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

[Juno]

aol on 14.4k in '96 (i was 12.)

 

[PepePeru]

1997

 

[mugs]

1993 or 1994 I think? I was in 8th grade IIRC. I know it was before high school. 14.4 kbps modem. Started on AOL (at the time they offered FTP, Gopher, I think Usenet... I think they added HTTP at some point after I joined. Was with them for less than a year, then moved to a real ISP.

 

[FoBoT]

i think i have a AOL 2.0 floopy disk in a box somewhere

 

[Muadib]

I first got on the internet when I upgraded to OS/2 Warp back in 96. I was on GEnie before that at a blazing 9600 baud rate. BBS boards were before that, 2400 baud boards were hot then.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Muadib
I was on GEnie before that ...

oh yeah, i used that before AOL

 

[revnja]

1993. I started out using AT&T loopback numbers to dial into BBSes.

The year after that I got a shiny new 28.8 modem, and things went uphill from there.

 

[DrPizza]

My 1982 is supposed to be a 1985

 

[hanoverphist]

i officially got online in 95, but had been online at a friends house bak in the late 80s. his dad worked for the az republic reviewing new computers and business systems/ software so his house had all the toys. we also used to bbs bak in hs, 84 to 87. 95 was when i got my first pc.

 

[Anubis]

95 or 96, 14.4 modem, windows 3.1 WOO WOO

 

[akshatp]

1988 Tandy PCLink service..

300bps modem FTL

 

[indamixx99]

I believe it was 1994 for me using good 'ol Prodigy on my pizzabox Mac at 2400bps. I think prior to then I was dialing into BBS'es found from listings in the Recycler newspaper.

 

[Rage187]

Prodigy back in ol' 1990

 

[IronWing]

1989, mainframe connected to Usenet. BBS connection ~1983 via Kaypro.

 

[lupi]

I still remember how sweet it was to upgrade to 14.4 from 2400.

 

[RossMAN]

1994

120 hours dialup, $18 per month, only IRC, PINE and Gopher.

Then came Mosaic, ICQ, etc.

 

[jadinolf]

The Internet as we know it= 1995 on (gag) AOL.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: lupi
I still remember how sweet it was to upgrade to 14.4 from 2400.

Try 300 like my Model 100 had.

 

[Tiamat]

1998, I was in 10th grade. Up until then we only had email through Juno and coasted on 3 month free dialup CDs. Converted parents to DSL 2years ago.

Wow, nice distribution centered around 1995!

 

[spidey07]

1988 - college.

Newsgroups, chat, etc.

 

[alkemyst]

1986ish through various X25 and tymnet networks. There were a few places to chat (altgiers, tchh, Lutzifer).

 

[KK]

when was the first time you could put www.xxxxxxxx.com in an address bar of some sort and get out? I was on AOL and compuserve back several years before 93 but I don't relate that to the internet. BBS's weren't the internet.

 

[Megatomic]

1994 for me.

 

[slsmnaz]

1993 in my freshman year in college. Bought a 14.4 modem (for a pretty penny!) and was one of the 1st to have a connection.

 

[ed21x]

5th grade back when I was relying on free Banner-based ISPs and those hacking programs that disabled those ads (1995). ahh... good times I had to rely on dialup all the way until college started in 2001 because my parents never wanted to pay for it. In retrospect, the constant struggle to maintain a free internet that wasn't AOL and had no ads was what taught me to be proficient in computers. The sky openned up in berkeley when I was hit with a t3 connection, and all hell broke loose