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re: When did you first hear about the internet and what was your impression?
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:35 pm to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:35 pm to lsufan9193969700
Used PCs & intranet network (junior high)
- 1988
Received Commador 64 (handed down with a tape drive) - 1989 WTF!!!
Experience DOS - (High School Computer Science) 1992
First use Windows 3.1 (Home PC) - 1993
First heard of internet - 1995
First used internet (google search engine, ULL Computer Science Class) - 1996
First email - 1996
First PC of my own (Toshiba laptop, 4 gb hard drive, 64 mb RAM) - 1997 (AOL dial up for personal use for 6-7 years)
Discovered Tigerdroppings & Tigerbait.com - 2004
First Smart Phone (iphone) - 2009
- 1988
Received Commador 64 (handed down with a tape drive) - 1989 WTF!!!
Experience DOS - (High School Computer Science) 1992
First use Windows 3.1 (Home PC) - 1993
First heard of internet - 1995
First used internet (google search engine, ULL Computer Science Class) - 1996
First email - 1996
First PC of my own (Toshiba laptop, 4 gb hard drive, 64 mb RAM) - 1997 (AOL dial up for personal use for 6-7 years)
Discovered Tigerdroppings & Tigerbait.com - 2004
First Smart Phone (iphone) - 2009
This post was edited on 1/5/20 at 12:40 pm
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Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:36 pm to lsufan9193969700
In 3rd grade so ‘93...went to my dad's office and he showed me email and went to weather.com.
We got AOL dial up at home in ‘94.
We got AOL dial up at home in ‘94.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:39 pm to lsufan9193969700
So funny to think how we can’t live or work without it now. First time I saw it in person was at my buddy’s office in 1994. He’s an attorney and all I could think was... he must be rich to have the internet 
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:42 pm to lsufan9193969700
My father has internet early early 90’s for work/school. My first true interaction with internet was maybe 1995(??)or so first modern desktop with a pentium 133mhz and 128mb EDO RAM and 36.6 dual-up. Used to download porn and games in middle school off IRC.
By 10th grade I was playing Everquest and lied to my mom to get cable broadband(250kb/s) told her it was for school(lol).
By 10th grade I was playing Everquest and lied to my mom to get cable broadband(250kb/s) told her it was for school(lol).
This post was edited on 1/5/20 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:44 pm to Golfer
Seems like the consensus from reading the thread is 1994. Is that about right?
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:47 pm to Dixiesugardog
Oh, look, it’s my stalker.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:47 pm to lsufan9193969700
I had never heard of it the first time I experienced it. Friend’s older brother was a computer geek and showed us the discussion boards he posted on via his Radii Shack Tandy computer. The modem was external and you had to put the hand piece from the phone on it. He said it took like a week for people to respond in threads. This was probably 88 or 89.
Few years later we got either Prodigy or Compuserve, can’t remember.
Few years later we got either Prodigy or Compuserve, can’t remember.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:53 pm to Paul Allen
I think it was later than that for most people. 43% of the population had internet service at home in 2000.
LINK
Pew research
LINK
quote:
In June 1995, 14% of the general public said they went online either from work, school or home. By September 1996 that number had climbed to 22%.
Pew research
This post was edited on 1/5/20 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:56 pm to fallguy_1978
The introduction of cheap cable broadband is when it really exploded amongst folks in my area. So 2002ish?
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:58 pm to Sun God
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The introduction of cheap cable broadband is when it really exploded amongst folks in my area. So 2002ish?
If you had internet service in your home in 1994-1996 you were a very early adopter.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 1:08 pm to fallguy_1978
I had service in 95, when I bought my first computer, a PowerMac. Think I paid $2,200 for it at the time.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 1:12 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I think we had it about then too but my dad was really in to computers. I was pretty much the only one in my group of friends that had internet at home in HS.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 4:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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quote:
In June 1995, 14% of the general public said they went online either from work, school or home. By September 1996 that number had climbed to 22%.
Wow! Those numbers are crazy when we consider how much we depend on it today.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 4:55 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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He claimed people are social creatures so it wouldn't have too much of a negative effect. I believed it would eventually disrupt human interactions.
