We switched to cable around 2008.

March 2000. Bigpond Cable. Such a step up in speed (although I can't remember what that initial cable speed was) and suddenly we were always connected.

I had a faster connection than anyone I knew at that time :)

1997 because my university had broadband in the dorms.

20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.

2000, when the dial up service I was using announced they were shutting down.

Somewhere in the mid 1990s, my company provided ISDN so I could work from home

As soon as I could.

I was in a really rural area for a while, so probably 2001 when I got someplace civilized?

Depends on what you mean by "stop using". We never even had Internet at the house I grew up in, but for at least one job around 2000, we had dial-up on standby in case the ISDN went down, and occasionally used it for side projects even when the ISDN was working. (In fact I'm not sure we ever needed to fail over in the time I was there.). One of those side projects was mine, which means that ~2000 was the first and last time I was a dial-up user.

But then there's provisioning dial-up, which is kind of using it from the other end ...iiif you squint a bit. In that case people were still occasionally signing up with another company I worked for circa 2014. I could probably have found the usage stats back then, but was never curious enough to check and never had the need to, and I've since moved on.

Best as I can tell, that company no longer offers sign-ups to old-school dial-up service. Can't say I'm surprised. I do wonder if they've any old accounts grandfathered in though. I don't remember the dial-up number to check if there's something modem-y on the other end.

1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.

99/2000ish i suspect? It was an Optus@Home cable connection when "netstats" was still used. It was sold as an "unlimited" plan, but really it was 10x the average download of your node.

For us, it really was unlimited because we were the only people on our node for ages. As more people connected, we started hitting the limit pretty regular.

You could also spy on your net neighbours usage because the cable modem logging (available via telnet and a default username and password) showed every connection on your node. Not sure of the technical side of this - I think because cable was in a daisy chain from node to properties and back?

Because we were early adopters, sending +++ATH0 in ping packets was super effective too heh.

About 4 hours ago.

I want to say it was about 2005 or 2006.

My first "broadband" was Hughes satellite internet, due to living in a rural location. It was hot garbage, but it was better than dialup.

The speeds were Ok (for me), but the data cap (applied daily) was draconian. I don't recall the specific amount but it basically made it impossible to stream video in any capacity.

There was a 3-hour period from midnight to 3am every night where the cap didn't count. That effectively became internet time because it was unusable otherwise.

I got cable in 2010.

(/s)

I used to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. And I believe we had dial up until 2010. I specifically remember our first Wi-Fi router being an 802.11G Belkin 54G router. And our first high-speed internet was 1.5mbps fiber. We upgraded from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and then to 7mbps by the time I moved out. Because that was my childhood home. I can also remember that at that time, I thought our school internet was super fast. And yet we were sharing a T1 line for the entire school. But it was still way faster than the dial up I had at home.

I am not 100% sure on the exact year, but some time in the mid, possibly late, 2000s is when I think my family ditched it.

All I know is I have memories of it being somewhere around 2011-12 and not wanting to have the router moved out of my grandma's room because mine was directly below hers, which narrows it down to probably before 2010. Didn't live outside society, either.

2015. Rural Germany.

2009 was when my family switched from dialup to wifi and all of a sudden my old laptop had access to internet.

2007 when I moved out from my parents house. I grew up rural and high speed was just becoming available at that time.

2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.

August 1998, but I held on to my external US Robotics 56k modem for a few years more.

2008. It took a while to be affordable here.

I think our household was the first in my primary school class to get broadband, which I think was the late 90s. It was still measured in kbps (like 250-500 or so?), but it didn’t cost more to be online permanently. (ADSL).

Once my mam got sick of missing phonecalls in the evening. Early noughties I think.

2001. Was 19 still living at home when my Dad switched us to something called "@home" broadband, which became Comcast a couple years later. I do remember being blown away by seeing images load almost instantly on a web page.

That was also the last year I remember using Netscape Navigator as a daily driver. It was IE for the next four years until I switched to Firefox, and have been using that ever since. Yes, IE blows, but Navigator was starting to become a bloated mess as it started to suffer from feature creep trying to win people back.