Technology

2012!?

Holy Smokes!

I thought I was late by 2005.

I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

I stopped once I ran out of hours. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

I think I got DSL in 2000 or 01.

1999

I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!

No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.

Stop?

Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.

I was able to convince my mum to start with DSL right away. Must have been 1999/2000. Before that I was able to at least use ISDN at my uncle‘s place. When I was spending time at my best friend‘s place, I encountered AOL dial up the first time. It was awful.

2002~2003 We got a glorious "high speed cable internet" of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have """good""" internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.

Somewhere around 2005

I got ISDN from work in 1995. MSN was my ISP for some reason. It was glorious! In FPS shooters I had a 30 ping while everyone else had 200. I was a beast !

2012? Brutal I'm guessing you lived far away from civilization.

For me It was probably 2004.

2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I'm currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we're rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.

2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.

2002/2003

Pretty early on. 2000? Cable Internet was only slightly more expensive and it made so much more sense, given dial ups limitations.

1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)

1999. I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.

March 2000. Bigpond Cable. Such a step up in speed (although I can't remember what that initial cable speed was) and suddenly we were always connected.

I had a faster connection than anyone I knew at that time :)

20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.

2001, when I got DSL.

1998 I moved to cable modem in Argentina. Around that time also moved to optical mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse and 3dfx video card. In 2008 I got my first SSD. I think those thing were one of the most shocking technologies I experienced.

We switched to cable around 2008.

I used to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. And I believe we had dial up until 2010. I specifically remember our first Wi-Fi router being an 802.11G Belkin 54G router. And our first high-speed internet was 1.5mbps fiber. We upgraded from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and then to 7mbps by the time I moved out. Because that was my childhood home. I can also remember that at that time, I thought our school internet was super fast. And yet we were sharing a T1 line for the entire school. But it was still way faster than the dial up I had at home.

2003. Went from 56K to 3Mbps cable. It was mind-blowingly fast at the time.

But then in 2004 my parents had to go back to dialup for awhile to save money, which was brutal. Especially since I would video chat with my GF often and download all sorts of stuff from KaZaA. Have you ever tried to do a video call on dialup? 0.1-0.5 FPS and compressed so badly that it's hard to make out even basic facial features. It's a miracle that it worked at all.

Stopped selling it in about 2001? Stopped using it in 1999. I was fortunate enough to have been part of an ISP startup when T1 was coming in, and my apartment was serviced by me.

Fun times, I ran a BBS and traveled around my town to the 3 ISPs that had started or were starting (all tiny) asking for a job. One of them was 2 guys who were setting up 300 external modems in a York Properties building basement. I got to be employee #3 on site, learned so much there since it was ground up.

2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.

As soon as I could.

I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?