1999 born here with a question... I live in the Deep South (Tennessee) and my older brother, who was born in 1987, says that none of his classmates in elementary school cared about the internet or used it much. He says they didn't warm up to the internet or use it much until around 7th grade.
Is he full of shit? 7th grade was the 2000-2001 school year for him. Why would the internet take so long to catch on at his school if it was released to the public in 1993?
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born in 99 here too, didnt use the internet much till 06 at the earliest.(think it was later desu)
shit was expensive and slow, played flash games and education games
nobody my age gave a shit about the internet til 2010ish, and that was just for facebook and BBM
at around that time flash games became commonplace. I remember in 2001 the new craze was all the funny shoot the teletubby and Osama bin laden flash games from sites liek newgrounds. Youtube didn't exist, google was something brand new but most still typed the adress because it was shit.
BBM?
Hmm. So there's some truth to what my brother said?
Born 87 as well. My dad worked for a telecom, so we got CompuServe in the early 90s. Internet didn't become a thing that resembled the modern internet until 2000ish. I remember directly dialing friends to play 1v1 shitty games because ipx was so fragile. IRC worked great though to talk.
I'd say so. But the internet was boring, it was something one would use only because you were bored out of your mind, and you still felt bored surfing. Now It seems to have grown on everyone, which is normal considering it has grown many tenfolds over since then.
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blackberrys were super cheap and popular 2010-2013, id still use one if they were up to date
>I didn't use the Internet until I was 7
woah late bloomer here huh
didnt use it for communication till 2010ish
just played flash games (newgrounds, armour games) and went on the spriters resource to edit it in paint.
And making games on Scratch, good times
E-zone anyone? Lenny loosejocks ftw
Modems and black-and-green desktops.
In elementary school these were the norm, complete with 5" floppies and "learning" software.
Sounds right, 2002-2004 things really started to get mainstream and DSL being available to rural areas.
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Born 88, had my first computer in 1999. Was in fifth grade in 2000, we already had a computer room, but first dedicated programming classes years later.
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I've used the internet roughly since 2000 and even then it was more of a nerd thing still. I would say that's when wider adoption actually started and it took at least 5 more years until most people were using it somewhat regularly.
Even then it was still different. Almost no one I knew had a laptop and even mobile devices with internet access, so people were only online when they were physically at their desktop. Only after 2010 it really became close to how it is now.
Born in 1990, Belgium. 6th grade had computer classes, internet became popular among my peers around 2001-2002 when broadband became available everywhere in my region.
I loved walkabout.
These posts reminded me of the first time I got Slackware compiled and running on a shitty old laptop I bought (looking back it was prob stolen). Back then 802.11b routers were eventually a thing, but I probably spent a month trying to fix the ndiswrapper drivers to get connected. Was one of my first exposures to programming. People born later don't realize how far the Linux kernel has come...
>ndiswrapper
I had totally forgotten about that. Those were dark times.
Urgh... I don't know if you guys are screwing with me or not. There's this one guy born in 1983 who told me that my brother's an idiot and that everyone had the internet by 1995. He gets mad whenever people say that it's only the later 2000s and 2010s where the internet became super convenient with streaming and stuff, and that the 90s weren't that different internet-wise.
>Born in '79
>Parents finally got internet in '95
>I now have an email address!
>I can surf the World Wide Web
>Tell my classmates in high school
>"Haha dork"
>"user you're such a fucking nerd"
>"virgin"
>mfw
Shit didn't catch on until norms could "omg kewl rofl" each other on AOL instant messenger, around 2000
from '91 didn't get rid of dial up at the house till senior year of highschool
If he was born in 1987 I pretty much gauarntee he didn't so much as use the internet before he was 10 years old. Probably your family didn't have a computer before 1998.
Population in general didn't get interested in the internet until Napster. That would have been about 2000/2001 iirc.
The vast majority of sites on the web before that were highly specialised Nerd frums. Effectively the board letters you see at the top of the page. That was the internet prior to ~2001.
Can't say what really changed it. Easy guess would be early social media like MySpace, maybe blogging, Wikipedia. Maye newgrounds and flash games, but I tend to think the big driver was easier filesharing. Google bringing non-shit search capability to the table really changed a lot of shit.
