The Net Nostalgia Thread.

VeNT · 30 Nov 2009 at 12:26

omg planetarion
I was in the 1:1:1 galaxy one round before they made it devs only. tbh they where cheating ******s
even played after it went pay to play!
earlyest memory? Wireplay/barrysworld Q2 team DM [TAG]
swiftly followed by freenetname.co.uk! use our dial up and we give you a domain! nice!

Rob200sx · 30 Nov 2009 at 12:50

I miss Wireplay, not as it is now, but as it was 10 years ago, it was also very handy that at the time, NTL were charging 50p to connect to WP's 0845 number, no matter how long you were connected for

just checked and I do still have my forum account there still.....Join Date 11-11-1998, that was pretty much the start of my online gaming life

GeX · 30 Nov 2009 at 13:48

Mattey1 said:
Audiogalaxy, Amazing site at the time!

I used to use that. I was one of the early adopters of adsl on my street, and used to leave the satellite running at home and queue all the downloads at school. It came at a price though, 512k ADSL from nildram at £58 a month. Used to share it with two friends one with a pringle tube site to site wireless link over the road and the other on a 120m cat5 link that ran through 4 peoples back gardens.
Anyone remember the dialup isp callerd x-stream? Ad supported dialer, but free..if you could get connected!

What about Tetrinet, who used to play that?

tres · 30 Nov 2009 at 13:55

I remember being at school and using freenetnames to register a load of free domains.

With hindsight, if I kept them all, they'd be worth a fortune!

Princey · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:09

BT Wireplay, playing Quake II and SiN. Good times.

Neolink · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:16

Only using internet on the weekends on...ic24? and freeserve...

oh and that maze game on the windows 95 cd

randal · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:25

Neolink said:
oh and that maze game on the windows 95 cd

Not forgetting:

"You wanted it see it brings you Kenosha Wisconsin's own Weezer!

And a 1 and 2 and a 3 and a 4..."

Malt_Vinegar · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:29

Homeworld over Dialup!
X-wing Vs Tie-fighter
PRON, via dialup! You kids have no idea how good you have it nowerdays!

VeNT · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:37

Rob200sx said:
I miss Wireplay, not as it is now, but as it was 10 years ago, it was also very handy that at the time, NTL were charging 50p to connect to WP's 0845 number, no matter how long you were connected for

just checked and I do still have my forum account there still.....Join Date 11-11-1998, that was pretty much the start of my online gaming life

Welcome, famin.
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says my join date was 01 but I happen to know my join date was back in 1996-7 as it was the year before my GCSEs took hold!

dangerstat · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:41

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Wossi · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:00

I remember the computer guy at my dad's work (who is still here now) giving me a program that made sure I was never disconnected from the net after 2 hours, no idea how it worked, it just stopped the net dropping out so I could stay on all day

I used to love Excite chat when I was at college, was a right laugh, we weren't supposed to be on there but the woman in charge of the computer room used to sneak out with us for a ciggie break so let us do what we wanted

NathanE · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:06

RedHotAnt ... and setting your modem to redial every second and then, after an hour or so, you'd get connected

The best modem I had was a Diamond Supra Express. Which gave 90ms pings on Claranet.

rich_g85 · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:18

Planetarion and Hyperiums.

matthewhotdude · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:25

Getting disconnected whenever someone would pick the phone up, not knowing I was using the line grrr

VeNT · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:36

NathanE said:
RedHotAnt ... and setting your modem to redial every second and then, after an hour or so, you'd get connected

The best modem I had was a Diamond Supra Express. Which gave 90ms pings on Claranet.

this
I gave up after a month of that and went back to phone bills
ended up with one that was £400!!!!!!!!!

Ziggy · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:46

I remember reading about modem bonding and thinking it was the dog's.

Modem Bonding

It's the hot new technology for 1998: modem bonding. Windows 95 supports it, many modem makers support it, and ISPs are beginning to support it.
Just what is it?

Modem bonding is using two or more modems to simultaneously handle a single connection. The faster the modems, the faster your throughput. Likewise, the more modems you use, the faster your throughput.

Sonea Fifer · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:51

I'd have to go with this classic game:

Spent so many hours playing it - shame they closed the servers

gambitt · 30 Nov 2009 at 15:57

Ziggy said:
I remember reading about modem bonding and thinking it was the dog's.

arrrgh I remember that. Never got it working!

randal · 30 Nov 2009 at 16:10

Ziggy said:
I remember reading about modem bonding and thinking it was the dog's.

Hehe. I remember that. Also remember having 2 x 64kb bonded lines to give 128kb on ISDN, had that for a week at home before it got ripped out for the 512kb NTL broadband that just rolled out. I think I was one of the first people in the area to get it outside of a trial, and work picked up the tab which was quite pricey IIRC.

512kb down 100kb up... actually might have only been 20kb...

dangerstat · 30 Nov 2009 at 16:15

My first memories of the interwebz are in school being 12 maybe using some, at the time, super fast RM 486 SX 25's to "surf" the web. Later remember getting into Hotmail pretty early on, and following Google over take Yahoo and Alta Vista. At home I had a 33k modem pretty much until I left for Uni connecting most of the time to IC24 ;P Content creation these days drives the web I mean there's just everything online, almost every question so ask has been asked before. It's crazy, but I love it.