When were you online for the first time ever, and with what?

For me it was in '96 with a "big" comp. Pentium I, 166 Mhz, 1Gb Hdd, 14,4 kbps data/fax/voice modem.
I took like 5 min. to DL a clip of 200kb

When did you come online.


maybe this should be in the cesspool

1998, dial-up, the first pc I owned, PII 333, 32mb ram, 4gb hdd, 36K internal modem, Windows 98, Internet Explorer,
but I had used inet for short periods of time previously
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now I'm on a P4 1800, 512mb ram, 320gb hdd, adsl, Linux Mandrake 10.0, Firerox.

i used it for short periods as well now i am on it all the time

Dial up with a 1 GHZ Compaq Presario 1999

did sciforums come online in 1999?

On a Macintosh, back in 95 I think.

On an Atari 800 computer in about 1984.

You were online in 1984? I didn't know there was an online then.

I can't remember when exactly or what kind of computer, the ibm before pentium I think.
But i do remember the first thing I did when I got online, I typed "www.porn.com" into the address bar.
And back then porn.com happened to be a huge free porn site with no attempts to sign you up to anything or check your age but rather to pure and simply show you porn.
Those were the days.

You were online in 1984? I didn't know there was an online then.

The internet existed. There were many dial-up "Bulletin Board Systems" or BBSs. The first time I used a modem, it ran at a whopping 300 bps (compare the dial-up standard today of 56000 bps).

Windows didn't exist, of course. I can't recall whether the Apple Macintosh had even been invented at that stage. All BBSs were text-based, though later on they started using ANSI and ASCII art (e.g. see this picture of Captain Kirk (http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/kirk.txt)).

Actually, the internet has turned 35 today.
we should celebrate it :cool:
read more (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1836252&tid=95)

The cool Mac was created '84. I remember this because Windows 95 (8+1.5-1) is a poor ripoff.

But I gotta say, windows 3.1 was awesome.

JAN 1996. At the library chatting in a DOS based chatroom where I learned some terms and emoticons the very first time I started chatting. That was my very first intenet experience.
:) :( ;) ;( >(

Then, in SEP 1996, I signed up with a real internet program that used Windows: AOL.
P1 166 Mhz, 2GBHD, 32MBRAM, 14.4kbps data/fax/voice modem, CD-ROM.

Today:
Opera browser
Trillian chat
Torrentopia/FiletopiaEmule filesharing
Agent newsgroup

P4 2.8Ghz/800/0.13
120GBHD
768MBRAM
Cable modem
DVD -r/rw writer

On an Atari 800 computer in about 1984.
that is pretty funny...i guess you couldn't figure out how to hook your abacus into your phone line to get on earlier....


It was a p2 333 I think....

1998- a HP, windows 98, a bubblepack. Used the same computer until i deleted the hard drive last year by using a bad partioner and adding linux. 7 gig

now- Dell, xp, 40gig, wireless or dialup.

1998, AMD k-6 500mhz, 10gb, 64mb, 56k dialup

that POS has now been put to use as the internet server on my home network

I only used the web for the first time in 1995. Not sure when that was invented. I used the very first browser, Mosaic, but soon upgraded to the first version of Netscape.

It was in 1995 for me. I remeber convincing my parents to buy a computer (my family was always tech-oriented). We bought a 486, with a 14.4 modem. We here the second household in my town to have internet. I remeber downloading songs and it took over an hour to download one. This was "amazing!" at the time. I was really young then, but I learned my basic computer skills from just screwing around with my computer from an early age. Oh, I remeber having 500 MB of space on my hard drive... LOL. I used to play Earth Siege and Space BUcks a lot, where I got many oif my buisness skills.

I remember my first time. It was Feb of 1995 on my Apple Macintosh Performa 635:33mhz, 8mb ram, 500 mb HD, 9600 baud modem. It must have taken me about 3 hours to load aol 3.0. Memories....

ahhh memories.......................

I dont remember the date, but it was on my 25MHz PC, 256K RAM, 100mb HDD, no sound, no CD, only 3.5in FDD, windows 3.11....wow, those were simpler times...