The web as it was peaked around 2007-2008. Then smartphones and news sites and Facebook/Twitter/etc arrived and laid waste to what the web was.
No-one in school gave two shits about the internet outside of video games. In the 1990s, video game websites were the fucking internet as far as people in school were concerned. Actually a far more advanced medium in some respects.
We got the internet August 1998 when he was 11. You seem like a psychic. ^^
>big brother didn't develop interest in internet until he hit puberty.
almonds are really activating here
goddamn son, did you ever lanasbigboobs or thumbzilla?
Fuck off normie, internet was great back then. So many tight nit communities, cool software, etc. Go back to your jewtube and fagbook.
They have the internet in Tennessee now? Wonders never cease.
Why the hell would normies use the internet in the 90s? There was no DSL, social media, no youtube, google didn't exist, and no smartphones,
I had 56k until about 2008
I was born in 1986.
Everyone in 6th grade that had the internet was middle class and up only. The one guy that had a CD burner made mad cash.
If you used the internet back then you were a nerd. Not even the school had internet.
I actually ended up really bitter in life because I learned a ton from the internet and it had so much cool shit, but everyone bullied me about it in 7th-9th grade until it became more common and everyone was bullying me for not being on Facebook and being hip with the internet.
he's a normie
OG nerds were on the internet and IRC from '97
I was born in 1990 and didn't have a phone or even an email address until I was 15.
I feel part of the very tail end of a generation that was able to grow up with some semblance of privacy and independence.
I wish I had been introduced to computers and programming earlier, but not in the cancerous destructive ways kids today are.
Universal computer and internet access has ruined (both the mental health and general intelligence of) almost everyone since, you poor things.
Post the first/real Eternal September there seems to have been a few notable leaps in popularizing[destrying] the places of the internet I've found myself since getting here.
2007-2010 saw the rise of Socialmedia and the smartphone.
2011 or 2012 was the first buttcoin explosion.
2014 was whatever the fuck the thing on /v/ was.
2016 was the election.
Each of these brought with it a flood of undesirables who (in some cases overnight) overwhelmed and redefined the places they found themselves based on their [mis]conceptions and desires, completely destroying any previous community or culture that came before.
The hope that keeps me going is that at some point, a leap in technology and adoption will create a physical or protocol rift in the network.
New adopters will find themselves on the other side and normalfags will move there because PROGRESS.
We will once again be left in peace.
Born in 1995 lived in CA my entire life and we began using computers by the second grade (mainly shit like kidpix, MSpaint, and some shitty typing games). People from the south really are backwards morons.
Your second grade probably came after OP's brother's 7th.
1994 here, I remember talking with friends about computers for the first time around 2003 when warcraft 3 came out.
i have lots of friends whose first "computer" was a psp.
Shit was dope, internet acces, mp4, youtube, music, etc.
I can guarantee you 100% male psp owners used it as a porn machine at some point because the pc was a no-go (in another room, locked down, etc).
I'd say consoles were the hot topic with these demo cd/dvd you could get with playstation magazine.
Born in '90 pretty much used internet for flash games, IRC, and runescape until 2007, only used kikebook to troll
normalfags didn't use (ruin) the internet until the mid-2000s
it was a nerd hobby before that, or something people "dabbled" in like bitcoin today.
Computers were still expensive and unreliable, modems were slow, and there wasn't much to do for normies on the early Internet besides e-mail and static webpages. Mid to late 90's it started taking off, but didn't go full mainstream until Y2K.
Born in 76, got my first computer (VIC 20) when I was 7, was online on BBS's through the late 80's and first got on to the internet in the very early 90's. Started an ISP in 96, and ran that for 15 years.
Ask me anything about online access from the pre-internet era until today.
