Describe Your First Memories of the Internet

moe.ron · #1 01-14-2004, 06:52 AM

got this from another site, and it got me to think back.

First time I "saw" the internet was in 92 or 93 through a friend who had an aol subscription. this was also back when AOL charged by the hours I think. Then I went to college in 94 and got my first e-mail account. it was through Telnet. LOL. So, if anybody sent me pictures, it would be in numbers. Then, while researching, I found the magic of internet porn. The rest, they said, is history.

mmcat · #2 01-14-2004, 08:43 AM

aol...slow connections...rotating beach umbrella.
who knew where we would be today?

ZTAngel · #3 01-14-2004, 09:55 AM

My dad had some dial-up, internet, email system since the late 80's. I don't exactly remember what he was doing but he worked at IBM and I think he was working on getting different internet tools set up.
Then, in the early '90s and I was one of the first people who had one of those Prodigy online subscription things. It was slooooow but I was able to email my friends who had Prodigy.
Around the mid-nineties was the first time I discovered AOL.
It was until '96 that I started surfing the Internet. I remember very few companies had web pages. Now, it's a rarity for a company not to have a website.

mu_agd · #4 01-14-2004, 10:35 AM

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Originally posted by ZTAngel
Then, in the early '90s and I was one of the first people who had one of those Prodigy online subscription things. It was slooooow but I was able to email my friends who had Prodigy.

we had that too, when it first came out. weren't the email addresses random groups of numbers and letters? i had friends that used to come over to play on that since not many people had internet access back then.

ZTAngel · #5 01-14-2004, 11:17 AM

Yeah, you were assigned random group of letters and numbers for your "email" account. My was like NQ3...something, something.

Kevin · #6 01-14-2004, 11:25 AM

This is like the prove your dorkiness thread...

I actually ran a BBS in my pre-interenet days. I worked as a courier (using hacked AOL accounts) for awhile. That was my real first internet experience.

My first computer/modem combo was an Apple //c and a 2400 baud modem. Back when basic VT100 was as good as it got.

_Opi_ · #7 01-14-2004, 11:50 AM

It was a funny experience actually.

First experience with the internet was like '93 when I we had to learn about hotmail at school. My teacher told us to type hotmail, so I went and typed "hotmale" instead of "hotmail" and got my first gay porn site. It had one of those crazy pop ups that never stop coming.

DigitalAngel126 · #8 01-14-2004, 01:14 PM

My first internet experience was in the early to mid 90's...Prolly about '94.. Everybody had started going out and getting AOL, so of course my dad had to go and get ... CompuServe. I hated it becasue it wasn't what everyone else had, but looking back, I missi t!!! I loved Compuserve!!!

Hootie · #9 01-14-2004, 02:34 PM

The first time my family got a computer was in 1993 - my Uncle built it for us. Then because the internet was out and it helped with searching for things (school related)...our Uncle gave us one of his Prodigy accounts.

That was my first memory - the Purple Prodigy star, people trying to pick me up (and I was underage), and very slow dial up....

kdonline · #10 01-14-2004, 11:32 PM

1984. 300 baud modem. Franklin Ace computer (Apple 2+ clone). Green monotone monitor. My brother told me about BBSes & gave me some numbers. I got through to some, found discussion boards on all sorts of topics...and I've been online ever since.

In college, I immediately got a Vax account (this was 1985-86), and was a part of the social circle of computer nerds. (woohoo...and a sorority girl too!) One of those national college papers did a story on a few of us who were known as "Vaxers," of course focusing on the romance aspect.

My Prodigy account was DVSm11e, and I got my AOL account in 1992.

BTW, if you're an old BBSer, check out http://www.bbsmates.com/

Taualumna · #11 01-14-2004, 11:37 PM

Late 80s....my mom bought a modem so she could dial into her office. Didn't really think much about it for another couple of years, when I started using it to dial into the public libary's catelogue system. Then around 1994 or 1995, my mom installed the "modern" internet, and I've been surfing ever since. I had my internet seminar at school around that time as well. That was when I received my first email address. It's no longer active, since it was a school account and expired after I graduated.

AOIIsilver · #12 01-14-2004, 11:46 PM

Late 1980's with a DOS system.

kdonline, I was a VAX'er, too! Woohoo!

AOIISilver

astroAPhi · #13 01-14-2004, 11:46 PM

Man, my first memory of the internet is from 95. They were showing us something on the one and only computer at school that had it. I thought it was pretty stupid and slow at the time. My next encounter with it was in 97 at a friends house. I thought AOL was cool as hell.

We didn't even get internet until May '99. That sucked.

Peaches-n-Cream · #14 01-14-2004, 11:55 PM

The movie "The Net" was my first internet experience. My home didn't go 'online' until 1999.

aephi alum · #15 01-15-2004, 12:02 AM

My parents got Prodigy back in the mid 80s, when I was about 12. I had to set up the account because they couldn't figure out how.

We had an IBM Piece-o'-Sh*t-2 running some variant of DOS. I think it had 640KB RAM and maybe a 4MB hard drive.

So began my life as a techno-geek...