POLL: What year did you first get connected to the internet?

[Paktu]

I remember being in 2nd grade, so it would have been about 1994. IIRC, it was a 14.4kbps connection from Netcom Communications.

 

[waggy]

91 or so?


i was still in highschool at the time. I do remember having to use the phone cradle! heh

 

[legoman666]

93, i was in first grade.

 

[Dirigible]

1990 was my first internet connection, and first use of email. My dorm room at college was wired. I directly dialed into bbs-es years before that.

 

[PingSpike]

It was either 1995 or 1996. I really have no idea which. I had a 14.4 modem since my computer was a packard bell cheap ass special. Honestly, it was a fucking blast enough with that shitty connection. God web pages were stupid looking back then.

 

[Leros]

14.4 Kbps from Prodigy back in 1996.

 

[Hyperblaze]

2400 in 1994 I believe.

Kinda hard to tell. I definitely was in college. Took me a while to get away from BBS.

 

[JulesMaximus]

1994

 

[lupi]

88 I think, good ole 2400bps.

 

[clamum]

1994... 9600 bps modem.

 

[Rastus]

1985. 300bps FTL. It was $12/hour to connect to compuserve at that time so it was nothing but an expensive time waster. I would save up to download a program that usually would crash halfway through and have to start over.

Hard drive crashes in those days meant about an hour and a half low level format followed by another hour and a half high level format.

 

[Daishiki]

1998, 14.4 modem with AOHell.

 

[Jugernot]

1994, in 8th grade was the first time I ever used it.... though I do remember my mom talking about sending a letter to someone on her computer at work and them getting it instantly around 1991. Of course she probably didn't know how it worked and didn't care.

 

[konakona]

T1 in 97. hell yeah it was sweet

 

[CorCentral]

1994
28.8 external Us Robotics modem
Pent 166 w/64mb ram
4mb vram Diamond Stealth 64 video card (expensive back in the day)
17" Panasonic CRT
**notes**..... Ram was $20.-$25. per MB back then!

When everything was fresh and you had no worries about web surfing (for the most part anyway)

EDIT--- I remember playing stonekeep (my first RP type Game)

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Roger's cable modem in '97. Broadband FTW! :thumbsup:

 

[xdreadpiratedoug]

91 for me as well, except I was 8 years old. We didn't have the phone cradle thing, and I believe it was the Juno dial-up. My step-mom was explaining it to me, about email her friend in Colorado - I was kinda like, how long does this take?! I also remembering the first website I looked at was the Coke website, I believe. It's been about 16 years, so forgive me if I forget heh.

 

[tfinch2]

Whenever AOL 2.5 was the current version.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

24/7 connection at home: 2002

I was in Saudi Arabia until 1998 and it was ridiculously expensive back then; almost nobody I knew had an Internet connection (at home) and school was still in the planning phase of providing Internet access to students. I moved to India in '98 and we got a dial-up connection in '99 for a month - my Dad got mighty pissed with the telephone bill so that went and Internet cafes were where it was at. A 24/7 connection at home didn't happen until '02.

I have a question: exactly when did it become strange/weird to not have an e-mail address? Out here, it was somewhere around 2000 when people would start giving you a strange look if you didn't have an e-mail address.

 

[O2Deprived]

I got it for myself after I moved out in '96, but I remember using a 300 baud modem years before that using a program called PFS First Choice (don't know why that sticks in my head).

 

[miri]

1995, used to play Command & Conquer on the concentric networks game connection, very very fun

 

[iamwiz82]

I remember this login screen

EDIT: Ugh... The colon is throwing off the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagerodigy_Sign_In_Screen.png

EDIT2: No love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:

Prodigy_Sign_In_Screen.png

Put those two lines together.

 

[foghorn67]

haha. This reminded me of Prodigy, Compuserve and some other one, I forgot.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
haha. This reminded me of Prodigy, Compuserve and some other one, I forgot.

I had early Netcom account, back in '88.

 

[FeuerFrei]

My first time on the internet was whatever year it was that my college's computer lab got hooked up - 1994 or 1995.

I got my first computer on Jan 1, 1996 and it was that summer of '96 I first connected my computer to the internet - before my last year of college.