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25-11-2007, 07:29 PM	#1
Ian Cunningham Rocket Scientist Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 11,541 Trader Rating: (0)	How long have you used the internet for? How many years have you used the internet for? Are you one of the lucky ones that used the internet 13 years ago and got pages like this: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/featu..._flshbk_hp1.htm It's hard to believe that was such a short time ago! __________________ PC Review - Editor-in-Chief

25-11-2007, 11:25 PM	#2
floppybootstomp sugar 'n spikes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greenwich Posts: 9,699 Trader Rating: (13)	Started '96. Compuserve >> Cable & Wireless briefly, AOL for six years (all on dialup) then Broadband with Zen since March 03. __________________ Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard; Intel Core 2 duo 6600 2.4Ghz CPU; Zalman CNPS9500 Cooler; 4Gb Corsair 6400C4 Memory; BFG Nvidia 9800 GTX 512Mb; 2 x Western Digital 74Gb Raptors in RAID 0; 2 x Hitachi SATA II 250Gb HDD; Antec 900 Gamers Case; Corsair 620W modular PSU; Creative X-Fi Audio Extreme; NEC SATA Lightscribe DVDRW; Asus SATA DVD-ROM; Linksys Wireless NIC; Logi G5 Mouse; Logi G15 Keyboard; Samsung 245_B 24" Black Monitor; Vista Home Premium 32 Bit.

26-11-2007, 01:54 PM	#3
Taffycat Crunchie Cat Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Wales Posts: 2,889 Trader Rating: (0)	We began back in February 2001 on dial-up; first with Freeserve, then, following a very brief dalliance with AOL (lasting for just a few months) we switched to Clara.net with whom whom we were very happy for about four years, until our recent switch to ADSL (with ADSL24 - so far, very pleased with them.) Must have been very interesting back in those early days __________________ Dogs come when they're called, but cats take a message then get back to you!

26-11-2007, 03:54 PM	#4
crazylegs Member Extraordinairre Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Out There Posts: 2,394 Trader Rating: (0)	Been using since late 1995 was with Demon.net for 2 years on a 28.8kbps Modem then went over to Tesco.net in 97 cause it was way cheaper at 2p a minute on Dial-up in those days...Could you imagine how much it would cost now if it was by the minute.. Would love to know who all these people are that reckon they been on the net for over 10 years, Got a very large majority, I think most are dreaming as the internet as we know it didn't really become mainstream until around 98-1999 before that it was only the minority that owned a PC and very few even knew what the Internet was.. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3200+......Asus kv8 pro.......Corsair 1gig xms 3200. Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950Pro 512MB GDDR3 .....Hitachi 250GB 16mb Cache Tagan 600watt Dual Engine PSU.....

26-11-2007, 04:07 PM	#5
Ian Cunningham Rocket Scientist Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 11,541 Trader Rating: (0)	I ticked the 10 year box, but only just Had a website in 1997 First with UK Online (I think?) on Win95 and then AOL for a couple of years. Freeserver, then BT Internet to BT Broadband for a good long while. Now with Demon.net __________________ PC Review - Editor-in-Chief

26-11-2007, 05:40 PM	#6
PotGuy Wholegrain Goodness Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Hemel Hempstead Posts: 1,736 Trader Rating: (1)	AOL dial up from '97, long and arduous NTL broadband relationship from 2001 to present day __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.86ghz \| Zalman CNPS9500 \| Asus A8N-SLi Premium \| XFX GeForce 7900GT Extreme Edition \| Enermax Liberty 500w \| 4 x 512mb Crucial Ballistix \| 2 x 250gb Hitatchi Deskstar T7K250 \| Creative X-Fi Gamer \| Sony Floppy Drive \| Logitech X-540 5.1 \| Thermaltake Tsunami Dream VA3000BWA \| Samsung SyncMaster 930BF 19" \| Saitek Eclipse Keyboard \| Razer Copperhead \|

26-11-2007, 06:24 PM	#7
Me__2001 Internet Junkie Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hertfordshire, UK Posts: 4,072 Trader Rating: (2)	hmmm can't seem to vote, keeps timing out on me and saying theres a VB error!? think i've had the net about 7 or 8 years, first started on tiscali dial-up eventualy upgraded to their broadband, think we moved to plusnet a couple of years ago and now onto Be __________________ I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want? I always take life with a grain of salt, ... a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out One more step to enlightenment ... but which way ?

26-11-2007, 06:30 PM

Ian Cunningham

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Join Date: Feb 2002

Location: Manchester, UK

Posts: 11,541

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Me__2001

hmmm can't seem to vote, keeps timing out on me and saying theres a VB error!?

What was the error you got? I'd be really grateful if you could paste it in the feedback thread and I'll check it out

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26-11-2007, 07:36 PM	#9
Me__2001 Internet Junkie Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hertfordshire, UK Posts: 4,072 Trader Rating: (2)	ok thats weird its just worked gues you dont need to worry about it __________________ I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want? I always take life with a grain of salt, ... a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out One more step to enlightenment ... but which way ?

26-11-2007, 07:55 PM	#10
Abarbarian Acruncher Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,597 Trader Rating: (5)	Started in 2002 with Bush TV internet . Used it to buy a secondhand pc from e-bay and used dial-up from AOL. Then AOL broadband which I still use . An I get good service from them too . __________________ PC's . Tools of the Devil thats what they are

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