NationStates Jolt Archive

If jolt lets me, poll coming.

By the way "animated gifs seemed so cool" is the option for before 1997.

Prodigy in 1993. Now that's old school...

Prodigy in 1993. Now that's old school...

1991 for me. On a computer with Hercules graphics that would overheat when I ran Lotus 1-2-3 and need rebooting.

1998, on our first modern PC.

8-10 years ago, I guess, although I don't exactly remember 'my first hit'.

Yes, I'm considered a computer nerd. BUT, how can anyone live without the internet?

My computer has a 120GB hard drive and 3GB of RAM. [You don't even know what that is do you?]

Yes, I'm considered a computer nerd. BUT, how can anyone live without the internet?

We did OK, really. It does make some things more convenient, but we managed with our cuneiform-incised clay tablets back when I was a kid. ;)

My computer has a 120GB hard drive and 3GB of RAM. [You don't even know what that is do you?]
er...excuse me?

What speed RAM? :p

consider all yourselves SLAPPED

Ahh...tEh IntERnetZ.

Grande...

We did OK, really. It does make some things more convenient, but we managed with our cuneiform-incised clay tablets back when I was a kid. ;) How old are you? 174?

1991 for me. On a computer with Hercules graphics that would overheat when I ran Lotus 1-2-3 and need rebooting.

Wow, I'm impressed. That's...I'm just in awe.:eek:

1995 after a brief dip into BBS's.

Seriously, back in '00. Before that I'd never really gotten into it.

The first thing I ever did online (in '00, before that I'd just used it at school) was go into #1 Teen Chat. I don't think it excists anymore, but it was a thrill for me the young'un.

well then, back when I was a kid paper wasn't here, and my neighbor invented the wheel. :P

1995. I was hooked my first time and I still haven't been back since, even though it's been 10 years later.

1997

1995. I was hooked my first time and I still haven't been back since, even though it's been 10 years later. and you live how?

How old are you? 174?

Yes, but I don't look a day over 152.

Yes, but I don't look a day over 152. You have been slapped again..........

Wow, I'm impressed. That's...I'm just in awe.:eek:

I know people who were on it before that (none of them on NS as far as I know). I used to work in Silicon Valley and spoke by phone with a guy who worked for BBN Planet who was one of the first internet users (I forget his name now). Some of the people who invented the thing are still alive and kicking as far as I know. :)

consider all yourselves SLAPPED
Wow, bragging to me about your comp specs...I feel so inadequate :rolleyes:

My HDD and RAM may not be as good, but my computer's user is far superior.

About 1999. First thing I remember of the internet, was a friend telling me to search for "hardcore". Ahh, how innocent I was at the ripe age of 8.

Prodigy in 1993. Now that's old school...
haha...am I the only one who kinda misses prodigy?

I think it was around the same time for me. I remember the first e-mail and IM programs, first online games...flash, etc.

My computer has a 120GB hard drive and 3GB of RAM. [You don't even know what that is do you?]ohh baby...I can see you have Broadband too... *installing AYPARBTU Troyan in Lordareaon Comp*
ohh yesss...file share scrip installed... *wipes foam off da kisser*

Some of the people who invented the thing are still alive and kicking as far as I know.

Come on now, the Internet isn't all that old.

Anyway, I started with Prodigy in about 1994-1995. And no, I don't miss it. I do miss my 1200 baud modem that would overheat though. On second thought, no I don't.

I was at the ripe age of 8.

About 1999.

You were born in 1991? Wow, I officially feel old for the first time. And I'm only 23.

That also brought me to the unpleasant realization that there are a lot of kids out there who have never lived without the Internet. :eek:

Holy shit I got that so wrong. I counted backwards instead of forwards. Wait, in 1999.. I must have been 10. I'm 16. God. Mind blank.

1990, I paid $2000 US and got a 2400 bit modem, 2M ram (upgraded to 4M for $120 US) 500K hard drive (upgraded to 1M for $200 US). Almost all of the internet was universities. No commercial. Used a lot of local bilboards.

I think the first time I was on was in '92 Then basically from '93 on was I glued to it for the long term. Of course back then you didnt have it set up like it is today. You actually needed to know the address before you searched. No google or other search engines that I knew of.

1990, I paid $2000 US and got a 2400 bit modem, 2M ram (upgraded to 4M for $120 US) 500K hard drive (upgraded to 1M for $200 US). Almost all of the internet was universities. No commercial. Used a lot of local bilboards.

Yes, that was about it. I thought this is about stupid. Nothing good was on it for the most part. Not until about 94-95 did the web start to explode.

Yes, that was about it. I thought this is about stupid. Nothing good was on it for the most part. Not anymore...
The Internet use has exploded...literally...


Thanks God for Porn.

:D

1992. Graphics? Didn't have 'em. (Or you had to go way out of your way to see them.) Lots of text. Spam e-mail had not yet been invented (though it had already reared its ugly head on newsgroups.) Australia had only recently stopped being ".oz". The UK's domain addressing scheme was seriously screwed up. No web - gopher was the way to get information. MUDs were still cool. 9600 bps was a lightning-fast modem. AOL was not yet an internet service, but the world's largest private BBS. Star Trek jokes were more common than porn. Those were simpler times.

:p

1992. Graphics? Didn't have 'em. (Or you had to go way out of your way to see them.) Lots of text. Spam e-mail had not yet been invented (though it had already reared its ugly head on newsgroups.) Australia had only recently stopped being ".oz". The UK's domain addressing scheme was seriously screwed up. No web - gopher was the way to get information. MUDs were still cool. 9600 bps was a lightning-fast modem. AOL was not yet an internet service, but the world's largest private BBS. Star Trek jokes were more common than porn. Those were simpler times.

