What was the first thing you ever did on....

[episodic]

Some people here are talking about bulletin boards. I use to run one on a c64 on both our phone lines late at night. Lots of other computer nerds around town would dial in. I had a time limit of 30 minutes on the board so lots of people could get on over time.

Then there was the 'god' of BBS's where I lived. He actually paid for 25 phone lines out of his pocket and ran a BBS for about 2 years circa 1987-1990. . . He ran it on a MAC (forgot which one) - but it had chat, message boards, etc.

 

[duragezic]

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: purbeast0
chat on AOL.

Got this first. Racked up a hefty long distance phone bill. Then got dial-up so I hit some BBS places and got shareware/freeware as well as messing with the basics like Yahoo and Angelfire. I remember thinking Netscape didnt seem to work after getting dial-up but on our 486 SX it just took 1-2 minutes to load, heh.

 

[Alienwho]

The first thing I remember of the internet is taking all night to download a 3 megabyte game demo from cnet.

The next big jump was when Diablo came out, and I realized the power of an online community/chatting/online gaming. After that ICQ came into play. The rest is all recent history.

 

[Accipiter22]

aT BARELY 13 I LOOKED FOR PLAYBOY AS SOON AS MY MOM CLOSD TEH EORODOOR TO MY BEDROOM WHERE THE COMPUER WAS

 

[KarenMarie]

it was IRC. that is really all there was. It was DOS, too.

 

[GeekDrew]

I have *no* idea what I did the first time I was on the internet... that happened at a friend's house, IIRC.

What I do distinctly remember is regarding our first internet connection at home: having to read hundreds of pages of detailed information on Trumpet Winsock for Windows 3.11, and then for Windows 95's DUN, because we used a "real ISP" that used DUN, rather than AOL/Prodigy/etc. I had been connecting to BBS's for a long while, and found a DUN setup document for our particular local ISP on it, but it wouldn't work. Because I was still learning, I had no idea that the Windows 95 install was corrupt... I assumed that I was just repeatedly failing to understand the exceedingly simple instructions.

After I reinstalled Windows 95, and configured DUN within about 30 seconds, I connected... and I *finally* got that glorious post-connect terminal window. After starting the PPP session... I went to http://www.ohio-state.edu, because I knew that it was fairly graphics intensive, and that it *THAT* loaded, everything was just peachy. It loaded.

And what did I do then? Disconnected, and then reconnected, so that I could play w/ the shell that I got in the DUN terminal screen.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Neurorelay
I forgot about in 1992 racking up a $200 phone bill on Prodigy BBS.

my brother and I did that with napster. Let's just say the bill was a little higher than $200

What happened was this: my parents said that in order to be able to use the internet, we had to get a second phone line. No problem. All we had to do was get it activated. But my mom and dad forgot one little thing, then forgot to tell us: St. Louis is devided into 2 area codes: 314, and 636. Regardless of which one you're in, calling the other is considered long distance unless you're in on a special program at the phone company. In that program, both 314- and 636- numbers are considered local. Now, our *main* phone line was set up this way, and my brother and I both assumed the second line was, too. Needless to say, it wasn't :|

Nate

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The earliest thing I remember was typing in huge URLs to license plate websites because I didn't know about favorites at the time.

 

[eldorado99]

Downloaded old games off of BBS (Bulletin Board Service). Anyone remember "Jet Pack"?

 

[jupiter57]

www.astromart.com

Got tired of running to my brother's house every time I wanted to buy telescopes or accessories (After Astromart stopped their printed version.)
8 years ago, and I still check it every day!

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: TechHead87
Talking about this game called STUNTS! on a bulletin board. 1994 or somewhere around there. On a 14.4K connection no less!

STUNTS! was awesome!! I wish I could find a copy of that some where

My parents first ISP was AOL and I think the first thing I did was go to playboy.com or something like that. I must have been in like 5th grade or so... dang, seems so long ago.

 

[sonoma1993]

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ

Originally posted by: TechHead87
Talking about this game called STUNTS! on a bulletin board. 1994 or somewhere around there. On a 14.4K connection no less!

STUNTS! was awesome!! I wish I could find a copy of that some where

My parents first ISP was AOL and I think the first thing I did was go to playboy.com or something like that. I must have been in like 5th grade or so... dang, seems so long ago.

I use to have STUNTS back in the day for my ol tandy 1000

My 1st time using the internet at home was on AOL 3.0 I probably was looking for people in my area to chat with and going to the chat room. I was about 13/14 at the time.

 

[NuclearNed]

I downloaded shareware from telnet

 

[EngenZerO]

check out the prodigy boards for information on myst and other video games...

 

[tfinch2]

chat on AOL

 

[DaTT]

chat on Yahoo

 

[Firetower]

Fate 3.0

 

[danz8]

www.bikepics.com

Still a motorbike freak...........

 

[LanceM]

Some random search using AOL.

 

[ebaycj]

www.playboy.com before they had any content filters or age checks, and everything was free.

EDIT: 14 yrs old @ the time

 

[moshquerade]

first thing i did was shop.

 

[XZeroII]

so long ago that I don't remember. I think I've always had internet... (24yrs old now).

 

[datalink7]

Something on LYNX... forget exactly what.

 

[MisterJackson]

I've never used the internet

 

[ForumMaster]

i think when my mom and dad's friend setup my yahoo mail account. still have it but barely use it.