Your first connection and memories of the internet.

Mid 90's with my blue diamond 28.8k modem. Tried quake online and used Freeserve as my isp.

The best modem was an Intel 56k modem with compression enabled.
 
28.8K US Robotics Modem.

Gaming till the early hours on Barrysworld

I think my first browser was Netscape Navigator
 
RedvGreen said:
I used to be awesome at Counterstrike on my 56k modem connection. I was trialled and got into 4K at the time. Then I upgraded to Comcast/NTL Cable Modem 512K and I just couldn't aim to save my life.

Latency went from 200ms (on Wireplay direct) to about 30-80ms, and that was the end of my Counterstrike days!
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I remember the first person in our Team Fortress clan to get cable. It was during a beta trial in Guildford. Amazing 30ms pings (rest were averaging 150ms) but 50%+ packet loss!

Then you had the super-keen players spending stupid money for Home Highway...
 
hughtrimble said:
As do I - vividly!

I don't recall the transition to broadband though; I imagine it was a pretty big deal at the time given you could suddenly be on the phone and be online.
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theres a video somewhere on YT from 1991 introducing american people to the internet for the first time. some of the thoughts they had about the future of it were a "little" off
 
macuser said:
You remember [OG]? Best Kingpin clan on Wireplay. Good times lol.
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I do now you mention them.

I was in [DP] with a lot of the mods. We were accused many times of not taking it seriously.

We spent an entire match trying to make a player pyramid from our 6 clan members until one of us accidentally aimed a rocket in the wrong place.

Ref: What's your home map?
One of us: 3
Another of us : 1
Someone else: 4
Leader: Will you all stop that, its 2
Ref: Too late, you're on 3
Us: Woohoo!
Leader: Oh FFS!


This would explain why we generally lost every match.
 
Would have been the late 90's for me. My brother bought a Time computer that had a 56k modem. Pretty sure we started on AOL but then moved to freeserve and then BT.

I got heavily into Quake 3 and have played it ever since. 56k connection equated to 280-300 ping on Q3. My rocket prediction was insane back in the 56k days.

Pretty sure I also used Netscape navigator and I seem to remember the desktop icon was a ships wheel.

Those damn 2hr cut offs were annoying too! Middle of an awesome game then 'connection interrupted'. Aaaaargh!!

I also used to like the dial up sounds too, reminded me of a spectrum game loading :)

Happy times back then. I miss them a lot.
 
Dial up was great, getting into Ultima Online and acquiring and unmetered connection meant I completely avoided being called out by work for 2 and a bit years :)
 
One of my earliest memories was in the mid nineties when I was a young lad, I got chatting to some lass from America on a chat-room. It was as flirty as young people get and we talked for a long time; hours on end, running up quite a phone bill for my poor father.

Eventually she sent me a picture. The moment I received it, I was so gutted by her appearance that I never logged into that email account again and haven't been on a chat-room since!
 
The screeching noise of the 56k modem, trying to get freeserve to work and having to ring their support and once connected thinking "this is amazing, so much knowledge & information out there, I'm going to use this for something constructive. and not for looking at porn."


:D
 
I remember originally using Compuserve, then AOL, then RedHotAnt for a while, then ADSL turned up and I went with Eclipse Internet for years.

Some of the first things I ended up looking at were WordArt online (wtf), and Pamela Anderson. A sign of the times!

I used to play Red Alert with my mates over the phone line, and aside from serial cable gaming, that was the best gaming experience I could get. :)
 
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