The Internet (what year did you first have access)

by Ri 41 Replies latest jw friends

  • Ri
    Ri

    I first had access to the Internet in 1994. I thought it was amazing all the information at my fingertips. I have no idea what search engine I used before google.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    2000 at school where I discovered e-mail and 2001 at home.

  • Ri
    Ri

    I didn't use the Internet to often as you were charged by the minute on dail-up....Then AOL started charging $19.95 a month for dail-up access about the year 1995 0r 96 and the Internet took off like a rocket. Bill Gates windows also helped in that regard also.

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    1997

  • asilentone
    asilentone

    I got my first internet service about in 1994, but it was so sloooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww, I cancelled it in a month!, few years later like 1998, the speed connection was better, so I got internet again at home, I am internet addict since 1998.

  • Ri
    Ri

    OH god yes ...slowwwwwwwwwwww slowwwwwwwww slowwwwwww....most of the time I couldn't get online.

    I can still remember the sound of AOL trying to get online....

  • SnakesInTheTower
    SnakesInTheTower

    around 1983 I think...Compuserve (or was that CI$). I got on at an amazing 300 baud (today's dialup is 56,000 baud). I think compuserve classic is still available through AOL.

    I was also on Prodigy when it was a mere BBB in the mid 90s. It is now a very tiny unit of AT&T (aka SBC). However, Prodigy is huge in Mexico.

    I got on Juno when it was Beta email only. I have been using it since 1998....I still use the offline reader but if I want juno email free I have to switch to web only. I like the offline reader. I could switch to their paid email but never have. So I pay $10/mo for juno premium dialup as a backup internet connection.

    Currently I use ATT uVerse but only at 1MB broadband. I wish I could afford to move up...

    my how things have changed. The local cable company is now offering 60 MB upload/5 MB download. (or is that GB, I forget...its fast)

    Snakes ()

  • LockedChaos
    LockedChaos

    I think it was around 1984 or so

    I had just read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

    and it sparked my interest

    I got on to Usenet and found some interesting

    groups and I took off from there

    Been plugging away ever since

  • wizardca
    wizardca

    '94 at school. Then in 97got AOHell.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    The same year I joined JWD............................;-)...OUTLAW

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