your first internet connection

[necro702]

My first connection was from IceNet in 1994
cost me $38.99/month. Thats back when I
though my 520mb WD HD's were huge and
1gig harddrives were like $300. CRAZY.

 

[Anubis]

a 28.8 modem. and i connected by hacking into Bowdin Colleges internet so i didnt have to pay for it.

that was in like 97.

 

[Colt45]

first connection of my own, or first i used?

first used was some.. 33.6 i assume dial-up deal, at school

first owned was cable, i think $25 US or so /month.

 

[MikeMike]

i still use my 28.8 cuz alltel is deh suckith, and hasnt given me dsl yet!

MIKE

 

[BCYL]

Don't remember what year it was or how much I paid for it... but it was a 14.4 connection with CompuServe...

 

[notfred]

14.4 modem on a 386 connecting to Netcom.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Summer of 1998. AOL. 33.6

 

[Heisenberg]

First one I used was a 3600 baud modem connecting to the local university. Ah the days of gopher.

 

[DumbGuy]

14.4 back when I used to live in Colombia in '97

 

[Atlantean]

First time I had my own internet connection??? That was in 1996 when i was in grade 8.

 

[sohdahere]

aol
14.4
back in the day, new york city 1995

 

[crab]

14.4 on a 486 to BellAtlantic.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Compuserve back in... 97 or 98... I can't quite remember. I just remember using my buddy's account because he wasn't that "smart." Those were the days.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Peachnet Dial-Up
Free
2400 bps modem
~1993

 

[Atvar]

Mine was back in 92.

2400 bps modem
Prodigy isp.

Atvar

 

[Jugernot]

14.4modem in 1994. The connection was free through my dad's work...

 

[compudog]

First connection from my computer to another computer was a 300 baud, acoustically-coupled modem on a TI-99/4A computer connecting to a school computer, some time in '83 or '84. First connection to a BBS was a 14.4 to a local BBS in '89 (using a 386 something). Finally, when the intarweb was available in my area, I connected a 486 SLC-40 at 28.8 but was capped to 19.2. I got cable last year and will nevar go back!!

 

[isekii]

33.6 on AOL

way back when .. not too sure how much it was..

 

[Zugzwang152]

56k..which I used all the way up until I left for college 2 years ago. after college LAN goodness, i can never go back to dialup.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

28.8 modem with earthlink...then we got a 33.6...then we got a 56k and I Thought "WOW that's fast." Now I'm dsl and couldn't go back.

 

[AndrewNF]

Got on the Intarweb in 1995, in a college computer lab.

First home connection was in 1998, 33.6 with a local ISP, until I moved to DSL in 2001. Wooo.

 

[HarryAngel]

My first own personal was 28.8 modem, but at work we had 14.4 back in the days.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: necro702
My first connection was from IceNet in 1994
cost me $38.99/month. Thats back when I
though my 520mb WD HD's were huge and
1gig harddrives were like $300. CRAZY.

1994 seems about right... AOL for about 4 months, then switched to a real ISP. 14.4 modem. First web browser I used was Netscape 1.12 I think. Mosaic was around then too. Remember that stupid yellow blinking tag? Ugly. Remember the magazine The Net? I subscribed, and I was so pissed when they decided to change the name and purpose of the magazine out of the blue one month... It went from being an Internet magazine to a business magazine! (Business 2.0 is what it's called now I think)

 

[Aceshigh]

Netzero and FreeWWWeb back in 1998.

 

[Xtian]

My first connection at home was in Canada 96.
At that time I was happy with a 486DX266 with
20Mb ram and 420Mb HD.
The old US-robotics big-size internal modem
made a whopping 28.8kbps, and actually works
even today. Somehow it now runs 33.6kbps.
Had to pay $25CAD per month for that in 96.

/xtian