When did you first get on the internet?

[Vod]

For me it was early 1995.  (Can anyone beat that?)

I was using OS2/Warp on Windows 3.1

With every purchase of OS/2 they gave you an ibm.net email address.

Back then the WWW was in it's infancy, with most pages just being text.  

Before 1995 I used to log into homemade BBS systems.

 

[Mr Tea]

I'm not even sure though I don't think I'm as old as you. I remember being one of the first people in my primary school to get a computer though and felt pretty special  . Just used it to play games and do my homework on it though. It was a long time after that that internet became popular however.

[Josef27]

Around 2006-2008 on Windows XP SP3 (Or 2?) while using old pentium PC, and it makes my internet slow as hell too.
Maybe I'm born too late

[AmDD]

1999-2000 I think. I would have been 12-13 at the time. The system was an HP (families first computer) with a 466 Celeron, 256MB ram, a 20GB hard drive and a 56k soft modem. We would dial up at a blistering speed of 28.8kbps and on a good day, 32kbps. At some point I came across a hardware modem and using that I was able to get up to 46-48kbps.

Those were the days...

[Vod]

1999-2000 I think. I would have been 12-13 at the time. The system was an HP (families first computer) with a 466 Celeron, 256MB ram, a 20GB hard drive and a 56k soft modem. We would dial up at a blistering speed of 28.8kbps and on a good day, 32kbps. At some point I came across a hardware modem and using that I was able to get up to 46-48kbps.

Those were the days...

A 486 Celeron - those were the ones without the math co-processors, right?.  Future Shop (the US know them as Best Buy) wanted an extra $500 for the stupid math co-processor to make it a DX instead of an SX.  Remember those terms?  lol

56k was the fastest dial up speed back then - created using a 28.8k modem and data compression!  

So far 1995 is the year to beat!  

[goodguyed]

Yeah, the 486DX was the first Celeron to have co math processors.

I was on a friend's computer a few times that was online in 1995, but I am not sure that counts. I had my first computer with internet access in 1996, a 386 that I got more than my money (or should I say my parents' money) out of playing Quake online on a 14.4 modem. The constant 600 ping made it feel like a skating rink. Before that, frequented several local bulletin board systems (BBS). One of them had 8 nodes that could be used at once, and we could play 8-man Duke Nukem 3D or 4-man Doom2, etc. It was the best gaming experience I've ever had.

First computer we had was a 286. If I remember correctly, it was 16 mhz but the Turbo button could jump it up to 33 mhz. Don't quote me on those numbers  

[bitbunnny]

2000, i think

[hmblm1245]

Around that time 95 i guess. 286/386. Was using Erols at the time. I remember my sister getting annoyed with me hogging the phone line all the time. .

[financetalks]

For me it was early 1995.  (Can anyone beat that?)

I was using OS2/Warp on Windows 3.1

With every purchase of OS/2 they gave you an ibm.net email address.

Back then the WWW was in it's infancy, with most pages just being text.  

Before 1995 I used to log into homemade BBS systems.

 

I thought I should beat you a bit. For me I started since 1993 approx.

At that time I was mainly using unix and Windows 3.1 machines to access the internet, but the connection speed was very slow of course. 

[caskey4521]

Me, I first use computer on year 2002 on my school. We cannot afford to buy a computer during that time. This is also my first experience using the internet. I still remember my first search on internet explorer. I search the word "pussy".

[Pentax]

For me it was early 1995.  (Can anyone beat that?)

I was using OS2/Warp on Windows 3.1

With every purchase of OS/2 they gave you an ibm.net email address.

Back then the WWW was in it's infancy, with most pages just being text.  

Before 1995 I used to log into homemade BBS systems.

 

Yep.  Was using the net using an early version of Dos, and some crappy modem (bing, bang bong!  scrrrrrrrr) and dialing into usenet.

I want to say mid 80's, maybe early 90's.

ETA:  Maybe first total internet experience, was CompuServe, whenever that came out.

[AmDD]

1999-2000 I think. I would have been 12-13 at the time. The system was an HP (families first computer) with a 466 Celeron, 256MB ram, a 20GB hard drive and a 56k soft modem. We would dial up at a blistering speed of 28.8kbps and on a good day, 32kbps. At some point I came across a hardware modem and using that I was able to get up to 46-48kbps.

Those were the days...

A 486 Celeron - those were the ones without the math co-processors, right?.  Future Shop (the US know them as Best Buy) wanted an extra $500 for the stupid math co-processor to make it a DX instead of an SX.  Remember those terms?  lol

56k was the fastest dial up speed back then - created using a 28.8k modem and data compression!  

So far 1995 is the year to beat!  

Err, 466 was the speed, not model - my bad. http://ark.intel.com/products/42097/Intel-Celeron-Processor-466-MHz-128K-Cache-66-MHz-FSB

I remember reading about people who would take multiple phone lines and modems and combine them to get faster connections. I always dreamed about doing that haha. It was probably around 2003-2005 when broadband starting to come into our area. My had a good friend at the local cable company (now Comcast). He gave us one of their test modems to use for a few months while they setup the network. It was uncapped and would hit 10mbps!! I had faster internet than anyone i knew at the time. After testing they knocked it down to 2-3mb i think.

[Jawguy]

I definitely cannot beat it.  I used a computer in 1995 but I didn't get on the internet until waay after my dad stopped our subscription to Prodigy message boards. 

[mirana12345]

98' , telephone line and external us robotics 56k modem, which due to sucky line pulled only about 3 kb/s.
30 min per song download .. and starcraft ...

[Buffer Overflow]

Early 2000's I think. Windows 98 PC. 56K dial-up.

[saddampbuh]

whenever broadband had just came out in the uk

[Buffer Overflow]

For me it was early 1995.  (Can anyone beat that?)

How you must wish you'd registered "sex.com" domain name. (As well as many others.)

[BitcoinBuff]

I think around 1999-2000, when I was 15-16yo. Dialup was so much fun

[ThatCoolKitty]

Meow! I was born with the knowledge of internet from past ages. Meow! Nobody cant stop us. Meow! We will dominate the world. Meow!

[hmblm1245]

For me it was early 1995.  (Can anyone beat that?)

How you must wish you'd registered "sex.com" domain name. (As well as many others.)

Or http://www.nissan.com/ the computer company Wait...what? Still is N I S S A N   C O M P U T E R