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MrPopup · 02-02-2003, 08:36 PM

For me, it was through a Prodigy Account and I would use a 1200 Baud modem to access the news servers for sports entertainment info (alt.rec.sport.pro-wrestling)...

This was probably around early 1993.

Who was your first 'net connection with? What speed was it at? When was it?

Amputate Your Head · 02-02-2003, 08:37 PM

shut up.

rooster · 02-02-2003, 08:37 PM

late 95

MrPopup · 02-02-2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
shut up.

this post is about ten thousand times better then a post with lyrics from a crummy song.

oscer · 02-02-2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrPopup
For me, it was through a Prodigy Account and I would use a 1200 Baud modem to access the news servers for sports entertainment info (alt.rec.sport.pro-wrestling)...

This was probably around early 1993.

Who was your first 'net connection with? What speed was it at? When was it?

About 94 at the local comunity college duiring high school lunch

Amputate Your Head · 02-02-2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrPopup

this post is about ten thousand times better then a post with lyrics from a crummy song.

I refuse to believe that.

MrPopup · 02-02-2003, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Amputate Your Head

I refuse to believe that.

Believe It.

Kid Rock is nothing but Brtiney with a greasy lid and some weak ass tunes.

Rochard · 02-02-2003, 09:11 PM

1994 using a 56k modem. AOL. (Don't tell anyone!)

Gman.357 · 02-02-2003, 09:14 PM

Wow. This thread is a half hour old, and no one posted "1997" yet. I'm impressed.

mike503 · 02-02-2003, 09:16 PM

al gore called me after he launched the first website officially and asked me to browse it and tell him how i liked using the "internet"

Amputate Your Head · 02-02-2003, 09:16 PM

Honeyslut · 02-02-2003, 09:16 PM

late 95.. I was surfing for real estate , found my future agent and new home ..

Amputate Your Head · 02-02-2003, 09:18 PM

(actually it was 1993, but i felt obligated to get in a '97 post)

Gman.357 · 02-02-2003, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
(actually it was 1993, but i felt obligated to get in a '97 post)

FUCKIN NEWB!!

fnet · 02-02-2003, 09:37 PM

i started using gopher and telnet in 1989 on school computers. it was pretty impossible get hooked up to anything but a bbs for a while- i had to dial into a school account to get full internet access. some bbs's had news feeds, but it was a while before any of them offered an internet pipe.

(My parents wouldn't let me have one of these.)

gothweb · 02-02-2003, 09:40 PM

Who knows. I was pretty young. I was using the net, text stuff I mean, since I was like 12. So, what, more than a dozen years ago. I used Mosaic as soon as it was on the computers at the local college's labs. Was doing text stuff ages before that. Maybe 1991-2?

ZoiNk · 02-02-2003, 09:41 PM

early '90s, fuck if I recall the year. was on a text based VAX/VMS system I dialed into with my 486sx/25 with 2400 baud modem.
ZoiNk

FlyingIguana · 02-02-2003, 09:42 PM

J B · 02-02-2003, 09:44 PM

92... first week at University

Lily · 02-02-2003, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RocHard
1994 using a 56k modem. AOL. (Don't tell anyone!)

56k modem in 1994? Ummmm. I don't think so!!!! Anyone else remember having a 56k in 1994? I Googled "modem speed timeline" and got

"The average modem can transfer data at 14,400 kbps. (Within a year 28,800 kbps will be the standard modem speed.) " for 1996.

I remember jumping for joy when 33.6 came out and it certainly wasn't 1996.

GregP · 02-02-2003, 10:23 PM

March 1996

XXXPaysiteDesign · 02-02-2003, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lily

56k modem in 1994? Ummmm. I don't think so!!!! Anyone else remember having a 56k in 1994? I Googled "modem speed timeline" and got

"The average modem can transfer data at 14,400 kbps. (Within a year 28,800 kbps will be the standard modem speed.) " for 1996.

