Your first connection and memories of the internet.

AOL chat rooms for me. A/S/L? Don't miss dial up at all. "mom get off the phone, I'm trying to talk to a girl online!" Netscape navigator and webcrawler, angelfire websites etc wrre all the order of the day at that point. And all those aol discs in the post lol. I remember getting I huge trouble for going to a porn site that had some Russian phone number and racked up a massive bill.
 
1995. £35 pm for Globalnet and that was plus connection charges. CompuServe came in and it was 1p pm all in.

Trying to get the PCI modems recognised by W95 was a nightmare.
 
itchy said:
I remember looking at porn and the lines used to scan down as you downloaded! :rolleyes:

I was fapping away waiting for scan line 200 for boobs and 325 for ****** !
Had it memorised you see.
.......................Connection lost at 300!!! :mad:
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Aye. I think I was 15 or so when we got dial-up (late 90s). Had to make sure the picture (definitely couldn't download a video in time) was 'up' to the job after you'd waited 5 minutes for it to download.

Good times.
 
1990 University telnet - Span Relay shell escape back to root then onto LPMUD and see who had left their settings at chmod 777 so we could catch our work up.
 
AndrewNR said:
Aye. I think I was 15 or so when we got dial-up (late 90s). Had to make sure the picture (definitely couldn't download a video in time) was 'up' to the job after you'd waited 5 minutes for it to download.

Good times.
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That's why God invented thumbnail images... :rolleyes:
 
28.8 Modem on Freeserve... Really slow downloading porn, which was (most of the time) a total waste of time!!! :D
 
Simian said:
28.8 Modem on Freeserve... Really slow downloading porn, which was (most of the time) a total waste of time!!! :D
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And the funny thing now is that those same videos which I used to spend hours downloading at 320x160 are still available but at full DVD resolution of 720x480 and can be downloaded in less than a minute. :D
 
Can't really remember my first experiences, remember playing quake 2 first on a 33.6 then a 56k and I remember waiting 2 hours for the Star Wars ep1 trailer to dl from apple.
 
My first ever memory is in 1995 when i started Uni, Only a handful of websites worth looking at back then. The best looking was MTV.com

Full 256 colours and full motion music videos in 16-bit colour and the size of a postage stamp. It was amazing back then
 
First ever real over the net kind of thing, i used to sleep at a mates and he had this awesome cable tv which had a keyboard (way before virgin etc) and you could talk to the girls online. I was like 14-15.

Then my brother got his first packard bell and i used to go on MSN with all the lads every night. Them times.
 
compuserve + 9600 baud modem

went on lucasfilm (before lucasarts! lol) website about the time that Xwing came out? (93?)
took so long to load the splash screen we gave up ! remember the old man saying that you couldnt use the interwebs when "america was awake" lololol
 
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robfosters said:
Did anyone here have the first BT broadband modem?

I remember it looked like a space alien or something.

This is it. Anyone have one? I grew quite attached to it.

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Ahhh, the good old speedtouch, I used to support those when I worked for Freeserve!

I remember one time I got passed a call:

Caller: I just can't use this new modem.
Me: What's the problem you're having?
Caller: The cable is too short.
Me: The telephone cable?
Caller: No the USB cable.
Me: Where are you trying to make it reach?
Caller: To the desktop.
Me:It's ok you don't need to have the modem on your desktop, you can put it on the floor or the top of your PC.
Caller: But if I put it on top of the PC I'll have to sit on the floor.
Me: ...
Caller: Oh
Caller: I think I'm an idiot.
Caller: Is this modem supposed to replace my mouse?
Me: No.
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People also used to call it a SpeedTooth and a SoftTouch modem!
 
robfosters said:
Did anyone here have the first BT broadband modem?

I remember it looked like a space alien or something.

This is it. Anyone have one? I grew quite attached to it.

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I had dial-up for a few months with BT then upgraded to broadband, then i got this thing. Loved it to death and it was the fastest thing going. To be fair it would be fine for general surfing now, just not for downloading anything bigger then a gigabyte.
 
When i was at uni in 1999 i was downloading predator off a bloke in america. It was taking that long at 5kb/sec he put it on to a disc and sent it me in the post as it was faster haha, i was still downloding it when the disc arrived

And yet i used to play Day of Defeat online with no problems
 
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