>> We first got the internet at home in May 1997 I first used the internet
>> in Jan 1996 on Netscape 2.1 Winsock DLL Windows 3.1 and 8MB RAM!
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I first had Internet access at and a decent speed at Manchester Uni in 1989. I downloaded Linux to floppy disk in 1992/93 and it dual booted with Windows on a 486! :-)
>> We got broadband in 2001
Around the time we did. I might go back to phone line Internet soon. We had NTL/VM and sold the house. The new house can have BT Infinity FTTC broadband.
>> From about 2003 onwards I don't think much has changed a lot more services are
>> online now and we have on demand video but I think think social networks have
>> changed things that much. Before facebook we all chatted via MSN and communicated by that.
When I went to university everyone queued for the BT phones. When I left 6 years later (Post Graduate studies) nobody really had a mobile. I got a GSM one in early 1996. Now everyone has them :-) And somehow we managed without a cash point and major supermarket in Fallowfield (Manchester) back then too!
And Rattle I bet you don't remember Microdirect being where the Aldi is on the A34!
As for Spotify... don't all record Mp3's illegally!
We first tried Prestel at a friend's house around the time of the Robert Schifreen scandal (84?) and the phone bill was out of this world! Also used bulletin boards at school and the phone bills were hundreds per month ;-( Now I have a mobile WiFi hotspot.
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