When did you first get access to the internet in your household?

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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Roughly 1996, we would dial up though the local college

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• Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We got dial-up in 1998 and ADSL in 2001. VDSL in 2012 and now waiting for fiber to become available in my street.

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• IanM42@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1995/1996 with a PowerMac 6100 and a 33.3k modem and Compuserve.

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• CPMSP@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Possibly as soon as 1985 through Q-Link, though I don’t recall it until 88 or 89 - so I’m not sure when my folks first got in.

  Me personally, around 1990.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shit. Mid nineties somewhere? Though I’d had a chance to fuck around before that

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1991 or so by local university dialup that had a backdoor. People on local BBS clued me in.

  After that backdoor was closed, a handful of student accounts kept me online until a local ISP launched.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think it was 1996.

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  • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same here.

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    • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same, bought Netscape Navigator on floppy disks because I didn’t know how to download it

      Edit: not at home, but I recall in 1994 downloading Wayne’s World and Ren & Stimpy clips with Gopher on the university network. Good times.

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• a_person@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably around 2015-2016, my dad gave me a profile on his macbook to play with.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1997

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• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Somewhere around ~2008, i was around 15 that time. Had to steal wifi from the neighbors. Placed wifi antenna on the roof through roof window and had a long wire running across the house to my room.

  If weather was bad i couldn’t get internet connection and every spring i had to dig the antenna out from the snow when it fell off the roof.

  Got normalish internet when I got 18 and joined mobile carrier myself, that was limited to 2GB per month before speed was capped to 100kbs. That was around ~2011

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1994 ish

  BBS before that

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Before the internet, we had FidoNet (BBS). I think I started using the Internet with AOL and then MSN.

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• Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  2005 for me. But then when I moved out I didn’t have regular access until 2010 then I had an another internet hiatus until 2012.

  Back in those days, you really had to put effort into having access to it.

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