When did you first get an internet connection at home?

[kyro_02]

first computer i ever owned, was when i was.. i think 14... it was a 386... next year... i earned myself a 486 or whatever it was.... computers from school...

i first bought myself a computer, it was a 400mhz, than upgraded to a 500mhz... was great at the time... but now-a-days i laugh at the fact i ever touched a 400/500 mhz :(

i then went to a 800, than 1200mhz, 3200mhz, 3800mhz .... now i've down graded to a 400mhz , until i build myself another computer ;)

Originally Posted by GasOLane

Does anybody in here remember 'Viatel". Waay before the 'Internet' kicked in, back in about 1990, I think.

I used Viatel and in 1988 I booked my rooms in Brisbane for the expo.
The hotel manager rang me to make sure it was above board.
My first computer was an Amiga 1000. No HDD only floppies and I was big time with 2 floppy drives the second drive was stand alone and cost $600.00
: : :

[Bucknaked]

96 on a 56k modem. Bigpond account. 35 hours were $50 per month

[punkin]

I remember writing pages in HTML1 and Netscape 1. I had my first internet connection in the uk.

I remember playing online gaming over a 14.4 and thinking "wow this is fast!"

[uranium_death]

Got Dingo Blue dial-up in 2000. 3 gig downloads for 50 bucks a month. Then it was halved to 1.5 a month. Brother used 1.2 in a week, then told me to go easy on the downloads!

He then told my Dad to get cable, so we did in 2001.
Never looked back.

I screwed myself in year 12 by playing Counterstrike and Day of Defeat instead of working on what I should have been...my future!

[uranium_death]

We were using a 28.8 modem as early as 1994 connecting to bulletin boards and all that crap. Playing Doom 2 as an 11 year old was orgasmic. Best gaming experience ever.

[ORSMEB]

Lol! I only got it last month! First time ever. Didn't muck around with dial up and that rubbish...went straight to cable!

[data_mine]

'91 or '92 started with a 2400baud modem and BBSs, got tired of that quickly, and found a SLIP shell provider.

[Bucket]

I've Just moved house and am now less than a 1Km from the exchange... 17Mb Down, 1Mb up :-D

[qwigybo]

1993 for us dad used to build computers etc so.. he ventured into this new technology haha. took about 5 mins to connect and cost about $2 p/minute
only just converted him to adsl about a month ago, he refused to get it so i had it connected and networked, after i left they went back to 56k until he realised how slow it actually was haha

[xr8man83]

i like how you said that your a hard core geek if you had one before 94 that is true but a geeky thing to say :

[xurbanx]

I started mine in 2000 when I was in year 8. The connection speed varied between 14.4kb and 28.8kbps.

[XRchic]

Well just tonight I have set up our brand new ADSL2 connection. We dont have ADSL2 quite yet, but we will be migrated soon. Currently the speed is only 998kbps, but compared to the 50 we had yesterday on dial-up, its pretty good!

With Internode. VERY friendly help-desk people I might add!

[knighto42]

I had mine about 1997. Being out in the sticks (Camden - at the time was out in the sticks) I had to call STD to dial in. Needless to say it lasted a couple of months of huge phone bills and got the flick.

XRchic - I've got ADSL2 at work and it's goooooood! Agreed aswell that Internode are good - I love the call-back feature if you're on hold for too long... beats listening to hold music.

[aussiblue]

300 Baud Beemodem in the early 80's with a 32K Microbee using BBS like OMEN II and Telstra's Videotex based Viatel. In the late 70's I built my own miniscamp look alike thing that I never got working - it just had switches and lights on the front panel and no screen or keyboard (I later found it had a dud CPU chip). Then I bought a Sinclair ZX 81 in 1981 ($600 for a 16kb machine) before moving on to various Microbees (I still have a shed full of Microbees).

[snortycorty]

We got the internet in 2000 when the folks bought a brand new computer. (used to have one of the old mac computers before that, it didnt even have a mouse!)

[bob 351]

shouldve included 2006.

[Ryan]

Um I believe it was 95/96.

[HOON69]

2000-2001 was a paranoid freak when the 2000 bug was talked about : so i waited :P

[XR8-260]

Lol at the guys who got internet in 2005.

[XR8-260]

What was the internet speed when it was first made available? i.e 56K etc...

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by 30487256

What was the internet speed when it was first made available? i.e 56K etc...

Depends....

My first access to it (way back when) was via a BBS that converted to an ISP for $60 a year. It was dial up at 9600. They had 6 inbound telephone lines and 1 outbound telephone line of 9600 also to APANA (there is the history lesson if you want to google it).

$60 a year got me unlimited connections, at 1 hour each, with mail (pine), IRC (ircII), newsgroups (tin), remote access (telnet) and web/gopher (lynx).

All command line, nooooo guis.

However the 'commerical' providers at the time, such as CompuServe or OzEmail that their own network of content and access to the internet. Far more expensive, and not a lot faster, with not much more content. $5 an hour sort of thing.