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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 |
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| 463702 | 2006-06-16 22:48:00 | Not at work or at a friend's home, but at your own place - when did you first go online with your own computer? If you were on the Net back in the early days, what was it like? WWW, or something else? Email program? Your computer? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 463703 | 2006-06-16 22:58:00 | That was a looonnggg time ago. Um, about 1987 or 1988 or something. Bulletin boards of course, the net wasn't exactly a booming industry then.... | pctek (84) | ||
| 463704 | 2006-06-16 23:09:00 | Internet: 1994/5 World wide web: 1997 |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 463705 | 2006-06-17 01:11:00 | I just switched from bulletin boards to the intraweb this year, hah just kiddings. I left a trail of flats with two phonejacks.. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 463706 | 2006-06-17 02:24:00 | 1987 With Fidonet and my 300bps modem plugged into my SEGA SC3000 computer with a tape drive. Various bulletin boards were available where you could download shareware as well. Wow! The web was not about then but I had access to Usenet. I could even access my bank details online then too. Takes me back a bit. :-) |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 463707 | 2006-06-17 02:56:00 | Can't remember the year but I am sure it was around or before 1990. And My ISP was I-Max (I think) 24.4Kps modem to start with. Warrick |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 463708 | 2006-06-17 04:09:00 | 1987 With Fidonet and my 300bps Various bulletin boards were available where you could download shareware as well. Hah, I was more advanced - my modem was 9600. And piracy abounded on the bulletin boards too way back then. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 463709 | 2006-06-17 04:20:00 | 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 I know when we first got broadband was back in 2000 – 2001 :-D as we only had broadband a couple of months before 9/11, Good old 128/128K & free NZ data :D |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 463710 | 2006-06-17 05:08:00 | Im just a puppy ... 2001 here | Myth (110) | ||
| 463711 | 2006-06-17 06:16:00 | I think it was 1995-1996 I was around 10 years old I saw my father bought a new computer and upgraded it to a Amd k6 200mHz with 64mb ram.haha such a fast computer in those days. My father was with an ISP call voyager and he had a dynalink 28k modem. I saw my father used netscape 3.0 to go online all the time One day my dad and mum went to the supermarket .I was home alone. I was quite curious so I jumped on the computer and went online. Because I saw him all the time connecting to the internet I knew how to connect. Ah that was fun!! Went on for like 12 minutes:) Then in 1998 I think it was around there I saw the new telecom advertisment which was jetstream.I was amazed but then it was like $99 a month.So expensive. After around 2002 I believe voyager chose to closed its doors to customers so i went to join paradise .I asked one of my friend later to join paradise because Zfree disconnected it service in around 2003. I was with on a 30 hours plan for $20 with voyager.I frequently go over the limit.Used to spend like $60 for just 40 hours on voyager. Paradise was better.I was on a $20 for 20 hours.I was naughty while I was 14 i changed from a $20 for 20 hours to a $20 to 250 hours. HEHEHE:) My live story in new zealand:) |
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