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Who on Anandtech can **PROVE** They were on the internet first?

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i have an aol 1.1 disk... that's the closest thing to proof i can show. i think it was around '94 when i first got online.
 
Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Can you find out dates on ICQ numbers? I have my old number but no password. Look at me on 72882145.
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I dont know but you have a really high ICQ number - mine was 414939! 😛
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: malak
I played Cyber Strike on AOL 2.5.
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Was AOL 2.5 the first version with WWW access?
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I dunno, all I ever did was visit the games section. Air Warrior, Cyber Strike, Terris, Federation, Gemstone III, etc. Back then it was all free and downloadable. I was playing MMO's before anyone had monthly fees!
 
12 years ago, no joke. I'm a junior in HS, was on Compuserve in kindergarden downloading lamborghini videos on a 14.4k 😀

I used to set that thing at night and downloads tons of videos, heh
 
I was there when Dan Quayle invented it...after he hit <enter>, I looked at the monitor...

<---winner 😀

go ahead and ask him....he'll vouch for me...
 
2400 baud modem on prodigy... I wish I still had the emails... must've been about '93. Still in touch with the first girl I ever met there. We were 15.
 
Let me find something... Found something in the closet. The egghead sales rep threw this in when I bought a bunch of Norton software for $300 way back when. Terrible browser. Went back to Netscape after an hour.

Since everything else can be photochoped, thoght I show something that's real.

Mosaic 1
Mosaic 2
Mosaic 3
 
i had a 2400 modem. i used AOL (once called promenade for IBM PS/1s) at the time. when i signed up, there were maybe 200,000 members throughout the country, and steve case AND tom clancy used to frequent the Lobbies (called Lobby A, Lobby B, etc.)

cost for AOL back then: $9.95 for the first 5 hours, $6 for each hour after that.

my AOL sign on date was 3/1/93. i don't have that computer nor did i do screenshots at the time so you're just gonna have to take my word for it.

🙂

once upon a time, when AIM buddy lists were able to (version 1.3, i believe), you could see a user's first sign on date when doing the onmouseover thingy. it was super cool stuff. 😛

(and yeah, we had a prodigy account a little bit prior.. but not much earlier, since i got the PS/1 at the end of december '92)

yeah. that makes me, so far, the nerdiest one on this thread.... and to top that off, i'm still a female.
 
Originally posted by: Jigga
I dunno about the Internet, but I started BBSing back in the 5th grade on a 2400baud modem (1988), in 1989 I logged onto Usenet for the first time (after watching my dad send messages back and forth between DEC's sales office in Australia.) My father bought a 14400 baud modem (venerable Courier) the day it came out, and we experimented with Compuserve and Prodigy before switching to AOL when they first released version 2.0 (1992?) My family's been on AOL ever since, but around 1994 I switched to pure dialup PPP after becoming frustrated with AOL's "web browser" (seriously their first version of WWW was the worst hacked crap evar!) By this time Netscape was already at 1.2 or something, so I was never a pure NCSA Mosaic user.
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No cable?
 
I was on in 1995. AOHell probably has some record of that. I'm not going to bother looking it up though. You'll just have to take my word for it.
 
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/813/

My BBS is listed here from 1994, but as I recall, I started it in 1992-93.

I recall getting some killer deals (only $400) on the first 9600 bps modems.

Around 93 some of the SysOps started getting hooked up through some "internet email gateway" nonsense... most of us thought THAT was a silly waste of time. 🙂


 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: DonVito
I was first on the Internet in the summer of 1995, but the earliest evidence I can find is a review of a Marzocchi suspension fork, on Apr 7, 1997.
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April 7 review missing.
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D'oh! It's Apr 8. The review is insanely verbose - for better or worse, that's my style! IIRC they had a contest going at the time for "best review," so I wanted to be comprehensive. I didn't win . . .
 
Actually, my mom's boyfriend Helped Invent the Interenet (no joking)

He was one of the big time network guys @ Ameritech back in the 80's-90's He ended up leaving and starting his own networking company and selling it to Cisco systems for about $15 Mil

BGP (click the BGP part of the link @ bottom for proof)



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Direct Link
 
Originally posted by: flot
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/813/

My BBS is listed here from 1994, but as I recall, I started it in 1992-93.

I recall getting some killer deals (only $400) on the first 9600 bps modems.

Around 93 some of the SysOps started getting hooked up through some "internet email gateway" nonsense... most of us thought THAT was a silly waste of time. 🙂
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wow.. seriously thanks for that.. I looked up my old area code (316) and even though they didnt have my BBS on that list (probably a little to .. um underground) to make that list, I recognised a lot of them.. !! THANKS!
 
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