When did you first get on the internet.

[dissentowner]

For me it was 1994. Netscape was my first browser. I used to troll a chat room called The Social. There was not much happening online, just IRC groups and email.

[Traditional_Ale]

1995. 28.8 dial up and yeah, Netscape....

[habernac]

late 80's, early 90's. Old BBS'.

[Robbob]

Would be arond 1993 or 1994. Good old dial up playing those bbs text games Usurper and some scifi regarding ships and planets.

[Traditional_Ale]

^BBS isn't internet! I had that back in 1989 on a 286 with a 2400 modem!

[TorqueDog]

Also 1994, using - as we called it - Nutscrape Masturbator. We were nine, give me a break.

14.4kbps modem, then upgraded to 33.6kbps, and then finally a 56kbps unit.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

^BBS isn't internet! I had that back in 1989 on a 286 with a 2400 modem!

You are right. Still, at the time it seemed all high tech with the crazy dial out tone.

[Buff]

I don't remember the exact date. I used to go to my dad's friends house with my dad and use the internet there. I also used the internet at the University. Sometime around 1995 is when I first started using the internet.

I finally got my own connection in January 2000. Shaw@Home. Back when they had their own "@Home Browser" type thingy. A few weeks later my dad's friend was over and wanted to see how fast broadband internet was, but it was super slow because of some DoS attacks... maybe it was during Mafia Boy's attack on Yahoo.

[Julio]

BBS in the mid 1980's, internet in the early 90's...

[WhiteTiger]

Back in '95. I used to chat, so I would ignore how hungry I was. I was almost literally a starving student.

[bradster57]

Mid '95. 14.4 kbs modem. I remember the first time I tried to connect and the "computer starting calling someone" so I freaked out and powered down immediately.

A few days later somebody told me it was supposed to do that.

[photon]

I can't even remember, some of the larger BBSes starting having Internet gateways so it was more like a gradual transition rather than an event.

[Gozer]

Windows 3.1, don't remember the date, on Netscape Navigator.

[jtfrogger]

Some BBS's were on the internet. I had an internet email address and access to limited newsgroups through a BBS back in 1992. I couldn't browse the web, but email & newsgroups was most of the good content back then anyway.

I had full internet access in 1993. From the university, I had decent speed. From home I used a 14.4 kbps modem.

Interestingly enough, I searched for my name in a newsgroup archive about a week ago. The earliest reference I could find was a post on alt.tasteless.jokes back in November, 1993. What has been said on the internet cannot be unsaid.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

First started BBSing around on Calgary area FidoNet sites with a 110 baud modem on a Coleco ADAM in the late 80's. The 300 baud upgrade when I got a Tandy 1000TX was most welcome. Always wanted a USR 9600HST...never got one....had to settle for a ATI 2400 baud with MNP5 for most of the 90's.

Actual internet stuff began around 1994 when I had to beg my Psychology prof for an ACS account at UofC (you didn't get them automatically back then, only for "academic research"). That got me access via Twinsock to run NCSA Mosaic, and Netscape later on.

[The Yen Man]

Can't really remember the exact year, it was either 1993 or 1994. Initially we had the crappy AOL trial version for a couple months. Then we switched the Cadvision. The good ol 14.4 modem. I remember my parents only letting us go on at specific times because it would tie up the phone line. I used to go to some site called chathouse chatroom (don't remember). Also was one of the early adopters for ICQ. I think I still have the number lying around somewhere.

Does anyone remember 3Web back in the day? They promised free internet, but it never worked for me.

[burn_this_city]

First time was freenet here in Calgary, I remember having to wait for the phone line to be free. 2400 baud modem.

Then came AOL 2.0-3.0 on a 14.4 modem, my gosh that was garbage, you couldn't even really get on the open internet. After a year or so of that we got Shaw cable, with one of those grey motorola modems, it was super amazing for the time.

[Regulator75]

Late 96 when I finally had my own place.
My folks didn't want to buy us a PC, so I had to get one ASAP.

[Mtt48]

Early 90s through CUUG on a 2400 baud modem. Years later I upgraded to a 28.8 modem and was amazed that I could download a megabyte in roughly 8 minutes! I used Istar as an ISP for quite a while until I finally got cable internet with shaw in 97 or 98.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

I won $4000 off a YTV call-in game show called Destructo Brother's Loot in Grade 9. Used that money to buy a Pentium 75, a colour bubble jet printer, and a 14.4 kbps modem for internet with Cadvision. This was back in '94 probably.