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Did you have internet access when you were in high-school?

At school

[ 1 ]

At home

33%

[ 11 ]

Both school and home

18%

[ 6 ]

No access

45%

[ 15 ]

Total Votes : 33

Mommy912 ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:35 am

Did you have internet access when you were in high-school?

shopaholic ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:40 am

People didn't start having internet in their home until I was in Seminary! Even then, only a couple of us in seminary had email addresses.

chen

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:53 am

Sweetie, the internet didn't exist when I was in HS, any more than personal computers did. When I was in college, it existed only in academia and the military, was centered somewhere in Sweden (or was it Switzerland?) and was used as a medium for researchers to share information. The Internet did not become widespread till I was in grad school (you needed special permission to access, and time was strictly limited), and we finally got total access at work in the early 1990's.

chocolate moose

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:54 am

are you kidding? in the bad ole days? we barely had computers then!

DefyGravity

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:55 am

I think that people started having internet in their homes when I started high school. I remember that we had one computer at school that had internet access, and we could only use it for email. After a little while, it was completely banned b/c my principal felt that email bred lashon hara.

shabbatiscoming

Tue, May 16 2006, 10:55 am

only when I was in seminary did my parents even have a chashek to get internet, so that they could communicate with my in Israel. now I say Baruch HaShem for internet!!!! that is how I mostly stay in touch with my fam and friends back in the old country!

Ruchel

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:04 am

Both home and school but I mostly used it at home.

shoy18

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:18 am

I had my own computer in high school, with internet acess. Since 3rd grade I had a computer, all my reports from school were typed.

In high school we had a computer lab with internet access.

cindy324

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:30 am

No way! The first time I ever had access to the internet was when I got a job where they had it set up while I was working there. That was back in 1994. I finished highschool in '93 , I don't think too many people had it back then yet.

Younger Me

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:36 am

Quote:

People didn't start having internet in their home until I was in Seminary! Even then, only a couple of us in seminary had email addresses.

same here

amother

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:41 am

momof3 wrote:

People didn't start having internet in their home until I was in Seminary! Even then, only a couple of us in seminary had email addresses.

ditto, except for me. we had computer and internet in the house since I was in 5th grade. no one in my class knew what it was.

sarahd

Tue, May 16 2006, 11:49 am

I'm one of the dinosaurs. No one knew from internet when I was in high-school. We studied typing on typewriters. PCs came out when I started high school, but who had one?

The first time I touched a computer was when I was 20 years old and started working in a school office.

So internet in high school? No, not quite.

imanut

Tue, May 16 2006, 2:44 pm

yes, both in school and at home and I don't think anyone ever thought twice about it. it's different now...

suomynona

Tue, May 16 2006, 3:54 pm

When I was in 10th or 11th grade, people I knew started getting AOL.
While I was in seminary, e-mail started becoming more common.

Tefila

Tue, May 16 2006, 5:17 pm

Quote:

Sweetie, the internet didn't exist when I was in HS, any more than personal computers did.

Ditto wellll almost Tongue Out

Flowerchild

Tue, May 16 2006, 5:58 pm

I had a computer and internet dial up lol at home when I was in highschool, a lot of people in my class had it and we had computers in school for secretaries.

Inspired ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 6:05 pm

You missed the option of no internet when I was in high school. Wink

↑ Mommy912 ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 6:10 pm

That's what the 'no access' option is for.

↑ Inspired ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 6:58 pm

Mommy912 wrote:

That's what the 'no access' option is for.

It doidn't seem so.
The poll is kind of useless that way if they are trying to figure out if we come from internet himes or no internet homes. No access would mean the home had no access by coice, not because internet did not exist or was not common in homes.

↑ Mommy912 ↓

Tue, May 16 2006, 7:40 pm

Inspired wrote:

Mommy912 wrote:

That's what the 'no access' option is for.

I don't know what everyone else may think, but I have connections with the person who started the poll and she told me that she was just curious if most people here grew up 'online' or if it was a skill that they developed as an adult. She said the reason that she thought up the poll was reading the 'spelling thread' and reading an opinion that frequent use of internet shorthand causes bad spelling. Since she thought that text messaging/IMs are used more by teenagers than adults she was curious as to how many people here used the internet as teenagers.
She said that she has start another thread discussing the 'choice of internet acess in homes topic' in the past and that this thread was just a simple matter of curiosity.
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