How long have you used the internet for?

How long have you used the internet for?

  • I'm a new user (under a year)

    Votes: 11 6.7%

  • 1-2 years

    Votes: 6 3.6%

  • 2-4 years

    Votes: 13 7.9%

  • 4-7 years

    Votes: 39 23.6%

  • 7-10 years

    Votes: 28 17.0%

  • Over 10 years

    Votes: 68 41.2%
  • Total voters
    165
Started '96. Compuserve >> Cable & Wireless briefly, AOL for six years (all on dialup) then Broadband with Zen since March 03.
 
We began back in February 2001 on dial-up; first with Freeserve, then, following a very brief dalliance with AOL (lasting for just a few months) we switched to Clara.net with whom whom we were very happy for about four years, until our recent switch to ADSL (with ADSL24 - so far, very pleased with them.)

Must have been very interesting back in those early days:nod:
 
Been using since late 1995 was with Demon.net for 2 years on a 28.8kbps Modem then went over to Tesco.net in 97 cause it was way cheaper at 2p a minute on Dial-up in those days...Could you imagine how much it would cost now if it was by the minute..

Would love to know who all these people are that reckon they been on the net for over 10 years, Got a very large majority, I think most are dreaming as the internet as we know it didn't really become mainstream until around 98-1999 before that it was only the minority that owned a PC and very few even knew what the Internet was..
 
I ticked the 10 year box, but only just :) Had a website in 1997 :D

First with UK Online (I think?) on Win95 and then AOL for a couple of years. Freeserver, then BT Internet to BT Broadband for a good long while. Now with Demon.net :thumb:
 
AOL dial up from '97, long and arduous NTL broadband relationship from 2001 to present day
 
hmmm can't seem to vote, keeps timing out on me and saying theres a VB error!?

think i've had the net about 7 or 8 years, first started on tiscali dial-up eventualy upgraded to their broadband, think we moved to plusnet a couple of years ago and now onto Be
 
Me__2001 said:
hmmm can't seem to vote, keeps timing out on me and saying theres a VB error!?
Click to expand...

What was the error you got? I'd be really grateful if you could paste it in the feedback thread and I'll check it out :thumb:
 
ok thats weird its just worked :confused:

gues you dont need to worry about it :thumb:
 
Started in 2002 with Bush TV internet . Used it to buy a secondhand pc from e-bay and used dial-up from AOL. Then AOL broadband which I still use . An I get good service from them too .

:D
 
1986 with Transend, I think it was 300 baud rate, you put your phone hand-piece in a cradle and hoped it all worked. :D

Later on I got a "proper" RS232 modem at 1400. :lol:



Oh, and I had 1k ram, later upgraded to 4k ... wow, it flew. :thumb:


:user:
 
OK Mucks, I think you win :D (unless anyone can beat that?!) ;)
 
Been on the internet about 7 years.

I use to play on my wife's old desktop computer that needed the old floppy disk to load MS DOS program. I use to play games on it. This was around 1989/1990. Then, in 2000, I use to surf the web with my old Consumer Computer WareHouse computer. It had 384Mbs of RAM with a 60 GB Hard drive. I bought it for $100.00 and had Localnet dial-up service. I also use to surf the web at work for about four years, until I broke down and bought my old computer as described above. Finally in March 2007, I came into a litle bit of money and broke down and bought myself a new laptop computer. Until my wife wanted it and so I went out and bought a desktop for $800.00 with all of the works. Like the old cigarette comercial use to say, I have come a long way!
 
20 years online

1987, I was 7 years old, and my dad set our computer up with Prodigy on a 2400 baud modem. You could make and eat dinner, take a shower, come back to the computer, and if you were lucky, the page you were trying to open would have loaded before the server gave you the boot!! The internet was nothing at all like it is now - it was basically e-mail, BBs, and one game called Maze.

Damn, I feel old now.
 
Good old old times

Before 1988 we would connect to billboards here in the states; These were file storage and sharing sites proved by computer companies. We would upload drivers mostly and I am ashamed to say so but girlie pictures (totally not porn) swim suits.....{Taino hangs head in shame}

I remember one BB was provided by Timex and another by a local computer supplier {Connecting Point, Ogden Utah}...These were totally black and white command line driven with modem spds back then at 200-300 Baud. I don't remember the years but in

circa 1988 or 1989 I was lucky to work at a school and help support their PC's and connection to Applelink one of our first ISP's.....it becomes AOL if I am not mistaken.

PC's were Apple II and IBM PC"S the ones with microchannel arch.
 
Internet vs BBS

7th November 1995 is my own internet account date, Windows 3.11 and a BETA version of Win95. Tools at the time were finger, telnet, and a (relatively) crude Netscape browser for limited surfing on 2400 to 14k4 modems.

Prior to that it was all Bulletin Board Services, log in to upload or download or chat, logoff. Next BBS - repeat. Terms like xmodem, zmodem, bimodem and more are coming back to me. All DOS stuff. On the tip of my tongue is the terminal software of choice used to connect to BBS's .... oh well, never mind.

Interesting trip through long forgotten memories of stuff that many people today will never know about.
 
In 1998 the days of compuserve with a free months trial. A free trial I would keep restarting.

A 36K US Robotics modem. Gosh I was very young then I had heard about the internet on the telly.
I would suggest I have had 10 years of an infatuation with the internet.
 
Can't really remember when we got online, but it was waaaay back in the slow times. We used to compose emails offline and then click on to send them - to save a bit of money. :o
 
I'm starting to feel old!:D
When i was at College, the best thing about a pc was that you could type out reports & work, spell check it all and print out all very neat, oh and without using tippex!!
And the network was well about 25 pc's, sneaker net was quicker though!!!
 
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