for me it was back in 2012 i think
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2012!?
Holy Smokes!
I thought I was late by 2005.
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.
ATDT
Somewhere around 2005
2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.
2002/2003
Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
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 :)
And you could play Ultima Online faster than anyone connected. You’d get on top of your steed, and run off 3x faster than anyone else. Then they’d be like “HEY! HE’S CHEATING SOMEHOW!!!”
No bitch. I just got DSL!
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.
2001, when I got DSL.
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.
I used to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. And I believe we had dial up until 2010. I specifically remember our first Wi-Fi router being an 802.11G Belkin 54G router. And our first high-speed internet was 1.5mbps fiber. We upgraded from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and then to 7mbps by the time I moved out. Because that was my childhood home. I can also remember that at that time, I thought our school internet was super fast. And yet we were sharing a T1 line for the entire school. But it was still way faster than the dial up I had at home.
1997 because my university had broadband in the dorms.
1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.
2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.
2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.
