your first internet connection

[JSchmidt85]

what were your download speeds?

i had aol 1.0 on a 3600bps modem.

if i can recall i downloaded at 1-3kbps. ****ing slow.

i remember when 56k came out how friggin awesome it was. i could download at 7.5kbps!

[Flawless]

My first internet connection was something.

Not an important day in my life, so I can't note it. I do remember getting Cable internet though... back in day.

Probably had slower, just don't think it's an important milestone in my life.

[JSchmidt85]

My first internet connection was something.

Not an important day in my life, so I can't note it. I do remember getting Cable internet though... back in day.

Probably had slower, just don't think it's an important milestone in my life.

i remember when i first got cable. constant disconnects, low d/l speeds and high pings in games (well, high compared to today's)
150-200 ping was awesome in games

[JohnTheDrummer]

I think mine first was AOL 5.0... maybe 4.0, Dial Up... SO SLOW! Still had it for a long time, then I moved in with my Dad and we went through a couple different ISP's which were Dial Up until I needed a faster speed for school, so maybe 1.5 years ago I finally got DSL.

[undertow]

Mine was a 14.4k Baud Modem and I had Prodigy as my Internet Provider!

[hshiau]

you guys are all too young. 300bps to Compuserve.

[ArmeniusLOD]

14.4 kbps on Compuserve. Those were the days, downloading at 3 kb/s.

[S1ckH4nds]

Not necessarily the Internet, but Quantum Link and local BBSes on my Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem when I was but a tot.

[Lord_Mhoram]

We had a 300 bit/s modem - not an electronic modem, but one of the ones where you set your phone handset into the modem - an analog modem.

Yes the wife and I have been doing the whole connection thing a long long time. A lot of txt only bbs', muds and moos - and usenet. The first exposure to the world wide web was prodigy on a 14.4. Back when Prodigy was brand new.

[King_Nuthin]

2400baud in college. 1992.

I had CompuServe in the house in HS but didn't really use it or know what speed modem we had.

[shadow_phantom]

Not necessarily the Internet, but Quantum Link and local BBSes on my Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem when I was but a tot.

Mine was a 1200 Baud Practical Peripheral then a 2400 Baud Cardinal. Then I broke out the big guns for my BBS in 1990. I had two US Robotics 14.4 Dual Standard external modems. They were almost $1000 each before the SysOp discount. I eventually upgraded them to 16.6 or something like that with a BIOS chip upgrade and 15550 UART serial chips. My parents never understood what I was doing with 3 phone lines in my bedroom as a teenager.

My first "online" experience was Prodigy Then I switched over to the BBS scene. Got in a little trouble and dropped out of the scene for a few years (high school girls became more interesting than computers) :D. Came back in Feb of 1998 with my first Cable Modem from @Home & Comcast. I rented a house near the GM Tech Center so that I could be one of the first home users to get high speed internet.

[benson111]

News group dial in, when you can find slower, ( In the 80's) Let me know. where talking, 3 days to DL a 25 k file. Known speed wasn't even calculated then.

[Transbrak]

36.6 AOL
oh yeah!

got 56k and switched to prodigy and then quickly again to compuserve

then got cable and never looked back!

[Pryito]

Quantum Link 300bps on my commodore 64!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link



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