Our first computer came home in 1986. We have had a number since, but I never looked up anything "bad" on the internet.
After I read C of C by Ray Franz, I was out of JW's. That was 2 years 2 months ago.
I made a major house move, got settled in and was looking up public records on Ancestry.com concerning the 1940 US Census.
I looked up 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Bethel.
Finding 70 year old Rutherford there, I decided to collect all of his public records.
And what did I find???
I was flabbergasted to see what old "Judge" Joe Rutherford had been up to.
Not only was he a con man, and a drunkard, but he was an adulterer, too. For many years.
If I hadn't read Ray's book, this would have done it for me.
I was on my own "Blues Brother's"... mission from God, to look up all the public info I could on this "worldly man" posing not just as a JW, but as President of all JW's and his JW girlfriend Bonnie Boyd Heath.
My Nancy Drew sluething had to have an outlet. I had to let other JW's know what a phony Rutherford was!
So I got on the Internet. I don't remember what I looked at first or what I had typed in. But soon, I settled on JWN. It had Leolaia and Blondie on it. I felt I was in the right place.
So to answer your OP, not even 2 years. ( 1year 9 months)
LoisLane