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Youre not elite unless you have had a geocities webpage, and hotmail account

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Hotmail (pre-MSN), geocities (think I was on bourbon street), altavista, and so on back in the 90's, so I guess I'm pretty 1337. That's honestly the first time I've ever said that.

And after reading some replies, I had an ICQ # in the 1.4 million range (can't remember anymore), used BBS (loved L.O.R.D.), IRC, etc.

My favorite in about 1995 was the Gaming Zone, for checkers and card games and chat. Microsoft bought it a couple of years later and I never went back.
 
Heh... I remember when WebCrawler was the only web search engine out there! Before that, you needed to use services like Archie to find stuff!

Besides, Hotmail and Geocities were for newbies! True elites used PINE to check their mail, and had a public_html directory in their shell account to host their web site 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Heh... I remember when WebCrawler was the only web search engine out there! Before that, you needed to use services like Archie to find stuff!

Besides, Hotmail and Geocities were for newbies! True elites used PINE to check their mail, and had a public_html directory in their shell account to host their web site 🙂
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Precisely...

Webcrawler was the only one when I started on the net, and that was before I had internet access at home and I was all about the BBS's... My brother met his ex-wife on a BBS..
I loved fidonet, that was fun...
I actually was playing around with my dad's old C64, dialed up with his 300 baud modem to Prostar BBS and surfed the web in lynx... that was sweet, watching each line of text draw on the screen. By that time I was mostly into IRC warez and porn... all that good stuff that 13 year old boys need growing up...
 
Originally posted by: Nimloth
Originally posted by: ZetaEpyon
I guess I qualify then? Nothing like the good old days of setting up Trumpet Winsock in Windows 3.1.

Oh, and my ICQ number is under 120,000. 😛
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You win. My UIN is in the 130,000's.
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Trumpet? I got you beat, I set up SLURP on on my shell to emulate SLIP because my local provider charged hourly for SLIP when it was new, hell I think most did.

Emulated SLIP and used the Gecko package for DOS to get grafix online, that was bad ass. Long live SLURP - R.I.P!
 
Kali!!! thats the whiz!! i used to lie and tell people my 28.8k jedi knight game was on Cable, so they would join

used lynx at the library to browse teh internet... not kewl!
 
Originally posted by: zeruty
Webcrawler was the only one when I started on the net, and that was before I had internet access at home and I was all about the BBS's... My brother met his ex-wife on a BBS..
I loved fidonet, that was fun...
I actually was playing around with my dad's old C64, dialed up with his 300 baud modem to Prostar BBS and surfed the web in lynx... that was sweet, watching each line of text draw on the screen. By that time I was mostly into IRC warez and porn... all that good stuff that 13 year old boys need growing up...
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300 baud makes you want to get up and push. I was on 9600 then switched up to 14.4k before 28.8k and then to 56k.

I remember finding out warez on the old BBS days. Most of the BBSes I frequented were running Wildcat BBS. Then somehow they got Ripscrip graphics, so that made L.O.R.D even more fun.

I remember frequenting UnderNet, DALNet, and EFNet getting movies and stuff via DCC. That was fun, but when I started I was running on 14.4k and it was slow as heck downloading games.

If you remember playing Jazz the Jack Rabbit and One Must Fall on a network, then you're getting old. 🙂




 
Originally posted by: LS20
and used altavista search (hotbot, excite, and especially magellan, are for losers)
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Those things are fairly recent in internet time. When I started, there was no hotmail or altavista. You had to use Webcrawler. Pine and Gopher were still popular then.
 
i used to have a 5 digit ICQ number. waaaay back when. my quake clans used icq when it first came out.... so many years ago....
 
i've been using internet since '96 so i've tried those before. oh yes gaming zone rocked!

now change my title! 😀
 
You are not elite unless you have sent email via telnet - and used a finger server (bonus points for having ran a finger server). . .

 
I had geocities, hotmail, and used altavista. For bonus 1337 points, I also used MP3Wolf (before Napster came out).
 
What was the third big email provider back then? Hotmail, Yahoo... I had one. It was Excite, maybe?

My fondest early internet memories are frantically tweaking my 28.8 modem to play Warcraft II on Battle.net. GOOD times.
 
I had an ICQ # of 1023125, used Altavista when it was #1, used Altavista's DIAL-UP service, still have a hotmail acct, had my hotmail account posted on my Geocities page, and viewed it all through Netscape 2.0 (soon after I upgraded to IE 3.0).

Remember when every website started with "This is my Website" or "Welcome to my website!" and had a midi file playing on the first page?
 
<- Used Alta Vista before it was Alta Vista dot com. Anyone know here remember what it was called before? Remember when sysdoc.pair.com was Tom's Hardware Page?

Xoom wasn't as quite "unlimited" as you think. My account was yanked for hosting the cab files for a Windows 98 installation. 😱
 
Originally posted by: Maiora
<- Used Alta Vista before it was Alta Vista dot com. Anyone know here remember what it was called before? Remember when sysdoc.pair.com was Tom's Hardware Page?

Xoom wasn't as quite "unlimited" as you think. My account was yanked for hosting the cab files for a Windows 98 installation. 😱
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I still use sysdoc.pair.com to get to Tom's.

BTW, welcome back.
 
My first ISP was IBM ____. It later became AT&T Worldnet. Didn't have home internet access until 1996, 6 months after I got my first pc.

I never had any desire for a geocities page or hotmail acct.
I think I started using ICQ in 1998. My ICQ#168083206 though it's no longer installed. I started IRC in 1997.

I do remember using Webcrawler for my searching needs.
 
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