your internet story
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1995 : College.
Playing Doom II, general net browsing and first discovery of chat rooms.
Jan 1997 : got my own PC - 33k modem and AOL.
Racked up some mega phone bills using chat rooms, Wireplay when EF2000 flight sim was the only supported game.
1998 : Wireplay - Total Annihilation RTS.
Joined a clan and took on Europe's best players/clans
1999 : expanded playing TA to MSN The Zone. An awesome time gaming
2000 : connection upgraded to ADSL 512k.
Dropped TA and immersed myself into Unreal Tournament.
Found OcUK forum
2000 - 2003 : putting 40+ hours a week into playing UT. Many 50 kills, 0 deaths on packed clan servers
Using Roger Wilco app to communicate to other clan members in CTF comp matches.
2003 : upgraded connection to Blueyonder 1Mb +
2004+ : Work took over my life so lost time and interest in online gaming :/
Now I just spend my internet time checking forums and reading tech, car, photog, MTB and watch websites.
2014+ looking forward to showing my son how to use the internet
Playing Doom II, general net browsing and first discovery of chat rooms.
Jan 1997 : got my own PC - 33k modem and AOL.
Racked up some mega phone bills using chat rooms, Wireplay when EF2000 flight sim was the only supported game.
1998 : Wireplay - Total Annihilation RTS.
Joined a clan and took on Europe's best players/clans
1999 : expanded playing TA to MSN The Zone. An awesome time gaming
2000 : connection upgraded to ADSL 512k.
Dropped TA and immersed myself into Unreal Tournament.
Found OcUK forum
2000 - 2003 : putting 40+ hours a week into playing UT. Many 50 kills, 0 deaths on packed clan servers
Using Roger Wilco app to communicate to other clan members in CTF comp matches.
2003 : upgraded connection to Blueyonder 1Mb +
2004+ : Work took over my life so lost time and interest in online gaming :/
Now I just spend my internet time checking forums and reading tech, car, photog, MTB and watch websites.
2014+ looking forward to showing my son how to use the internet
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My dad bought a Windows 98 PC to do work from home as well as allowing my sister do use Microsoft Office for her school work.
I kicked them off the PC a while down the line after I walked in to Electronics Boutique around the release of Midtown Madness 2. Enjoyed Singleplayer for a bit before the Multiplayer button started to grab my interest.
Found Zone.com and all of the multiplayer modes and mods for Midtown Madness got me hooked. I remember downloading vehicle mods like a different bus and a Ford Mustang with NOS that did 1000MPH+. I think each mod used to take almost an hour to download on the dial-up connection and I used to get shouted at if I didn't re-connect to the internet before an hour lapsed so it was always a close call. Ended up going well over an hour once because I was having such a laugh on Midtown Madness Multiplayer.
At thirteen and with a broadband connection I ended up on Runescape with a load of other kids from school. Also joined a GTA forum because of GTA 3 and stayed on there right through to GTA IV's release and then the forum strangely disappeared with no warning.
Dabbled in upgrading the PC myself and ended up buying Half Life 2 which unbeknown to me at the time came bundled with Counter-Strike: Source. Eventually downloaded CS after reading up on what it was. Thought it was a laugh, even when using a track-ball mouse.
Tried getting away from CS by getting Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2. Liked the two Battlefield games, they never got me away from CS though as I still play Source now. I think the only semi-successful attempt at getting me away from CS was Test Drive Unlimited and the forums I joined for that which I'm still a member of. Tried the CS clan thing with some friends through school and college, but we gave up.
Joined here because I wanted to try overclocking. Gave up overclocking for some reason, but over the Summer of 2010 while in a boring temporary job these forums kept me entertained so I decided to stay.
Me and a couple of friends have a small local gaming community forum with its dedicated YouTube channel, unfortunately the core three of us are rarely online at the same time to make gaming videos together for the channel for fun which was sort of the original intended purpose of the whole thing.
Never really went down the line of chat-rooms. Bebo and Limewire are the only other notable internet things.
I kicked them off the PC a while down the line after I walked in to Electronics Boutique around the release of Midtown Madness 2. Enjoyed Singleplayer for a bit before the Multiplayer button started to grab my interest.
Found Zone.com and all of the multiplayer modes and mods for Midtown Madness got me hooked. I remember downloading vehicle mods like a different bus and a Ford Mustang with NOS that did 1000MPH+. I think each mod used to take almost an hour to download on the dial-up connection and I used to get shouted at if I didn't re-connect to the internet before an hour lapsed so it was always a close call. Ended up going well over an hour once because I was having such a laugh on Midtown Madness Multiplayer.
At thirteen and with a broadband connection I ended up on Runescape with a load of other kids from school. Also joined a GTA forum because of GTA 3 and stayed on there right through to GTA IV's release and then the forum strangely disappeared with no warning.
