for me it was back in 2012 i think

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    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.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago
    1. Went from 56K to 3Mbps cable. It was mind-blowingly fast at the time.

    But then in 2004 my parents had to go back to dialup for awhile to save money, which was brutal. Especially since I would video chat with my GF often and download all sorts of stuff from KaZaA. Have you ever tried to do a video call on dialup? 0.1-0.5 FPS and compressed so badly that it’s hard to make out even basic facial features. It’s a miracle that it worked at all.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.

  • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    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 !

  • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    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.