When did you have Internet at home?

[Witchblade77]

dial up mid nighties. I remember when net zero was actualy free dial up internet provider. it was not good internet, but it at least allowed you to browse those early pages.

[ThrashMetalFtw]

We got a used computer from my cousins' family in what must have been like 98, then bought a new one and got internet connection in the early 00s. Probably 2001, but not sure.

No idea about the speed back then, but I do remember my cousins (same ones who gave us the used computer earlier) always thought it was really fun to download songs to our computer at family birthdayparties, because they claimed our connection was so fast. I think the top speed we reached was like 250kb/s. I know I never had to wait for internet pages to load, or youtube videos to buffer when that became a thing.

[Laerrus]

Late 1996. Dial up via AOL on a 28.8k modem. The PC that I used at that time was an old AST with a 25MHz SX2, 200 MB HDD and 8 MB of RAM. That machine had an overdrive socket, we later had a DX4 100 put into it and with a clock multiplayer of 3x (which you had to manually set on the board), I was able to blaze along at 75 MHz.

I used the paint program from Win 3.1 on that PC to design my first tattoo.

The first PC games that I played we're Quake and Lucas Arts Dig.

I was using hex editors to modify Trojan viruses back then to phish other AOL users accounts. Things were a lot more innocent back then.

[Aoyi]

I had my first at home internet connection in the mid 90s with AOL and the old Netscape. The computer itself was nothing special, but I was happy to be online. I eventually moved up to DSL and then cable around 2007/2008.

[Temp name]

Had it for as long as I can remember. So at 2002 at the latest.
My parents just don't see the point in more than like 20mbit down, so it's still kinda slow.

[Halyon]

I don't remember the exact year, but mid-to-late 90's. Fucking dial-up tone will forever memorable. xD

[Bigbazz]

Probably around 1996, dial-up of course.

[badaku]

Dial up in 98 or so. I was telling my mates how I'm surfing them websites all day. I think I got to use it for an hour every year

[Puri]

It must have been 1992 or 1993 when the German Telekom allowed the access to the internet (or actually www/http) over their proprietary BTX system, so you could surf the internet in their software even on a system without a own TCP/IP stack (like Windows 3.x).
It was ridiculously expensive (you had to pay the phone fees for the modem connection, BTX had a base cost, and if I remember right every hour of using their http gateway did cost DM 6 (~€3)).

[beevme]

The first Internet I ever had at home was back in 2000, and I used dial up via Netzero at the time. The cost was $10 per month + tax. The fastest download speed I've gotten from Netzero's dial up was around 5-6 kbps, which would take 3-4 minutes to download 1 mb.

Then on 2007, I upgraded to At&t's DSL 3 mbit for $30.a month. I didn't the download speed as advertised and was stuck with 2 mbit download speed.

2010 and onward, I'm currently subscribed to comcast cable internet 25mbit for $60 a month.

[Alexeht]

I had internet at home in 2004, but it was promo month for free. It was really expensive back then. Ofc I had used internet before, and I think it was around year 2000 @ internet cafe, playing half-life and this counter-strike mod I cannot believe it was so long ago ... True home internet began for me when I moved from fatherland (2008-2009), and what is funny about it is that now (2017) I can easily afford internet, but it is way cheaper and faster in my homeland xD (60Mbps down, 17Mbps up - VS - 100Mbps up and down).

[faithbane]

I remember hearing the screams of the modem from my sisters room when I was a little kid so must be somewhere in the early 90s..

[zoefschildpad]

Dial up in 95-96 roughly. Broadband in 99 at the latest. I think we had unlimited data from the start, but at the very latest from 2001, though it did have a fair use policy which meant they weren't OK with my brother downloading 37 gigabytes of stuff in a month.

[Yunru]

1994 or was it 1995. The sound and slow speed were horrible.
We had Windows 95 at that time, but it was upgraded to 98 later. (before that we had DOS and no net)

[zethh]

96-97ish dial up, may have been bit earlier.
Remember downloading TV series, leaving the connection open, going to sleep and having a download manager cut it when the download was finished.
Life got a lot easier when we got adsl around 2000ish.

Here is the real question, how soon after you had internet did you discover internet porn?

Second day.

[WskyDK]

We had Prodigy when I was a kid, and when I was in HS (99) I got cable in my room.

[Perryn]

97, mobile internet at a whopping 9k/sec, paying by the minute (before the unlimited plans of today). That got costly as I was hooked in no time. Getting 28k later that year was a revelation, nevermind first broadband a couple of years later..

[Donald Hellscream]

it was around the same time when I started having access to the computers at school, which was in 2nd grade and since I started school in '98 it must've been 2000.

[derpkitteh]

2003, i believe. i was 11, and i mainly just used it to look at the pokemon and dbz websites.

my brother let me see porn on it eventually.

[Laqweeta]

2003, i believe. i was 11, and i mainly just used it to look at the pokemon and dbz websites.

my brother let me see porn on it eventually.

We had internet in 2001 but it was dial-up (AOL), I was 9. We didn't get DSL until late 2004