When you FIRST saw the internet, what ya think

Do you remember the winsock stuff you had to do? 14,400 modem, and Netscape Gold - can't beat it.

Remember when broadband first came out and it was stupidly expensive?
 
I used hyperterminal to download a small amount of grot off Creative Labs' BBS in ireland - lovely phone bill came with that.

Also compuserve in the early days - local call. £600 phone bill for that one too.

Times was hard :(
 
My first experience of the internet was connecting to CompuServe on a 9.6k modem. I thought it was amazing that I could download Sonic the Hedgehog screenshots from their forums. My email back then was [email protected]. (Still remember it!)

The first time we had the web proper, we used NCSA Mosaic on an old 386 with 16Mhz CPU and 4MB RAM. It was slow as hell, but it was the internet... damn, we felt cool.

Mosaic was pretty awful. Tables were generally beyond it. And what became of Mosaic? Microsoft licensed it, and made it into IE. Check IE6 Help > About.
 
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Fee porn !!! it opened my young eyes back then with 56k. And Chatrooms, that was new and a real novelty which soon got tedious.
 
oof, I was about 10 or 12 I think, maybe younger - Spent ages on compu-serve dialup, trawling for shareware games :D

Ace fun, those were the days. And dodgy chatrooms :o

Was on a 486DX66, with a whopping 8mb of ram, Windows 3.11, sub-20k modem.
 
I remember my first day when I got 56k dial up internet access.

I used to go on at night, but slyly, which was difficult because of the modem noise *shudders*

Then off I went,

Britney Spears :D
Palmera Anderson :eek:

and more...

Pop ups were a gods send! :D :rolleyes:
 
i first saw it when netscape first came out and www was invented - it was pretty crap as there was nothing there - that quickly changed though
 
As a 13 (or so) year old I got hooked on chat rooms (Yahoo and Lycos were the daddies then) - the goal was always to catch someone's attention and get them into 'private chat' - and then they'd always want cybersex and for some reason this surprised and disgusted me every time? Mad!

Even HTML chat sites where you had to keep hitting refresh. Those were the days. I used to pretend I was 17. Teeheehee.

I actually made some good friends online from those chat rooms. Then ICQ came out (the precurser to all the millions of IM clients out now) and it all went boom, and I was completely addicted.

And USENET.

And web-sites full of MP3s - all you needed to do was click on a link to download it! Illegal you say? No record company cared when it took half an hour per track... of which half hour you were paying at least a penny a minute...
 
My thoughts were

"Oooh, boobies..."

followed suddenly by

"errr. hello dad... i was looking for homework answers and this just popped up..." (bad turn of phrase considering!!!)

:D
 
My mate's compuserve account on some Compaq P75 machine. It was dog slow but I was captivated my this odd avatar based chat thing where you walked about and talked to people. Some of those people were girlies! I thought 'Wow, there are girlies here and they are not spitting on me and telling me to get lost'.

Then I got some PAYG account a few years later. Tiny I think it was. Then I upgraded to AOL (heh) and for some reason used the local call dial-up rather than the free-phone. Played some CS with AOL pings...
 
it was at a m8s house i was there when he 1st got it didnt really know what to expect was quite young just started 2ndry school and we searched for simpsons as u do. Looked at a few sites and came across homers brain, turned out to be a porn site! had to run and tell his dad just so he knew we wasnt delib looking at porn lol
 
Got my first taste back in 1995 (I think), with Compuserve. I didn't quite know what to think, and spent the majority of my time browsing message boards. Unlimited AOL dial-up was like a breath of fresh air, and that's when I really got into the internet; forums, games etc. :p
 
When I first saw the 'net......hmm...that was back in 1987, when there wasn't a standardised browser, and everything was in text.

Needless to say, I wasnt impressed, and didnt return until 1995.
 
I remember being amazed back in '95 as I could see the NBA scores! w00t!

I seem to remember everything taking ages to load too. At first it just seemed like a slow Encarta which you often couldn't find anything on.
 
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