who is first man to use internet in india?
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If I remember it correctly, the actor Shammi Kapoor was the first internet evangelist in India. I got on the internet back in ’97 and I remember he was very popular in the Indian internet sphere back then. He could very well have been the first internet user in India. He probably got introduced to the internet on his trips abroad before it was even introduced in India by VSNL.
I hope somebody will correct or confirm this. Sorry, I am too sleepy right now to fact check this.
@DealSeeker wrote:
I hope somebody will correct or confirm this. Sorry,I am too sleepy right now to fact check this.
far from being sorry, I think I’d be happy if species designed and refined to work better at day and rest in dark, did that.
not that we need the boost of phirangs reiterating this fact but in-case that helps then » » http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-st...
the west is a unique (and sometimes funny) place. they have a research on EVERYthing. funny when they reinvent the wheel.
any-way, back at the issue on hand:
nahh, I do not think there is much to confirm or correct.
I am 98.99% sure that the email or modern day equivalent of widget like services existed ‘before’ VSNL.
so it could be mostly Business Stanard [okay I too am sleepy here so unsure, BS link I put above confuses me. but Business _____ something it was]. not that far back also, but since 2-3 years before VSNL.
and I am not sure of Shammi ji [ 
yeah he was an inspiring personality in so many things. not just being eager to try out new tech. Know this also because he was invited for a whole day at Symbiosis and much of the showing the campus around and arranging tidbits, i was part of the team of 7-8 people]
Logically the first users can not be the retail users but the commissioning staff themselves.
no specific idea her also sorry 
i am 100% sure though that by 1996 it was common-place due to the rage http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tech/cyber-cafes-wh...
pool/ snooker parlours AND cyber cafe’s.. they became synonyms in most towns.
the first was in 1996 in India. I think in Bombay.
@DealSeeker wrote:I got on the internet back in ’97 and I remember he was very popular in the Indian internet sphere back then.
wow so you are also a 1990s kid/ teenager or part 90s and part new millennia.
Of-course you’d have tasted it in the better evolved tech environs of the west I think.
I wonder if it was the same. mIRC, zdnet, cnet Limewire askjeevs.com Napster and doing everything unimaginable with OS’es like NT or Solaris or other things similar.
I heave a sigh thinking:
most kids today ad all kids in future would not even know or understand what optical media are/were.
but back then, a CD or DVD was a prized possession with all things sorted, recorded at Nx speed (slower the better) to not get errors.
Nero
a bigger sigh and more like a grunt (of angst)
is that Internet as we (we = oldies) know it, is doomed >> 
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/intern...
phones or rather computers in hand are dirt cheap (dirt/ land itself is costly though)
technology is cheap
I shudder to think how things will be in decades to come.
though also have nervous anticipation.
soon normal internet would replace everyone doing everything (>80-90% things) on Apps only :-/
i wonder what some of the other early adapters or old time internet users here think of this! this ‘ऍप जैसा कोई मेरी ज़िन्दगी में आये’ trend.
and when did you all astart of on the on-line journey I wonder @login33 bhai, @chi321 , @pnjpr
thrifty bhai seeing your deposition towards life and things, your interests and likes, it seems you too might be a 90s person who grew up on both sides of the divide, has seen all. so what do you think? 20 years later would we be more nostalgic or accepting of the reality then!!
I have joined a dBASE course with NIIT around 1987-88 and used email only after 1998 through BSNL. PRIOR, to that used TELEX in office, typing 3-4 pages of msg. And storing, editing was really difficult. We were used to maintain all manual accounts and also used electronic calculated, besides learning typing on manual typewriter. In office also saw automated larger printing stuff.
So, internet is still fancy for us , the generation born before 1970.
Ur fantastic comment
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Opium jaise koi meri zindagi me aye.
Qurbani , ( filmed in gulmarg ?)
Reminds our Kashmir visits in 1982 & 2013/
Sorry for little bit off topic.
@DealSeeker wrote:
If I remember it correctly, the actor Shammi Kapoor was the first internet evangelist in India. I got on the internet back in ’97 and I remember he was very popular in the Indian internet sphere back then. He could very well have been the first internet user in India. He probably got introduced to the internet on his trips abroad before it was even introduced in India by VSNL.
I hope somebody will correct or confirm this. Sorry, I am too sleepy right now to fact check this.
@opium @chip @xuseronline
Donno about Shammi uncle but I started using Internet soon after getting launched in India in about 1995
Had a student Shell connection for Rs.500 for 100 hours
Still remember those days, when we were paying Rs.15000 for 100 hours ( at that time it was on hour basis instead of /per month basis) to VSNL for TCP/IP connection ( Phone bill additional ) and it was too hard to get connected. Dial-up connection using 33.6 kbps modem. You dial 10 times and it will get connected 1 time who bhee kitni der chalega, you never know 
Define internet 
It will be AB Vajpayee who is the PM at that time (broadband)
Reading past experiences make me feel how lucky we younger generations are.!
used to have dial-up in home when i was at 6th standard and by the time i completed my schooling we had broadband and high speed internet cafes too… now even small kids know how to use tablets and smartphones to play games and watch comics.
90’s kids
Kanakasabapathy Pandyan
@Crook Yes, the nostalgia of 90’s. Back then technology was changing at a rapid pace. First came the portable cassette player/FM, I remember jostling to listen India vs Pakistan cricket matches on FM. Our boarding school was well past human population and FM/Vividh Bharti reception was not always accessible then soon enough there were CDs and anyone carrying those big Discmans were considered uber ‘cool’. The first ‘programming’ language I learnt ‘LOGO’. I still remember the commands,
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
That would make you a square. The era of rapidly evolving PC games. My first PC that too AMD people used to look at me suspiciously. 
