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Hey there Europeans. Tell me how you got hooked up to the internet and how your first time with internet looked like. I know many countries had limited access to the web throughout the 90s or relied solely on phone line modems with 33,6 kbps speed rate. Remember the prices? Access times? Speeds? Tell me everything you know. Of course I'm interested in 90s only

>> No.6313679

My Dutch mom yelled at me when I secretly went on the internet to download shareware

>> No.6313815

>>6313459
>Tell me how you got hooked up to the internet

Dad's Win95 computer with 28k8 modem (or was it 16k6?) via some Dutch ISP, we tried a couple.. they kept offering better prices. I think I started around late 96.

>and how your first time with internet looked like

Oh easy, https://www.megadetharizona.com (though back then it was more of a sub domain of another subdomain)

And like most people I too dreaded the phone bill, but downloading Duke3D mods and chatting on forums was just too damn cool.

>> No.6313879

We had AOL free trial CDs in Europe too.

>> No.6314660 [DELETED] 

>>6313459
> european
now it's australian as well
>Tell me how you got hooked up to the internet and how your first time with internet looked like
start of the 1990s, a terminal program called NCOMM for the Commore Amiga, a "borrowed" shell account that was for a university Melbourne, Australia. Dail up to university and use their servers to access the internet. It was very reliable. It was ASCII text only. The modem was 14.4kbps. We would get software to supply certain bulletin boards. That was my introduction to the internet. 2020: most of my internet activity still goes on in a terminal.

>> No.6314664

>>6313459 (OP)
> european
now it's Australian as well
>Tell me how you got hooked up to the internet and how your first time with internet looked like
start of the 1990s, a terminal program called NCOMM for the Commodore Amiga, a "borrowed" shell account that was for a university Melbourne, Australia. Dial-up to university and use their servers to access the internet. It was very reliable. It was ASCII text only. The modem was 14.4kbps. We would get software to supply certain bulletin boards. That was my introduction to the internet. 2020: most of my internet activity still goes on in a terminal.

>> No.6315178

>>6313459
Is the reason you didn't ask about Americans because it's not retro since most didn't have broadband until the late 00s?

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>>6313459
I used a wanadoo 56k modem when I was a kid. Used it to get walkthroughs and cheat codes for my PS1 and PS2 games. I mostly went on jeuxvideo.com for game tips and to download wallpapers. Don't remember the price as my mom was taking care of this kind of things. I do remember her yelling at me for using the internet for too long tho.

>> No.6315283

>>6315265
>not downloading the whole cheat database to consult it offline

>> No.6315294

>>6315283
I also had etajv.hlp on my hard drive ofc

>> No.6315448

>>6315178
Most of youtubers are from USA and they've all shared their memories about AOL plenty of times. Europe is more varied and quality of the connections and cables themselves varied ridiculously high between different countries.

>> No.6315468

>>6315448
AOL charged by the minute so it was more about when a competing true ISP opened in your area which for me was 1995 and I live in a small city - although I had learned to spoof credit cards to create fake AOL accounts and use the PPP a few years before that. Before that I used BBSs. I had 14.4k v.32bis modern when I got my true internet which was a huge upgrade when I went to it from my old 2400k sometime around 93.

>> No.6315598

>>6315178

He knows the Americans that would answer are all zoomers on here, and that they honestly think the internet started around 2005.

>> No.6315823

>>6315448
All the youtubers got their first internet hook up with their moms data plan

>> No.6315908

same cost as a phone call per minute.

>> No.6315920

>>6313459
Borrowing my mate's ID to get into his university computer room. Messing around on pre-web chatrooms and MUDs.