d123 3 #1 August 2, 2007 Geeky stuff but still ... Post your First Internet Experience. When, What Machine, What Ocasion, What Browser, What Connection Type and what did you think about it. Mine: 1994 on a Amd 386 DX 40Mhz with Windows 3.1 and Netscape 4 over a 2400 BPS MODEM. It was slower than anything you would imagine now but for me was like wow it's going so fast. Previusly I've been on BBS & FIDONet. FIDONet was an international network but it could take weeks for a message to go to Finland for instance.Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cornholio 0 #2 August 2, 2007 I had an IBM XT, Ti TRS80 and Apple ][ before the 286, but they weren't online. I took a break for a year or three then got my 286 that my Dad helped me put together. 1200baud USR internal modem. I used to be a sysop of a well known porn distro bbs site. I also used to co-sysop some other BBS, both running Wildcat. Remember waiting like 5 minutes to download one GIF file? Then you had to de-cocde it in order to view it. Boy, what we went through back then just for porn. Kids these days take their 1.5Mb DSL connection for granted. When Wolfenstein and Doom came out....oh boy, I didn't get any sleep for days as I played it with my bbs friends. Windows? LOL.. DOS all the way baby... I was quite upset every time MS used to disable some feature in DOS for windows compatibility. I think I remember paying like 400 bucks for 8 or 16MB of RAM for those early computers. Looking back on it, knowing what I know now - I wish I would have stayed in the porn business... Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast! Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool! bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinkfairy 0 #3 August 2, 2007 I think it was 97 or 98. My daddy's office at university. University of Oslo happens to have the NIX, the norwegian gateway to the internet, so it was pretty fast. First at home, was a phone line, though. Lots of time for walking around the room and finding a book to read.Relax, you can die if you mess up, but it will probably not be by bullet. I'm a BIG, TOUGH BIGWAY FORMATION SKYDIVER! What are you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #4 August 2, 2007 Early 80's... maybe 81 or so? A buddy with a TRS-80, tape loader and an acoustically coupled modem connecting to Compuserve for airline flight info via SABRE...Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Low-Mao 0 #5 August 2, 2007 It was in 95...Not sure on the specs but it took about 10-20 minutes to dial into AOL depending on how many times the phone rang. I finally got connected and had blast. AOL froze the account a couple days latter because of inapropriate conduct..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GaryRay 0 #6 August 2, 2007 no idea what year but it was a hewlett packard. some slow ass processor and a 14.4kbs connection on windows 3.1 with AOL (no aol no more) then started playing Tribes, and then i found the porn file on my brothers computer and my life has changed since then.JewBag. www.jewbag.wordpress.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #7 August 2, 2007 95 ..486 SX25, logged into the University server on a 14.4k modem, windows 3.1 i could turn on the compter, go have a shower, make some coffee and sit down before boot up had finished. it had 4MB or RAM You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 1 #8 August 2, 2007 I had a TSR 80 with a 300 baud modem and compuserve. I ran a WWIV BBS off of an 8088. First actual Internet expetience was telnet (before Mosiac came out) in college. I still remember buying my 64K memory upgrade to the TSR 80 and when I got s disk drive for it (8.5") and did not have to load from cassette tape any more. Mark Klingelhoefer Mark Klingelhoefer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JENNR8R 0 #9 August 2, 2007 Geesh... you guys are geeky. I remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot, but not the first time I was on the internet. Guess that says something about my age, huh? What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy ones? -- Monday. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maxx 1 #10 August 2, 2007 YO! BBS was not the internet First real "internet" experience was at school.. 1996, 486, 33 Mhz, Windows 3.1, Netscape Browser, 14.4K external US Robotics Modem (connected via COM2) Connected through Compuserve and went straight to a chat room.. That Christmas I got a modem for home, it was a f**king fast 33,6 US Robotics (which I tried later to upgrade to 56k, but it crashed during the flash-process and was broken ) Still got the telephone bill my parents paid for January 1997: 380 Deutschmark (approx. 200$) Since then I was addicted.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #11 August 2, 2007 I had a Commodore 64, Started with 300 baud Modem on "Q-Link" in 1987 (Later became AOL). Hated it right away and went back to the BBS`s. Then I moved up to a BLAZING 1200 Baud Modem and started my own C-64 BBS. A Year later I moved to a 2400 Baud Modem and Splurged on a Lt. Cornel 10mb HD to replace the 4 1541 Floppy Drives I had running the BBS. First IBM Clone I had was an XT (8088 running at 4.77mhz) with Dual Floppies, 640K memory, CGA Card and 2400 baud external Modem. Still Playing mostly on the BBS`s at that time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #12 August 2, 2007 QuoteFirst IBM Clone I had was an XT (8088 running at 4.77mhz) with Dual Floppies, 640K memory, CGA Card and 2400 baud external Modem. Don't forget that "Turbo" Button!!! Sounds a lot like my first computer...a Heathkit 8088.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d123 3 #13 August 2, 2007 You guys are a bunch of geeks Luckily some of you have the free-fly/small canopy thing working for you otherwise ... you'll be just plain geeks... My 1st computer was ZX Spectrum 3.5 MHz 64KB. 2nd IBM XT 8-12 Mhz with CGA display ... I've played Prince of Persia on bouth of themYou know you are a geek if fprot and ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos means something to you Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #14 August 2, 2007 Actually my First Computer was a (Timex Sinclair) TS-1000. With 16KB RAM Pack and a Old Tape recorder to record your programs.. I still have that one but never did get a modem working with it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #15 August 2, 2007 I'm pretty sure I remember that one.... Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 800 #16 August 2, 2007 1984, Prime Data Systems (acquired by Motorola Computer Group) main frame, acoustic coupler connected to hospital data systems. 300 baud, green screen, 300 meg hard drives, vacuum channel tape drives, teletypes, even a few hydraulic hard drives still around! boring! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #17 August 2, 2007 I had a Mac SE/30 and first signed online using Prodigy. I'd have to say it was probably 1992. I still have the Mac SE/30 up in the attic. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaH 0 #18 August 3, 2007 WebTV. Be yourself! MooOOooOoo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
