What was your first internet connection?

[CyberInferno]

Compuserve Classic has finally been laid to rest (http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=NDA1NjAsLCwsLCwx). With that in mind, what was your first internet connection (advertised speed, not actual speed)?

This poll is in conjunction with this week's Technology Round-up (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1167872)

[phoenixinflames]

Oh the dial up noise...(aw, wait, sorry, phone call, i'm getting kicked off)

[JoeJealousy]

i remember my AOL dial up days.....glad thats over

[darkmartheight]

My mom got AOL. It was so slow. And I hated how everything had to be in the one AOL window. What the hell was the point of that?

[lava890]

I had Prodigy with a 9,600bps modem. Then we upgraded to 14,400bps.

[AtTheEndOfItAll...]

i remember being real little and my dad had a super slow dial up connection that he had to use for work, we didn't have like an internet browser or anything, but i remember him having to connect to it and send stuff for his job

i also remember being like 6 or 7 and getting a cd drive installed in our computer for christmas and getting a bunch of cd games, this was like back in 94 or 95 when computers didn't come with cd drives standard... wow, now i feel old

[fightinirish217]

That AOl dial up sound was the worst collection of noises ever created.

[billyboatkid]

Fuckin AOL. The glory days.

Kazaa lite and brand new images called porn. (Hadn't upgraded to videos yet, shits to slow)

Songs taking forever to dl.

[Rest_Easy]

I remember when the internet came out. I think it was a tuesday...
I downloaded like 5 nirvana pics which filled up my hard drive and took 4 hours.. (i may be exaggerating... I don't recall)

It was 14.4 modem and we had that forever until 28.8 (everyone else had 56k at the time of our 28.8 but our town didn't support it) crazyness.
We never had AOL because AOL didn't run to where we lived. We had local internet which came a bit after the rest of the world.

[Neo Cassady]

28.8k AOL. Sounded like bugs bunny doing construction when it connected.

[Neo Cassady]

i also remember being like 6 or 7 and getting a cd drive installed in our computer for christmas and getting a bunch of cd games, this was like back in 94 or 95 when computers didn't come with cd drives standard... wow, now i feel old

lol

[Rest_Easy]

i remember being real little and my dad had a super slow dial up connection that he had to use for work, we didn't have like an internet browser or anything, but i remember him having to connect to it and send stuff for his job

i also remember being like 6 or 7 and getting a cd drive installed in our computer for christmas and getting a bunch of cd games, this was like back in 94 or 95 when computers didn't come with cd drives standard... wow, now i feel old

I remember loading games on a floppy drive with the large floppy floppy disks. I think wheel of fortune required 2 of them.... Oh and there was no internet and cd drives weren't even considered. I was playing oregon trail and listening to god knows what on my cassette tapes.

How old do you feel now?

[Shin Akuma]

33.6 babe!!

[tonighttonight0]

AOL Dial-up was the shit back in 98

[Mike Kraft]

I had internet before it was the internet. It was just a big IRC program.

[SoCoSquid4]

56k dialup when i was...10 or 11. so. 96 or 97ish. yeahhh

[Christrings]

56kbps dial-up compete with piercing dial tone.

[Ryzenfall]

I misread this poll as "What is your favorite internet connection?" I thought who on earth would go with anything less than the fastest choice?

I honestly don't know for sure what my first internet connection was, but it was terrible.

[Roadie]

i am not sure if anyone remembers but their used to be games that you played with friends on your computer (windows 3.1 days), you either had to dial his number or he dialed yours and that was your way of playing the game against each other, i did that before i ever had the internet (1990)

[Roadie]

dial up had the most annoying connection, it was worse than your alarm clock going off

[CyberInferno]

My mom got AOL. It was so slow. And I hated how everything had to be in the one AOL window. What the hell was the point of that?
haha that was AOL's way of making sure you used their branded internet browser. It's how they cheated in the browser wars back in the day when Netscape had a way better browser.
I had Prodigy with a 9,600bps modem. Then we upgraded to 14,400bps.
Wow...that's some serious old school right there.
I remember when the internet came out. I think it was a tuesday...
I downloaded like 5 nirvana pics which filled up my hard drive and took 4 hours.. (i may be exaggerating... I don't recall)

It was 14.4 modem and we had that forever until 28.8 (everyone else had 56k at the time of our 28.8 but our town didn't support it) crazyness.
We never had AOL because AOL didn't run to where we lived. We had local internet which came a bit after the rest of the world.
You were better off without AOL. Though I recall its glory days where it actually had exclusive material on its "channels." I remember I filled our computer memory so much we had to reduce the display to 16 colors from 256.
I remember loading games on a floppy drive with the large floppy floppy disks. I think wheel of fortune required 2 of them.... Oh and there was no internet and cd drives weren't even considered. I was playing oregon trail and listening to god knows what on my cassette tapes.

How old do you feel now?
Yeah, the best was having to log out of Windows 3.1 to play DOS games, then using the DOS commands to navigate to your hard/floppy drive and load it. Kids these days have it so easy. Then the odds of you getting a mouse working in DOS were were slim to none. There was no double-clicking back in the DOS days ;-)
I had internet before it was the internet. It was just a big IRC program.
Haha, pre-web internet...good times. You've got me there. I didn't get the internet back until Netscape 2.0 was released.
i am not sure if anyone remembers but their used to be games that you played with friends on your computer (windows 3.1 days), you either had to dial his number or he dialed yours and that was your way of playing the game against each other, i did that before i ever had the internet (1990)
Yeah, I used to play Warcraft with a friend that way. And then one of you would get a phone call and *whoops* there goes your game.