When Did You Start Using the Internet

[_Cathy_]

I got my internet connection around 1996 and it costs P1 per minute! Unlimited was more or less P2000 per month and the ISPs that I remember were Infocom and Skyinet.

The first time I ever experienced getting connected was through BBS around 1995 but I found it too complicated

When was your first online experience?

[_Cathy_]

Mods, sorry, this is supposed to be at the Technology Sub Forum.

[safeorigin]

started around 1998 back when we ordered medicine online...

[cpsolt]

i started using internet way back 1996. we had a term paper research and our prof wanted footnotes sourced from the internet. i think it was P50 per hour or 30 mins.

[Manilablock]

year 1999 dial up pa kami nun, ung modem naka share sa fax machine, minsan nakakalimutan na shared sa line kaya pag meron nag e-mail e naiingat namin ung handset kaya na cut ung connection sa email.

[_Cathy_]

i started using internet way back 1996. we had a term paper research and our prof wanted footnotes sourced from the internet. i think it was P50 per hour or 30 mins.

This was in Manila? P50 for 30 minutes is very expensive esp in 1996 money. I remember very well that is was P1 per minute or P60 per hour. My subscription was not unlimited kasi so I had to control my internet usage. But I am guilty for using hack accounts

[_Cathy_]

year 1999 dial up pa kami nun, ung modem naka share sa fax machine, minsan nakakalimutan na shared sa line kaya pag meron nag e-mail e naiingat namin ung handset kaya na cut ung connection sa email.

hotmail pa uso na email hehehe

[Retz]

80's and 90's thread pa rin ba ito?

[ghosthunter]

i think mid 90s when I was still using BBS message boards.

[jonski]

2000. nakakamiss yung sound pag nagkokoneck yung modem Favorite ko pa noon ang Yahoo messenger Dami liveshow

[baludoy]

tandaan ko price pa ng access to the internet then was pegged at 70+/hr in internet cafes tapos sobra bagal pa

btw, ginagamit ko pa din iyong first ever e-mail add ko

[Mguy]

I was connected and emailing since 1989. Me and my friend put up a bulletin board service using a software called Opus and it was connected to the Fidonet, a prelude to the internet. We could download software also back then using a 2400mbps modem.

Created my Yahoo ID back in 1995.

[12vdc]

1995 using 9.6k 3com usrobotics modem. Irc was the internet social media back then.

DSL does not exist yet, ISP's are using RAS server and consumer banking are using 9.6 sync/async same RS232 port.

Ethernet was just starting then, puro thicknet pa gamit.. haha

[anonemus]

Sometime in the mid 90s when the company I worked for decided to use email instead of fax as means of communications. I still remember upgrading to a 56Kbs modem years later and was amazed by how fast it was

[xwangbu]

1996 or 97 yata ako. mga instructors namin mga eng eng pa sa internet nun.
nagpagawa ng research - di nila alam na puro copy paste lang yung sa ken. :D

then around 19999 or 2000, nag-OJT ako sa Moscom dati.
big time ka pa nun pag naka-56kbps modem ka
sa bahay.
then nauso yung mga prepaid cards - was working on an ISP around 2001 - yun
yata peak period nung mga dialup subsscriptions.
after that - pinatay na ng DSL yung mga dialup subscriptions.

antanda ko na pala... :D

[ZENMasterTYL]

sabi ko na nga ba trick question to eh...

nagkaalaman na sino mga damatans, este beterano sa internet

[cardict]

sabi ko na nga ba trick question to eh...

nagkaalaman na sino mga damatans, este beterano sa internet

Just started:

[vinj]

sabi ko na nga ba trick question to eh...

nagkaalaman na sino mga damatans, este beterano sa internet

Hi, I'm a newbie here. Just got my driver's license last week. Anong car na less than 5 years old ang kasya sa budget ko na P100,000? Dapat matibay, mura at madami pyesa, low mileage, masarap i-hataw ng mabilis, at matipid sa gas. Dapat madali din i-japorms (lowering springs, muffler, etc.) sa budget ko.



Ako, circa 1995 or 1996 siguro. :ninja:


Pacific Internet ata tapos Netscape yung browser ko nun.

[ghosthunter]

I remember my first modem was a borrowed one. It was a 2,400 baud internal modem. No internet then yet but lots of BBS then (FIDONET, etc) Later I got 14,400 baud external modem and then 28,800 baud. I even experimented with "shotgun" technology which uses TWO 28.8k modems at the same time to double the transmit and receive data rates, effectively running at 57.6kbaud when both modems connects at full speed with the internet provider. Downside, needs two phone lines which means I have to be doubly sure no one picks up the phone which i am online

LINK: http://www.reocities.com/SiliconVall...8/bbslist.html

[JohnM]

1996. Hijacked the only connection sa dorm because the guy doing research on it was out for summer vacation. As in literally nilipat namin ang coax from ground floor to 3rd floor via the balcony. Got on IRC and ICQ and tinuruan pa kami ng netiquette ng mga pre-teens (kuno). No hanky-panky though. Mas mabilis maghanap ng pr0n sa ilalim ng mga mattress kesa mag-load ng isang picture

That was the time na puno/mabagal ang yahoo.com kaya yahoo.ca ang email ko.