What memories. I didn't really pay much attention to the internet till about 1993 or 94 when I came back from England and noticed web pages for the first time.

Before that it was years of BBSing. Usually Amiga boards (cnet). I miss those online games. LOL

I spent a lot of time on fidonet, and some others. Damn! I had so much porn!

 

in my book, direct dial BBSes don't count as the internet.

 

first computer modem based network/ bbs...
was when i was in middle school in korea... called "ketel."
text only, mad slow, with 1200 baud modem.

first internet- internet as in internet with pics like what the most people think is internet?
8 th grade- with 56 k modem.
first site? porn, of course.
muahahahahahaha.

 

Ditto! Man are we old.

 

I believe my first time was around 1995. Had a 486 with a 14.4 Modem and a whopping 4MB of RAM and 150MB hard drive. My parents would not agree to let me have the internet because they said it was all porn (which is what I was looking for, hehe) and I didn't have a credit card, so I had to find other ways to get online. Friday nights when I would get home from the football game or whatever I was up to that night, I would load up this excellent little program called Credit Master IV. This proggie let you generate credit card numbers that followed the algorithms for pretty much any kind of card and from any bank. Once I had a new CC number I would use it to create an account on Compuserve and would then proceed to the newsgroups to get images. The account would only last for a few days until they actually tried to bill the card and then realized it was fake. But then all I had to do was create another account... Ahh, I still get nostalgic when I see those old images still on that old 486. I remember it used to take 40+ minutes to download a single image on that old modem. Dang, sure makes me appreciate the speeds I get on this T1.

 

internet doesn't necessarily mean the web, but definately not a local bbs. If you know what SL/IP is you remember the feeling of the web being an evil replacement for gopher. If you know DARPA then you remember punchcards. If you know ARPA then you were around when JFK was alive.

 

90 or 91...can't really remember. Still remember when Pine e-mail and Mosaic text browser weren't just traditionalist options...they were pretty much IT!

I knew about DARPA from my dad (he is retired military), but I didn't start using computers until college. Still can't decide if it was the best or worst thing to happen to my life...

 

1989 prodigy on 1200 modem.. on a 8088 packard bell piece of crap. With a turbo button to boost the speed to 9 MHZ. Spent 200 to upgrade my modem to external 2400 baud. Started dialing up BBS's and discovered the world of porn! isn't life grand. Technology at it's best...
1994 spent 40 bucks a month to have a slip line in my college dorm. They didn't have ethernet connections yet...

 

My first experience with the Internet was at the beginning of my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon. It was fall of '92. I guess you could say I was spoiled - I was used to 10mb ethernet and 4mb token ring. Not that we did much on the 'net - we had fun trading Mac programs over the Appletalk network. Just about everything you could imagine was available.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by brantshali
[B]90 or 91...can't really remember.