:p
What ever happened to that site... Oh God what was it called... like the only website hosting image files. They were like bitmap pictures of crappy gems, anyone remember...?

I"ve used the internet sporadically throughout my life, mainly for porn and e-mail, and to download program addons in the later years. I didn't start using the internet regularly until I got this computer in january 2004.

I think '92 was when I first used the internet. Started using GOPHER servers to look for porn. It was the same time I figured out what a .jpg file was and how to deal with UUencoded files.

It's amazing what you can figure out given proper motivation.:D

I would have been about 10 or 11 I think so that would have been..... 1996 or so.

hmm... 1996, my first ever Pentium PC. Now it's a file server, works great. :D

Back n' tha day, in 1947, our computer-ma-jigs took entire rooms, sonny!

Before I even went to Kindergarten.

WTF's up with the poll? Damn kids. :p

1998. What a boring year.

There was life before The Internet?

Does...not...compute...

I want to say 1993 (I think I started at age 8, which was 1993). I started with the Mosaic browser, which is essentially the model still used today in IE and Netscape (except you could not make bookmarks). Anyone else remember Mosaic?

My IP address was "7". :P

So yeah... been a long time since I first ventured onto the internet. I remember when a gray background and times new roman was a fad... because it was the only thing that you could download without waiting for five minutes. :D

First time I started seriously using the internet was in 1999. All the other times I had used it before were just things I was helping my mom with.

My IP address was "7". :P

So yeah... been a long time since I first ventured onto the internet. I remember when a gray background and times new roman was a fad... because it was the only thing that you could download without waiting for five minutes. :D
Yup, thats what most of my memories of Mosaic are like.

I want to say 1993 (I think I started at age 8, which was 1993). I started with the Mosaic browser, which is essentially the model still used today in IE and Netscape (except you could not make bookmarks). Anyone else remember Mosaic?

Oh very well. I was working in a hospital IT department and I had to figure out how to get mosaic to run on the hospital network. Only one person had it on their computer running successfully, so the solution was to copy their entire hard drive onto other computers. Ok, so that's pretty lame, but it worked.

Other early internet memories:
I remember when the demo for Diablo came out and it was 50MB, which was obscenely huge for a file at the time. I managed to download it over a 14.4 modem. Took 14 hours. It was a miracle that it stayed connected the whole time because there was no such thing as "resume file transfer" at the time.

First computer I used was late '60's early '70's. College computer that took up the whole basement of the science building. During the winter they heated two buildings with the heat coming off of the computer. Graphics? Only what could be typed on a typewriter. Amazing some of the pictures it kicked out. And punch cards--Remember punch cards. One out of order and you were done. Not to mention dropping the pile. Games were words typed out. You type in a move and the computer would type out what happened and give you next options. And "pocket" calculators were about 6"X 4"X 2" You had to have a belt holster like a gun. Only math and science people had them. If I remember right they cost about $150 US. Just Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide. The rest of us used "slide rule".

I still can't believe what I can get at the dollar store.

I want to say 1993 (I think I started at age 8, which was 1993). I started with the Mosaic browser, which is essentially the model still used today in IE and Netscape (except you could not make bookmarks). Anyone else remember Mosaic?
IIRC, Mosaic later became Netscape. but yeah, I remember Mosaic.

You were born in 1991? Wow, I officially feel old for the first time. And I'm only 23.

That also brought me to the unpleasant realization that there are a lot of kids out there who have never lived without the Internet. :eek:
you want to feel old? Talk to a class of 6th graders about 9/11...something that most people could relive in detail down to exactly where they were when they found out, and 6th graders can simply say "some men took planes and crashed them into some buildings I think". And they're only 7 years younger than me.

Weird to think that there are kids who don't remember duck hunt and mario brothers, or paperboy...or even life before IM's and instant communication with a name on the screen whom you may have never met before.

Wow, that's a creepily rounded graph...

IIRC, Mosaic later became Netscape. but yeah, I remember Mosaic.
Thanks for reminding me. Now thatI think ack, I do remember that Mosaic became Netscape. I remember my Dad coming home from work (Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC) with Netscape on a floppy. I was so excited. Memories, sweet memories...

I've had the internet since I was ten. That was in 1999. I've had a computer since I was nine. Yeah, most kids that I know can't imagain modern man before the internet or computers. Computers are everywhere now. My keychain holds 128 MB, My cell phone is a photo album, my t.v. is a video store, my fax machine is a copier, scaner and printer (Color) and you can take college classes in your p.j.s at home.

Imagain the world 10 years down the road...

Back in '98, when I didn't have a home computer--omgZ n00b!--I went to the library to access the public INTRAnet. The first few websites I visited were monsterzero.net and weirdal.com (haha, n00b iz ghey!). I didn't officially get a home internet access until early 2001. Go me.

I've had the internet since I was ten. That was in 1999. I've had a computer since I was nine. Yeah, most kids that I know can't imagain modern man before the internet or computers. Computers are everywhere now. My keychain holds 128 MB, My cell phone is a photo album, my t.v. is a video store, my fax machine is a copier, scaner and printer (Color) and you can take college classes in your p.j.s at home.

Imagain the world 10 years down the road...

All knowledge and entertainment is injected into our systems via Intravenious fluid? Sounds right to me...