How common was it for a teenager in the '90s to have Internet?

I just find it nice to hear the experiences of "proper millennials" of the digital age.
I know I'm technically a millennial, being born at the very end of the generation.

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One day you'll be in your 30s too, it's not so bad

Feels pretty much the same as 20's except the pores on my face are a bit bigger and I'm physically stronger, which kind of confuses me.

It's just the variation between the early, middle and late millennials that I find interesting.
Sure, there are loads of similarities, but it's the differences that make it interesting.

In early to mid 90's you generally got a unix shell account for line $10/month. It was dial-up and you could irc and do email and shit. Most people used it to dcc warez into /tmp because there were small quotas on home directories.

Then after a few years there were dial-up PPP/SLIP accounts which would allow you to use apps on your own pc (like netscape, and graphical clients for ftp and gopher) but it was expensive. Like $40 or $60 month IIRC. Most people would just opt for AOL because there was a CDROM for it attached to every magazine.

There was this software called TIA (The Internet Adapter) that allowed a shell account to mimic a PPP account but it was really slow. I don't remember much about it.

Then PPP became the norm and ISDN and T1 connections were wet dreams and forever out of reach and then everyone started hearing murmurs about this cable internet thing using TV lines.

Shit was crazy.

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Increased tostesterone?

I have no idea.
The only thing I can think of is that my diet at that age was like 90% carbs and now I mostly eat meat.

Sounds like shit became boring and standardized.

The first time using internet (WWW), it felt 'magical'. I don't know what it's like to kids that grow up with it.

Weird, I thought with that trip it'd be the opposite.

Sounds like the first time I played WoW, desu.

Common enough to have access but multiple telephone lines were less so.

not very likely I think internet speeds were like 56kbs back then too so it was brutally slow too

When did splitters for the mainline become a thing?

56k was the good shit my man

Never

Very uncommon over here in germany. In fact, non of my friends had access to the internet. We just met outside at certain key places daily. We didn't even need a phone most of the time.

I remember it taking like half an hour to download 1 song from winMX back when I was little.

Were you rural?

No, I was German.

Not me btw.
Yes, I was fairly rural. 20k pop town

That's probably why.

No not at all. It was a long time before that happened.

I mean, into a monolith. Now, almost everyone has exactly the same type of connection.

Extremely rare in Mexico, so the expected was to get outside to play, kids at school were into Trading Game Cards, toys, soccer, Xbox, PlayStation and GameCube, and tons of Cartoons. I finally got internet until 2009 and I was 13 yrs old (download speed of 160 KB/s) when the costs finally got affordable for pretty much everybody. Until that very same year, internet cafes were really popular and I loved going to those places.

Good cheap internet in USA killed badass cybercafes, too.

This just makes it all seem so trivial and boring nowadays.

Back to those days, you would get a lot of stuff done in two hours. Now you just waste a whole day and do nothing.

>Now you just waste a whole day and do nothing.
Calling other people retarded faggots is not nothing.

I guess that's because of diminished incentive.

Same (99)

'92-Used to go to the library to play Runescape so like 2004

I only knew one guy with ISDN and his dad was an engineer for pg&e. Everyone else had 28k when I was little and 56k when I was a teen.
DSL was technically offered but it was a crap shoot depending on how far from the one or two dslams or how shit your copper was. I knew a girl that got dsl in like 2002 and it ran at around 12k so she just went back to dial up. It was like that until around 2006 when the cable company finally started offering internet.
Such is life in the not major suburbs.

>ISDN

indicatively useless

Did you actually play Classic?

Maybe if you're not American.
BRI/PRI is telephony only jargon.

I was 12 when we got it in 1996. Was pretty wild being able to talk to all kinds of strange foreign cunts from my small town in Straya

Bonza, mate! Crikey!

If you were in a first world country, it was pretty common. However if you lived in a 3rd world shithole like greece, well early-mid 2000s is where home internet became common.
I remember going to net-cafes up until 2006-7 for gaming

Pretty common. Even in my VERY small town in E Kentucky we had dialup in 1995. I think it gave you a bucket of connect time.

Still remember we had this voice chat program for Windows. You'd start it up & they'd be this big room full of users you could click on to start voice chatting with. Was only one way at a time, kinda like an online CB Radio.

Any 90s fags remember what that was? Tele or Tel something I think.

Late 90s it was pretty common in Middle of Nowhere, NZ. I don't remember much from before then.

