for me it was back in 2012 i think
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2012!?
Holy Smokes!
I thought I was late by 2005.
Somewhere around 2005
Stop?
screeching telephone noises
I just flirted with your modem.
I hope you use Zmodem so we can pick up where we left off if we lose our connection.
ATDT
Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
2002/2003
- 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.
2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.
2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.
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 !
Somewhere in the mid 1990s, my company provided ISDN so I could work from home
Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP’s question) didn’t work very well, and DSL wasn’t an option yet I think.
For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:
ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.
But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.
Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.
Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.
I don’t know how much it costs. I remember being shocked at the price but the company was willing to pay, so great. At the time, there weren’t too many people able to work from home
The price wasn’t too bad for me. I didn’t have a very high income, but I paid for my ISDN myself.
But I do remember the improvement after switching to DSL, even if this was the early days of DSL that didn’t work thaaat great, it was still way better than analog modem or ISDN.
2008 I think.
2001, when I got DSL.
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…
2000, when the dial up service I was using announced they were shutting down.
