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| Thread ID: 69933 | 2006-06-16 22:48:00 | When did you 1st go online at home? | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 463712 | 2006-06-17 06:18:00 | November 1995 with the long departed Voyager ISP.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 463713 | 2006-06-17 07:19:00 | I took a guess, and said 10 years ago, it may have been 9, or 11, i'm not really sure...... I connected with IHUG Dial up, had my flatmates in my room constantly using the new toy, and yeah.... find it funny what i excepted as fast enough way back then. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 463714 | 2006-06-17 10:13:00 | I can’t remember when I first went online, but one of our/my oldest bookmarks is from 1994 I think?? So I think it was around 1994 – 1995/96 I first went online That was with I think Clear net & Xtra, then to Freenet / zfree (We still have a freenet account which we use for website testing/ backup in case our ADSL goes down. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 463715 | 2006-06-17 10:36:00 | on the internet in 1992, dial in at 1200BPS, unix interface, pine for email and gopher for most other things, this was from a C64, then with a 386Sx25 for time dialed in to BBS??? that would be about 1989 |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 463716 | 2006-06-18 10:20:00 | About 3pm this afternoon after I reinstalled Windows 20 times. 1980's sometime was when I first knew about the 'net'... lived with a guy who was a geek programmer. He seemed to think it would become something better than sex (but maybe not drugs). I guess the jury's out on that one... anyway the drugs got him first. :rolleyes: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 463717 | 2006-06-18 13:20:00 | Not at work or at a friend's home, but at your own place - when did you first go online with your own computer? Relatively late - '98-'99. That's when ZFree - the free ISP - turned up. I think this was Annette Priestley's first ISP(?). If you were on the Net back in the early days, what was it like? WWW, or something else?[QUOTE=Steve_L] The pre-Google days. I would hang out mostly at Hotmail and Yahoo Messenger, then later at TradeMe, newspaper sites, business sites... Post-Google, the internet seems a lot bigger and more varied. [QUOTE=Steve_L]Email program? Webmail and OutlookExplorer, until Yahoo no longer offered free POP. Your computer? First I ever bought was a 2nd hand AMD 500MHz machine (remember the Super 7 socket?) with Windows 98. Heard about Linux soon after and tried RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware and Corel. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 463718 | 2006-06-18 15:05:00 | Didn't Zfree belong to Clear? So it has nothing to do with Annette Priestley? |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 463719 | 2006-06-18 18:45:00 | Annette Presley started i4Free. | Laura (43) | ||
| 463720 | 2006-06-18 22:50:00 | Seems like the majority of people got on the internet in 1998-1999 . I wonder if that is because Windows 98 made it a whole lot easier to get connected, or whether most new computers around then had modems preinstalled or whether it is due to the free internet that started up then? I'm picking the latter . And when the free access finally ended I bet very few people didn't sign up with a paid ISP to get their internet fix . :p It's a pity you didn't make the poll public, Steve . Would have made it even more interesting . ;) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 463721 | 2006-06-18 22:58:00 | It's a pity you didn't make the poll public, Steve. Would have made it even more interesting. ;) yep, you have a point there FoxyMX :) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
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