I was born in 1910 I am over 100 years old. We used Telephones and called E.T to page my PDA. I tell you those were some good times.

I remember my mom having a big ass stack of AOL discs. We'd just make free trials over and over again for internet.

I have a dozen of those USR modems

We used dial-up since the mid 90's in our home, it was even free turning the nights. In 2001 we went for DLS.

We got internet in mid 90s, I remember playing diablo on battlenet, first it was 33.6 dial up, but soon after isdn. It wasnt very common though, many people didnt even have a computer, much less internet connection. Country was Slovakia.

1990 through 1996: pretty darn uncommon
1997 through 1999: increasingly common to the point where if you didn't have it you knew a couple of people who did. And those people did not have to be rich.

This is speaking strictly about home access. By 1999 the majority of teens in 1st world countries had internet access at school.

>It was a long time before that happened.
Not really, it just seemed that way because you were young and because so much was happening so quickly. The time between the web becoming public and the launch of youtube was about the same length of time between the launch of youtube and now.

The library had internet in 1997-1998 I would regularly go there and use it, Yahooligans, 2 cool 4 school, Yahoo Chat before it became a cesspool of bots and then shut down, MSN messenger/hotmail, Finding sites to play chess.
It wasnt as common in households.
2001, came CounterStrike, LAN parties etc at the local internet cafe,
Phones were the nokia 5210. Playing Snake and Snake 2 and texting was a little bit common.
Also internet was really getting motion, almost everyone I knew had dialup
PEEE WOOO DIG DAG DIG DAG SCHHHHH.
Over time the 5210 evolved to flip phones, then started to get the internet on them, then the iPhone came out, bigger screen, games started, apps started, and internet on the phones.
Since then you have probable been aware of the evolution to today.

I had it in 1998 and most people I knew had it earlier than that. This was of course really slow dialup internet on a computer shared by the entire family. In those days a typical teenager could only use the internet when their parents weren't using the computer or the telephone.

Born in 84. Got 56k internet around 1996. Here are a few memories :
> My first experience online was when I went to my father's work and there was Netscape. I had saved URLs on a strip of paper from some tech TV show.
> being a teenager in the 90's mean you were on the web threshold: didn't have a cell/internet when younger but eventually got those as a teenager.
> I didn't have my own computer until 15-16. Until then I used the family computer. Only the family computer had internet access. Sharing internet access between multiple computers was actually forbidden by the provider.
> I made a good friend who lived nearby by using the icq "chat with a random person on the internet". ASL?
> When trying to watch porn, a friend installed some virus that dialed-up a premium rate number.
> Being on the internet prevented phone calls. We eventually got ISDN to get twice the speed copared to regular dial-up plus the ability to make phone calls while online
> We would go to the cybercafe, which had dsl, to play online, LAN games and download big files. It stopped when we all got dsl at home.
> When getting dsl I looked hard at all the providers and found a cheaper option than the well established big telco. We had a 15Go data cap instead of the standard 10Go! Unfortunately the provider got acquired by a big company and price/speed got worse. We switched to another smaller/better provider which also ended up being acquired. It happened three times. Nowadays all choices are long gone.

My family got AOL in the late 90s.

What's so hard to believe about that
t. stopped playing when 3d came

I was born in 88 and didn't have stable internet until around 2000. Before that was all dial up and my parents got mad they could never use the phone line. I shudder to think kids nowadays wip out their ipads during their 20 minute recess break at school.

our family and extended family had internet almost all at the same time, which is around 1996. remember dial-up and my mom getting pissed at me because i closed her "what does my zodiac say about me" quiz and it took forever to load lol

My dad blew his money on all kinds of dumb shit. He spent $5k on a computer, and had internet basically as soon as it was possible to buy it. He never used it much, but I sure did despite being like 8 years old.

My fortunately now-former stepdad was always well ahead of my friends' parents on internet stuff because he worked in IT. I remember going into his office and using the Manchester United website in maybe 1997 or 1998? It was slow and terrible yet amazing.
We got ISDN at home so he could work while my friends all had 56k. It was a lot faster but also so much more reliable.

reminds me of napster and other filesharing services back in the day

it was a real major wild west back then. Oh look it's britneyspears.mp3.wav oh whoops it's actually some russian getting his head chainsawed off. Oh and this one's actually CP

legit half the files were like this. If it wasn't gore, porn, or cp, it was a virus. I remember my sister downloading hundreds of songs that were 20-30kb each, asking me why they didn't work and I facepalmed telling her she was downloading viruses.

