How long have you been online?

[Deleted member 35268]

i recall the pc I had only had one com port, either for the modem or the mouse, so when I used the modem it was keyboard only

 

[Pale Rider]

Does CB radio count?

No, but in regard to the worldwide web/internet definition discussion, anything else does.

 

[Smithbat]

Abouet 1993/4 for me at work, At home I got my first computer and a dial up modem in 1997. I used to go on ICQ and other chat sites back in the day.

 

[numbnuts]

Since 1995

 

[Drago]

About 2002 for me at home, about 5 years prior at work.

In the late 90s I discovered at work that if one went on the internal computer system and followed the link to British Association of Women in Policing one could then use the browser to surf whatever one wanted.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Early 2000s our first home PC. £1300 for 256K and 4Gb.

 

[ianrauk]

1990 with a computer running basic wired to our Berlin office. Was mainly for stock control but could send rudimentary messages. (I also had a huge big feck off mobile phone at the time)
First email I remember sending was 1998, on a windows 95 on a 386 desktop.

 

[midlife]

Like User I started on JANET at Manchester Uni then moved over to dial-up on AOL about 22 years ago. In fact so long ago I had the pick of e-mail address and have my own name as my e-mail address easy to remember LOL

Shaun

 

[srw]

If you're talking about the internet as we know it, then it's been around since the early 1990s. As I've pointed out, other networks were available but these were not the WWW as we know it.

The WWW is not the internet. The WWW is one of many methods for viewing and transmitting information over the internet - it just happens to be the currently dominant one. The first website was put online in summer 1991 in CERN in France and Switzerland, and web browsers started becoming available in UK institutions the following year.

My first foray into the internet was also in 1991, using email, newsgroups and other bulletin board-style technologies. The first couple of times a web browser popped up, because it was the method my then institution had started using to deliver documentation, I closed it down because I thought it was an error. My earliest contribution to the internet that I can find still online is from about 1994 - a list of the top ten sexiest composers of all time.

 

[Fnaar]

1995, I think, at work. Was also doing an MA part-time, so got a PC and internet at home...
beep beep beep beep beep beep (go and make a cuppa) beep beep beep beep (have some dinner) beep beep beep hurray! We're on!

 

[Markymark]

I started the first ever helmet debate back in '96.

 

[Dayvo]

1995 when I started at uni.

I went on a new beginner's course and 20 minutes later, at the end of the 'lesson', the 'teacher' asked if we had any questions (she assumed everyone was familiar with the terminology) and I asked her when the next new beginner's course was cos I didn't understand a thing.

IIRC I was mostly interested in following the cricket.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Round about '99.

 

[tyred]

I first used the internet at college just after I started in September 1997. Good old Win95 on Dell 486 150MHz Machines. There were about 40 of these in the library, free to use but you had to put 10p into a machine before you could print anything.

I created the Yahoo email address I still use in about 1998.

I got dial up internet at home c1999.

So in summary, I've been posting shoot on the internet since the late 1990s I believe the net can be used for useful purpose too but haven't worked that out yet...

 

[Bazzer]

2000 at home. Apart from the speed I loved the way you could block telephone calls simply by having the modem on. Came in really handy when my wife was pregnant. She was very seriously ill with morning sickness pretty much throughout the pregnancy and was hospitalised a couple of times. Switching on the internet was an easy way to stop my late mother in law ringing (what felt like), every half an hour for health updates.
Can't remember for work. I know a rudimentary messaging system existed from around 1986, but that was on a closed system. I didn't have one of the horrible green screen terminals as I didn't need one for my paper based work.