Going through a user manual for some lab equipment today I came across this, which made me smile, given what we take for granted today. it was written in 1992 by a science engineering company. page 1 and page 2 I would have been 10 then; I remember playing on the classy RM Nimbus machines in middle school. Can anyone else remember anything from when the old intarweb was knee-high to a grasshopper? Or are we all too young?
AAAh compuserve. My very first ISP Had to connect with a modem that was longer than the case was prob made of stone and ran on steam but it will prob still work if i tryed it again
First real look at the net was in 96, got a useraccount on one of the upper school computers... Was strange, remeber the first time we used it, was confusing, took ages to find what we wanted... Seems strange, 10 years later to be so "reliant" upon it...
You know i cant attualy remember the 1st time i used the internet its like not being able to remember who you lost your virginity too slater..
I still remember having Compuserve as my first ISP as well way back, around 1995. We had a 14.4Kbit modem, which was then upgraded to a 33Kbit and then straight to ISDN by about 1996. ADSL came along in early 2001. Damn ISDN seemed so fast back then . Oh and I got my first personal email address (Hotmail) in 1997 - my dad had email from Compuserve since the beginning. Still have the hotmail address btw.
Ahh the memories; I remember my first explorations on the Internet, and the great 'Magellan' search engine. 14.4K modem, 486 33Mhz Packard Bell.
compuserve was the real deal back then. Did anyone else find that as soon as you got the internet you suddenly had a lot of new friends that wanted to use your internet connection to contact friends oversea's ??
I used to have to write myself a list of what sites I wanted to go on so I could make the best use of my short time on dial-up every night. Rather sad really, especially considering I've now got my own PC with a shared 1MB connection which I use tons...and this is only about 5 years down the line! <A88>
I remember back in the day... and my first site was a porn site (on instruction from my father no less!!)... he told me to go to lycos.com (now.. not knowing he meant y.... i went to licos.com which at the time.. was yes... porn.) that was back in 98 i think To contrast now... it's actually harder to find porn than normal sites some times!!! Sadly I still like manually talking to the smtp ports on servers to send emails... more fun that way..
your joking... right? i'm not rly old enough to have had the internet back then, but i do remember when our school first got the internet, they had alot blocked almost straight away, we soon found ways of getting around the blocks though goddamn websense stopped that though
Lol i remember back when i first got online there where maybe only 10 pages i was able to find online. there where no search engines (that i knew of) and the sites i could find where stupid then like www. simpsons.com Wish i bought froggy.com back then
heh, cool. I remember the first few times I got online when I was in 6th or 7th grade(94/95.) The parents got aol and I thought aol was the internet as many still do unfortunately. The best thing was this mech game that aol had called thunder assault or something like that. Terrible graphics and it took forever to load but it was great.
My first impression of the internet was that it was made up of badly-written text on a poor contrast, vomit inducing wallpaper and adorned with ms clipart and gaudy wordart. At least the badly written text looks prettier now
i cant remeber the first time i went online but it seems like it could have been ages ago. Since i had my own pc, must have been a p75 networked up to a 33k modem. oh i miss the bnc network
My first time was with AOL. Spent hours on that in the chatroom's, amazed at what you can do... i was 14 at the time... then i found the paintballing game on AOL. Man that was a great first taste of online gaming.... Then my school got ADSL, boy oh boy was that quick compared to dial up!
I remember the skoolboy errors made when finding the more colorfull websites and signing up to them with the main family email, just blame it on the brother. It was also good when i got my penstick and just went into school to download all through the IT lesson.
Not if it's an AOL page. I remember my first connection was back in AOL 2.5 days (they weren't THAT evil back then), on a 9600 baud modem, probably on Windows 3.11. Thank god I have cable now. I mean... 9600 baud. 9.6kb/s. just over 1kB/s... I think even a floppy drive goes faster than that.
first time i used the internet was at an open house at an agricultural research facility we have here. got the internet early 97 at home with i think a 14.4k modem. i spent hours and hours on that, but we only had 10 hours with our isp before they charged more. after a couple 50+ dollar internet bills we switched isp's...had dialup until june 2000 when we got cable, and i'll never be without broadband again. *shudders at the thought of dial-up*
