What was your first home internet setup?

[BCoetzer]

We might just be on a nostalgia streak, having considered the specs of our first PCs and remembering our first cell phones.

So why stop there...

What was your first home internet setup?

And when? Do you remember the connection speed?

 

[Smiggles]

Other: WISP

 

[acidrain]

When is mostly a guess but roughly 27 yrs ago. Dialup on R7 weekend special.

 

[PhireSide]

56kb/s dial-up, baby!

Nothing like the purr of that US Robotics serial modem to make the senses come alive.

 

[sand_man]

Dial up, 56kbps wasn't it? What a schlep man?! But it was still something to behold. One was in awe of this online world, a surreal parallel universe waiting to be explored. It's all relative..

 

[Tomtomtom]

 

[netstrider]

Dial-up.

Recall being envious of those that had 128K ISDN.

Then got ADSL later on, 384Kbps line because we were too far from the exchange to get 512Kbps.

The transformation was real though. Going from about 7KBps download to 39-40KBps was something awesome for me back then.

 

[Kaapie]

56kb

7 minutes to see a tittie

 

[My_King]

Lol gotta love the votes at time of my comment...100% dialup.

 

[Marius De-Kock]

I had a US Robotics courier 56K V90 modem and I loved it.

 

[Agent_Smith]

MY first home setup was ADSL, but my folks got dial up way back in the day while I was still at school.

"GET OFF THE PHONE, I AM ON THE INTERNET!!" was a common cry throughout the house...

 

[geezer]

 

[Slckrck]

56kb

7 minutes to see a tittie

Oh you were a Cindy Margolis patron too?.....loved her line by line reveals

 

[dadecoza]

pre-internet 1200baud modem for connecting to some local BBSs, and then later 14.400baud modem for connecting to the internet. IIRC the ISP was ABSA.

 

[LazyLion]

Had to use one of these for a long time as well....

 

[Okty]

Dial up modem.

Every time going online and hearing the machine spirit of the modem screeching in pain as it needed to connect (then realizing later you could mute it in some windows setting).

 

[WAslayer]

3g, using my phone connected via USB cable to my PC to get an internet connection going.. used either a motorola v360 or Nokia 3510i..

Granted, it wasn't very often at all, cause data was expensive back then..

6 years later I got 10MB ADSL line, both line and data on the company's dime..

 

[neoprema]

Dial-up for a bit then ISDN when i complained to my parents that my school friends had more than i did lol.

 

[Smokey888]

Vodacom 3G Dongle
Followed by 2MB ADSL
Followed by Vodacom 4G Router
Followed by 100MB Vodacom Fibre

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Lol gotta love the votes at time of my comment...100% dialup.

Ya, we're an elderly bunch on here, aren't we?