When did you first get on the internet.

[sclitheroe]

Started with a shell account via the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, which was about the only way Arts students could easily get access in 1993. Gopher was at least as prevalent back then as HTTP - I distinctly recall all of the University's online information being available in gopherspace.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Robbob

some scifi regarding ships and planets.

Tradewars?

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

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

Late 80s- early 90s ish 96Baud
Smokein at the time

[bc-chris]

first time on the internet was probably 1990... 1991-ish

good old dial-up modems


i remember my first year of university we could log in from home - it went well until mom picked up the phone!!!! ha! ha!

i also remember the system at the university getting bogged down becuz a bunch of guys would play MUDD all the time and tie up 'tons' of bandwidth

[Mass_nerder]

95-ish

[Notorious Honey Badger]

Oh man. My 1st comp was a 486 AST. I remember when I upgraded to a pentium how awesome I felt lol.

Anyways, around 95/96. Windows 3.11 with DOS... version who knows. I remember my brother deleted the control panel icon and we returned the PC for a whole new one LOL. Oh jeez.

Compuserve and AOL were our 1st internet providers, but then we switched to spots dial up in Winnipeg. porn took so long to download those days.

[Kybosh]

I got the internet in November, 2005 solely so I could register and post on Calgarypuck.

[ricosuave]

61081147@3web.net

[browna]

Internet and email Fall 1995. MRC had two computers in the library hooked up to Netscape. First time I got on, wasn't sure where to navigate to. 5 mins later the guy next to me got kicked off for looking at Playboy.

Email was at the same time, on terminal/gopher computers. studentid@ics.mountroyal.ab.ca, and had to email u of c buddies with username@acs.ucalgary.ca.

[CRXguy]

I think 96/97 when my dad first got a custom built PC desktop. Something crazy like $2500 with 56k modem. Our first provider was Sprint dial-up I think.

[jammies]

Thru CUUG on OS/2 around 1992/1993. Although the "internet" is a bit imprecise; I know I used Gopher and Usenet before that via the U of C dialup circa 1988/89 - I had someone's hacked account info that we shared around to connect to the modem banks there for a good while.

[ericschand]

1984. There was two ways to do it. First was ARPANET, from VAX/VMS. The other was using IBM mainframes to communicate to others out there, to other IBM mainframes, using MVS (a type of VM system for mainframes).

At that time I doubt many were thinking "Internet" as we know it today. Many universities and research centres were on there, especially if they had mainframes. It was used to communicate between sites.

A version of IRC existed back then, as did very rudimentary email. You could send files back and forth too. If you knew specific id's, you could send messages to those id's, a "talk" feature which still exists today (but usually turned off for security reasons).

That was about it. No GUI, no web, no search. Just a lot of patience

ers

[Jacks]

Early 90's, 14.4 modem, netscape 3.01?

Can't remember the name of the ISP but their domain was canuck.com

The only reason I went with them was to have the cool @canuck.com email address but none of my friends or family had an email address and there wasn't much spam back then so I didn't use the email much.

I remember it took something like 12 hours to download the new netscape, it was 14MB or something like that. Nowadays that would take about 10 seconds.

[KTrain]

This is a nerd dong measuring contest.

That being said, if we're counting BBS, it would be 1991 on 2400 baud. It was so slow compared to the 14.4's that were out at the time, but like any kind of technology, my parents didn't think we needed the "latest or greatest".

[Frank MetaMusil]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

61081147@3web.net

Hah, I used to work for these guys back in the day. Was the help desk manager.....

[Sainters7]

'96, when my parents bought a new computer. Good ol' AOL dial-up.

Get off the internets, I need to make a phone call! Good times.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by jammies

Thru CUUG on OS/2 around 1992/1993.

What version of OS/2? What a great (and simultaneously awful) operating system..

[HotHotHeat]

What did Shaw used to be called? Was it WAVE? My parents signed up for that, it was probably around 1997. I read about Napster in a magazine and pestered them to get Internet until they finally relented. My dad thought it was a waste of money. Still bug him about it.

[socktape]

I would say for me it was around 1993 with a cadvision account through our new 14.4 modem. Getting porn was never quite the same after that.

[ken0042]

1996 for me. Took a college course and got hooked; went out and bought a 28k modem for my 486.

Of course not counting BBSs. Around 1985 I was dialing into BBSs; I remember dialing into the U of Manitoba and finding I could hop directly onto a BBS that belonged to a Minnesota university. From there I hit another university.

I also remember at the time there was a terminal at school called "Grassroots" or something. It had icons you could select and it would give you weather, stocks, etc.