since 1995

95-96 on the actual internet. Before that was using BBS systems

good 10 years+ now...Damn I feel old

It all started on a BBS a surprisingly long time ago... I think it was 91 or so. Wow... That really was a long time ago! ...I hope I've accomplished something since then.

1867... over a hundred years ago.

it is and not cause youve started it

but because a lot of ppl are gonna post years that are complete bs just to make an impression. I wonder who here actually used the inet when it was at the very beginning. Anyone stating 80s or earlier posts bs or must have been in the army and able to check the mil or arpanet.

92 was the year WWW was released so say rufchild with his 91 and dailup. Complete bs, the www wasnt even there in 91, Cern released it in 92.

Thats why this thread is gonna be full of bs.

yeah I used telix, worked together with windy city, maybe you knew them...

Right, I gotchya.

I started way back when there was only one of them...... ;-)

1996 - I started using the internet to chat on IRC.

Since I tought Al Gore about it


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I started using BBS in 1990 -- my how far things have come since then!

About 11 - 12 years in the net as it is now... but used other shit.. bbs stuff before that for software development related things.

Think it was 95 that I build my first webserver and connected this, at crazy cost (can't remember exactly, but around $5K/month), to the net.

i used to go online in 95-97 from my dads friends place. he was the only person at the time i knew who had the net. then in christmas of 97 we got a years worth of internet as a christmas gift. i started making adult sites six months later. for whatever reason the net wasn't popular at all around my area, or so it seemed. 14.4 modem, man we've come a long way.

Since 1996

I got out of the Army in May of 99' and then started using the computer/internet then.

Massive long ways since then! :thumbsup

I remember messing about with this crap I build and wondering what the hell to do with it :winkwink:

One thing that was like magic and *very impressive* was the way ya could lead surfers up garden paths and taking them to an imaginery cash register - tho that never existed in real life - but showed the capability for marketing. I was used to spending 1000's each week on print media to get interested heads - the net was doing the same thing for next to nothing.

First time using a BBS - 1984, 300bps accoustic coupled teleprinter (not a screen!)
First time using the net - 1994


BTW thinkx, IRC was around in 1988. Email for years before that...

96-97 there abouts . ..

My first try was sometime in 97 for my research paper.

BBS's starting in '82. First actual email via the internet was in '85 at creighton in omaha.

I think I 'fingered' my first person on the net around '89-'90. Didnt get into the BBS scene until around '84

Around 1995... a couple dial-in BBS... first browser was a text-based Macintosh browser.

I remember looking for domains like ford.com and there were no sites there yet.

Too bad I didn't jump on the bandwagon back then.

I have been using the internet since 1995 when I started working for a local news agency

i believe it was in '98

Windy City, yeppa...I recall seein' a few pics floatin' around with their logos.

Hmm, let's see...what else was back then? Gabby's Lounge, McHenry's BBS...

BBS with 300 bps on a c64 around 1981
Internet 1997

been about 10 years now i guess.

Probably around 8-9 years.

About 9 years...

Almost 7 years now

Don't know the year exactly but I had a 386 home with windows 3.2

Yep. I hear ya mate. I remember playing around on a number of them before the 'internet www' as we know it now. Dialing in to different numbers, and I used it mainly to chat with people back then. Also played some m.u.d.d.'s. Funny what passed as games back then before the WOW, EQ, and alike. LOL.

Then came along the AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy. I started out on Prodigy first. Then was gone away to college for part of the early 90's so I mainly used their networks for the 3-4 years away from home. The net in current form I believe started '91-92.

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1992 or 1993 is when I started. I think it was something like $4/hour.:1orglaugh

I learned how to use the internet and the computer in 1997 because of my passion for Romance....I am sure I was surfing my friends sites then... Porn changed my life....


Mr. Romance

88? wow i did know it was before the web but that long...

Was BBSing on a Commador 64 before the interweb was invented by Al Gore

yeah i used it to chat too, the feeling the first time i chatted with a girl in the US and got reply back in like one hour, it was amazing. Times sure changed.

Yeah, I remember it was something like 'x' amount of hours, and e-mails free. Then like $1 an hour, or .25ct per e-mail after. That was on Prodigy back then. They may have offered other plans at that time, but I remember that is what I had and getting an enourmous overage bill.

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That they have for sure.

The amount of material out there. The ability to find people locally. All the niches, and technology. Just the overall use and application. I remember it was more a 'for fun' thing back then. Instead of reading a book, you would log on for a chat, dink around, or m.u.d.d.. I remember early on, I would use it mainly for fantasy baseball and football. Something to pass the time.

Yep. The times have changed so much. I remember back in the late 90's when the net changed to the 'pay to play' type of format. Before then you could have enourmous sites, free bandwidth, hotlinking up the yingyang, and it seemed like everyone had a website!

Now it's more the corporate pushing their way in, and things have changed in the past 5-10 years. But when I think back to the old text, BBS, m.u.d.d.'s, and having to know DOS for any number of things just to keep a computer working... brings a tear to me eye. :winkwink:

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