I'm going to say I first signed up with Pipeline as my internet provider back in '95, I believe. I used to call into BBS's all the time for 5-6 years before that, though.
hmm, it was a 14.4 modem, def windows 95, i'd say maybe 9 or 10 years. It's going to be over half my life very soon 
mrSHEiK124
Lifer
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Pretty sure it was in 1999 or 2000, I completely ignored 56k and went straight for the Road Runner
I remember my first experience with the www (which is what most of us are probably talking about, the Internet has been around for a lot longer) like it was yesterday.
[old man voice]
It was the fall of 1994. I was a freshman living away from home for the first time in my life. Our university had just opened a brand spanking new computer lab in my dormitory with a mix of 486s and these shiny, ultra-slick "Pentium" computers - which some bastards apparently lived on as they were occupied 24 hours a day.
Now up to that point, most of us just used our computers for playing Zork and Doom and typing out papers. But a buzz quickly began to make its way through the dorm to the wonders and promise of this new program called Netscape. We quickly hurried down to the computer lab and made our way to a seat. And within minutes we joined the sole activity of every other computer in the rest of the lab as images of a nude Pamela Anderson were slowly rendered across our screen. As the last generation to ever have to earn your early glimpses of nudies the hard way (i.e., finding your dad's Playboy stash) we knew we had now reached the promised land.
[/old man voice]
[old man voice]
It was the fall of 1994. I was a freshman living away from home for the first time in my life. Our university had just opened a brand spanking new computer lab in my dormitory with a mix of 486s and these shiny, ultra-slick "Pentium" computers - which some bastards apparently lived on as they were occupied 24 hours a day.
Now up to that point, most of us just used our computers for playing Zork and Doom and typing out papers. But a buzz quickly began to make its way through the dorm to the wonders and promise of this new program called Netscape. We quickly hurried down to the computer lab and made our way to a seat. And within minutes we joined the sole activity of every other computer in the rest of the lab as images of a nude Pamela Anderson were slowly rendered across our screen. As the last generation to ever have to earn your early glimpses of nudies the hard way (i.e., finding your dad's Playboy stash) we knew we had now reached the promised land.
[/old man voice]
Hail The Brain Slug
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17 now, and over 10 years. The earliest I can remember is playing the Meridian 59 beta in 1996, but I'm sure I used the internet before that.
late 94/early 95...
true story: I was playing Decent and needed a screen name....(this is in early 1995)...I looked at a poster for birds of prey behind my computer on the wall. I saw a cool looking name 'Accipiter Striatus' (Sharp-Shinned Hawk)...and thought 'hmmm Accipiter...that's cool'. And thus the legend began. I would post my first YAGT on a bbs about 3 days later. (jk about that part)
true story: I was playing Decent and needed a screen name....(this is in early 1995)...I looked at a poster for birds of prey behind my computer on the wall. I saw a cool looking name 'Accipiter Striatus' (Sharp-Shinned Hawk)...and thought 'hmmm Accipiter...that's cool'. And thus the legend began. I would post my first YAGT on a bbs about 3 days later. (jk about that part)
I remember establishing an ARPANET address back when I was setting up one of my companies back in the early 70's. Not as easy as getting a web address today.
We weren't supposed to transmit anything trivial or un-work-related. We still managed to pass games/jokes/gossip back and forth, etc. Had to be creative.
We weren't supposed to transmit anything trivial or un-work-related. We still managed to pass games/jokes/gossip back and forth, etc. Had to be creative.
I started back in 1995 or so. Prodigy, Compuserve, Modem commands, BBS', lynx, pine, and Netscape FTW.
Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
Um... how long has the internet been around? Take like a year off that.
Since the dept of defense invented it in the '60s?
ugh since 1998? but first time was in middle school then when i finally gotmy own my internet was like Bluelight ( free kmart internet LOL), Netzero (when it was free), aol , Verizon DSL , cavtel Broadband, Comcast broadband, Now im back on Verizon DSL...
mugs
Lifer
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Hah... only on Anandtech would the poll results look like this.
10+ years for me too. After 6 months of paying long distance fees for AOL (which didn't suck back then) we found a real ISP with a local access number.
I was in eight grade, I was the only person who used it (or knew how to use it), so I paid the bill.
10+ years for me too. After 6 months of paying long distance fees for AOL (which didn't suck back then) we found a real ISP with a local access number.
I was in eight grade, I was the only person who used it (or knew how to use it), so I paid the bill.
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