I remember carrying the 1.44MB floppies in a small wallet size plastic box. Those infamous for going bad right after you uncover them. I still do have a few unused, preserved and kept in safe place. Then came the CD and yes NERO enabled to replace those floppies with a multi-sessions CD. But internet was still a luxury.
My first tryst with internet was probably on a V-SAT connection. The year must be ‘96/97. That is if you don’t consider FAX as internet. Then later BSNL dial-up and then AIrtel 2G.
@ OP …I don’t have the answer to your question, sorry.
@xuseronline wrote:@DealSeeker wrote:
If I remember it correctly, the actor Shammi Kapoor was the first internet evangelist in India. I got on the internet back in ’97 and I remember he was very popular in the Indian internet sphere back then. He could very well have been the first internet user in India. He probably got introduced to the internet on his trips abroad before it was even introduced in India by VSNL.
I hope somebody will correct or confirm this. Sorry, I am too sleepy right now to fact check this.
@opium @chip @xuseronline
Donno about Shammi uncle but I started using Internet soon after getting launched in India in about 1995
Had a student Shell connection for Rs.500 for 100 hoursStill remember those days, when we were paying Rs.15000 for 100 hours ( at that time it was on hour basis instead of /per month basis) to VSNL for TCP/IP connection ( Phone bill additional ) and it was too hard to get connected. Dial-up connection using 33.6 kbps modem. You dial 10 times and it will get connected 1 time who bhee kitni der chalega, you never know
You forgot to mention it was on the same line sharing the one and only phone line in the house. So, whenever you were connected to internet the phones were not accessible. Hence, the night shifts.
@thrifty_indian wrote:@xuseronline wrote:@DealSeeker wrote:
If I remember it correctly, the actor Shammi Kapoor was the first internet evangelist in India. I got on the internet back in ’97 and I remember he was very popular in the Indian internet sphere back then. He could very well have been the first internet user in India. He probably got introduced to the internet on his trips abroad before it was even introduced in India by VSNL.
I hope somebody will correct or confirm this. Sorry, I am too sleepy right now to fact check this.
@opium @chip @xuseronline
Donno about Shammi uncle but I started using Internet soon after getting launched in India in about 1995
Had a student Shell connection for Rs.500 for 100 hoursStill remember those days, when we were paying Rs.15000 for 100 hours ( at that time it was on hour basis instead of /per month basis) to VSNL for TCP/IP connection ( Phone bill additional ) and it was too hard to get connected. Dial-up connection using 33.6 kbps modem. You dial 10 times and it will get connected 1 time who bhee kitni der chalega, you never know
You forgot to mention it was on the same line sharing the one and only phone line in the house. So, whenever you were connected to internet the phones were not accessible. Hence, the night shifts.
Yep
You are right
OMG… and who remember this –
Listening this after so many years. Crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
@thrifty_indian wrote:
@Crook Yes, the nostalgia of 90’s. Back then technology was changing at a rapid pace. First came the portable cassette player/FM, I remember jostling to listen India vs Pakistan cricket matches on FM. Our boarding school was well past human population and FM/Vividh Bharti reception was not always accessible then soon enough there were CDs and anyone carrying those big Discmans were considered uber ‘cool’. The first ‘programming’ language I learnt ‘LOGO’. I still remember the commands,
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
LT 90
FD 100
That would make you a square.
My first tryst with internet was probably on a V-SAT connection. The year must be ‘96/97. That is if you don’t consider FAX as internet. Then later BSNL dial-up and then AIrtel 2G.
@ OP …I don’t have the answer to your question, sorry.
Bhai.. aapne to to puraane dino ki yaad dilla di totally.
Bhai.. aapne to to puraane dino ki yaad dilla di totally.
Shouldn’t the question be Who is / was the first person to use internet in india? OR Who is / was the first man / woman to use internet in india?. How can we be sure that it was only a man (until we actually know the answer / name).
Or did you mean ‘man only’ precisely?
@mairaj wrote:
Shouldn’t the question be Who is / was the first person to use internet in india? OR Who is / was the first man / woman to use internet in india?. How can we be sure that it was only a man (until we actually know the answer / name).
Or did you mean ‘man only’ precisely?
Ofcourse, in a patriarchal society like ours where working women were considered of not a ‘good character’ back then. You fancy a woman unveiling the herald of unknown technology.
Ok, I am not arguing I just casually said that and I understand what you mean but that doesn’t mean that there is no possibility at all for a woman to be the first. If it is question of impotance for the OP and if there is even a slight possibility (even 1%) my suggestion stands logical
@thrifty_indian wrote:@mairaj wrote:
Shouldn’t the question be Who is / was the first person to use internet in india? OR Who is / was the first man / woman to use internet in india?. How can we be sure that it was only a man (until we actually know the answer / name).
Or did you mean ‘man only’ precisely?
Ofcourse, in a patriarchal society like ours where working women were considered of not a ‘good character’ back then. You fancy a woman unveiling the herald of unknown technology.
Kuon ?
itana simple question…
"@mairaj":https://www.desidime.com/users/...36 wrote:Shouldn’t the question be Who is / was the first person to use internet in india? OR Who is / was the first man / woman to use internet in india?. How can we be sure that it was only a man (until we actually know the answer / name).
Or did you mean ‘man only’ precisely?
bro man or women both m se Jo bhi 1st user tha
Good Night bhai !!