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quakefiend420

Lifer
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mules carried the packets to us punched into cards...we didn't have this fancy cable/dsl/fios crap





















































and get off my lawn!
 
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Orsorum

Lifer
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I walked uphill both ways in the snow, fighting ogres and lions, to make this post. :|
 
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Willoughbyva

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I think I started using dial up bbs stuff back in 91 or 92. All Prodegy was back then was mostly a local bbs. I was using a dos client and didn't understand how to make things work. I was using a 2400 baud modem. Everything took a long time to load back then. This was on a 386sx with either 2 or 4 megs of memory. It sucked. The wing commander game was cool though.
 
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intogamer

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Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
I think I started using dial up bbs stuff back in 91 or 92. All Prodegy was back then was mostly a local bbs. I was using a dos client and didn't understand how to make things work. I was using a 2400 baud modem. Everything took a long time to load back then. This was on a 386sx with either 2 or 4 megs of memory. It sucked. The wing commander game was cool though.
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quakefiend420

quakefiend420

Lifer
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i started on the net in 96 or so i think...pentium 90, 32mb of ram, and a 14.4 connection

i think, it's been a while, so i may be fuzzy on the details a bit
 
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intogamer

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well I started off by a IBM alsta visa?
266mhz duron
etc etc it kinda sucked... norton made it lag :\
 
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Medea

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Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
I think I started using dial up bbs stuff back in 91 or 92. All Prodegy was back then was mostly a local bbs. I was using a dos client and didn't understand how to make things work. I was using a 2400 baud modem. Everything took a long time to load back then. This was on a 386sx with either 2 or 4 megs of memory. It sucked. The wing commander game was cool though.
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Same here, except I didn't have Prodigy. I had to write a config script to connect and my ISP only uses a shell. Some of the bbs' had some great files for d/l'ing.

 
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KarenMarie

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VeggieFrog does not know life without a microwave, remote control, cable teevee, push button phones, personal stereos, and air conditioning.
 
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Medea

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For you who do not know:
ARCHIE was the search machine for FTP sites; VERONICA was the search machine for gopher sites. There was no real WWW. When it first came out, I used Lynx for web sites. Netscape was the first gui. MS came out with theirs and it was a joke. I think around v.3 or 4, it became decent.
 
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Willoughbyva

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Mosaic was the first web browser. I think the first version of netscape and IE were using part of it in them. I remember when i installed them that there was a license agreement or something saying some of it was from Mosaic.
 
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Medea

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Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
Mosaic was the first web browser. I think the first version of netscape and IE were using part of it in them. I remember when i installed them that there was a license agreement or something saying some of it was from Mosaic.
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You're right! I forgot about Mosaic.
 
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