I remember jumping for joy when 33.6 came out and it certainly wasn't 1996.

I was thinking that as well. I remember when I thought 28.8 was a really lightning fast. haaaaaaaaaa

toddler · 02-02-2003, 10:33 PM

82 for bbs's, 86 first 'internet' use, creightson university machines, used for email and usenet. not bad for 6th grade...

nofx · 02-02-2003, 10:39 PM

High Quality · 02-02-2003, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lily

56k modem in 1994? Ummmm. I don't think so!!!! Anyone else remember having a 56k in 1994? I Googled "modem speed timeline" and got

"The average modem can transfer data at 14,400 kbps. (Within a year 28,800 kbps will be the standard modem speed.) " for 1996.

I remember jumping for joy when 33.6 came out and it certainly wasn't 1996.

Yep. I think I started using the internet in mid 1994. I used a $200 14.4Kbps modem. 28.8's came out a year later at a whopping $300 a pop. 33.6 wasn't introduced until 96 or 97. But then again, back then I paid $35/MB of ram and it was 80ns DRAM, not even EDO.

steffie · 02-02-2003, 11:22 PM

1989
9600 speed
aol ha ha
had a picture of me scanned in a town 30 miles away so i could send it to somebody
than went to 14.4 on a 486/33 I thought my PC is gonna explode.

Chatrooms where a blast, the dialup board were the shit, lots of nudie pictures and stuff..

ahhhh..... now I bitch when my DSL is sluggish lol

PerfectionGirls · 02-02-2003, 11:25 PM

1995..... late 1995 maybe around Sept. Had a 14.4 modem and I thought I was rockin! LOL

RomaJim01 · 02-02-2003, 11:48 PM

Prodigy back around '93. Quickly moved to Compuserve the to AOL.

Voodoo · 02-02-2003, 11:52 PM

Approx. 1988, on a handset phone modem that you had to dial manually, and set the receiver down to connect. It was when my Dad was working at Apple Computers in San Jose, CA. I was in H.S., and he introduced me to BBSs, and coding in Basic.

I did a couple graphics projects for him on his MacPlus, that ended up being T-Shirts for the company. LOL

KrazieSweets · 02-03-2003, 12:28 AM

AOL 97

KRL · 02-03-2003, 12:33 AM

Damn, I had one of those Prodigy accounts too. Had an Intel 1200 modem and was so excited when the 2400 came out.

I used to post free babes in bikinis GIFS on the Compuserve picture forums with 900 numbers embedded on them. With amazing results I might add . . . .

Those were the trailblazing days of old . . .

I'll never forget the day I installed my first browser and just sat there in total awe saying to myself oh my god, is this going to a whole new cash register or what. Lord, lord, lord what a great idea to connect the whole planet.

I immediately went to town on it and started getting hate mails right away with idiots telling me the Internet is not for commercial purposes. No ads allowed. Quit posting your stupid pics with 900 numbers. etc. I used to e-mail back to these putzes and say close your eyes and open them again in a couple years and you won't even recognize the Internet because its going to be the most gigantic commercialized marketplace and mass marketing tool ever created so go GFY and bitch at me then.

Plugger · 02-03-2003, 01:00 AM

It must have been '92 or '93. I remember the BBS and then finding stuff thru telnet . . .

SNOW · 02-03-2003, 01:22 AM

93 when you had to dial up to bbs boards and talk to the sysops.

Old days

Hooper · 02-03-2003, 01:33 AM

Do BBS' count? Cause i was bbs'ing in 85 iwth a 400 baud modem and a hot new ibm pc xt.

If it's actualy "web proper" access i guess it would be whenever the first copy of Mosaic came out. It sucked, crashed every 5 minutes but it was the internet.

