how did you first get on the internet?

My grandfather actually got the Internet before me.
How sad is that!
I was 15 or 16 when my parents connected it for me. Mum came home with a modem one day to surprise me lol
First we were just on a pre-paid Optusnet account but I started using too much and it was working out too expensive. We then advanced to an Unlimitied Ozonline account, but disconnected it after having an argument over them saying I was using too many hours. Yes you heard right, on an UNLIMITED HOURS plan.
Back to OptusNet on a 250 hour a month plan for a few years.
Only recently changed to ihug Internet. They're great.
Hardly ever get kicked off.
Wish I had Broadband like Poobaa tho. Just can't afford it in Australia. The prices are terrible.
I don't expect that anyone would have heard of Optus, Ozonline or iHug Internet. All Aussie companies.


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I first got on internet 16 months ago, through 33.6 kbps dial-up

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I actually predate the internet as we know it.
I started with BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) on a 300 baud Hayes.

Flame not, lest ye be phlegmed.

One day I was downloading the latest MinuteMan missle plans (must've been around 1988) when this guy from Los Alamos popped up and told me about this thing called Netscape. Told me to get lost or get arrested. Damnit, I never did get around to finishing that download. I don't think all those pages would have fit on my cassett tapes anyway.

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My first connection was a BBS called "Fifty Thousand Nuns and Orphans". Strangely enough it was almost exactly like this forum but with downloads. I had a 300 baud modem hooked up to my commodore 64. Them were the days...


Let's all settle our political differences with a LAN.

My first internet use resulted in a 3 day suspension from school(1992). A buddy of mine was showing me a BBS with some movies on it in the high school library when the wrestling coach saw us and busted us. I guess the number that we were calling with the modem(1200 baud) was costing several dollars per minute.

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My aunt's house, on a 386 messing around with bulletin boards. That was back in the day

It's all good ^_^

My first Internet experience was at a library to look for jobs.
I started using the Internet heavily at work. Then a few years later my sister in law gave us her old Compaq 486 DX66 Persario with a 14.4kbs modem. We got a dial up account when she gave us the computer. I upgraded the modem to a 56k ISA card. That sure seemed fast compared to the 14.4. I put more memory in it. It had 16MB I put in 32MB. Changed the hard drive from 540MB to 2.1GB. Put a 4X2X24 CD-RW drive in it. And I changed the 486 cpu to a pentium class 133. I had it set up with Win95 ver. II and office 97.
I used this set up for a year.
Then I bought a Dell Dimension system with a Celeron 500 and 8X4X24 CD-RW. It had Win98se on it. I had it for year. I first got ADSL when I had the Dell.
After the Dell I built four systems for myself.
The first was a PIII 866.
The second was a P4 1.6 with SDRAM
The third was a P4 1.6A with PC800
The fourth is my current system. It has a P4 2.4B with PC1066.
And I have a hard on to build a new system.

I also have had two Dell Inspiron Notebooks.
The first was a Inspiron 4000.
My current is a Inspiron 8100.


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Not sure of the exact one, it's been too long ago.
My first experience that I remember vividly was signing up for an email address. I remember that I laughed at my brother for getting a mail-exite address, which sounded gay

Needless to say, he dropped it about a month later

It's all good ^_^

For me it was BBS first. Then, The Sierra Network, then Prodigy, then I don't know... I wasn't really into the net though. My brother was always on internet message/chat groups playing Magic: The Gathering. I thought the internet was dumb and wouldn't use it. Then, I realized I was the dumb one, and now I can't go a few days without using it.

I don't know exactly what service or what modem I first used, but I think it was probably a 14.4 kbps with prodigy internet... maybe not though.

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Does anyone remember "Yak"? It was a dedicated chat group that you had to have a special terminal for. It cost too much, but boy did I have some interesting conversatioons on it.

Let's all settle our political differences with a LAN.

About 6 years ago with a 56k6 modem and a 486. The line was actually 33k6.
Then I bought my own PC and got super-slow cable internet some months later.
Then I builded a LAN and got faster internet (192/64).
Now I have 5 PCs running on a 768/128 Cable connection.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

not sure what year(95 maybe 96) but i was a beta tester for AT&T worldnet for about a year. unlimited access and didnt pay a dime untill it was released normally.

Oh damn... that should probably be built.

I'm not good in English grammer!

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

God yes... setting up my broadband has been a pain in the buttocks!

fortunately its worth it... and i think ive squished all bugs.

<i>"Revenues were less than robust"</i> - QWEST
<i>"The company applied its accounting policies incorrectly"</i> - WORLDCOM
<i>"Certian financial adjustments may be required"</i> - AOL+TW.