a decade on the internet

my family got on the internet in the summer of 1994. our first ISP was MSN 1.0. our first modem was a 14.4 dial up.

are you a member of the 10+ year club? do you remember your first ISP? what were some of your favorite web sites? i loved crashsite and WOTW.

i feel so inept... i've only been online for 8 years.

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I have no idea how long I've been online. I remember when my dad got a 286 with a 9600 baud modem, and we used to be on Prodigy. The only thing I remember about that ISP was playing this game where you wandered around in a big maze... for like 10 hours a day. Man, that was addicting. Well, either that, or I was easily amused as a small child.

The first time I remember surfing the actual "internet" was a few years later in middle school, with netscape 1.0. I have no idea what websites I went to.

I never did the whole BBS thing, which is the only part of old-school internet culture I wish I had been in on. =/

wanna cyber?

trade warez in room 'warez' and porn in room 'gifs' on AOL 2.0

i agree. im still dumbfounded by newsgroups and 'real' BBSs's's

have I been looking at porn for 10 years????
Thanks Al Gore!

Dod damnit . . . you beat me to it.

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I was going to edit my typo, but what the heck.

[Edited on Jan 17, 2004 by RockinRicky]

I think you've been living my life dude.

haha

i can still remember what the first piece of internet porn that i ever saw in my life looked like

You want a nerd plaque or are your shattered dreams enough? Buwahahahaha.

*I remember when 28.8 was considered fast*

Definetely over a decade. AOL seemed so badass back in the day, until you got some real options. I started out on a local BBS back in VA. Met several of my good friends on that thing.

i've been rockin online for nigh on 11 years now, startin back with my old mac, i totally forget what type it was though. that's depressing..

just like everything else technological (i still dont have a cellphone, nor do i want one) i came in a few years later than most. ive only been online since late 98

I dialed into BBSes when I was like... 12-13 and didn't figure out what the big deal was. Fun, but not my scene. I think I still remember the handshaking protocols and connections... The memories... the IRC... so slow...

My first modem was a 9600. It was on Prodigy for a while. That thing tanked. Hard.

Then I tried GayOL and just used up my subscriptions a bunch. A friend of mine used their unlimited hours or whatever and milked them for transfers. They called him to make him actually pay and he refused citing the "unlimited use" that he was offered. They backed off.

I'll consider myself part of the decade club next year for sure though.

I remember watching my dad use it in the 80s. I was amazed with the ascii images he would show me. But, I didn't understand it.
We got our first real connection about 11 years ago.
Here I am.. still with dial-up.

I'm probably closing in on 16 years now. I can remember the "war" between the LoD and the MoD, modems with neoprene cups, and laughing when Louis Rossetto tried to make HotWired a badass pay service.

I got my first email address in 1993. I registered my first personal domain in 1996 (to a tune of a whopping $75 for registration). I had a Linux server by 1997 and wrote a web server with custom server-side scripting that same year. By 1999, I had an 802.11b network in my apartment (long since upgraded to 802.11g) and a WAP-capable mobile device (plus an iPaq with a piggy-back cradle for the full-size PCMCIA 802.11b card). Two years ago, I was developing machine-to-person messaging systems for services that won't even be popular until the end of this year or next. I also had one of the original Bluetooth headsets and mice to keep up with my hatred of wires. Today, I'm senior technologist for a company that does mobile device training and development. I carry pre-release cell phones that have HTML 4.01 and CSS capable browsers and have access to a Sony-Ericsson GC82 EDGE card for my laptop so I'll never be out of data.

From a neoprene-coupled modem that might have been 4800 baud on its best day to wireless cards that deliver at least ISDN speeds anywhere in Seattle. It almost boggles the mind, but it also makes me wonder what I'll have in fifteen more years.

When I was 12 I used ot read over my brother's shoulder when he was on BBS. Maybe even younger. I thought he was so cool.

Oh, and he was a co-sysop on one of the boards. That was the height of cool.

[Edited on Jan 17, 2004 by macgrrl]

i have no idea if i did that, but it sounds exactly like something i would have done in my early days of internet.
i did save lots of pictures of smashing pumpkins from websites, and hung out in smashing pumpkins irc chatrooms.

my family had AOL several times, and an isp called GNN for a while.
i remember setting a timer so i wouldn't spend more than 20 or 30 minutes online because we paid for a certain number of hours a month.

Anyone else miss word.com?

i forget my first time....long time ago though.

for so long I thought the entire purpose of the internet was to save Simpson sound bytes and spend days downloading clips of music videos. I think I had a black & white clip of two trains hitting each other that always made me happy.

for years, internet = random shit