1998 I got my computer and AOhell.
2002 I got Cable internet
2004 Hubby found this website. haven't gone to a meeting since.
The Internet (what year did you first have access)
by Ri 41 Replies latest jw friends
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inkling
Hm... when was "Prodigy" and txt-only BBS?
[inkling] <----geekness started early
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no more kool aid
AOL. 1994, it was so slow, took about 10min for a picture to load.
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Gregor
AOL '95. My youngest daughter was still in H school and wanted it very badly. I stalled for a long time after we got the computer before we got the creep-up internet. I was concerned about internet predators/creeps/porn etc. and set down some strict rules. I set it up in the living room - no privacy.
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wunce_wuz
Very first experience with remote login and computer useage was the early 70's. Used a teletype an electro-mechanical typewriter basically. That was pre-commercial Internet when select universities and the military (DARPA) had very simple links.
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AnnOMaly
Early 1999 on dial-up. Wasn't it slooooow! But at the time, I thought it was the cat's pyjamas LOL. It took about a year, I think, before I ventured onto JW/JW-related discussion boards. Addicted ever since.
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coffee_black
I had access briefly about 1997, then my computer died. It was 2000 before I was online again... Been on this forum for 7 years... posted a little on the old H20
Coffee
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coffee_black
I had access briefly about 1997, then my computer died. It was 2000 before I was online again... Been on this forum for 7 years... posted a little on the old H20
Coffee
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greendawn
The internet as we know it began in late 1992 though it was slow at about 1.5kB per sec, had no graphics and required a lot of technical knowledge to operate. It was the start and there were only a few hundreds of websites. It really took off in 1994 after browsers were produced that made navigating much easier. Since then it became unrecognizable in terms of speed and performance.
I first used it in early 1997 when I bought my first PC. Using internet explorer as browser and yahoo and alta vista as search engines. At that time it was 33.6 kB dial up charged on a per minute basis on top of a monthly standing charge. I was using it mainly in the evenings after 6PM and all day on weekends when the per minute rate was very cheap. By 1999 there were providers charging just a monthly fee and free unlimited time of use.
Got onto ADSL 1MB broadband in 2002 and 10MB download / 1 MB upload cable in early 2008. And yes they do give those speeds on a constant basis until up to now.
Now speeds are going up towards 50 MB, in Japan and Korea they already have 100MB. And there are very sophisticated browsers like Firefox with lots of extensions.
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Black Sheep
I had dialup when the sharemarket crashed in 1987