It's for porn, you know.

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1622180]

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Though I was doing remote computing using an acoustic coupler by 1979 for connecting to Dec 11/70 and for BBSing, probably Fidonet etc.

[andrewducker]

First BBS I was on was Monochrome, operating out of City University. I was connected to that over the internet though.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Depends what you mean by the internet.

I was downloading software via JANET around 1988.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

My first use of directly IP-reachable portions of the Internet was in 1990ish, maybe late 89, think I found Usenet in late 88 or early 89. And if I recall correctly, I could e-mail outside of uni in 88, but required UUCP addressing (or some hybrid UUCP/@-addressing ... memory is a bit fuzzy on it now :) )

[andrewducker]

Looks like JANET moved to IP starting in 1991. Dunno about its connections to the rest of the internet before that point.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

My first encounter with the Internet proper was through University, I think in 1990, but I'd been doing occasional BBSing long before that. (Got started with a 300 baud modem for the family's Commodore 64c.)

-- Steve has somewhat-fond rememberances of watching in awe as text download slowly enough to note the arrival of each new character; it was like watching a teletype in action, but in your home!

[dougs.livejournal.com]

We were using IP in 1984/85/86, certainly for connections between Warwick, Cambridge and Edinburgh.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I think the techy guy at the computer centre was having to dial up the actual university he wanted to connect to. For some reason, Lancaster was the repository of all wonderment.

[redshira.livejournal.com]

I know James was using it at Warwick in 1987 because I like freaking him out by reminding him that I was only seven at that point.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

though I'd have been on in 1980 if my parents would have let me have an acoustic modem

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Used to use X.25 and "DAP" to send emails between universities, and I think X.400 for addressing stuff out of JANET into the wider internet back in the mid 1980s.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I actually have no real clue how to answer 'when were you on the internet by', and going for 1992 was a bit of a compromise. I was born in 1989, and if we didn't already have an internet connection at home then (which I think we did, actually) we got one in short order after that.

I could type before I could write, and I built my first website in HTML when I was seven.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

For UK-in-1980 values of "internet": ie connected to JANET and able to send/receive email from other folk in the uk.ac.* community.

I think, based on names I recognise or notice as missing, that this list is from 1981....

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Another datapoint: I was logging into my EMAS account in Edinburgh from the Leeds Prime in 1984 - the various Janet talkers flowered not long after (I remember being carpeted by my head of department merely for being seen with Lorry and a visiting ARP11).

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Yup: That'll have been the repository that eventually became HENSA....

[andrewducker]

Can you translated that for a youngster?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I thought that Warwick was still on X.25 in 1987...

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Fuck. I remember Lorry.

[redshira.livejournal.com]

Ah, I shall have to ask Mr Beckett. I might have got it wrong, being far from knowledgeable in these things.

[kmusser]

My first use of BBS I believe was 1990, first use of Usenet I think was 1991.

[kvlt-kitty.livejournal.com]

I still remember the first website I ever visited - it was the Beanie Babies website when I was 10 :).

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Fascinating distribution there. Looks a lot like the peak was in the September That Never Ended (1993).

*looks again* Duh, the poll gives mean and median as 1993.2 and 1994 (also the mode) respectively.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've already done this quiz?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I believe that this is the Lorry to which Steve refers.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Show off.