What Year Did You First Use Internet?

Don't remember exactly, was on t'internet around 1996. Before that I remember buying a modem for my BBC B around 1985, used that on Prestel but it was also possible to take the lid off the modem, remove a metal limiter on the front panel switch to get the Bell standards working. That allowed me to access things like Fidonet. Around the same time I bought an AX25 TNC in kit form from the States, built that and was on packet radio around 1200baud I think. The next step was to replace the ROMs in the TNC with some new fangled 'TCP/IP' ROMS my mate had got hold of and was away on IPv4 but on t'wireless, eeh, those were t'days, if you told the kids today, etc.... So, I was on 'WiFi access' long before the old dial up interweb access.
 
Dalian Blue said:
Don't remember exactly, was on t'internet around 1996. Before that I remember buying a modem for my BBC B around 1985, used that on Prestel but it was also possible to take the lid off the modem, remove a metal limiter on the front panel switch to get the Bell standards working. That allowed me to access things like Fidonet. Around the same time I bought an AX25 TNC in kit form from the States, built that and was on packet radio around 1200baud I think. The next step was to replace the ROMs in the TNC with some new fangled 'TCP/IP' ROMS my mate had got hold of and was away on IPv4 but on t'wireless, eeh, those were t'days, if you told the kids today, etc.... So, I was on 'WiFi access' long before the old dial up interweb access.
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I remember that computer well . My sister borrowed her schools BBC computer for the summer holidays and I wasted many an hour playing a game called Kingdom.
 
Don't remember the year but I remember early internet very well. The 56k dialup noise, using shitty AOL and chatting to my mates on AIM. And me and my mates used to go on a site called Ebaumsworld and watch flash videos that took forever to load.
 
1997. Don't know why I remember but I do. Bought a modem for my 386 (or possibly Pentium) and endured slow dial-up connections until a few years later when 1Mb broadband came along.
 
When I purchased my first Android phone in 2010. Never really any inclination or intention of using it until then.
 
I remember when we first upgraded from 56k dial up to 256k ISDN. Thought I was as cool as a polar bears arse.

120mb now.

Imagine where we'll be in twenty years.
 
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