I think 2008 or so.
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2012!?
Holy Smokes!
I thought I was late by 2005.
I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).
Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.
My exact timeline.
Hello fellow 45 year old.
Hey! How are your knees?
Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins
What was the time in-between those two?
Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps
The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.
So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?
Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.
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I stopped once I ran out of hours. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
I think I got DSL in 2000 or 01.
Same for me. I got DSL in the summer of 2000.
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1999
I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!
No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.
Stop?
screeching telephone noises
I just flirted with your modem.
I hope you use Zmodem so we can pick up where we left off if we lose our connection.
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Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
I was able to convince my mum to start with DSL right away. Must have been 1999/2000. Before that I was able to at least use ISDN at my uncle‘s place. When I was spending time at my best friend‘s place, I encountered AOL dial up the first time. It was awful.
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2002~2003 We got a glorious "high speed cable internet" of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have """good""" internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.
Somewhere around 2005
I got ISDN from work in 1995. MSN was my ISP for some reason. It was glorious! In FPS shooters I had a 30 ping while everyone else had 200. I was a beast !
2012? Brutal I'm guessing you lived far away from civilization.
For me It was probably 2004.
2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I'm currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we're rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.
Pretty early on. 2000? Cable Internet was only slightly more expensive and it made so much more sense, given dial ups limitations.
2002/2003
2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.
20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.
2001, when I got DSL.
1997 because my university had broadband in the dorms.
March 2000. Bigpond Cable. Such a step up in speed (although I can't remember what that initial cable speed was) and suddenly we were always connected.
I had a faster connection than anyone I knew at that time :)
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1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)
Well.....now you're just going to have to share your time machine with the rest of us!
What? I assume you DO have a time machine, right? You clearly have cutting edge technology decades before anyone else. I think I only got above 5MB/sec internet about 5 years ago? Now it's suddenly 100MB/Sec internet, and I'm like "Ok cool........I'm still not doing anything that requires that much speed....."
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- I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.
(/s)
You can't answer when you stopped using dialup?
......ok......kinda suspicious honestly. That would be like me asking "Hey, do you have any bread in your house?" and your response is to get weirded out that I'm asking, and burn your house down so I don't discover anything.
.........the fuck were you doing with your internet???
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2000? Earlier? 🤔
I'm not exactly sure when we had first upgraded from 56.6k dialup to a DSL(? If I am remembering the acronym right; it was phone line broadband not cable) line. I was still playing Ultima Online at the time so it had to be prior to 2003 (I quit when Age of Shadows fucked the game all up).
By 2007, we had cable Internet and it was like triple the speeds of the DSL.
Somewhere in the mid 1990s, my company provided ISDN so I could work from home
Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP's question) didn't work very well, and DSL wasn't an option yet I think.
For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:
ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.
But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.
Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.
Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.
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2008 I think.
We switched to cable around 2008.
2009 was when my family switched from dialup to wifi and all of a sudden my old laptop had access to internet.
2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.
August 1998, but I held on to my external US Robotics 56k modem for a few years more.
1998 I moved to cable modem in Argentina. Around that time also moved to optical mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse and 3dfx video card. In 2008 I got my first SSD. I think those thing were one of the most shocking technologies I experienced.
When I went to university in 2003. The telephone exchange in the village my parents lived in finally got upgraded to ADSL in 2004 or 2005 I think after a grassroots ISP collected enough subscribers to pay for it (after which the national telco was happy to start offering service, screwing over the grassroots ISP)
University internet was 10 Mbps, but the year after they kicked the dorms off the school network and put us on the consumer city fiber network which was 100 Mbps. About a decade later I moved in somewhere with 1 Gbps.
And I now have 10 Gbps at home. How times have changed...
2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.
As soon as I could.
I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?
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