my first online experience was around 1996/7 with a 33k modem that i upgraded to a 56k few month later, it was very impressive and also very expensive ^^.
I was laming a lot on warez boards and ftp's (omg ! that's bad !) searchin' cool audio apps to make eltectro-tech music, i was on windows (omg again ! ) and didn't know linux which i have discovered in 2002.