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Started by dps, December 25, 2009, 10:50:50 AM

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When did you first get internet access in your home?

Before 1990 (gasp!)
0 (0%)
1990-1995
21 (40.4%)
1996-1999
22 (42.3%)
2000-2003
9 (17.3%)
2004-2007
0 (0%)
2008 or 2009
0 (0%)
Still don't have it (post from work, school, etc.)
0 (0%)

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Ed Anger

#30
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 did that for awhile. I mono'ed my way on the internet for awhile.  :Embarrass:
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Barrister

#31
December 25, 2009, 06:37:31 PM
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.
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jimmy olsen

#32
December 25, 2009, 08:33:53 PM
95ish IIRC
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Caliga

#33
December 25, 2009, 08:46:16 PM
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:
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HisMajestyBOB

#34
December 25, 2009, 09:49:11 PM
Early 90s, I think. I was in elementary school.
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Eddie Teach

#35
December 25, 2009, 10:10:08 PM
 :hmm:

About '96.
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Grallon

#36
December 25, 2009, 10:13:27 PM Last Edit: December 25, 2009, 10:17:34 PM by Grallon
1991 - Gods below - my first chats on Unix, before any graphic interface!



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sbr

#37
December 25, 2009, 10:36:46 PM
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:

stjaba

#38
December 25, 2009, 11:05:52 PM
Around 94 with Prodigy. Didn't get much use out of it with a 28.8 modem and a per hour charge.

Sheilbh

#39
December 26, 2009, 12:30:56 AM
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 :)
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Syt

#40
December 26, 2009, 12:43:17 AM
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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. -_-
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Barrister

#41
December 26, 2009, 12:48:22 PM
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:
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Brazen

#42
December 26, 2009, 12:53:35 PM
Not long after I moved into my last place, so around 2001.

Camerus

#43
December 26, 2009, 07:44:08 PM
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.
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