Born in 1991 and I used the internet starting around 2000. We had 56k dialup on our family computer. I jerked off to internet porn when I was 12, in 2003. We had broadband (300 KB/s) until 2 years ago, when we got fiber (100 Mb/s)
The internet only became popular in the early 2000s because of Napster. It was an unproven sketchy technology beforehand. The major two catalyst that drove it into public consciousness was the reverse engineer hack of the Mp3 format "Thank you Dr Fraunhofer" and distribution of the tools to create it as freeware. This caused the Faunhofer organization to give up on public sale of the tools and just license for major corporations, a wise, if unorthodox move at the time. With the tools in the wild the mp3 scene started flourishing on the original piracy triumvirate of Usenet/IRC/Direct Connect++. This produced the original seed of mp3s. Once Napster came around in 2000s there was now enough content and a piece of software that could let any braindead moron download and share mp3s. Prior to Napster the Internet was just some shady service that was slow and more focused on business and information like finance and university papers. There was some entertainment hubs but these were weak and not enough to draw people in to slam down 1.5-2k on a computer and however much for a dedicated phone line. It was only when Napster popped up and the various teenagers and young adults started raving about how amazing "the internet" was that the boomers and Gen-X started wholesale buying in with Dell being the most common PC. It was only in 2007 that the cancer REALLY arrived in the form of the Iphone bringing a deluge of fucking retards and their social media diseases to the forefront of modern discourse.
I think that interpretation of the internet in the 90s is from someone who was either surrounded by techno nerds, grew up wealthy, or doesn't realize not everyone had the same life experience they did.
What you're running into are hipsters who are borrowing cred from a quick glance at a Wikipedia summary.
I bought a Dell PIII PC in 1998 at age 19, at a cost of over $4,000. I opened a Hotmail address and an eBay account that year. The dotcom boom was in full swing but this generally only meant there were websites where you could buy things now, which was a great novelty. Otherwise, the only thing to do with the early internet was online gaming (MMO, FPS, flash) and very slow porn. I'd say the internet didn't really start taking off until cable broadband became widely available between 2001-2005. Prior to that, you had DSL but you had to be within a certain range of a telco node and prior to that we don't even speak of 56k modems. No doubt your friend also claims to have had ISDN or a T1 to post on Usenet but he's a big fat liar.
I did dial-in to a BBS on an Apple IIc around 1993-95 but 2800baud to read local neckbeard posts wasn't much excitement.
I'll follow up and say that it takes about a decade for a technology to find widespread usage and formalization of it's structure and intent. The "World Wide Web" came to be in 1992 and only started REALLY taking off around 2000-2002, a decade later. Computers in the early 90s cost around $3000 which is close to $5k in modern prices. By the time the 2000s hit computers were down to 1k-1.5k which is still steep at 2.5k when inflation is adjusted. The same is for phones. Most people started getting phones in the late 90s but the technology only matured around the late 2000s with the modern smartphones being released.
I'm actually interested in running the running an ISP portion. How the hell did that work? I mean the marketing and getting customers portion had to be a fucking bitch because so few people actually had computers let alone an interest in accessing the internet for such a long time. Also why did you stop running one?1
>I bought a Dell PIII PC in 1998
It wasn't hard to get customers, even in the early days. Yes, the market was smaller, but even if only 10% of the people wanted internet service, demand was still far greater than supply. Our biggest problem in the early years was provisioning dial-up service fast enough to keep up with demand.
This was in the dial-up days, and you had to have enough modems to prevent busy signals at peak hours (around 8pm). If you started getting busy signals, users would try to get on earlier, and then would stay on instead of disconnecting and reconnecting later because they were afraid of not being able to at that time. So, busy signals were self perpetuating. The telcos often had a minimum of a month lead time to put in service, often more, so the hard part was planning ahead to make sure you had just enough capacity for your expected growth a few months out.
Stopped running one because the cable companies and telco DSL's pretty much put independent ISP's out of business. I'm not mad about it, it was a wild ride while it happened.
I don't think so. I was born and raised in New York, and even in 1999-2000 when I was in preschool, I recall the teachers introducing the concept of computers to us.
They likely realized it would become a bigger part of the future, and they were better off introducing it sooner than later to keep the kids from lagging behind. I can't imagine a place in the deep south having the funding to fully equip schools with computers beyond administrative bullshit before the dawn of the 21st century.
Only nerds used computers in the 90s. No one cared about the internet as part of their lifestyle until smart phones came around.
Ps, you're a normie.
