13-07-2003, 15:02
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 159
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How Long have you been using the internet
Just curious to see how the demographics pan out 
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13-07-2003, 15:06
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#2
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Whitworth
Age: 56
Services: Sky Q, Bt Infinity
Posts: 1,546
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3-4 years it feels longer, at the start I was only on an hour or so now and again. Now its round 8 hours a day and weekends are mad.
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13-07-2003, 15:11
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#3
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Guest
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About 5 years
originally with payg Btinternet dialup, then free NTL dialup as soon as it became available. Been on 600k NTL broadband nearly a year now.
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13-07-2003, 15:12
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#4
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Half in the corporeal, half in the etheral
Posts: 37,181
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Checked my first email in November 1996
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13-07-2003, 15:16
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#5
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tonbridge
Age: 58
Services: Amazon Prime Video & Netflix. Deregistered from my TV licence.
Posts: 21,960
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Started using it week before Princess Diana died.
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13-07-2003, 16:56
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#6
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Aberdulais
Services: ntl 20Mbps/Sky+/BT
Posts: 281
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'89 ish
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13-07-2003, 17:01
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#7
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: heckmondwike
Age: 40
Posts: 10,767
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i think it was around 2000/2001 when i had the BT dialup 6-8 package then saw NTL broadband a few months later started on 600k then never looked back since
/me wishes i had the net earlier
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13-07-2003, 17:10
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#8
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tonbridge
Age: 58
Services: Amazon Prime Video & Netflix. Deregistered from my TV licence.
Posts: 21,960
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Quote:
Originally posted by obvious
'89 ish
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13-07-2003, 17:10
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#9
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone
Posts: 26,546
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I was a relative late starter. Only been using it since 1994....
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13-07-2003, 17:15
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#10
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cf.mega poser
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 16,687
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I got it at work in 1994. Got internet at home in 96. I got my first email account in 1990.
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13-07-2003, 17:21
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#11
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Permanently Banned
Join Date: Jun 2003
Age: 40
Posts: 3,044
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At school it was 98, at home it was when the dreamcast came out!
Then got bb and i havent looked back!
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13-07-2003, 17:34
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#12
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Trollsplatter
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North of Watford
Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests
Posts: 38,388
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Quote:
Originally posted by obvious
'89 ish
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C'mon, then, old timer ... tell us what the internet was like back in the olden days!
I first got regular access to the 'net when I started a new job early 1999. Got online for myself with ntl free dial-up at the end of that year.
Been broadband for a little over a year now.
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13-07-2003, 17:37
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#13
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Peterborough
Posts: 47
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Since August 1996.....
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13-07-2003, 18:31
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#14
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 4,223
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Got divorced and got a computer! (second hand oldie!)
1997, Freeserve dialup.
Feb this year - new computer, BB one month later, I'm now a happy camper (till it all goes tits up!)
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13-07-2003, 18:48
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#15
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Essex innit
Age: 52
Services: Sky HD + 16Mb ADSL
BT Telephone
Posts: 15,735
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De ja vu and since I'm feeling lazy tonight I shall now C&P my answer from the "dark side" forum :p
1994 ish, good ole windows 3.1 or whatever it was back then
The joys of low speed modems, flakey ISP connections and very, very basic webpages that took an age to load.
Would'nt like to think how many different ISP's I used over the years trying to find a decent dial up provider, even tried AOL (shudder) for a while.
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