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What year did you start using the internet ?
- Thread starter MAJOR METAL
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1994. I bought a new computer with a 1200 baud modem. My first ISP was CompuServe. It was either them or Prodigy. Most of my friends had Prodigy, but CS had a cool music section.
I signed on to a few local BBS's, and though to myself...."these people are geeks". Now here I am.
-Mike
I signed on to a few local BBS's, and though to myself...."these people are geeks". Now here I am.
-Mike
Wow... I must be old... or started early.
My first foray into the Internet was fall '92 at college using dialup and telnet.
My first foray into the Internet was fall '92 at college using dialup and telnet.
1990, I was a music/cognative sciences major and all of our asignments and reading materials were online. I had to call up the schools mainframe with my Amiga using a 2400 baud modem. There was no web so it was all ftp, telnet, and gopher to navigate around. Online games were all text and pretty gay, downloading a pic took hours and hours. Horrible, truly horrible but I was reading a lot of cyberpunk at the time so it was really exciting at the time............
public internet is what I posted...
I was using terminal emulation and a phone coupler in the late 80s to reach a couple BBS. Not the Internet, just a remote terminal connection into a Unix system.
I was using terminal emulation and a phone coupler in the late 80s to reach a couple BBS. Not the Internet, just a remote terminal connection into a Unix system.
'00 here. Always had xp and only had dial up for 2 and a half weeks!
Suppose I am kind of spoiled!
Suppose I am kind of spoiled!
1994
Using:
Windows 3.1 (and sometimes just DOS)
486DX2 (25 MHz)
14.4 kbps modem
Yeah... that was when they stilled charged connection fee by the minute. When you could connect (ISP busy signal for hours during peak times).
Using:
Windows 3.1 (and sometimes just DOS)
486DX2 (25 MHz)
14.4 kbps modem
Yeah... that was when they stilled charged connection fee by the minute. When you could connect (ISP busy signal for hours during peak times).
I got my first PC and internet connection at home in 1998. It was a 233MHZ with a whopping 48 MB or RAM. I sill have that PC in my basement with a dead hard drive in it. I had used the internet before that a few times at freinds houses.
barthanatos said:
I can't beleive how fast the internet went in about 10/12 years.
I wonder what internet will look like in 2015.
Early 90s we where using UUCP to pick up email at work. Every X minutes we connected via dialup and got the mail.
94 or 95 I got internet access at home.
1996 I the National Capital Freenet first allowed web site hosting. I am now celebrating tens years with a web site. Although I no longer use the NCF.
94 or 95 I got internet access at home.
1996 I the National Capital Freenet first allowed web site hosting. I am now celebrating tens years with a web site. Although I no longer use the NCF.
1992, 1993
There was this thing called "Gopher" on the university computers which we quickly found was great for finding pictures of naked ladies. You could click on something called a "link" and, hey presto, a picture would download, line by line over the course of thirty minutes or so.
There was this thing called "Gopher" on the university computers which we quickly found was great for finding pictures of naked ladies. You could click on something called a "link" and, hey presto, a picture would download, line by line over the course of thirty minutes or so.
I'd say about 1995, I was in the last grade of the elementary at the time.. I remember we got a new teacher fresh outta the university for our class who knew about the new thing called internet and teached a group of the nerdiest kids computer basics, like how to operate DOS, how to connect to a Helsinki University of Techology student telnet service (access to IRC, newsgroups etc.) by calling to the local university's dial-up number and so on, on a Win3.11 machine.
Later I got a permission to get a 14k modem from my parents, the phone bills caused endless arguments. I still remember the first time I found out the guys were sharing some images of very, very scantly clad ladies at BBS's..
Later I got a permission to get a 14k modem from my parents, the phone bills caused endless arguments. I still remember the first time I found out the guys were sharing some images of very, very scantly clad ladies at BBS's..
1977 ... I worked for Rockwell International then, and it was really only the military that used the Internet; we used it as intercorporate communication (there were no .COMs until 1991 ... we used .mil).
I then went to U. Michigan for my PhD, where most of the developmental work on the Internet went on in the 1980s at MERIT on North Campus. We used .EDU and Internet was the primary communication device for academics. We also had GOPHER which was the text line conceptual predecessor of the World Wide Web and Google (though all of the info came from academe).
My dissertation advisor Manfred Kochen was emphatic about the growth of a "World Brain" as he called it, and most of his research involved work that ultimately has been incorporated into Google. His last book was called 'The Small World' which revolved around the 'six degrees of separation' (it was Kochen and Itheal de solla Poole who popularized the notion of the six degrees of separation)
I then went to U. Michigan for my PhD, where most of the developmental work on the Internet went on in the 1980s at MERIT on North Campus. We used .EDU and Internet was the primary communication device for academics. We also had GOPHER which was the text line conceptual predecessor of the World Wide Web and Google (though all of the info came from academe).
My dissertation advisor Manfred Kochen was emphatic about the growth of a "World Brain" as he called it, and most of his research involved work that ultimately has been incorporated into Google. His last book was called 'The Small World' which revolved around the 'six degrees of separation' (it was Kochen and Itheal de solla Poole who popularized the notion of the six degrees of separation)
