Wow! I loved that piece of crap. Ya know.. I was thinking about finding an old Commodore Vic 20, sneaking it into my company's server, room, and putting it into one of the server racks (not cabling it up, though), then putting a post-it note on it saying "Primary Exchange Server" or something like that. I bet our infrastructure guys would get a kick out of it.
Do you mean you have been using the internet since the 70's? That time it was only available to defense department and some research labs at some universities.
back in the early 80's, i started connecting at 300 baud to BBSs in houston. i actually ran my own for a while for Atari 8-bit...Syrinx BBS...713-479-0165...don't look for it now after college, i started working at NASA in 1994 where i first connected to the internet on a Mac using NCSA Mosaic. anyone remember any popular old-style BBS's in houston? i can remember visiting The Mines of Moria, The Bit Bucket and The Vault. those are the only ones that come to mind. holy crap, remember sysops? wow...memories. anyone remember their old bbs handle? i was the Red Priest, which i got from a conan novel.
I'd guess my first real email account and internet access happened in '93. All through VMS and HP/UX logins at SHSU. But I was bbs'ing since about 1984. On an old monochrome IBM XT, and later an Amiga. My current email address is about 13 years old now.
89, unix account, I also ran a bbs Truth or Die! I remember those bbs, what was the bbs with the list of all the bbses? Oh yes The Atomic Cafe The original James Bond (ex-iCE,ex-CiA,ex-Rzr911,ex-ACiD) awww I missed those days (not the 2400 baud) although I did have a dumb terminal at 300 haha Long live ANSi
Probably been on line since 95 or 96 when i first went to college. Found clutchfans back then and read it everyday, didn't know about the forum until much later though
In '95 I had a summer job working for a defense contractor and I remember that the Internet had just become pretty popular and was now available to regular people after only being available to a select few. Then in '97 when I was in grad school, I remember getting on the Chronicle's bulletin board and posting there. I don't know why I didn't find the BBS back then but I do remember posting a lot on that Chronicle one. I can't even remember what name I used (it definitely wasn't "Manny Ramirez"), but I do remember this one clown who liked the Sonics called "mikmar". Boy, did he have to eat a gigantic heaping of crow after the Rockets beat the Sonics that year in the playoffs.
ehh most likely 98 or 97, depends on when we got our first computer. I really don't remember my life much before then but can't imagine my life without the internet.
The first time I got internet at home, I had AOL 2.5 on a floppy disk. That was back when all AOL screen names had to be 10 characters or less. For all you youngsters out there, this is what a floppy disk was: I couldn't begin to count up how many hours I spent in AOL chat rooms back in the day...
I don't remember when, but it was an early AOL when they charged by the hour (that is after going through a promotional disc or two or ten).
I'd say around 1995/96 or so, maybe even sooner. I remember the first couple times I hooked up over the internet with my friend for games of Doom and Rise of the Triad. I had died and gone to heaven.
^^^ But if it's double-sided, why isn't there a write-protect notch on the left side of the disk? (Or was it used on drives with 2 read heads?) To answer the question, the first time I was on the Internet was my freshman year of college, 1989 -- email and newsgroups through dial-up. In 1990, my dorm room had an Ethernet port (how's *that* for forward-looking?), but my poor little Apple IIc couldn't do anything with it.
56K used to be amazing.. I had 6400 kbps. I've been on since 93. I used Promenade and Prodigy then later on used MSN then AOL then Time Warner and now commiecast
