technology When did you get your internet connection?

[zerox 1,126]

So I got dial-up internet in 1999, since the summer of 2004 I have had a broadband internet connection

Edited October 7, 2016 by zerox

[Balt 109]

It's been to long but I'm gonna guess 2004

[Bazz 57]

90's to 2003 - Local ISP called Indy.NET, which was swallowed up by EarthLink eventually (dial-up)

 

2003 to 2006 - Time Warner Cable (became Bright House Networks, now Charter Spectrum, cable)

 

2006 to 2011 - AT&T (DSL)

 

2011 to 2016 - Bright House Networks (Cable)

 

2016 to Present - Charter Spectrum (pending, Cable)

[ashi 261]

Various providers (whomever was cheapest), then Zoom (1998), LibertySurf (1999), Tiscali (2000s), AOL (2004+), Sky (2006+), TalkTalk (2008+), BT (2010+), and now Ziggo (2010+) (in that order).

Edited October 7, 2016 by ashi

[Luminance 2,186]

This year actually because internet for me had always been so expensive.

[Denim&Venöm 19,102]

My dad's had an internet connection since 1998. Though it could have been longer. I'm just thinking of the first time I saw him actually use it for something. Don't know if it was dial up. I don't recall ever hearing the sound associated w/ it, so we may have actually used DSL. The good stuff back then. Then we probably switched to broadband between '03 & '06. 

Edited October 7, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Envy 6,169]

I don't know when my parents got dial-up internet. All I know is that I wasn't allowed to use the internet until around 1999/2000. I do know that we got high-speed internet in July or maybe early August of 2004.

[Nightfall Gloam 18,260]

If I remember correctly, I was born into having an internet connection, but probably didn't use the internet until about 2002 or something. If I remember correctly, back then I was with Optus and we were on Cable. Now I'm with Telstra wireless and man the internet has changed a lot since I was a kid.

[Victoria Sponge 1,017]

I remember having dial up when I was quite young but we've had wifi since I was about 11 now so it's been a while.

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

Well, I've had internet almost all of my life. Other than last week. It came back on I think Friday. It's okay internet. Not that great. Ping is usually about 90ms when it's not going crazy. The internet I have now is from the only local provider, Guadalupe Valley Electric Company (being that I live in that area).

Edited October 9, 2016 by TwillyFSniper

[CheeryFox 23,821]

Mid '96 - I paid for it with a summer job. I think it was like $5 a month at the time, lol... 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,617]

I remember way back when we had dial up in like, 2003, but that did not last long. So the first time I got a long-term connection was when we got DSL in the summer of 2008, have had internet since. We switched to broadband in 2011 I think. Broadband is definitely my preferred service.

[Guest]

Back in 2004 if I remember correctly.

[Member Berry 1,217]

Uhhh, I had dial up when I was about 11 so that would have been in 2002.

[CaptainDoubloon 856]

I would guess it was back in 1998. I had an email account before I even had internet at home because my high school had required that we all needed email. And we had to make it a yahoo email, I still use the account once in a great while. Then when my family had the internet, it was the classic 56k modem dial up. That noise still haunts me and I remember when someone was on the internet no one could use the phone. We also had AOL so everytime I logged it I heard the "welcome" voice. The internet was boring when it first came out and my connection used to drop all the time and then I had to sit there waiting for the internet to dial up again.

[Baykush 328]

We had dial-up in my house when I was 6 or 7 (around 2005-6), then we had a USB plug-in modem, and we finally got Wi-Fi when I was 11. 

[StormBlaze 992]

we had the old dial up when we had the windows 98. so many days of fighting for the phone line and being timed on how long we were allowed online. lol

im currently waiting for my Broadband to be sorted out, new house and all that. Nearly waiting a month as that was the earliest we could book it! outrageous 

[Attack of the Pwns 894]

I lived out in the boonies, so I had dial-up from about 2008 until my freshman year of college in '13. Didn't have any kind of Internet at all before 2008. I switched from generic broadband to Googe Fiber in '15. I hope they go nationwide with Fiber eventually, it's such a nice system and it works flawlessly.

[Retro*Derpy 3,186]

All I can remember is having dial-up internet that was sold from Walmart, and I used Netscape. My uncle used some sort of splitting technique on the phone line, that gave us double speeds.

[vanillapudding 44]

Oh god...it had to have been when I was very young because I don't remember. I vaguely remember messing with the dial up in the mid 90s, but I don't know if that's when we got internet for the first time or if we'd had it and they were just fixing it. I knew how to log into the dial up before I knew how to use the rewinder for my favorite VHS tapes. Ok that might be a bit of a stretch since that was literally just hitting one button, but I grew up with a tech-savy mom. 

 

We had dial up until I was in 8th grade I think - which was really sad because high speed internet was around by then and all the commercials implied that everyone could have it, and my mom worked for Verizon (technically still does, but they jettisoned her department a few years back and renamed it Frontier). It took Verizon years before they extended high speed internet outside of towns so that we could access it in our 'country home' which was literally half a mile beyond the town line. It's actually because of that crap that I got my first cell phone. I was highly involved in school and had a lot of band, choir, etc practice (not to mention concerts, and a couple school dances) and I'd get stranded because someone would always be on the internet so I couldn't call the landline. And I could never remember my mom's cell phone number. At least, that's what I told her   .

[Guest]

Probably around the year 2000. I still remember being a kid and getting yelled at for picking up the phone while my parents were using the PC... Dailup was so amazing.

Edited October 26, 2016 by Guest

[Flutterbattyyy 331]

Ever since I can remember. I was born in 1996, so I probably started to use it around my 10th birthday. But I didn't use it for anything aside from looking up camping info and such. 

 

I didn't use YouTube until like 6th grade. I was kept in the dark, haha. Didn't even know about it until several years later.  :awuh:

 

I only started to use social media and forums around 15 years of age.

Edited October 26, 2016 by ElementalFluttershee

[EpicEnergy 23,220]

I have no idea because I was very young when my mom and dad got internet and I played on it.

[Splashee 28,564]

Around 1998, as I finally got a chance to download some important Sonic The Hedgehog ROMs to play in an emulator 

I have my own working analog phone system at my place, so I might buy an ISP server so I can dial-up again and hear that wonderful modem sound 

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

about like 2014 or 2015 is when I first got broadband,
though before on occasion i was allowed to use my mum or my dad's hotspot, but it was rare

 

yeah, Wi-Fi in Scotland is kinda expensive