PM
94. On AOL.
IT WAS THE ONLY THING AVAILABLE OK.
You don't have to apologize for AOL. The nerds that got aggravated over AOL needed to get laid.
Probably around 95 or so, I don't remember. Used Prodigy and BBS prior to getting real internet.
Did anybody else take those free offers of such and such time, use it, then cancel the service. Then switch to another provider and use their free offer. Rinse and repeat.
I did that for awhile. I mono'ed my way on the internet for awhile. :Embarrass:
I'm stuck trying to remember exactly what year. Probably '95 I think.
It seems like ages ago, but I also remember surfing BBSes and thinking they were the shit.
95ish IIRC
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 25, 2009, 06:28:04 PM
Did anybody else take those free offers of such and such time, use it, then cancel the service. Then switch to another provider and use their free offer. Rinse and repeat.
I thought it was impossible to actually cancel AOL back then. :sleep:
Early 90s, I think. I was in elementary school.
:hmm:
About '96.
1991 - Gods below - my first chats on Unix, before any graphic interface!
G.
When my ex-wife and I split up I moved in with my folks for a while and they had broadband, that was early '98. I didn't use it much at all, didn't see the need. As for having at my own place, that would be early '02 when the ex-wife and I moved back in together, for a short time. :bleeding:
Around 94 with Prodigy. Didn't get much use out of it with a 28.8 modem and a per hour charge.
Quote from: Razgovory on December 25, 2009, 01:25:27 PM
Never figured you for a Nazi.
The neo-Nazi stuff's only a section of skinhead culture. In the 80s there was a very strong left-wing element among skinheads. The Nazis and lefties alike shared a love for Jamaican music, I think.
Late 90s for me :)
Quote from: MadImmortal
IT WAS THE ONLY THING AVAILABLE OK.
My first ISP was Compuserve. I quickly switched to a small ISP who had a dial in node in my home town to reduce phone costs. Not that it helped my phone bill much. -_-
Quote from: Grallon on December 25, 2009, 10:13:27 PM
1991 - Gods below - my first chats on Unix, before any graphic interface!
G.
The question was for internet at home. I think I was first on the internet at all in 1992 - I remember back then you had to be in 3rd year university, or in one of some particular classes to get UNIX accounts (I took stats and was in 1st year). :nerd:
Not long after I moved into my last place, so around 2001.
1996, on a laptop so shitty, I had to constantly push in the power cable with my leg at all times, or it would suddenly turn off. It was AOL. Fun times.
early 90's 93-4 maybe. that's when I got email. i recall 14.4 being all we had.
'98 or '99, because I remember having the computer hooked up in the dining room before we moved in fall of '99.