Dabbled in upgrading the PC myself and ended up buying Half Life 2 which unbeknown to me at the time came bundled with Counter-Strike: Source. Eventually downloaded CS after reading up on what it was. Thought it was a laugh, even when using a track-ball mouse.
Tried getting away from CS by getting Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2. Liked the two Battlefield games, they never got me away from CS though as I still play Source now. I think the only semi-successful attempt at getting me away from CS was Test Drive Unlimited and the forums I joined for that which I'm still a member of. Tried the CS clan thing with some friends through school and college, but we gave up.
Joined here because I wanted to try overclocking. Gave up overclocking for some reason, but over the Summer of 2010 while in a boring temporary job these forums kept me entertained so I decided to stay.
Me and a couple of friends have a small local gaming community forum with its dedicated YouTube channel, unfortunately the core three of us are rarely online at the same time to make gaming videos together for the channel for fun which was sort of the original intended purpose of the whole thing.
Never really went down the line of chat-rooms. Bebo and Limewire are the only other notable internet things.
if it were not the internet would you be stuck at home watching TV anyway?
you can't spend 5 hours a night or so on the internet without being an addict
but you can sit infront of the tv for 7+ hours a day and no one would bat an eyelid
that website worked fine on the dreamcast browser lol
the internet was a very different place back in the late 90's and early 00's
I don't think a single teenage child was in any of the chatrooms I used , even the dreamcast chat was full of students and young adults.
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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
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
1998 at uni when I got familiar with Alta-Vista (instead of AltaVista the search engine....). That got me excluded from the IT suite for a week or two.
Parents had a TinyPC back then, a P3 500mhz running Win98SE. It had a modem PCI card in it but we had no phone line upstairs (where the PC was) other than in my parents room. Sometimes when they used to go out I would move the PC in there and dial up on the free Tiscali BB CD we had
Stayed with Tiscali to 2001 and upgraded the TinyPC to a P1000 with 512mb. That thing flew!
2002 saw me join here and move to BT Broadband. OcUK is really the only forums I've ever been a major member of and frequent. Frightens me that I've been doing that for over 10 years!! (with multiple bans)
Gaming wise, big hours lost on Unreal Tournament and MoHAA. I played those for years, although I worked out, still not as many hours lost to my friend who played WoW for 18months solid, ruined his career and lost his chance to do a doctorate because of WoW
Parents had a TinyPC back then, a P3 500mhz running Win98SE. It had a modem PCI card in it but we had no phone line upstairs (where the PC was) other than in my parents room. Sometimes when they used to go out I would move the PC in there and dial up on the free Tiscali BB CD we had
Stayed with Tiscali to 2001 and upgraded the TinyPC to a P1000 with 512mb. That thing flew!
2002 saw me join here and move to BT Broadband. OcUK is really the only forums I've ever been a major member of and frequent. Frightens me that I've been doing that for over 10 years!! (with multiple bans)
Gaming wise, big hours lost on Unreal Tournament and MoHAA. I played those for years, although I worked out, still not as many hours lost to my friend who played WoW for 18months solid, ruined his career and lost his chance to do a doctorate because of WoW
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Quake on dial up = DOUBLEKILL
Quake on ISDN = GODLIKE
Quake on ISDN = GODLIKE
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1998 : Wireplay - Total Annihilation RTS.
Joined a clan and took on Europe's best players/clans
1999 : expanded playing TA to MSN The Zone. An awesome time gaming
Out of interest, what was your username/clan on TA? I missed the Boneyards era, started on PW/Zone. Played with the Digin/TEA lads, then eventually joined Xpertz with Mastah, after being guided (if thats the word) by a good mate who played in TAG/TNL/Nemesis.
What a game.
Edit: One of my demos is still on TADRS haha! http://tadrs.tauniverse.com/index.php?showgame=t&go=all&id=326
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That's UT not Quake
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M-M-M-M-MOSTERKILLL
Don't worry gentle brain, I'll make sure that my next passably amusing comment is clearly a joke given the content and context of the thread I am posting in.
Nod once for yes and twice for no, if you can understand these words.
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As fast as you like
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You lush
yeah yeah of course it was a jokeyou backpeddle so often that you'd end up meeting yourself again
I don't understand why you've edited your post to my un-edited post and why I'm reversing on something I haven't reversed upon.
I mean, I like it. I just don't understand what's wrong with you.
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another TA player here as you can guess, started playing on TEN then moved to MSN Zone and Wireplay when TEN shut down. those were the days.
used to play in the isjx clan
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Another wireplay veteran here, I was one of the first to sign up to it, if my memory serves me right Im sure there was a beta of sorts, it was fantastic playing with real people for the first time.
Hard to believe thats nearly 20 years ago.
Hard to believe thats nearly 20 years ago.