your internet story

[movingtables]

I was 22 years old (i'm now 39 ) and i was bored silly.
I was never a sociable lad so didnt go out at all really.

Then one day i was flicking through a PC mag and a compuserve internet
disc fell out.. and the rest they say is history.

I played quake 1 online for 4 years every night on 56k modem.
best game ever and never been beaten.

I then discovered a chat room, Lineone, later named Tiscali chat.
I was hooked and to this day i still use a chatroom daily.
although the internet filled a void in my life i can't help but look back
and feel it consumed me.
I actualy believe i am addicted to the internet, but am i?
the net is a way of life now and maybe i have just embraced it?

how did you get here?

 

[movingtables]

some good stories here glad i made this thread.

forgot to add that i had to pay £15month just for having an internet account
with net call charges on top. which was about £120 month

 

[movingtables]

round about 1996/7 seems a popular year more people started going on line.
i remember family members not understanding what the net was and just thinking it was plain odd.

incidentally those very same people are facebook addicts now

anyone else notice a change in "other" peoples attitudes towards the internet
over the years?

 

[movingtables]

See if you can view any of your old internet pages

click here

 

[movingtables]

could anyone here function without the internet now?

even stuff like online banking is so much easier online.
i remember canceling a direct debit or transfering money
from one account to the other was time consuming and sometimes
a pain, now it's just a click away.

if i want to make a doctors appointment i just log in and go straight to
their calander and pick a time and leave a few notes.

i'm sure we would survive but it would feel like going back in the dark ages lol.