Did you ever to get to send him a shite post saying I told you so?
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:29 pm to lsufan9193969700
I had a few friends who bought the PC's that had the 75 MHz Pentium processors in them. Bought one with a 100 MHz Pentium the week between Christmas and New Years in 1994. Paid over $1400 for it. That 28k dial up was so slow
I looked at porn, Yahoo, Nando.net, Netscape's fish tank cam, Cool Site of the Day, The Internet Movie Database, and some other early search engines like Lycos. Remember a buddy telling me about how Google would do much more detailed searches, and he was right.
Remember buying a 56k moden, and how much faster that was. With it, you could actually download a minute or two long clips from movies, if you didn't mind waiting 10 mintues while they downloaded.
Mark Cuban's AudioNet was a game changer for me after LSU quit using WWL for radio broadcasts.
ETA:
Was Netscape around before Windows Explorer? I'm trying to remember if that wasn't what I used back then.
I looked at porn, Yahoo, Nando.net, Netscape's fish tank cam, Cool Site of the Day, The Internet Movie Database, and some other early search engines like Lycos. Remember a buddy telling me about how Google would do much more detailed searches, and he was right.
Remember buying a 56k moden, and how much faster that was. With it, you could actually download a minute or two long clips from movies, if you didn't mind waiting 10 mintues while they downloaded.
Mark Cuban's AudioNet was a game changer for me after LSU quit using WWL for radio broadcasts.
ETA:
Was Netscape around before Windows Explorer? I'm trying to remember if that wasn't what I used back then.
This post was edited on 1/5/20 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:34 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
Compuserve
Yup
a/s/l
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:43 pm to lsufan9193969700
Around 1995 we bought our first "real" desktop, a Gateway. (We had a Commodore 64 we got in 1984 but that was pretty limited.) With the Gateway we were able to access a local Baton Rouge message board called Cajun Clickers.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:48 pm to lsufan9193969700
95ish.. Didn't get it until 96.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 8:00 pm to fallguy_1978
First used the internet around 97-98. A high school buddies parents had a pc and AOL. We hit them chat rooms hard after the his folks went to bed.
I used it while attending a community college around 2000. I would go to the computer lab and go to the old romp.com website and play the flash game booty call.
Got my first pc running Win 98+ in 2001 as a hand me down from my girlfriends brother. He gave us his copy of Diablo 2. I became addicted to online gaming. My PC broke/porn viruses and I was to poor to get it fixed. Had to find someone I knew to teach me the ways.
Now here we are 18 years later and I have been in the I.T. field for a long damn time.
I used it while attending a community college around 2000. I would go to the computer lab and go to the old romp.com website and play the flash game booty call.
Got my first pc running Win 98+ in 2001 as a hand me down from my girlfriends brother. He gave us his copy of Diablo 2. I became addicted to online gaming. My PC broke/porn viruses and I was to poor to get it fixed. Had to find someone I knew to teach me the ways.
Now here we are 18 years later and I have been in the I.T. field for a long damn time.
This post was edited on 1/5/20 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 1/5/20 at 8:28 pm to fallguy_1978
I remember so many sites had indexes you had to figure out to find pictures. Not just talking about porn. Even when I'd do searches for LSU logos, or pictures from a ballgame. Lots of wormholes to get off into.
Remember going to Autopsy.com early on too.
I used to love to go play wav files that were quotes from movies. Once I figured out how to download them, and change settings, I set all of my warnings to short ones, and always had my Windows Start up play "Da, da da, da, Geaux Tigers!" My go to page: https://www.moviewavs.com/
I think it was Yahoo that had categories you could click on. That's how I read newspapers until I found Sportspages.com.
Remember going to Autopsy.com early on too.
I used to love to go play wav files that were quotes from movies. Once I figured out how to download them, and change settings, I set all of my warnings to short ones, and always had my Windows Start up play "Da, da da, da, Geaux Tigers!" My go to page: https://www.moviewavs.com/
I think it was Yahoo that had categories you could click on. That's how I read newspapers until I found Sportspages.com.
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