Not sure of the year - I was preteen maybe. For some of the years, good internet didn’t exist; for others my dad was too cheap to pay for internet/a second phone line. So we used our modem (9600 kbps?) to connect to the local library, and used Gopher to access the (free) internet. To clarify, that means that it was the wide world of yellow-white characters on a black screen. No graphics. I think eventually I discovered ANSI color so that I could get lots of colors for the latest games like perhaps Castle Adventure.
Eventually I think we convinced my dad to get Prodigy or some such. I think we got a 14400 modem at some point too.
I do remember visiting my brother in 1994, and he showed me his Internet. The only thing I remember now was a list of alt.sex pages, and the one I found most amusing was alt.sex.Barney. :dubious:
The one thing that placed the Internet into the public’s mind more than anything else, IMNSHO, was the Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka murder trial in Canada in 1993. Canadian authorities realized that with the Internet, they could not restrict media coverage of this extremely lurid story as much as they had been able to before.
Yeah, I remember being a kid and saying, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was this machine you could go to somewhere that had all the information in the whole world in it?” And now we kinda sorta do.
A year or two…but maybe a few more. I associate 2400 baud modems with the late 80’s. I honestly didn’t know people were using them to get on the internet in 1997…I don’t think I ever ran across anyone still using one while working internet tech support starting in '96, and I talked to a LOT of people.
I like how in the video they refer to “installing the Internet on your computer,” as if you are actually able to install the entire thing locally. That usage is still around amongst the general public, but it always made me laugh.
In 1978/79 I was online with a KSR33 and a 110 baud acoustic coupler. Would dial into a place called Call Computer. Played all sorts of games on an HP1000.
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I associate 2400 baud modems with the late 80’s. I honestly didn’t know people were using them to get on the internet in 1997…I don’t think I ever ran across anyone still using one while working internet tech support starting in '96, and I talked to a LOT of people.