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 Post subject: The Innernets / the interweb superhighway
PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:25 pm 
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Another thread just made me think of this....

So how long have you been on "the innernets" for?


Me:
- bought my first modem from a friend for $20.
- really old Macintosh
- dial-up commection < 56k
- logging on to local BBSs with text-only interfaces.

Old skool yo.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:29 pm 
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summer 1995. i used to go to my dad's office at work. i was spoiled with a t1 right away. we finally got online at home outside of his home office that fall and i was like, "what is this 28k nonsense?" (i think my dad's first modem was 300 baud.)


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Bout 95'. Sweet dial-up where as a fifteen year old, I waited 10 minutes for a porn pic to slowly unfold.

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Back in the day, when AOL used to charge by the hour to use. I didn't own a home computer, so 'secretly' used the one at work.


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Fall '94, used Gopher.

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i never even saw the innernets until my first "real" job after college -- fall '96.

but oh man have i made up for lost time.

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I should also add that that I connected to the internet via a local provider called Cajunnet.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.


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DumpJack Wrote:
Fall '94, used Gopher.

now we're talking! my first email was on PINE.


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'95 sometime. Old PC (a Tandy, maybe?) and I think we used Prodigy at first, moving on to alternate between AOL & Compuserve a little later.


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used to peruse mailing lists back in the early 90s... I specifically remember being on a Sinead O'Connor mailing list called Jump in the River (or JITR, for short)... text only of course. After college, I was in techno-peasant status, and didn't get back on the web til maybe 1997.

Still do most of my surfing from work because we have crappy dialup at home.


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first time was probably 93 or 94, but since internet access in my little town in the middle of nowhere was next to impossible to find, i didnt actually start using it daily until 98 or 99, and even then, it was only in my daily computer class that i took specifically so that i could screw around and use the internet.


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i remember when i was a kid, maybe around 84 or 85 my friend showing me something called a modem that sent information over the phones through his commodore 64. it blew my mind.

but the actual world wide web would have been in college - 94 or so. before that at college all we had was Pine where we sent these text emails and chatted with each other over IRC.

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oh shit, if we're talking about original computer experience, then I'm with you rodney... I remember putting programs on friggin magnetic tape.


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fall of 95 when I went to college


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Aural Fixation Wrote:
Back in the day, when AOL used to charge by the hour to use. I didn't own a home computer, so 'secretly' used the one at work.


Why do they still send out tins with the signup disc in it, with the front proclaiming something like, "1,742 hours free!"

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I didn't get a connection at home til 99.

Total n00b.

But from what I had seen from friends computers prior to that I wasn't all that impressed since they were all mainly going in AOL chatrooms on a dial up & being billed by the minute. And I remember when AOL went to a flate rate & you couldn't sign on. But then getting away from AOL's little world & going to Ninjatune's site & then I really wanted interweb

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Probably '97 or '98. I remember my friend and I reading the Garfield website constantly at his house. Also, looking up Super Nintendo cheats.

I can't remember when we first got the internet.


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Used to dial up to local BBs on my 1200 baud modem... and later subscribed to General Electric's online service, GEnie.

Got "real" internet access via University, circa 1991 or 1992.


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My first internet experience was at a friend's house in 1994. I had no idea what it even was, as I was just impressed that they had a real computer (which I also knew nothing about). Only he knew how to use it, so I was just a spectator. My family broke down and got VERY BASIC internet access in 1997 with the use of a WebTV system. POS, if you ask me now, but then it was the first email address I ever had, and I was smitten. The first time I had daily/reliable/miminally restricted internet access was when I went to college in 1999. Yes, I'm a late bloomer. I had to figure out how to use the computer lab's PC's, since I'd never really used a computer before. Then In 2002 I got my first real computer, and succumbed to high-speed cable internet too. I saved up and paid cash for the computer. It's the same one I'm on now.

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I was doing chatrooms in highschool, so '94. I remember chatting extensively on Hotel California. Ha. Got on through a hookup at the library. I remember hanging out with a kid in the summers and using CompuServe. His parents would only allow us an 1 hr a day due to the pay per minute/hour service.

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I got on the internet in '99.

I wish I could get back off because I've got nothing done since then.

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BBS services like Compuserve: late 80s
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my dad bought the family a computer in 92/93

i used to run everything off the command prompt when i was like 8

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I can't tell you how happy I am that I was the last person to get online.

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