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Hiya geezers. Est. 1963. Purchssed my first Amstrad in 1990 from Rumbelows Finchley Rd Branch. Internet took off in 1996. Got my e-mail address around 1998. Still use a feature phone.
>& now, clean yr rooms, kids!
Runescape 2003, 2004. Anyone who didn't play and get pked in the wildy and lose your hard earned rune set can kill themselves right now. I expect a webm of your entire suicide replied to this post through a deadman switch coded in C++ or Python. Any deviation from my requirements is an automatic loss of respect from me, and you'll be frowned upon metaphysically.
do you still use the same email address?
And this was a great search engine.
>The ones we got nowadays are BS
>do you still use the same email address?
One of them has remained the same but I have added more.
Dial up sucked kiddo
It's not the same internet when your max download speed is 2.4K/s
You could easily spend an hour downloading a 240x180 heavily compressed mpg that was 10-15s long
Even web browsing was slow
Click link, go get a crystal pepsi, come back and maybe the images on the page are half loaded
Born in 1990. Always had a family computer. Got internet around 1996. AOL had some kind of kid zone where you can explore the non-porn sites, which wasn't very much back then. Most popular sites among classmates were CartoonNetwork and Nickelodeon. Social media consisted of IRC, forums, and for real life friends, AIM. Every summer all my friends would get hyped for Camp Hyrule, which was the Nintendo forum's big event. I don't remember much about back then, but it was around 2000 when there was an explosion of sites. All of a sudden there was Newgrounds, Miniclip, Totse, Runescape, SomethingAwful, and a bunch of other shit. That was the point where every young person HAD to get a computer. Also we didn't get DSL until 2006. Shit sucked.
>1999 born
underage b...... fuck
1999-2000 when I was in preschool, I recall the teachers introducing the concept of computers to us.
>They likely realized it would become a bigger part of the future
Bro, they've been introducing computers in schools since the early 80's. Computers predate the internet by several decades. Also, that point in time was after the dot-com boom and Bill Gates was already one of the richest men in America.
>I can't imagine a place in the deep south having the funding to fully equip schools with computers
When businesses get rid of their old computers they donate them to schools for a tax write-off. Back then it wasn't uncommon for offices to buy new machines every year. Also Apple would also donate entire computer labs for poor schools.
>we don't even speak of 56k modems
I still have memories of being a teenager, jerking it to internet porn over my 56k, dick in hand waiting for the picture to download line by line
DUDE WEED LMAO
88 here. we used 28k (which actually ran at 1-3k) to access usenet until we got 56k (12-16k) dial-up. once we could actually load pages at a rate that didn't make you want to smash your face into the keyboard like an impatient dickbat we started browsing bombshock and &totse. &totse became zoklet sometime around dsl becoming available in my area. since then the web has gone downhill with large companies drawing everybody to botnets where everything interesting is censored. the chans and irc are the last remnants of the wild west of the internet on the clear web. the dark web still has some goofy fun stuff but it's so hard to track down urls and faggot teens who are in the know never heard of sharing. i've literally spent days on the dark web and found nothing that was any worse than what was on the clear web in the mid to late 90s but for some retarded reason everybody there thinks a site with hacked phone porn is some big fucking secret to be guarded.
Holy shit and I thought I was the wee little baby on this board
Home computers took off throughout the 90s. Remember that the early 90s was still DOS, not the most sophisticated thing on earth. Take the incremental rise in personal computers, add in the lag time of public school bureaucracy, and early 2000s make sense.
Born in the early 80s, internet wasn't even a thought until the first time I saw it in 5th grade where our computer teacher had an apple she was dual booting with Windows, and setup an audio chat with some school in Europe
finally got dial-up from a local ISP in about 96 on a Compaq running Win95, was pretty shitty on that 28.8kbps modem and it never hit full speed
used to go on newsgroups because funding bewbs was easier than on websites
I about shat myself when I went to college in the early 00s and first experienced T1/3 speeds
out of nostalgia i looked up what happened to zoklet. i found a reddit post pointing to
>niggasin.space
lol, it's not the same but it's still going
Dial up foo, you try looking up boobies with dial up.
