First Internet Experience

trying to find out information on how to get fifa 96 to work on pc

turns out i needed a new graphics card, some birthday that turned out to be as the god awful PC world didn't have ANYTHING!

spent another week and a bit waiting to get a new graphics card to play my game.


still - nothing beat getting sent off but being able to run away from the referee so he can't actually give you the card.

got boring after a while tho :mad:
 
First internet use was sometime in the last couple of months of '93 at university. One of my, new at the time, friends gave me instructions on how to download the Doom 1 demo (i think) off of a ftp server at Imperial College London.

Things went down hill from there of course and I had my own home page on Geocities within a short time. I remember that the software provided on our universities network was poor so we would install our own in the little space we had, (lots of releases of Netscape 0.9x in a short space of time i seem to remember) ... one of my mates solved the space problem by finding several hundred megabytes(!) of space on the medical and engineering school Novell servers which we could map to which meant we could install a completely seperate wfwg install with the software we wanted.

First online order would have been about 2 years later which was an Epson colour inkjet.

We didn't get internet at home until I left university in '97, dial up with Demon. Things have really gone down hill from there :)
 
1994. After being shown how to get free access from Compuserve by logging into the free help pages, then kicking off another instance of the program and browsing where I liked.
Can't actually remember what I used if for, but I was on a 28.8k modem.
 
Yahoo chatrooms when i was like 11, i was facinated(sp) with the internet
 
'84 I think. A blistering 300baud modem. Logging onto bulletin boards for chats (all private numbers, no general access number back then - you were logging onto someone's machine directly)
Upgraded to a 300/1200baud modem - god did that thing fly! 100B/s instead of 25B/s
 
Was about 98/99 when i first got tinterwebs, and first page i remember going to was page3.com and then teenchat.co.uk :D and spending days talking to random lassies :)
 
possibly not till a year 7 IT lesson when they taught us how to use search engines :O

before the internet was really popular though my older brother and his mate went through the early years of secondry school using early versions of encarta and his mates internet to completely cheat at everything. the teachers didnt have a clue and his mate actually got moved up a year !!! hes still proud of that now
 
33.6K modem on Compuserve. I wandered into a chat room, saw :-) - and remembering thinking "what does that mean?" and I had to ask...:o
 
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil around 91-92, but that was arpanet.

BBS's from 1983 ish onwards.

Zmodem was the new thing. 9600 baud, only takes around 20 mins to download a 1.44mb driver !

atdt 0344 blah blah blah for the HP partner BBS.

I still remember three or so people crowding around a PC looking at this web browser thing. Wasn't sure what to make of it, sure it was nice having a GUI, but i could get whatever i want from FTP and GOPHER.

MSN (the original) on the Chicago beta in 94 etc etc...
 
My first experience was back in about 1994 when my dad bought his first modem. It was extremely slow and difficult to get working. Eventually he did and he was talking to my uncle across the water on a programme similar to MSN.

I was never allowed on the internet until I was about 10 and I remember the first thing I did was set up a hotmail account and sign up to lycos chat.
 
First thing I went on was a guitar website I think :) (Website of my favourite guitarist at the time - Joe Satriani most probably), I was also on AOL so spent a long time in the chat cybering I mean talking to interesting people from around the world :p :o
 
memyselfandi said:
First internet use was sometime in the last couple of months of '93 at university. One of my, new at the time, friends gave me instructions on how to download the Doom 1 demo (i think) off of a ftp server at Imperial College London.

Things went down hill from there of course and I had my own home page on Geocities within a short time. I remember that the software provided on our universities network was poor so we would install our own in the little space we had, (lots of releases of Netscape 0.9x in a short space of time i seem to remember) ... one of my mates solved the space problem by finding several hundred megabytes(!) of space on the medical and engineering school Novell servers which we could map to which meant we could install a completely seperate wfwg install with the software we wanted.

First online order would have been about 2 years later which was an Epson colour inkjet.

We didn't get internet at home until I left university in '97, dial up with Demon. Things have really gone down hill from there :)
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Probably ditto.

'92-93 with good old mosiac and netscape browsers. gopher was a real protocol back then ? Way too much IRC was done.

We found our space by hijacking the mail spool which was a whacking terrabyte of storage !

Being an IRC addict I found a way to telnet off the library dumb terminals and into unix for some IRCing.

Had several websites spread across different UK unis.

Sending fake emails to lecturers and doing complete purges off the novell network. Spent a lot of time trying to evade the IT department and no we were never caught :)
 
looking for animated gifs with my dad when i was in year 6 around 96

used to use dotmusic chat rooms loads, ahh the innocent days :D
 
don't know when exactly, i think it was 96/97ish. The old man signed up with MSN as an ISP @ £15pcm.

Remember trying to play quake online and failing miserably :mad:
 
I remember first going on the internet back in high school on their painfully slow connection.

Yahoo Chat was such a novelty. Going from person to person, asking where they were from. Then I remember discovering Razorart and deviantart and the niche communities that followed it in IRC. I also remember creating my first ever website on Geocities about Dragonball Z. :o
 
94ish, funnily enough i was in the caribbean on holiday around 96 when i first really used it a lot to keep in touch with peeps at home and then i got hooked. Think my evolution went from 14.4 - 28.8 - 56k - 128 or 256k can't remember - 512k Pipex - 512k Telewest - 1mbit Telewest - 10 -mbit -20mbit.
 
I'd been on Bulletin Boards for years and the early internet was awful.
There was a basic browser and no search engine.
Usenet had started and you had to download porn pics in a UUE format and then encode them into the picture.
I can remember the day when I realised how powerful the internet could become.
My mate confided in me that he had collected fountain pens for years and when I stopped laughing he said that the rubber reservoirs were costing him a lot of money.
I searched Usenet which only had about 5,000 topics at the time and found one called alt.collecting.pens-pencils (or similar) and posted his question.
Within hours he had got 12 replies from all around the world including details how to make his own.
One of the replies was from a shop he could easily deal with and that was the day I realised the internet was more powerful than the Bulletin Boards.
 
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