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re: When Did You First Get Internet In Your Home?
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
1996
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Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:46 pm to SG_Geaux
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We had a Commodore 64 300 Baud Modem back in the day.
Day Zero
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I think some people shunned the internet out of ignorance.
IN the early days of consumer use of internet people listened to what the media said about how risky it was to use. Conventional media wanted to paint internet in the most negative light possible because they knew that (eventually) it would mean the end of their total control of information to the general public.
IN the early days of consumer use of internet people listened to what the media said about how risky it was to use. Conventional media wanted to paint internet in the most negative light possible because they knew that (eventually) it would mean the end of their total control of information to the general public.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Late 1990s...maybe 1997 or so. Dial up.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My first use of internet was using VMS on a DEC VAX at NLU.
It was non graphical and almost command line.
But damn it was cool.
It was non graphical and almost command line.
But damn it was cool.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
A friend of mine growing up...his parents had some form of it in 1986. I got it in 1995. Used to hit up the Excite search engine.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:53 pm to Colonel Angus
Probably compuserve. It was basically like an online encyclopedia.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:54 pm to fallguy_1978
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I think that was it. There were chatrooms, tho. We logged into one and started talking to some weirdo one night. Never forgot that
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Probably compuserve. It was basically like an online encyclopedia.
I think that was it. There were chatrooms, tho. We logged into one and started talking to some weirdo one night. Never forgot that
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:54 pm to Colonel Angus
95. 28.8k dial up.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 3:58 pm to Colonel Angus
Yahoo chat rooms came out when I was a freshman or sophomore at LSU. It wasn't really big at the local level. We still mostly went to bars to meet girls.
I did end up dating a girl that I met on there that went to Southern Miss for a few months though.
I did end up dating a girl that I met on there that went to Southern Miss for a few months though.
Posted on 8/12/20 at 4:12 pm to tigersownall
Home internet in 1995. However I was on the real internet in late 80's - when you had to really work hard to attach. Nothing like pulling ethernet and configuring TCPIP just to get a connection 
Posted on 8/12/20 at 4:13 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Dial up and logging into Bulletin Boards around 1995. I do remember in 1981 a reporter interviewed me....I was a tack star in high school. He typed his article into a laptop like device and then transmitted it to the newspaper sports editor by connecting the telephone line to the laptop like device. It was all very strange to me.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 8/12/20 at 4:18 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 8/12/20 at 4:54 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Prodigy internet in 97...dial up of course. 
Posted on 8/12/20 at 5:04 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Never had internet while I still lived at home. They installed internet in 2006
Posted on 8/12/20 at 5:05 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was 93-94
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:41 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It was either 1997 or 1998. Signed up with BellSouth through some small business run by a guy and his wife. I still have that email address that I chose when his wife came with the paperwork.
Actually, my first experience connecting to the "internet" was with Prodigy in 1991, I think. Only did that for about a month because there were local access numbers. Just long distance.
It wasn't until 1994 or 1995 that I got on the internet (web browsing with Netscape Navigator, email, telnet, USENET, mIRC, etc.) at LaTech. I still had my PC that I got in '91 and that thing had a 2400 kbit/s modem. Man, trying to load pictures was so slow. Bought a 28.8k Zoom modem the next day and went straight to porn sites.
Actually, my first experience connecting to the "internet" was with Prodigy in 1991, I think. Only did that for about a month because there were local access numbers. Just long distance.
It wasn't until 1994 or 1995 that I got on the internet (web browsing with Netscape Navigator, email, telnet, USENET, mIRC, etc.) at LaTech. I still had my PC that I got in '91 and that thing had a 2400 kbit/s modem. Man, trying to load pictures was so slow. Bought a 28.8k Zoom modem the next day and went straight to porn sites.
This post was edited on 8/12/20 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 8/12/20 at 6:44 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My dad was an IT manager when I was a kid, so I think we got internet around 98 or so. We still lived in a very rural area, so we weren’t very early adopters.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:18 am to SaintlyTiger88
1993 I had a local dial-up service that wound up being bought by Yahoo.
Posted on 8/13/20 at 7:21 am to SaintlyTiger88
We had WebTV back in 96 or 97. Then got a computer with dialup in 99.
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