Your brother is a generalizing retard, people used the internet before he was born.
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That's just a forum. I remember it being a text file archive.
Nah man, back in 2001 to 2009 people used to be ostracized for belonging to online forums and IRC. Now normies can't live without their faceberg. How the tides have turned..
Born in 90 my (much) older sister had a computer for grad school stuff in 95 or 96 but wouldn't let anyone near it. I would occasionally play mini golf on it but besides that nothing to really hold the interest of a 5 year old.
yeah it's lame, they used to have an archive on the front page and then a forum under the community tab. i remember 99% of what was in the text files to be dangerous and/or incredibly stupid. there were probably over 30 text files on getting high on nutmeg and banana peels. there was at least 3 guides on how to huff gasoline and spray paint, lol.
Tennesseefag here too. 1998 born. I dont think he is full of shit if he lived in tennessee that whole time. Im pretty sure the south just takes its sweet ass time adopting newer technology. Tennessee is better among the rest of the biblel belt.
The internet was probably more popular in the north east and in the west.
>as if any mature person publicly announces what perverted online forums they go to.
Facebook for most people isnt really for intelligible discussion. It's just constant reassurance for normalfags.
hmm maybe if 100% of your male psp owning friends were poor. most of us upper class white boys had our pwn PCs in our bedrooms to jerk off too. My PSP was for video games
Ha, I actually remember reading the banana peel one and thinking "this is the dumbest shit ever". Then I find out 10 years later it was taken straight from the Anarchist Cookbook.
There were a lot of legitimately useful ones though. I would read a ton about physics and electronics. This was a few years before Wikipedia really took off.
If you have ever watched porn on your playstation, your opinion doesnt matter.
It was only expensive and slow based on location.
In my area in 99 you could get a megabit down. By 02 you could get 5 megs. By 2004 it was 15. By 2008 it was 50. All for a pack in price with cable for $125-150 a month.
The first megabit down was a t1 like dsl, but by 01/02 we had cable lines everywhere and by 08 we had fiber.
No. Total lies.
You are too young to be posting here.
Some things just take a little time to really catch on, and usually it's down to the technology needing to mature before the masses see any appeal in it or have any real use for it. (And for prices to come down for it to be more generally affordable.) Throughout the 80s and into the early 90s, the precursor online services were almost exclusively the domain of turbonerds, and mostly adult ones at that. Once the internet hit... it was still largely the domain of the adult turbonerd. It took a few years for things to progress to where it was both of interest to and within reach of a wider mass of average but tech-savvy families.
You're used to the internet just being A Thing that people have and take it for granted, much like my generation (I was born 1980) saw television. It seemed ridiculous to us when older people talked about so few households even having a single television for so long, when most people we knew had two. But that's how things are; things start rare and expensive, and it takes a while for them to get affordable and common.
My shitty rural public schools had an entire computer lab with 30 PCs, around 10 more PCs in the library, and most classrooms had 1 PC. These were all windows 95 machines during the late 90s. It really wasn’t that bad.
>tfw old enough to be your dad
your brother is right
DS owners used to have to use this piece of shit, but it worked
imagine being this much of a stupid fucking zoomer
most people didn't fucking have it and didn't have BROADBAND until like 2003+. i remember having dial up in like '97 but we were EARLY.
computers themselves were also very expensive.
>computers themselves were also very expensive.
Only new computers. Anything more than 6 month old was considered obsolete garbage. You could actually find some
Believe it Zoomer.
I'm 29 and I didn't have internet until 1996-1997ish. My family came a bit late though.
When I was like 6 years old we played Super Nintendo, N64, Playstation 1, went to movies or rented from distribution centers like blockbuster, had pizza parties, played outside in the yard, spent a lot more time on the phone (because talking to friends you knew WAS the internet), went to places.
Started getting internet in school around 1998 at the earliest, by 1999-2000 I was "browsing". Finally got what was known as "high speed" internet around 2002.
It caught on rapidly and changed the world.
In the 90s and early 2000s? Anything you could find for that cheap would be almost completely useless shit, not 6-month-old "obsolete".
I had a black DSi as a internet access device since it was built in.
So much porn was witnessed on that thing