for me it was back in 2012 i think

  • TimeSquirrel
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    1. Was 19 still living at home when my Dad switched us to something called “@home” broadband, which became Comcast a couple years later. I do remember being blown away by seeing images load almost instantly on a web page.

    That was also the last year I remember using Netscape Navigator as a daily driver. It was IE for the next four years until I switched to Firefox, and have been using that ever since. Yes, IE blows, but Navigator was starting to become a bloated mess as it started to suffer from feature creep trying to win people back.

  • mortimer
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    7 months ago

    2012!?

    Holy Smokes!

    I thought I was late by 2005.

  • @[email protected]
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    27 months ago

    2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.

  • Ebby
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    157 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    47 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    27 months ago

    2009 was when my family switched from dialup to wifi and all of a sudden my old laptop had access to internet.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.

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    7 months ago

    I think our household was the first in my primary school class to get broadband, which I think was the late 90s. It was still measured in kbps (like 250-500 or so?), but it didn’t cost more to be online permanently. (ADSL).

  • palordrolap
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    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.