I’m new to the internet. Only got access to it 3 years ago. Didn’t own a smartphone until last year. I’m curious how it was for people who discovered it earlier.

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    1990, through a local dialup university system that had security issues.

    Within a few years after that we had home dialup internet.

    In 1998, cable modems came to town. My neighborhood was the beta test area, so I had friends in my living room playing Everquest almost daily.