I remember the Internet....

[Champo41]

This oughtta be cool. What was your first memory of the Internet when you first saw it? Or what do you remember about it before it became all about e-commerce.

I remember when GeoCities had no pop-ups and when you wanted an address, you browsed through pages until you found one that looked like like a vacant house.

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

I remember that. I used to "live" in the "Palladium" district of "SunsetStrip." Some Hanson fan was my neighbor.

 

[Windogg]

I remember when Yahoo! was a page by a bunch of people liting their favorite "Bookmarks"

Windogg

 

[sweetrobin]

lol ...I remember that ... my was in sunsetstrip too .. i think my number was 5234 ... lol ... after the popup thing started I ditched it like a hot potato

 

[PCAddict]

I remember when I first got Internet access. It was dialup at 28.8 and I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

 

[Fathom5]

Ummmm, I remember having to use 'Archie' and 'Veronica' to search for a file or information you needed on a particular subject. Then hoping after you down loaded the file it was what you wanted.

Browsing and www. were 3 or 4 years down the road yet. The internet was a true information 'dirt road'. You couldn't get there from here.

[edit] 28.8? Man 9600 was the rage. About a $400 bill to get that fast too.

 

[RU482]

First time I used the internet, hmmm.

1994, Elements of Weather Class at the University of Northern Iowa

Connected to the University of Kansas computer...I vagely remember having to type in kermit???...to connect to some satellite imagery data.

Needless to say, in 1994 (pre Win95) the interface was a joke at best! It was kind of like DOS (command line menus and stuff)

Of course, I did drink alot in college, so maybe this is all some dream They did call it the "Internet" though.

 

[PCAddict]

I suffered from the same affliction as Bill Gates. I largely ignored the Internet at first, just like he did.

 

[Windogg]

Fathom5, I thought I was the only on that remembered GOPHER.

Windogg

 

[Fathom5]

Damn, Windogg I forgot about GOPHER and all those damn download protocols. Ewwww.

Ahhh, those were the days. And I thought that 9600 baud USR Modem was damn fast.

 

[RU482]

Yeah...I remember GOPHER REDLY1 gets a warm fuzzy feeling

 

[BigToque]

I remember the first time I used the Internet was a few years ago. I had Netscape 3, and I was going around looking for EA Sports NHL '96.

Boy was I supprised to find out that you could download roster updates! Now I could use real updated drivers, not the crap I made myself

gotta love my 14.4 USRobotics modem. I still have it too

 

[aUt0eXebat]

i remember going to hotbot.com .... and then to rocketmail.com and setting up my first account. I thought it was so cool cus i could check it at anyones house. It was the best when i could check it on a friends laptop in a hospital.

 

[ltk007]

First time I went on was in an AOL chatroom right before they did the $20 a month thing. It was pathetic, but what's even sadder is that I enjoyed it.

 

[Valhalla1]

first got on the net in 1994 or 95, I was in 8th grade. 'twas pretty cool, my first net experience was on multiple T1's at the local university. win 3.1, netscape 2.0.. bad@ss!

and I was so UN-net-savvy. I saw an article in a magazine that listed an email address for something. I was such an idiot, I had never used a web browser before (but had been using computers since I was like 8), I typed the email address in the location on the browser, and was so confused why it wouldn't go anywhere.

oh well..

then I remember first stumbling across internet porn. =) and I was always worried they'd find out I wasn't really 18 when I clicked "Yes".

 

[Michael]

I remember Apple IIe BBSes hooked up into USENET and Gopher being a revolutionary new way of getting around. I started on a 300 baud modem and remember when 1200 was super fast! I remember GEnie and Compuserve before they hooked up to the internet and how Compuserve had this neat thing called GIF that put pictures on the screen.

Michael

ps - I'm not too old, just started real young ...

 

[Spoooon]

My first experiance with the internet was with CompuServe, AOL, and Prodigy when they were all 1.0s. We were connecting with a 2400 baud modem. I thought chat rooms were the coolest thing. I remember AOL didn't let you download and do other stuff at the same time. So, I would start a download, and then go eat or something until the download was complete. Prodigy had craploads of adds and the ugliest graphics you could imagine. I just didn't like CompuServe.

To think, I used to enjoy surfing around at 2400...

 

[PCAddict]

I started out with a Commodore 64, a 300-baud modem, and was calling local BBS's back in the early/mid 1980's. I was on Q-Link which was the predecessor to AOL. Then I was on Prodigy when I was in college.

I kinda got away from computers as a hobby in 1991, but I got back into it in 1993. I don't remember what year it was when I acutally used the Internet for the first time. I kinda missed the boat at first.

 

[perry]

Netscape pre-1.0.. in the beta stages. Remember loading Java applets, hearing sound through the single speaker attached to the Sun, and thinking.. "Wow, this web thing is pretty coo."

Before that, I used gopher to get to WD's place and get jumper settings for a ~260 MB HD..

I remember when Juno had a proprietary client to dial up and get email access, ONLY. There was a HUGE waiting list to get their software...

First online experience was with Prodigy in 92 or 93. I forget. On an old XT with dual 5.25" low density drives, and no hard drive. Then I downloaded some terminal software and getting on some BBS... and there went my social life

 

[chiwawa626]

Ahhh....i remember like it was yesterday, i was browsing through aols shareware downloads like a kid in a candy store. Damn, i was doing that yesterday...heh i still have aol...but i got ADSL on top of it.

 

[prodigy]

<< First time I went on was in an AOL chatroom right before they did the $20 a month thing. It was pathetic, but what's even sadder is that I enjoyed it. >>



I am both embarrassed and ashamed to admit that my first Internet experience was also through AOL. Something like $10 a month for 25 hrs, and $3 an hour after that.

 

[joburnet]

I think it was in 93 when i was 13 downloading porn off of a 14.4k modem, took forever but I was patient

 

[jimmygates]

I think it was 1996. I got my first modem, a SmartLink 19.2kbps modem. It was a screamer back then since it was 4.8kbps faster then a 14.4kbps! My first internet service? GASP..AOL v2.0. I was soo addicted to the sound of &quot;YOU GOT MAIL.&quot; I racked up $190 the first month..=\



-Jimbo

 

[purplehayes]

First online experience was in '86 or '87. We logged on to some BBS in CA from KS in computer class on a 300 baud modem.

My first modem was a 2,40 baud that I used to connect to local bulletin boards. When some of the BBS's I frequented required a 14.4 modem to download, I went out and got one and I was in heaven!

The first true WWW internet experience was when I surfed at work about 4 years ago. I remember telling my wife, &quot;Looks like just a bunch of ads, I don't see what all the hype is about.&quot;

Now I've got three boxes that share a cable modem. I;m such a sucker for hype.

PH

 

[mattyrug]

I remember using my Mac Plus with a 1200 Baud Modem in from like '87 to around '91 (and the modem was expensive!!). Until I got a 486.

My First 'Web' (as we know it today) Experience was in 1993, My Brother and I broke down when MOSAIC (for those of you who don't know it had Usenet, Gopher, and a whole bunch of other Protocols incorporated in to one GUI Program!!), and the Internet Valet Programs came along, and we shared an Account with a Local ISP. Man it made life so much easier!!

and Before that, I Dialed into the a Local BBS Via HyperTerminal, or ClarisWorks for $3/hr, and I if remeber correctly, we had to Log off and on, everytime we wanted to open a new type of protocol!!
and I also used to Dial up to other Friends computers with a Commodore 64, and play games, and trade Programming Codes!!