Technology

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.

2000, when the dial up service I was using announced they were shutting down.

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 !

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...

2012? Brutal I'm guessing you lived far away from civilization.

For me It was probably 2004.

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.

99/2000ish i suspect? It was an Optus@Home cable connection when "netstats" was still used. It was sold as an "unlimited" plan, but really it was 10x the average download of your node.

For us, it really was unlimited because we were the only people on our node for ages. As more people connected, we started hitting the limit pretty regular.

You could also spy on your net neighbours usage because the cable modem logging (available via telnet and a default username and password) showed every connection on your node. Not sure of the technical side of this - I think because cable was in a daisy chain from node to properties and back?

Because we were early adopters, sending +++ATH0 in ping packets was super effective too heh.

About 4 hours ago.

I am not 100% sure on the exact year, but some time in the mid, possibly late, 2000s is when I think my family ditched it.

All I know is I have memories of it being somewhere around 2011-12 and not wanting to have the router moved out of my grandma's room because mine was directly below hers, which narrows it down to probably before 2010. Didn't live outside society, either.

2001, when I got DSL.

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.

I stopped once I ran out of hours. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

I think I got DSL in 2000 or 01.

2008 I think.

We switched to cable around 2008.

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.

Pretty early on. 2000? Cable Internet was only slightly more expensive and it made so much more sense, given dial ups limitations.

Stop?

Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.

Somewhere around 2005

2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.

Somewhere in the mid 1990s, my company provided ISDN so I could work from home

As soon as I could.

I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?

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.

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.

1999. I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.

2002/2003

2008. It took a while to be affordable here.

Depends on what you mean by "stop using". We never even had Internet at the house I grew up in, but for at least one job around 2000, we had dial-up on standby in case the ISDN went down, and occasionally used it for side projects even when the ISDN was working. (In fact I'm not sure we ever needed to fail over in the time I was there.). One of those side projects was mine, which means that ~2000 was the first and last time I was a dial-up user.

But then there's provisioning dial-up, which is kind of using it from the other end ...iiif you squint a bit. In that case people were still occasionally signing up with another company I worked for circa 2014. I could probably have found the usage stats back then, but was never curious enough to check and never had the need to, and I've since moved on.

Best as I can tell, that company no longer offers sign-ups to old-school dial-up service. Can't say I'm surprised. I do wonder if they've any old accounts grandfathered in though. I don't remember the dial-up number to check if there's something modem-y on the other end.

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.

1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)

@Live_Let_Live Like, 2001 I think. Got a 256kilobit cable modem.

1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.