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re: When did you first use the internet?
Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:49 pm to rcd0808
Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:49 pm to rcd0808
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My dad still pays for AOL.
I think they probably keep their accounting department open just to see how long he's gonna keep mailing a check in.
AT&T still collects rentals on rotary phones.
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Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:50 pm to Come2Conquer
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waited with a friend for images of Ginger Lynn to load on the screen. Each one took about 2 minutes.
I remember those times.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:50 pm to shutterspeed
I was living in BR at the time but I can't honestly say I can remember where the BBS' were located.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:52 pm to House_of Cards
97. a report on space
Posted on 2/23/14 at 9:59 pm to House_of Cards
1994 for me toto. I used something called prodigy!
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:02 pm to House_of Cards
AOL so shitty but so great. You'd spend an hour getting the amount of info you can get now in about 30 seconds. Chat rooms were the shite though.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:08 pm to Golfer
Installed AOL on a 3.5" floppy, probably around '94.
Must've been frickin bawse when everyone else was lucky to have 56k dial-up. Where was that at?
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1993 T-1 line
Must've been frickin bawse when everyone else was lucky to have 56k dial-up. Where was that at?
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:09 pm to BobABooey
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I was living in BR at the time but I can't honestly say I can remember where the BBS' were located.
Phone Booth, Sheddrick's Corner, Silveril's Dimesnes, or Crossroads ring a bell?
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:11 pm to House_of Cards
Early 1995.. using Tiger net on LSU campus. There was no graphics, but I figured out how to get to ESPN's website to look up stories on my Packard Bell computer with a 33k modem and a 25MHz processor.
It was amazing once my roommate and I found out about Netscape and couldn't believe you could actually see pictures on USA Today's website and ESPN. Then AOL was on the scene and it was very easy to search for single girls by their profile information. Led to good times through the mid nineties.
It was amazing once my roommate and I found out about Netscape and couldn't believe you could actually see pictures on USA Today's website and ESPN. Then AOL was on the scene and it was very easy to search for single girls by their profile information. Led to good times through the mid nineties.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:18 pm to shutterspeed
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used a national dial-up service called Q-Link on the Commodore 64 in the late '80s/early '90s. It was great for getting new games and boot/copy disks
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Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:18 pm to House_of Cards
1984
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:24 pm to House_of Cards
1993. I think that it was Prodigy.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:26 pm to Sl4m
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This
Holy cow. There is actually another out there.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:31 pm to T Clay
1994 I think.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:52 pm to ELVIS U
1984 is the earliest I've seen, before I was born. What was it like then? I really can't envision it because my first internet experience was AOL. I know computer programming wasn't like that a decade earlier.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:53 pm to House_of Cards
Internet - 97/98 or so.
Had been on BBS's, CompuServe, etc for years prior.
Had been on BBS's, CompuServe, etc for years prior.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 10:56 pm to drizztiger
I vaguely remember compuserve. What is the BBS?
Posted on 2/23/14 at 11:06 pm to House_of Cards
BBS = Bulletin Board System
Similar to message boards today except way less traffic and your modem called in to some dude's house who ran the BBS off his computer disk drive.
Similar to message boards today except way less traffic and your modem called in to some dude's house who ran the BBS off his computer disk drive.
Posted on 2/23/14 at 11:10 pm to House_of Cards
BBS's were dial up connections to hosted servers. Usually on a 1 to 1 basis, some more. Message boards usually discussing social, hacking, phreaking, etc. File transfers if the host allowed.
I'm not wikipedia, so I'm sure others could give more info with their experience.
But you could run a BBS (think of it as a peer to peer network over a modem) on an Atari 800, Commodore 64, Apple IIe, etc. You open your phone line and people could dial your number and get your hosted BBS.
Helps?
I'm not wikipedia, so I'm sure others could give more info with their experience.
But you could run a BBS (think of it as a peer to peer network over a modem) on an Atari 800, Commodore 64, Apple IIe, etc. You open your phone line and people could dial your number and get your hosted BBS.
Helps?
This post was edited on 2/23/14 at 11:12 pm
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