Your first connection and memories of the internet.

[anything I don't mind]

1997. 28k modem. icq, yahoo chat. i remember when ie4 came out few years later, was amazing.

Think the first game I played online was Delta Force, so would have been late 90's, anyone else play that?

I played deltaforce, it was first large map open fps multiplayer game if i can remember of its kind.

First online multiplayer i played was quake 2 and played cs beta 4 online. About 1999-2000. Was playing lan quake 1 and doom 2 since 1996 though i think. Due to slow internet didn't start playing online properly until 2005.

 

[-Mike-]

As I was starting to use services like Napster a lot (3 hours to download a single track),

Your memory appears to have gone wrong in its old age It took about 12 minutes to get 3.5mb ( assuming 128kbps track encoding).

 

[Sliver]

Late 1999 for me. 56k modem. Found Napster and embarked on a music collection the likes of witch mankind had never seen. At 20 minutes per song download, it didn't quite workout. Still I managed over 1000 songs before Napster bit the bullet and went commercial.

 

[trancesphere]

Microsoft Chat 2.5, IRC, XDCC bots

 

[413x]

Earliest memory of online was getting limewire and waiting hours and hours for each song to download

Today.. I'm only waiting 5 mins Haha.. Yes it's very slow here

 

[Theophany]

If you disguised a virus by changing the extension to .mp3 then your PC would treat it as an audio file and try and play it and nothing would happen. Only if you downloaded it and didn't notice it had a .exe or .cab extension (and the associated icon that comes with those) would you be able to run it and cause damage in which case it was kind of your own fault.

They'd often be hidden within .zip files etc and the less computer literate wouldn't be discerning of .exe and .cab files. I was never stung personally, I've never had a computer virus.

But as usual, you're more interested in being an argumentative little **** than anything else.

 

[Tunney]

Wireplay was fantastic because NTL charged a flat rate of 60p to connect rather than charging per minute.

Loved playing QWTF. Such a friendly bunch of people.

But then Wireplay got opened up to the internet and we realised how crap we were compared to the wider internet community.

 

[-Mike-]

Welcome to Gamespy!

and

Lets get on with the killing!

Ahhh memories

 

[Ilikeitblackplease]

I first logged onto the internet in september 1997. Kept me awake for 2 days straight.

I used Netscape browser, telnet and some random phone numbers for connection. Never had a clue what I was doing, but I do remember the £300 phone bill for first month.

What are your first memories of connecting to the internet??

lol my 1st bill was £500 it was looking at porn, warez sites downloading games.

 

[ic1male]

What did your parents say at the time? Mine kept threatening to disconnect the phone line.

 

[-Mike-]

What did your parents say at the time? Mine kept threatening to disconnect the phone line.

Our phone socket had a little note by it...

"BT say it's good to talk, mum says remember who pays the bill"

My first quarter bill wasn't all that bad, my friend ran up some whoppers playing battlezone though!

 

[katinacooker]

Internet used to be 1p per minute to connect, and i used to check the Rare website (rareware.com or something)

 

[Dickyb0b]

At my friends house,he got a pc and the first game i played online was kingpin on a 56k modem,ever since then ive been hooked with online gaming

 

[Mat]

University '94: Pine email client, Netscape Navigator and Nanvaent MUD (which is still going it seems!)

 

[Caged]

33k modem back in 1997 I think. BT Internet with a local call rate on top of that, had to keep a log of when I'd been connected to make sure the bill matched, and only go on for a couple hours at a time because we only had one phone line.

I remember having to dial up and download email via POP into Outlook Express and then compose the reply offline.

Main uses were Amazon, Wireplay and whatever Zone.com was known as then.

 

[RedvGreen]

AOL - the dial tones for the modem which I had subconsciously learnt by heart. Probably around 1995.

Not long after that, I somehow got into Duke Nukem 3D deathmatch, and was involved in a tournament run by a guy who's own son also played in the tournament (think the kid's name was Kyle?).
We used to have to arrange to ring each other modem to modem then play. Unfortunately there were some huge gaping cheats with the multiplayer option in that if you selected Coop (or something) it changed the camera options in deathmatch so you could press the 'See other screen' button and see exactly where they were.

 

[da_mic_1530]

hamsterdance

 

[Rroff]

What did your parents say at the time? Mine kept threatening to disconnect the phone line.

My parents were mostly concerned by it tying up the phoneline but fortunatly mobile phones started to become a thing about that time (makes me feel old) and they quickly stopped bothering about it.

 

[Nymins]

1997-1998 I think. First website I went to was Cartoon Network.

 

[sbweightman]

AOL dial up disc, one of those £5 a month connection discs that were given away with absolutely everything - must have had about 10 different ones before i disposed of them.

As for online, the Worms 2 chatroom talking inanely with complete strangers. Not much has changed then!