for me it was back in 2012 i think
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I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).
Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.
My exact timeline.
Hello fellow 45 year old.
Hey! How are your knees?
Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins
What was the time in-between those two?
Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps
The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.
So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?
Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.
Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.
I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops we’d celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.
I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.
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1999
I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!
No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.
Stop?
screeching telephone noises
I just flirted with your modem.
I hope you use Zmodem so we can pick up where we left off if we lose our connection.
ATDT
2002~2003 We got a glorious “high speed cable internet” of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have “”“good”“” internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.
I got ISDN from work in 1995. MSN was my ISP for some reason. It was glorious! In FPS shooters I had a 30 ping while everyone else had 200. I was a beast !
Somewhere around 2005
2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I’m currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we’re rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.
2012? Brutal I’m guessing you lived far away from civilization.
For me It was probably 2004.
Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.
2002/2003
2001, when I got DSL.
March 2000. Bigpond Cable. Such a step up in speed (although I can’t remember what that initial cable speed was) and suddenly we were always connected.
I had a faster connection than anyone I knew at that time :)
And you could play Ultima Online faster than anyone connected. You’d get on top of your steed, and run off 3x faster than anyone else. Then they’d be like “HEY! HE’S CHEATING SOMEHOW!!!”
No bitch. I just got DSL!
1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)
Well…now you’re just going to have to share your time machine with the rest of us!
What? I assume you DO have a time machine, right? You clearly have cutting edge technology decades before anyone else. I think I only got above 5MB/sec internet about 5 years ago? Now it’s suddenly 100MB/Sec internet, and I’m like “Ok cool…I’m still not doing anything that requires that much speed…”
I live in Sweden. It was common with ethernet connections in the apartments when I was growing up. So not a time machine. But I could be getting the exact year wrong a little bit.
And it was 10 mbit connections, so that’s just about 1 mbyte / second. Still plenty fast when it arrived.
Today I have 500 mbit connection with option for 1000 mbit. It’s common here.
Edit: I asked chatgpt and it was 1999 that the first apartments got 10 mbit / sec connections. So I was off with about 5 years actually.
