When were you online, for the first time ever?

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  1. Guest III

    Guest III Please change my Name to Ghost Registered Senior Member

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    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
     
    Guest III, Oct 29, 2004
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  3. Avatar

    Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  5. Guest III

    Guest III Please change my Name to Ghost Registered Senior Member

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

    cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Dial up with a 1 GHZ Compaq Presario 1999
     
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  8. Guest III

    Guest III Please change my Name to Ghost Registered Senior Member

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    did sciforums come online in 1999?
     
    Guest III, Oct 29, 2004
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  9. Xerxes

    Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    On a Macintosh, back in 95 I think.
     
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  10. James R

    James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    On an Atari 800 computer in about 1984.
     
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  11. Dr Lou Natic

    Dr Lou Natic Unnecessary Surgeon Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  12. James R

    James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    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).
     
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  13. Avatar

    Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Actually, the internet has turned 35 today.
    we should celebrate it

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  14. Xerxes

    Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  15. lixluke

    lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    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.

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    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
     
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  16. robtex

    robtex Registered Senior Member

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    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....
     
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  17. My Sexy Blue Feet

    My Sexy Blue Feet Out sunbaking, leave a msg... Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  18. vslayer

    vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    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
     
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  19. James R

    James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    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.
     
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  20. Closet Philosopher

    Closet Philosopher Off to Laurentian University Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
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  21. absentient

    absentient Reflective Observer Registered Senior Member

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    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....
     
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  22. Ghost III

    Ghost III Banned Banned

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    ahhh memories.......................
     
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  23. Aborted_Fetus

    Aborted_Fetus Bored Registered Senior Member

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    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...
     
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