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when did you first get online?
- Thread starter bigc
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ManxSeagull
NSC Creator
Summer 1996
Very slow 14.4 connection, unlike the broadband I have now.
Although I wish sometimes it was even quicker !!
Very slow 14.4 connection, unlike the broadband I have now.
Although I wish sometimes it was even quicker !!
At work, I've been on all sorts of experimental inter-networks since 1984, at home on the Internet since 1997.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
1995
Sorrel
Well-known member
Decemeber 1995 when I first started working for Ericsson in Burgess Hill.
north stand falmer
Banned
Been on the internet since the winter of 1999.
56k modem which is naff. Got broadband and been paying for it for the last 7 months but sill haven't set it up. Just can't be arsed.
I should do really as I've been through 6 keyboards due to anger with the time it takes to open web pages and downloads, uploading things
Gouranga
56k modem which is naff. Got broadband and been paying for it for the last 7 months but sill haven't set it up. Just can't be arsed.
I should do really as I've been through 6 keyboards due to anger with the time it takes to open web pages and downloads, uploading things
Gouranga
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Probably 1993, when I first went to college. Very slow in those days.
Today, I have broadband. And due to the wi-fi network in my house I'm writing this on a laptop whilst slouched in front of the TV in my living room. Technology, gotta love it!!
Today, I have broadband. And due to the wi-fi network in my house I'm writing this on a laptop whilst slouched in front of the TV in my living room. Technology, gotta love it!!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Around 2000 home but 1997 at work.
Bad Ash
Unregistered User
I think it was 1996 at college (connection varied from fast a f*ck to slow as hell - usually the latter) and 1997 at home (33.6k modem).
Makes me a semi-vet
Makes me a semi-vet
Online to what? To the Internet, it was about 1990/1991 when you needed a heap of Unix commands to ftp something from a host.
About the same time, I got a Compuserve account.
But I had an email address and connection to BT Gold in 1987. I think that was through a 9600bps modem (although it might have been 14.4k). I remember it took the best part of a day to connect a modem to a PC though.
About the same time, I got a Compuserve account.
But I had an email address and connection to BT Gold in 1987. I think that was through a 9600bps modem (although it might have been 14.4k). I remember it took the best part of a day to connect a modem to a PC though.
bhaexpress
New member
Depends what you mean by 'online'. Technically I first got online in 1973 on a 300 baud modem.
Shizuoka Dolphin
NSC M0DERATOR
At Park College, Eastbourne, circa 1996.
First site I ever went on? A Gabriela Sabatini fan site. And I'm not ashamed to admit it!
First site I ever went on? A Gabriela Sabatini fan site. And I'm not ashamed to admit it!
bhaexpress
New member
On reflection I first accessed the Internet in May 1993 using a 486 PC running WIndows 3.11.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
What a load of geeks 
Jerryatric
Active member
Does this count?
I was attached by a 150bps accoustic-coupled modem from Copenhagen (where I was living and working at the time) in early 1967!
I was part of a team writing software for Gulf Oil to integrate all the European countries.
Beat that if you can.
I was attached by a 150bps accoustic-coupled modem from Copenhagen (where I was living and working at the time) in early 1967!
I was part of a team writing software for Gulf Oil to integrate all the European countries.
Beat that if you can.
cheshunt seagull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
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I first started using online services in 87, dial-up services like Data Star and Dialog which charged you per minute and for any content you printed or downloaded. First used with Internet at work in about 93/94 and started looking at NSC in 97. Didn't get online at home until 99.