Dial up, about 3 or 4 years ago.. can't remember

September 1995, at uni in first year, on the unis apple macs, I forget exactly which kind, and because it was a university we had what must have been roughly equivalent to 33.3 kbps (or better) even back then, mwahaha. It was on netscape, and I remember things being a bit smaller than they are now. Then I didnt go online that much for the next year or two, but by the time i was doing my MSc in 99-00, we had superjanet linking universities, which was pretty much broadband, pages of pictures would load in a second, it was great. And the web was bigger, and had more pictures.
One of my friends was online in maybe as early as 1990 or so, on one or two of the older LA bulletin boards.

anyone knows any of pre 1997/96 websites still functional?

edit: ah, I remembered of this website, but it doesn't archive before 1996
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

1986, although I was on a DECNET network connected to the Internet via a string of gateways, so sending emails required three sets of double quotes to encapsulate them all. Fun times.

The first time I used a modem, it ran at a whopping 300 bps (compare the dial-up standard today of 56000 bps).


That was also the speed of my first modem, it was on a commodore 128 though. Something went wrong with it quickly though, and we returned it for a massive 1200bps one. I can't recall the year, it was around 85 though, about the same time we got a vcr and a microwave. Mostly we played games on BBS's.

mosaic was my first browser, that was at uni in '94. That would also have been my first experience with email.

yea I'd seen BBS stuff before 94, but fall of 94 was my first computer and thus, my first internet connection. I'd been online at school sometimes since 92ish, but there wasn't much there. mostly just email. i think I started using the web a bit sometime in there between 92 and 94. it's hard to remember.

Ahh BBSs. First time I accessed one was in 6th grade on my 2400 bps modem. Then around 1994 I started using eWorld on my Mac. I remember spending hours just to download a 20 mb shareware game, lol.

First time online? Must have been around the end of '94. But just as Wes said, not much there to see...

Had a CAFE account in college in like 1992? 93? Basic email type stuff. Chat rooms.
Later, in 97 or 98, I went REAL High-Tech and got the power that was WebTV! My first real e-mail address was dohomer@webtv.net.

1975.

The PLATO system of mainframe-driven timesharing workstations using the AC plasma display panel. They were great - orange on black display with 512 by 512 resolution, flicker free and dot addressable. Truly a forefather of the web ideal, there were interterminal games, a "talk" feature with a variant called "monitor mode" that would let the person you were talking to see what was happening on your screen, just as if he were standing over your shoulder and there were also "notefiles" which were newsgroups - yes, just like usenet.

The authoring language back then was TUTOR; kind of like writing on a stone tablet when compared with today's languages.

:m: Feelin' old.

March, '97, as I recall. Custom-built P-166, 56k. No, I didn't build it.

Sometime in 1993 (I think). 486, 33.3Kbps, searching for porn on a bbs.

'95 or '96 I think, on a Mac Performa, about the same as Absentient. That was a great computer.

Oh man I can't remember! I remember the time before the Internet and I remember the time after the Internet, but I can't remember how it happened. It was like somewhere between the 486… and my own laptop that it happened, suddenly I needed a bigger hardrive to hold all the pirated movies and anime, and a powerful video card and processor play Half-Life and Quake 3 online, I became one with my then new AMD homebuilt computer it was a Athlon 1200 with 20Gb Harddrive! Many upgrades later here I am with a Raid 1 dual 160GB SATA drives, over-clocked Barton 2500+ running at beyond 3200+ specs. 1GB of 400Mhz DDR at 2-3-3-6 latency settings, Radeon 9800 Pro (also over-clocked). I can remember dial up modem at 56Kb, then we moved up to Satellite modem but that sucked, now its 580Kb Wireless Internet.

about 1884 I used a ponyium 1hp with 32 nashbits hardride, while online I used a sawbum saddleup server. but it was in it's infancy then and only did mail, however it was fast for the time.

lol:musta, jan 2004 was my first time

about the year -1 I had an jesuscrossbearer hardwork with a centurion whipmaster monitor, however everything came in hardcopy in them days and word of mouse.
oh and thats the gospel.

Hmm, I think in a previous incarnation I had a damn big mainframe server set, about 3000 BC. Ever wondered what those pyramids are for? It had a godlink/afterlife connection, damn, I practically ruled the world with that.

Superbowl sunday 1997. I was at a friends house on her computer and that was my first time being on the net. Feb 1997 I bought my first computer and went online from home. AMD but I cant remember which chip, 2 GB HD, I think it had 64 MB RAM, 33.x modem, win95 and Netscape.

milkweed,

Probably an AMD K5. AMD’s more powerful and cheaper competitor to the Pentium 1.

I made my first trek into cyberspace in the spring of 1996.