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Posted on 1/6/20 at 5:49 am to lsufan9193969700
1989 first computer had a 286 processor
1993 first email address AKO
2000 first dial up frick was it slow
2007 high speed internet for $69 a month
2015 first smart phone
1993 first email address AKO
2000 first dial up frick was it slow
2007 high speed internet for $69 a month
2015 first smart phone
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:04 am to lsufan9193969700
Probably 91/92 or thereabouts I got prodigy with a new computer I purchased, a super fasts 286 DX. 
I installed it on my computer and couldn’t quite figure it out. It wasn’t until a few years later that I got AOL that I actually got hooked to getting online.
I installed it on my computer and couldn’t quite figure it out. It wasn’t until a few years later that I got AOL that I actually got hooked to getting online. 
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:06 am to CajunTiger92
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I think the owner of The Bayou ran one.
Bayou BBS? That was Jerry Scroggins.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:07 am to lsufan9193969700
Does anybody remember RIP Remote Imaging Protocol? It looked pretty nice for the time.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:15 am to lsufan9193969700
I remember seeing a commercial where a guy at a party asked a girl for her number and she gave him something that looked like gibberish to me and I thought it was her giving him a bogus number to let him know she wasn't interested.
Turns out it was an email address. They were introducing email as the new way to communicate but at the time I had no idea what it meant
Turns out it was an email address. They were introducing email as the new way to communicate but at the time I had no idea what it meant
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:52 am to Korkstand
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was one of your links in the OP!
Oh! I misread your post and imagined it wrong. I was picturing a real man in his underwear, holding a lightsaber. Lol
Btw, I don't think he is wearing a suit...lol
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 7:01 am
Posted on 1/6/20 at 7:37 am to lsufan9193969700
When it first began, it was BBS boards. All shareware. It was so exciting. We thought: "All these people sharing all these great little games and stuff for free. This is going to be so awesome to have everyone giving away all this free stuff!"
Boy were we ever wrong!
Boy were we ever wrong!
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:11 am to lsufan9193969700
First heard about it in the early eighties. A co-worker was developing some code and was exchanging emails and files with some other people working on the same problem.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:13 am to lsufan9193969700
I heard about it when we got our first computer. I was like 11-12 so you can imagine...
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:24 am to LarryDavid
quote:But you weren't wrong!
We thought: "All these people sharing all these great little games and stuff for free. This is going to be so awesome to have everyone giving away all this free stuff!"
Boy were we ever wrong!
How many free apps/games do you have on your phone right now?
There are thousands of free programs for PC.
There are entirely free operating systems, and nearly every program that runs on them is not only free but also open source!
Any many of the "traditional" software companies are embracing open source.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:26 am to lsufan9193969700
Early 90s for me. You could buy a "yellow pages" book at SAMS of all the Internet sites back before there was "WWW". You had to know the actual address. Was not quite as thick as a Baton Rouge phone book at the time.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:28 am to Korkstand
My first run in with the internet was called ethernet. Was doing some engineering work for some LSU physicist during the late 80s and they wanted to be able to send email to different countries so they had to wire the bldg. for it.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 8:36 am to SantaFe
quote:Still called ethernet, still very much in use, still very much part of the physical networks on which the internet is built.
My first run in with the internet was called ethernet.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 5:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Usenet binaries often had APE and FLAC (lossless) entire albums to download. I found the Trick or Treat Fastway soundtrack on there when I couldn't find the CD in print anywhere.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 5:58 pm to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:23 pm to lsufan9193969700
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I can't believe this went 60+ replies before the OT mentioned Al Gore.
Everybody knows he's a mentally unbalanced fraud who has made his money like all of our fraud politicians.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:45 pm to lsufan9193969700
About the same time 94/95 I was 15/16 K-Mart Blue Light Special Free Internet. It was free internet but you can a kmart ad banner at the bottom of your browser at all times.
First thing I did was search for pictures of naked women.
First thing I did was search for pictures of naked women.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 6:47 pm to Sidicous
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Usenet newsgroups around 1989-90.
Yep. rec.sport.fanastyfootball via WebTV.
Posted on 1/12/20 at 8:00 am to Tempratt
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Bayou BBS? That was Jerry Scroggins.
I think it was Dez Crawford.
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