BBS, pre web.

About the same time for me. A competing BBS launched and internet service and - the few times I actually got to connect - I was impressed. So, I signed up for an AOL account :(

Had AOL for three months and I think they refunded every month because all I ever got was busy signals. Meanwhile, my BBS died (and I do miss my Legend of the Red Dragon...) a rapid death.

Do NOT miss those days. No sir...

I still have the box to my 300 baud modem with the price sticker on it. $199.99.

Sometime in the early 90s. I used terminal connection using the terminal program on Windows, but that technically isn't the internet. First was Prodigy, then AOL.

1997. We were at university at some computer lab and one guy was telling some boring info to about 80 people. There was some man working with computer and my friend told me silently: "Look, that guy is on the internet. Thats the thing which is good for porn." :-)

Does a BBS count as "the internet"? I dont think it does.

late 80s for when i 'saw the internet', guess it was more of a network.. actual use would have been 94/95 as a kid, netscape

Once Analog speeds topped out at 56kbps, I upgraded my home connection to ISDN which was 128kbps. It was essentially 2 x analog phone numbers and a dual-modem modem of 64kbps each that connected at the same time to give me 128k. I think I paid $120 a month for the line plus another $100 per month for the service or something goofy like that. I still have the modem. The good ol' days

Around 1994