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Today, this Sunday, exactly 25 years ago, the Netherlands was connected to the forerunner of the Internet. Thus Netherlands was the second country that had internet access.
Piet Beertema of the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) received the first transatlantic email on November 17, 1988.
After the United States Netherlands was the second country with access to NSFnet, the forerunner of the Internet.
The network was intended primarily for scientific purposes and in the U.S. it was also widely used by the military.
The first Dutch public provider DDS (The Digital City) dates from 1994. I was one of the first couple of hundred to get one there, and I am still proudly using it daily.

Meanwhile, 94 percent of all Dutch households have access to the Internet. The average speed is 10.1 Mbps which puts the Netherlands worldwide in sixth place. Quite a digital revolution, eh?
 
Cool. We got internet in 1996. I can still remember the first modem. We had it for a couple of years. It was this big black box, which you needed to manually turn on whenever you wanted to access the internet. One it was switched on it made those weird noises which told you that it was connecting. Establishing connection was often unsuccessful. I don't remember what kind of speed there was available... There were only a couple of websites available. In 2004 we switched to ADSL line 1mbps download, 256 kbps upload (wow we got unlimited internet :D). In 2010 I upgraded the speed to to 4 Mbps down, 512 kbps up. Currently I have a VDSL line with 15mbps download and 5 Mbps upload and 2 HD tv. No FTTH connection though :'(.
 
First time I used the internet was 1994. A service called Pipex, Windows 3.11, Cello browser, dialup, and then for the next 15 year the internet got faster and faster, and then I moved to China. Always on fast unlimited internet without using a VPN might be a while yet.
 
matt1994 said:
Cool. We got internet in 1996. I can still remember the first modem.
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Turn your volume up and relive the past.
The Dial-up Internet Sound (With MP3!) - YouTube

I remember starting out with BBS (Bulletin Board Services) which was a prequal to the internet. You could dial up to a remote server that others could also connect to. After that, my first ISP was a local dialup provider called HOT ISP. HOT stood for Heart of Tennessee cause it was located in the geographic center of my home state in Murfressboro, TN. Then I went to a DSL carrier. I was exactly 3 miles from the BellSouth switch station so I got decent speeds. Then I went to Comcast/Xfintiy and have been with them since. From 2400 baud to 28Mb/s over the years. Maybe I should move to Kansas City for a little speed boost.
 
The good ole days when I used to access the internet through the University of Florida. There was no fancy graphical web browsers. I used a VT100 terminal. Telnet was how we surfed and IRC was how we chatted. I originally started with a 300baud modem that was totally manual, and when I got to 2400bps was amazed at the speed LOL. Line noise was a problem back then, didn't have those fancy error correcting modems at first.. The addresses ended in .edu
 
A dorm room in 1992: T1 line directly connected to the backbone of the uni; a 386 with Windows 3.11, on the turning point from monochrome to colour screens :wavey: ICQ was The Thing. Oh man, you got slammed in the face with the 'uh-ohs' everywhere and anytime of the day. :D
 
Kaat72 said:
A dorm room in 1992: T1 line directly connected to the backbone of the uni; a 386 with Windows 3.11, on the turning point from monochrome to colour screens :wavey: ICQ was The Thing. Oh man, you got slammed in the face with the 'uh-ohs' everywhere and anytime of the day. :D
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You young one hehe.. We didn't have windows 3.11 and ICQ at the start, and nobody could possibly use more than 640K...
 
I helped run my local college's BBS. When they went online, I was allowed access as a reward for my Sysop work. My guess would be the early nineties time frame for access.
Most all sites were either .edu or .gov back then and there were no interface tools. It was a much different world back then. We even had social dinners for all the members of the BBS a couple of times a year. We were a very small tight group of "weirdos" lol. There still remains a few of us that survive and gather yearly to party.
 
wow.. I would guess.. internet speeds have to be one of the fastest growth and change in history. that next to computing power
 
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