for me it was back in 2012 i think
I think 2008 or so.
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 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 !
2012? Brutal I’m guessing you lived far away from civilization.
For me It was probably 2004.
- Went from 56K to 3Mbps cable. It was mind-blowingly fast at the time.
But then in 2004 my parents had to go back to dialup for awhile to save money, which was brutal. Especially since I would video chat with my GF often and download all sorts of stuff from KaZaA. Have you ever tried to do a video call on dialup? 0.1-0.5 FPS and compressed so badly that it’s hard to make out even basic facial features. It’s a miracle that it worked at all.
Pretty early on. 2000? Cable Internet was only slightly more expensive and it made so much more sense, given dial ups limitations.
2001, when I got DSL.
Stopped selling it in about 2001? Stopped using it in 1999. I was fortunate enough to have been part of an ISP startup when T1 was coming in, and my apartment was serviced by me.
Fun times, I ran a BBS and traveled around my town to the 3 ISPs that had started or were starting (all tiny) asking for a job. One of them was 2 guys who were setting up 300 external modems in a York Properties building basement. I got to be employee #3 on site, learned so much there since it was ground up.
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…
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.
2008 I think.
Got DSL in like 2003? I remember some friends with 128 ISDN back in like 1998, that was mind blowing to me, not having to dial in.
We switched to cable around 2008.
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I’d say 1999, first DSL was only 1.1M
