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Message: [QUOTE="Steven Christian, post: 432253, member: 141426"] Mid 80's. But it wasn't really the internet then. Mostly just bulletin boards and usenet groups. There was no WWW back then. Ran on Commodores and Amigas with 9.6 or 14.4K modems (forget which now). My first computer had no hard drive. All programs ran from 5.25" floppys. To put it in perspective when the movie Titanic came out in 1997 most people were running a 33K modem. Most ISP's couldn't even connect to a 56K modem then. Today almost seems unbelievable to me...with down speeds available in the gigabyte range. When 5G gets up and running its going to change pretty much everything. At least in the bigger cities everything will be done over the air. There wont be a need for satellite or cable modems anymore. Pretty much everything will just go thru your smartphone which will be a hotspot for your home. And many outlying areas your smartphone will just connect to sats directly. [/QUOTE]