First Internet Experience

dmpoole said:
Usenet had started and you had to download porn pics in a UUE format and then encode them into the picture.
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LOL Indeed, however usenet has been around since before us... it was just that it was the ripe time to start posting binaries.

Forgot to say that I remember crying when dejanews was acquired by google :rolleyes:

I guess it was a good thing afterall.
 
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And I just remembered most of the emailing I did in the first few months of my internet life in '96 was (don't laugh) star trek PBeM (play by email) :P
 
Prestel on a 1200bps modem hooked upto a sinclair spectrum circa 1980.

Dialling individual phone numbers into individual BBS hosted at peoples homes sometimes .

Slighly later when things had centralised a bit more, running up a £450 phone bill using compuserve before Aol took it over and merged it into their growing WWW access.

Oh no wait that was before what people call the internet today , giving my age away here :D
 
Cant remeber what my first page was, but.....

When I first heard of the Internet I imagined it to be one GIANT scrolling page that people added to to make the Internet.

So my question is, what did you imagine it to be like before using or seeing it.
 
i remember we used to use the ISP madasafish.com for our internet then went onto aol.. which we had a load of trouble with. i remember browsing for stuff like cheats too for the ps1, and final fantasy 7 FAQ pages. lol. cheatplanet was one of the most used sites for me back then.
 
I think - it was 1997 when I got the internet, with a 56KBps modem on freeserve.

I remember being completely baffled by everything - online gaming, downloading, all sorts!

I remember seeing a webpage from an American university and found it completely amazing that this page came from the other side of the world in half a second.

Rich
 
ChemicalKicks said:
So my question is, what did you imagine it to be like before using or seeing it.
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I didn't know I was on the 'big bad net' at the time...

Opened up this new icon on my desktop to see what it was all about - probably hit infoseek or lycos at start up... Clicked around on the hyperlinks for a good half an hour and thought ' holy crap there is no way this campus can hold all this data '....

Kept clicking then noticed that everytime I clicked within the tool bar would appear the words ' Connecting to host xxx.x.:8080/~loks ' etc.

OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It dawned upon me what was happening !

I'm connecting to different computers off site and retrieving information... WOW amazing, within weeks I learnt about tcp/ip layers protocols, webservers and I re-asserted my interest in computers which I had deliberately given up years back.(dont ask why but I wanted a more fruitful life than writing boring C for some bank)

My life changed for the worse as a few years later the only jobs that I could do and find paid 25K to do simple HTML :D... In and out of the .com bubble and I'm still here doing the same xxxx
 
First Internet experience was in Secondary school. I remember Alta Vista was the first website I ever went to.

My friends and I spent many lessons in IT trying to get around the parental filters so we could get to the good jokes websites :P
 
Some god awful dialup bulletin board system in the early 90's. I can't for the life of me remember the name......Uk based though.

Internet itself was 1994, with a hideously slow modem. Websites were so awful that I ended up using telnet more than anything else. Spent the majority of the first few years on Mono.org, and playing Godwars.
 
I think it was some time around 1995. We had a 19,200 bps modem and all I ever remember doing was logging on to some 3d program called worldchat to talk with random people.
 
Must have been when I was in primary school, we were on The Microsoft Network internet and my parents wouldn't let me on it apart from an hour at weekends to do homework and whatnot because it cost a bomb at the time. :(

Oh, and the first thing I ever did was look for the official Star Trek website. :eek:
 
I work on a very large factory and because I was the first in the early 90's to go on the internet everybody thinks I am an internet expert.
They also think I'm a Google expert because I find things out for them.
Last week somebody bought me a printout of a job because we're all being made redundant soon and it was titled "EBAY expert wanted for large indoor car parts shop".
I asked why me and they said it was because I've been on the internet so long I must be an EBAY expert:)
I told them I've only ever bought about 5 things off Ebay and never sold anything.
 
Sometime around 1996. 14.4K modem and chathouse . com. Good times.

The first song I ever downloaded was March of the Pigs by NIN. It took about 2 hours.

The last song I purchased legally was some 10MB electro track and it downloaded in 0.8 seconds. How times change.
 
1996. I was fiddling around in the Windows 95 control panel when I discovered I had a modem installed. A 14.4kbps monster no less!

A few days, and one account with Compuserve later I had carted my whole PC setup downstairs and hooked it up to the phoneline. I had no idea what to expect and was more than a little nervous to say the least. :o The first webpage I saw was probably Compuserve's nightmarish homepage.

Amazingly it took several weeks before I visited my first site, of shall we say, dubious virtue. Never looked back since. :D

It's strange to think back to those days... I wasn't sure that 'information superhighway thing' would ever really take off, and the phone bills scared the hell out of me! That said they aren't that different to the price BT charge me for my broadband connection today...
 
First time was at school. I used to muck around on yahoo (when it really took off with geocities etc) and play weird browser games with my mates.
 
Very first time I got to play with it was at Goonhilly Earth Centre (the BT site with a load of satellites). Was distinctly unimpressed - very few sites around, only one I remember was an anti-Spice Girls site. That would have been 1996. Got my own 33.6k modem Christmas that year and went from there, spending far too much money on Compuserve.
First mp3 I downloaded was Life Is a Flower by Ace of Base, but we'll gloss over that one.
 
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