How long have you been on the internet?

I remember playing on some form of the internet in the early 80's. A computer science major friend of mine let me come into his computer lab in college. I can remember playing some type of Star Trek type game with nothing but numbers and stuff. Kids today have no idea.

 

I was 16 decades ago.

 

well it was because we ran out of numbers, but I was trying to be "ahead" of everybody else

 

And you were allow into the defense deparment's computer network when you were 16??

 

I used my uncle's Compuserve account around '93/'94 some, and my friend had Prodigy around the same time, but I really didn't start using the World Wide Web in earnest until the fall of '96 when I went to college.

And yeah, that's when Clutch created/I found Clutch City '96.

Those were good times.

 

I don't think my family got internet until '98 or '99.

 

Around 1996 at high school.

 

I remeber using the internet around 95' to 96'. I remeber I used to print pictures of nude girls on the internet and sell them in middle school for like $3-$5 a picture. I used to make so much damn money!!! lol

 

Hard to say. I remember being on the internet as early as 1997. This was during the good ol' days of Hal-PC and AOL Dialup.

I remember I was so pissed when my dad wanted to get rid of AOL because I thought I'd lose all those cool windows that AOL had to greet me everytime I logged on. It was so weird going from AOL which seemed like it's own little world with personalized chat rooms, sports windows, entertainment windows etc to the "regular" internet. Little did I realize those windows meant exactly nothing and that you could get the exact same thing from other internet services.

 

1993?

Definitely AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy before that probably around 1991?

And vaguely some bulletin board stuff before that.. but not much.

 

BAUD rates baby!!!! If you don't know about that then hell you don't know where it all began I use to connect my 386 with my friends IBM Ps/2 and transfer files at 800-9600 Baud LOL , connect to BBS's oh man was that the life.. Then came GUI interfaces that were nice ... I hate AOL like mad but really they had one of the nicest earlier gui interfaces.. But I like prodigy the most because of speed...

Brower used Netscape with Webcrawler as the search engine.. I remember I use to hook up to Kali Servers for Warcraft games bwhahaha

 

16 decades ago? 16 x 1 Decade ( 10 years ) = 160 years?

Damn fool you are old!!!!!

 

I was on Compuserve and AOL in 1992/93. I stayed on AOL until 1995 when I upgraded from my Mac Classic and got a local ISP and got on the WWW.

 

around early 95

first thing i did with it?

look up pictures of pam anderson

 

I remember telling this to SO MANY people until I was blue in the face, but no one seemed to believe me.

Oh well.

At least most of the world has come around by now.

 

9 years, summer of 98.

 

I remember my Dad experimenting with TCP/IP protocols with ARPANET. He was a department chair at a university that will remain unnamed, and did consulting for DEC, HP, and Honeywell on the side. This was in the late '70's/early '80's. Frankly, I had a hell of a time understanding just what he was doing. I've never been a software guy, and reams of numbers, no matter how excited he was, left me bewildered. I could understand the potential, of course, being a SciFi buff, and thought that it was cool that he was communicating with people at other universities, but I can't say I really understood exactly what he was doing. Sadly, he passed away right when it was really taking off. He'd be having the time of his life today, to say the least.

 

You might want to rephrase your question...

You must have a PhD in Math . ..

 

Same (of course, since WildSweet&Cool is my brother). When he upgraded, I got his leftover parts. By the way, I still have the Apple II GS in storage somewhere.