Nostalgia: 1994

[The Mad Monk]

The internet wasn't common in households in 1994, though.

True, but there were cheap and free CDs with the mods available almost everywhere, it seemed.

[Dinner]

The internet wasn't common in households in 1994, though.

We had prodigy (and briefly AOL though we quickly decided AOL sucked; I basically just used it to play NeverWinter Nights Online) starting in the very early 90's, before that we used BBSes, though I did get my first actual internet access in late 1993 from, of all things, my high school Physics teacher who knew about some charity which gave science students 6 months of free internet (it was dial up) but there wasn't an easy to use browser and it wasn't World Wide Web nor was there any search engine so finding stuff was hard.

[Al B. Sure!]

We had prodigy (and briefly AOL though we quickly decided AOL sucked; I basically just used it to play NeverWinter Nights Online) starting in the very early 90's, before that we used BBSes, though I did get my first actual internet access in late 1993 from, of all things, my high school Physics teacher who knew about some charity which gave science students 6 months of free internet (it was dial up) but there wasn't an easy to use browser and it wasn't World Wide Web nor was there any search engine so finding stuff was hard.

Ok. I said it wasn't common.

[Lorizael]

He's making conversation, Speer. Now you respond with a related anecdote. Try it.

[Nikolai]

We didn't get internet before 1997 in my family. From there it went fast though. 33k modem in '97, 52k(?) in '98, ISDN in '99, broadband in 2001. Think the broadband was under 1 Mb, but don't remember. We constantly got upgrades though, currently my mum has a 40 Mb line, and my student apartment has a uni network of 90 Mb.

[Dr Strangelove]

We got ours in 1995. We used AOL through a 39 K phone modem and were allowed 40 hours / month. Then AOL went to unlimited time without making accomodations for the increased traffic and our internet dropped to 10 hours / month.