We got dial-up in 2000. Was barely used because my mom would have probably slapped me if I played games for hours. I was 12 at that time.
In 2006 we got DSL, a 384kb connection. It was just a few houses, rest of the village could get a 2k connection.
In 2016 they got fiber.

I live in a first world country that somehow managed to completely miss the jump to nation-wide broadband.

internet prior to cable /dsl was shit. dial up sucked. i remember hating it

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Internet was fairly common from mid 90s for me. It's uses isn't that different from now. Music, chatting, and porn.

Unrelated: I actually had the V90 version of the modem in the OP, might still be in my garage somewhere even.

>LAN parties etc at the local internet cafe
I miss this the most

Born in '91 - parents ran a business out of the house and were early adopters of the internet for their non-internet business. They had a website for their painting company.

We got internet in 1997 in our rural town. Parents got a 2nd phone line dedicated to internet (at the time, if you received a phone call while on the internet, it would disconnect you). This was great for downloading shit including my first game: the Age of Empires 1 trial version. It took 72 hours to download but was cash when it finished. Hittites a best.

Given that none of my friends had the internet in their homes then, they all wanted to come to my house and play computer games. It was a grand fucking time in life.

Pic related - my old pc (not my pic)

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Uncommon, didn't really gain popularity before expensive ISDN which didn't take up phone line. Cheap ADSL was when internet era really began.

Like, by the mid 90s? Extremely common.

oath cunt

>Like, by the mid 90s? Extremely common.
nope, grats on being born into a upper class household tho.

>1995
18 million American homes are now online, but only 3% of online users have ever signed on to the World Wide Web.
pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-timeline/

Everyone had a hundred AOL disks available to them. Like someone said you could just ride free trials for forever, if they didn't thats on them.

It's so odd how relaxing that is.

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>tfw covertly downloading asian porn over a 56k modem in your teens

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Us poorfags used public libraries for internet.

the people who claimed they used the internet in the 80s or early 90s are liers the shit they was using wasn't any thing like the internet at all. BBS doesn't count

the internet as we know it now is only 20years old. with a brief terrible period from 1995-2000

I didn't really start using the internet properly until 2006 I think for the first 5 years I just used it to play games and chat. but then streaming porn and youtube showed up so that changed that.

>Internet
>90's
You mean that dialup shit? God it was awful

Was a teen then. It was less than 5% of the regular people. I had dial-up. I could afford it.

t. 14 year old

Late 90s it was pretty common, mid 90s not much. At least in NZ.

Anyone else use pic related?

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>he thinks internet 2.0 is THE internet
Fuck off underage

Can't be sure if this is bait or you actually got no fucking clue what you're on about

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My dad brought a work laptop home for a weekend in 97 or 98 he needed internet on it to send some stuff out. So we had it for just a few days. I found the websites on the back of every cereal box, chip bag, and everything else in my house and went to each website. The fact that I could do that felt so unreal at the time. I was blown away. We didn't get proper internet until like 2002 or so after that.

Oh and I flip the fuck out if the internet goes down for 5 minutes now days. Back then it seemed like you had to fuck around for like 20 minutes troubleshooting every single time you connected.

'84 here. We had 64kbps ISDN in 1997 and cable 128kbps in 1999. I was one of the few kids at school to have internet.

>not very likely I think internet speeds were like 56kbs back then too so it was brutally slow too

It was slow, but the internet was designed for a lower bandwidth back then. Most websites were just text and pictures, so it wasn't as bad as you'd think.

It was popular. In the late 80s/early 90s TV news were all saying the internet was the future and you were doing a disservice by not providing your family with a personal computer.

I remember watching pictures load line by line over a couple minutes

My family got Internet in ~96-97, but it wasn't common until about 2000. Australia btw

>I remember watching pictures load line by line over a couple minutes
So, like on Jow Forums today?

>reddit spacing
>absolute fucktard with objectively wrong facts and likely brain damage
every time like clockwork

Born 84. Small village in Northern Ireland. Got online with AOL in about 95/96. One of the first of my group of friends to do so. But I was always into computers and shit. After dial up, it was on to ADSL. The leap from downloading warez and porn over 56kbit/s ADSL speeds was crazy exciting. Shit still took forever, but it was still times faster than dialup. I became the go to person when my friends wanted music downloaded and burnt to CD.