When did you start using the net?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-01-25 05:19am

I found my first use of ther internet at The Ultima Dragons

http://www.udic.org/members/grostera.html

August 17, 1995

So when did you start using the net?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-25 05:25am

The Stars are right my children, the time for the true horror is to be released.

Back when My Mom couldn't find a baby sitter for me while she was doing all of her leftist political doings, getting her doctorate in Agroculture/Genetics, I had a network account at Humbolt State University....

I was challenging students from all over the university at networked games, usually the ones that were based on Star Trek, or tales of knights and fantastic beasts. I was involved in BBS games where you would log into another computer from the Uni's network from the beginning.

Yup my internet access predates the internet.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-01-25 05:26am

Mmmm .... 1995.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-25 05:27am

I know what is and had to deal with "Time Sharing"

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-01-25 05:28am

A gold old 2400 baud modem download nude pictures of Jenny McCarthy off of America Online back in the summer of 95.

In the time it took me to get one tit back then I can now get the entire collection of Jenna Jameson's finest movies plus order some vaseline from an online store.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-25 05:30am

I first started net usage in early 1996

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-01-25 05:40am

Hmm...1996 maybe.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-25 05:43am

´94 or ´95 i started usiing it for real. before that i sometimes was able to do stuff in the net on my cousins 18k modem. there wasnt even a real browser available. you had to press 1 or 2 or 3 to get somewhere. it was crap. my dad´s even got óne of those old akkustik koppler (dont know english word), this device whick is designed to hold a telephone and turns acoustic signals into digital signals.

MAHOK!

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-01-25 05:57am

Salm, teletype?

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-25 07:03am

My first taste of the internet was in 1995 at my dad's work. I was 11 years old.

In 1996 we got AOL on a 28.8 modem.
In 2000 I upgraded to 56K.
In 2001 I got cable internet through AT&T.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-25 08:00am

Oh for those of you who didn't get my timeframe:

1976- I had Network Acess on the Humbolt State Uni. Unix mainframe.
1980- I had the Analog to Digital (Physically attach the phone to the Modem thingy)
1982- Playied a lot of Network Games (Usually Space Trade or Risk sims)
1985- Discovered Anime Porn, Downloaded a LOT of it
1990- Learned AS400, worked the Business end of the Internet
1992- hanging out at the largest Sci-Fi forums in the central valley, finnally met Tim Wiessman of "Planets VGA" infamy, got Whole Earth Network Acess.

Yup my internet adventures predate the Internet.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-01-25 08:53am

Lets see.

Limited exposure to the net pre-86 (when I was about 3).

Really got into it in around 93 or so.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-25 10:42am

1995 or 1996.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-01-25 10:48am

Probably around 90-91.

Basically wandering playing a couple MUSH/MUDs and what not.

Not nearly as way back as Colin over there.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-01-25 11:40am

I hate to say this, but I was using a 2800 baud up to 1998, when we upgraded to 56k. I really didn't use it that much, but I had an account on my Mother's University VAX(I'm the son of two different social sciences professors) and really that was for the odd email I would get.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-01-25 12:05pm

Umm.... 98, I think

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-01-25 12:11pm

Since october 2000 when we bought this IBM computer, the first IP we had was AT&T but since they charged too much for it we told them to shove a broomstick up their ass.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-25 12:17pm

Dalton wrote:Salm, teletype?

i dont know. What´s teletype?

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-01-25 12:32pm

My first experience with a modem and talking with someone else over a modem connection was in 1993. My first time on the internet was 1995 IIRC. I was introduced in a computer class and I thought it was pretty cool. Then in early 1997 we got the Internet at home and used a 33.6, though we had an older computer with a 14.4 that I used from time to time. I soon started playing the original Team Fortress and C&C Red Alert online. I was also using ICQ before mid 1997. Got my first 56k modem in the summer of 98. Then we switched to DSL in 2000.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-01-25 12:42pm

Hmm. From 1991 on, me and my dad would spend lots of time on dial-up BBSes primarily downloading cool shareware games (including Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein in their original incarnations). We tried Prodigy once or twice, too, but didn't get regular internet use until September '95. The first page I ever visited on the web was The Unofficial SquareSoft Homepage, which I'm sure a lot of you older Square fans will be familiar with.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-01-25 12:56pm

We had Prodigy for DOS for awhile, not too useful, especially over a 2400 baud modem.

We later got a true internet connection over a 14.4 SLIP link (none of this newfangled PPP) using NCSA Mosiac.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-01-25 02:09pm

I startd using it in 1996, which was around the time when my family got a computer. From then, until very recently, my acess was limited because of annoying internet filters.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-25 02:13pm

Let me see...it'd have been about '97 before I got it at home...hijacked the school computer anychance I got before that.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-25 02:14pm

I bought my 1st PC in 1996 with money i got from an endowment policy. 2 years later NTL decided to intriduce NTL World and make it free. All i had to do was buy a new phone line beside my comp. Last year they decided they had to charge for the 56k service and so for a few pound more than the service was gonna cost i got a 128k Broadband connection. To day i upgraded to a 512k connection <homer> WOOHOO </homer>

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-01-25 02:19pm

Late 1996 for home, had been using the Net since around '94 I think though at school.