When did you get the internet?

**Cataholic** · 08-22-2004, 04:09 PM

I think it was 1994..and it was an IBM 356. And, it was dial up..slow, slow, slow. The only thing I really did was go on AOL.

I got high speed in 2000, and wouldn't ever go back.

**catnapper** · 08-22-2004, 04:31 PM

I got online myself in 2000... I think we may have had it before then but I was sucha computer know-nothing that I refused to use it!

Then a coworker said "Kim, you've GOTTA try computer dating services." So I signed up for one in the summer of 2001, and left the account unused for a few months before I decided that dating freeks would be better than not dating anybody. Met my hubby as the third person.... and never looked back!

Our first computer? A Texas Instruments that had DOS and a few really bad video games. It was a "family" christmas gift around '83 or '84. My brother still has the computer in a closet somewhere in his house!

I wonder how much my parents paid for that back then??? I seem to remember that personal computers were really really costly.

**carole** · 08-22-2004, 07:49 PM

We got connected in 2001, had free internet for 2 years, I now have a cheapie service for 14.95 per mth for 150 hrs, works fine for me, never manage to use the hours.

When I first came online, I did not even know how to operate a mouse, and found that simple task difficult, it seemed to be all over the place, now I cannot imagine finding that so hard, I still have lots to learn, but I am quite happy with what I know so far.

**wolfie** · 08-22-2004, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by Randi
Next logical question: When did you first get a computer?

Oh, I dont' know! Before I was born I think. It was exciting when we got Windows 3.1. My sister and I used to play games and use a paint program in MS-DOS before then.

**jazzcat** · 08-22-2004, 09:59 PM

We finally got it here at the house in Jan. 1998 but my mom had it in 1997 and hubby had it at work since 94 or 95. I'd go play on his at work when he needed to go in late or on weekends. He'd set me up and I'd have a blast.

**slick** · 08-22-2004, 10:11 PM

Read my response here

http://67.15.70.205/talk/showthread.php?threadid=56679

I voted 2003 or later.

**kingrattus** · 08-22-2004, 11:58 PM

I said 1994 or earlier, cause I was using the net at school & at friends houses. We were just too poor to get a computer until the end 1998.. ok ok ok we didn't pay for the computer, it was a gift from out rich uncle who changes his work computer every couple of years & hands them out to family members & friends.... & then we got the net right away

& shortly I met Rob on it hehehe Jan 30th 1999

**AmberLee** · 08-23-2004, 12:42 AM

I made my first website in 1994 and was TOTALLY jazzed to get it rated 4 stars out of 5. It was for my branch of engineering and no individual's site got rated 5 stars, but I outranks many businesses and several nation's websites. Sigh....

I don't remember my first computer but it seems like it was a Commadore 64. Sound feasible???

Hey, hey, hey, whippersnapper! Xyzzy to you, and a Plover's egg, too! I'll tell the pirate that you're in the quilt if you don't cut it out.

I LIKED that stupid game. Never did figure out how to get past the bear, though. My computer always crashed.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, all!

**anna_66** · 08-23-2004, 07:26 AM

I remember this day quite well as I had wanted a computer forever and just never seemed to get around to getting one.
We had the computer for about a month, then finally got around to getting the internet the next month. We've never had dial up so I wouldn't even know how to live without my cable internet

**Tina** · 08-23-2004, 08:38 AM

I think we got dial-up in 2000. We just got DSL few months ago.

**PJ's Mom** · 08-23-2004, 10:22 AM

1994 and my name was BigTwinkie.

**DJFyrewolf36** · 08-23-2004, 10:44 AM

I played dail up Doom 2 with my down the street neighbor for hours on our old 14.4's, well we played for about an hour and spent about three on the phone trying to get the dern modems to talk to each other lol! We didn't have a dial up access number for our neighborhood for a good long while, we didn't even get compuserve...then again my parents neighborhood was the last place on earth to get DSL access too...

Trying to convince my parents that the internet could be used for useful things was just about the biggest pain in the butt. They finally got MSN dailup in 1996, I was happy cause it was the fastest around!

I was sssssoooo happy when DSL finally came to our area! Gah, disconnects really irritate the heck out of me!

My first computer was a good ol Comodore 64. The thing still works

. I first learned how to program on the stupid thing, and got so addicted to the games that I now have a C64 emulator on my laptop lol. The first computer I managed to get "online" (Online games anyhow) was an old Packard Bell 386. That paperweight is going to be our firewal server on our home network eventually. Hey, Im not one for throwing out working hardware!