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What was Your First Experience on THE INTERNET?

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Originally posted by: Jadow
I was on BBSes in the early 90's and they had an email option that uploaded to FIDONET once a day, but my first experience on the internet was in 1994 when my high school IT guy showed me and some friends YAHOO! on an Apple Macintosh with Netscape 1.0.

Yahoo has since been surpassed by Google and MSN, but that site will always hold a special place in my heart because they were first.

When did you first get on the net?
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Got online in 1983 with 300 baud direct connect modem (like on War Games), looks like a phone.

Service was called VideoText. I did things like download new code for machine at Company I worked for (CNC Robotics) from parent company in Germany.

They were shocked here in the U.S. how I got new program running on the machine in 3 hours as opposed to waiting for shipment of ships.
 
I remember getting on a buddies BBS back in high school in the early 90s...a bunch of us played Tradewars. I remember staying up until midnight so I could log on and play my turns for the day. That game was a blast and revolutionary for the time.

Also remember getting on AOL when it first started up and doing early web design with html in notepad. I remember everyone thinking I was a genious because I could code tables in html 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
The details are a little fuzzy, but I think it was a 28K modem on some old IBM desktop. The whole thing was in friggin' DOS or something...
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That doesn't make any sense, 28K modem and Dos? The 3.1 era which was a mix of dos and 3.1, had 14k modems, the 28K era of modems was around '95/'96 (Very highend at the time) so you'd more than likely have Windows 95 on that system...
 
I remember ISCA, shadow and one other bbs where I hung out in 95...also I was using mosaic on an x-term to get my email and to hang out some more on the bbs... it was at the Uni when I first started
 
1985, a message popped up on my terminal... I wondered wtf?? Had a conversation between my terminal connected to a VAX 11/780 at Alfred University and some guy in Rochester who was trying to find his sister at Alfred.
 
BBS, prodigy, compuserve first time on around 89-90 Tandy COCO3 (300 baud) then several years later IBM PS1 (1200 baud)

First time actually on the internet was around 95/96 on the university network connection.
 
Looks like ISCA bbs is still online...

Also in 95, by being a Engineering student, i had accts on Unix boxes which were online... our email was handled by a vax machine on which was also the uni gopher...
 
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