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Hottub

05-12-2006, 04:35 PM

It started with a Wyse CRT, a 1200 baud modem, and an account at paul@rutgers.edu! It was still a couple of years before Al Gore invented the World Wide Web. Only messageboards (text only) and Usenet.Now that I am thinking about it, my first online experience was in 1980 (Christ!!) I was allowed to bring home from school a CRT, keyboard, and a modem that actually cradled the handset of the phone in it, and the beeps and chirps were transfered to the CRT. I was able to get to RDHS, Wayne Hills HS, and Teaneck HS. Had it for one night. Stole another kids CS homework, changed the name and saved it as my own (My first Hack!) Play Adventure for an hour, and try to crash the server at Wayne. I failed at that one.Look at me now!!What are your earliest and most archaic internet stories?

FezPaul

05-12-2006, 05:24 PM

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Don Stugots

05-12-2006, 05:27 PM

why didnt you look up any porn?

i first got online in 1998. it was AOL 3.0 i think. you couldnt send pics yet at that point. I was a stud in the chat rooms. do they still have those?

Tenbatsuzen

05-12-2006, 05:32 PM

Prodigy.  25 cents per email.  *douchechills*

Fallon

05-12-2006, 05:38 PM

What are your earliest and most archaic internet stories?
November 1998.

Bought my first computer and got online.

Been jerking off ever since.

Tenbatsuzen

05-12-2006, 05:39 PM

Fallon wrote: What are your earliest and most archaic internet stories?
November 1998.

Bought my first computer and got online.

Been jerking off ever since.   I think you were jerking off well before that.        No homo

JustJon

05-15-2006, 06:28 AM

Hottub wrote: It was still a couple of years before Al Gore invented the World Wide Web. Only messageboards (text only) and Usenet.  Al Gore "invented the internet." Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

cupcakelove

05-15-2006, 06:46 AM

I believe I was in the 5th or 6th grade (about '93 or '94).  We
started off with Prodigy and quickly switched to AOL.  I remember
when they started using the slogan 'Now serving one million
customers'.

Death Metal Moe

05-15-2006, 07:03 AM

I came to this game very late.  2001 to be exact.  Same year I joined this messageboard.  My mother's friend's sister gave us her old office computer.  In fact, it was that very computer that when it crashed, I asked for help here and people like Horde King and my friend Grim Sanity came to my aid, making this place a lot more "real" in my mind.  I saw actual people trying to actually help.I had dial up for about 4 of those years and switched to DSL last year.  Man what a difference.So really I don't have the cool 80's stories you guys have.  I know my buddy Grim Sanity as involved with computers early on.  He had some whacky thing you plugged into your Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo, I forget which one, and you could play over the phone line against people all over the world on their server.  Sounds like it was cool back then, but he said kids would cheat.  If they were losing, they'd take the phone cord out, the connection would just think it was dropped and no scores would be recorded.  Cheaters!

JoeYaDeadHomey

05-15-2006, 07:28 AM

moe you're probably talking about xband, i remember that. it was ahead of its time. my first experience was probably around 96, in an early version of aol, i remember staying up until 4 or 5 in the morning for weeks straight because i was in awe. what a dummy =-P

ChimneyFish

05-15-2006, 07:31 AM

This had to be around '92.I remenber I got my parents permanently banned from AOL because, in my chatroom profile, I had "necropedophilia" as one of my hobbies.AOL didn't quite see the humor in that.Needless to say, my parents were very cross with me.

This message was edited by ChimneyFish on 5-15-06 @ 11:32 AM

angrymissy

05-15-2006, 07:45 AM

1991/1992 ish I had a IBM 386.  2400bps modem.  Started off with Delphi, then moved onto "The Sierra Network" and Prodigy.  Dialed into local Westchester BBS'.  Could download porn from those BBS' and it was a single image that would take 15minutes to download.  Could also download lovely things like Anarchists Cookbook, Phone Pheaking manuals, etc.  The BBS had some stupid game Legend of the Red Dragon that I loved.  You could play it once a day.  It was in ASCII.This is when I was living with my Grandparents.  They were NOT happy with the $300 phone bill.  Regional calls billed at 10 cents a minute or some crap.Oh, and then in around 95/96, I realized that there was unlimited porn on MIRC.  I think I supplied all the potheads in Westchester with porn from there on out.

This message was edited by angrymissy on 5-15-06 @ 11:56 AM

Badinia

05-15-2006, 08:10 AM

I got online in 1994, because I was dating a nerd.  I said "There's no reason for a normal person to use email."  But then I found usenet.  I still miss alt.sex.hello.kitty.  But I did learn that alt.scat did not involve Ella Fitzgerald, and that you would get in trouble for talking about the Transformers movie on alt.tv.transformers.  So, that's just 12 years for me.My parent's marriage was one of the first to dissolve because of internet infidelity, though, in 1986! <img height="162" src="http://www.badinia.com/hellokittytrip.bmp" width="285" border="0" />Regards, Badinia

Furtherman

05-15-2006, 08:33 AM

I'm not sure of the date, but it was in the mid 80's with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem.  I went on a lot of BBS's at the time, downloading games and patches to copy games (anyone remember Crackerjack patches?).  I remember names like Gearjammers and Bob's BBS.  No dot-coms, only phone numbers.  I had to do my BBSing at night because when someone would call the house, the call-waiting would knock me off line.  I eventually went up to 1200, then 2400 baud modems.  I'm guessing it has been about 20 years online for me as well, except, oddly enough for these days, the four years I had in college.  The internet was just coming around then but I only used computers in the school's computer lab, but none were on-line. 

FUNKMAN

05-15-2006, 10:19 AM

I remember approx 15 years ago we had X25 switches on-site connected to our IBM frontends/mainframes and Sprint had their X25 network named Telenet and MCI had their X25 network named Tymnet. This is how our customers would connect to our databases/services. Compuserve was another provider.We used to scope the connections and troubleshoot people having connectivity problems.