When did you get the Internet?

[thedeadite]

95/96 around there sometime...using various dial-up providers, must have gone through 3 or 4 "free hour" deals with different companies..then used a local provider for a few years.

 

[Catman]

I didn't use the internet until 96.

Yea, Fall `96 was when I started getting interested about the Internet. It was my Freshmen year of High School and the library had about 5-7 computers which was an improvement from the three we had in middle school. So...I got a chance to explore the Internet a bit more.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I sorta miss the noises of AOHell, not the service though.

''YOU'VE GOT MAIL!"

 

[Ghostvirus]

Yea, Fall `96 was when I started getting interested about the Internet. It was my Freshmen year of High School and the library had about 5-7 computers which was an improvement from the three we had in middle school. So...I got a chance to explore the Internet a bit more.

You can thank Al Gore for that.

 

[Catman]

You can thank Al Gore for that.

The man who gave us the Internet didn't become President. What world are we living in?

 

[Jennifer Walters]

The man who gave us internet is making bull **** movies about global warming instead of furthering the betterment of our favorite electronical past time. What world are we living in?

 

[Ghostvirus]

The space time continuim in which Al Gore isn't Pres. But Bush is.

 

[Catman]

The alternate 2007 must kick ass

 

[Ghostvirus]

Totally. I have been trying to rip a hole in space/time, but Jerry O'Connell keeps trying to get through. Can't have that.

 

[Danalys]

probably 93 or 94. 14k baud rate. also used to play doom over the phone line directly to a friends house. and back in the 16 bit computers days there were BBS' you could dial into some how, but my older brother mostly did that.

 

[Road Warrior]

The great thing about this thread is that you can see who is a computer geek and who is not a computer geek. Anyone who had internet, or even a computer, before `96 or `97 is a computer geek. Even then we're still speaking about a minority. The majority of the general public didn't start owning computers and getting internet access till `99 or 2000.

 

[Catman]

The great thing about this thread is that you can see who is a computer geek and who is not a computer geek. Anyone who had internet, or even a computer, before `96 or `97 is a computer geek. Even then we're still speaking about a minority. The majority of the general public didn't start owning computers and getting internet access till `99 or 2000.

I think because of financial reasons many people waited till computers/internet became a need and not a want. I mean, you have jag talking about owning computers and internet back in the `80s. During that decade (and even the `90s) it wasn't a need. It became a need during the 21st century.

 

[Danalys]

well both my parents were programmers so ofcourse we had computers around before then.

 

[Catman]

well both my parents were programmers so ofcourse we had computers around before then.

So...that makes two people I know who had Internet access in the `80s

 

[Matt]

lol. Those damn cows. lol. Remember when Compaq was big?! My first computer (my Christmas `98 gift w/ free AOL) was a Compaq.

*prepares to feel even older*

My first computer was a Tandy.

 

[DorkyFresh]

*prepares to feel even older*

My first computer was a Tandy.

so was ours.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

*prepares to feel even older*

My first computer was a Tandy.

I had a Tandy 1000. Before that I had the mighty TRS-80 Color computer, with a tape deck instead of a disk drive.

Ready
10 print "Hello SuperheroHype"
20 goto 10
run

Never got to do any of the old bbs stuff, though. Didn't get online at all untill 2000 or 2001, iirc.

 

[jaguarr]

I think because of financial reasons many people waited till computers/internet became a need and not a want. I mean, you have jag talking about owning computers and internet back in the `80s. During that decade (and even the `90s) it wasn't a need. It became a need during the 21st century.

Well, the system we had back in '89 was this decrepit old 386 box running DOS 5.1 with an amber monitor. It was a refugee system my dad had brought home from work several years before. It was hardly state of the art. At all. It used the big 5" floppy discs which, even back then, were pretty old technology. I couldn't even transfer work from that system to the much more advanced ones I used at school or vice-versa. I didn't even get my first real 486 Windows system until '93 and I saved up my money to get it. So it wasn't all that glamorous.

And computers are still not an absolute need. Food, water and shelter are a need. Transportation of some kind (whether you own it or not) is a need. Computers are not a need.

*prepares to feel even older*

My first computer was a Tandy.

We had a Tandy for a bit, but my brother broke it and we never got it fixed. We also had an Apple IIe for awhile that my Aunt had loaned us.

jag

 

[PLAS]

my first internet experience was in 98, I was working at an office which had internet access, I actually didn't use it that much

by the next year I had changed jobs and was working somewhere else, and a friend of mine opened an "internet cafe" on the same building where my workplace was, so I started going there for internet experience

then my mom had her first computer with internet access in early 2000

I had my first computer in my own place in 2002

now I friggin check my emails on my cellphone

 

[Erzengel]

1996 or 1997, I don't really remember.

But it was AOL.

 

[bullets]

those chat rooms were absolute ****e. ten minutes would turn into three hours just like that .

 

[Immortalfire]

Did you also have AOL free hours?

No, local access.

 

[jaguarr]

those chat rooms were absolute ****e. ten minutes would turn into three hours just like that .

God, I spent so much time on IRC when I was in college. It's a wonder I graduated.

jag

 

[Super Kal]

1995 with AOL 3.0 lol

 

[Kritish]

When was the first time everyone here looked at porn on the internet?