Too bad i didnt have the foresight to begin selling porn til 98 ;-)

SNOW · 02-03-2003, 01:44 AM

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Originally posted by Hooper

Too bad i didnt have the foresight to begin selling porn til 98 ;-)

I think about this every day man.

haggard · 02-03-2003, 01:50 AM

i was in high school using my brother's computer. he was running 56K modem and i was busy trying to get into the BBS rooms and view his jap porn on cd-rom's.

Master_Yoba · 02-03-2003, 02:28 AM

bought 2,400 Intel modem in 1994 but didn't know what I could do with it

http era: dec 1995 with 14,400 US Robotics

BigFrog · 02-03-2003, 03:09 AM

telnet
92

sextoyking · 02-03-2003, 03:13 AM

Gosh those were the days.

300 baud modem, phone set cradle holder

)

I sure loves when the usr's came out..

My courier was top notch. We used all usr's on our major bbs system.

BluMedia · 02-03-2003, 03:16 AM

In 1996 on a 50mhz computer and a 2400 modem connection through aol. If you think your dialup is slow now, you should try waiting 5 minutes for a pictures to load.

Mark

Mr.Fiction · 02-03-2003, 03:28 AM

Anyone remember the Applecat modem? I wish I still had mine!

sextoyking · 02-03-2003, 03:31 AM

Mr. Fiction,

I belive I saw that modem before somewhere.

My first one was on our radio shack color computer I belive.

Brian911 · 02-03-2003, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lily

56k modem in 1994? Ummmm. I don't think so!!!! Anyone else remember having a 56k in 1994? I Googled "modem speed timeline" and got

"The average modem can transfer data at 14,400 kbps. (Within a year 28,800 kbps will be the standard modem speed.) " for 1996.

I remember jumping for joy when 33.6 came out and it certainly wasn't 1996.

yep, thats impossible.
I started to surf the "real" internet (excluding the mailbox, bbs etc. culture) with a 14.4 and that was pretty much standard 1996.
and I always opened at least 5 netscape (cause IE sucked back then) windows in order not to miss any single KB transfer. those were the days of true SPEED

Buffed Body · 02-03-2003, 09:56 AM

I got online in 1994 with a 14.4 K modem (which I paid $250 for), accessing through my university with mosaic, but I remember about the same time a friend of mine bragging that he had a 28.8 modem that cost $1000 or something when it first came out.
That might have been early 95 though...

Buffed Body · 02-03-2003, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SNOW
93 when you had to dial up to bbs boards and talk to the sysops.

Old days

Yes, those were the days. I remember fuckin around and posting friends home phone numbers on boards so they'd get people phoning em at all hours with their modems. It was childish, but fun. Sometimes we could get 50 people phoning a guy a day. lol

I also remember my brother Sleazydream getting cops sent to his dorm room because he tried to access someone's board and he swore at the sysop for banning him. That was in 92.

The sysop accused him of trying to hack his server when he banned him for swearing and then Sleazy tried repeatedly to use username/password configurations like "fuck you" "let me in you piece of shit"

It was weird. Ah... things haven't changed much though have they?

MrPopup · 02-03-2003, 11:13 AM

Sometimes I wonder if the constant piracy/technology chase is worth it. Every time someone comes out with a modchip or whatnor the technology is defeated or is fucked up some how within a few months.

Smegma · 02-03-2003, 11:19 AM

Anyone remember that BBS in Atlanta that always got the first release demo games first, like Doom I.

Fuck Fuck.. I cant remember the name.

Nydahl · 02-03-2003, 11:22 AM

1996 - me and my friend were searching for somebody to establish offshore comp. for us

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MrPopup Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: on the internet Posts: 3,783	Sometimes I wonder if the constant piracy/technology chase is worth it. Every time someone comes out with a modchip or whatnor the technology is defeated or is fucked up some how within a few months. __________________ <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1" bgcolor="#008000"><tr><td><font size=3>Gone</font></td></tr></table> Last edited by MrPopup; 02-03-2003 at 11:14 AM..