The Internet?

[brownie]

Yeah just wondering when you were first introduced to the internet? And what were your first things you recall doing with the internet?

Mine was in 1996 when I set up my first email account.

[Prototype]

We used a program, I think it was called 'kermit' to talk to students in the states in Jr. High (93-95 ish). Right around the same time my brother and I had an account to a local BBS (Bulitin Board System)... something nerdy like Kittiara's Revenge or something, but it had a cool text based hockey game.

As far as what is now called the internet, it would have to be talking my dad into signing up on one of those free AOL trial periods, and not knowing that there was more to the internet than AOL's main interface.

[V]

If BBS's count, I spent hours and hours and hours playing LORD.

[Jayems]

my buddies mom worked as a prof at MRC. I remember being in her office and playing around on this green screened wonder.

[Resolute 14]

Played with it a bit in high school, but never really got onto it until we got it at home in 1997. Being an 18 year old kid at the time, I'm sure you can guess one of the big things I was looking up.

I remember the old fastball.com web forum, pretty much the first message board I posted on. I lurked on the Flames newsgroup. Loved that TSN.ca had the hockey version of QB1, and was pissed when they removed it.

[Ironhorse]

I started off on GEnie in 91, then Compuserve in 93. Smoking on a 14.4 and then a 28K modem baby! At some point I moved from Compuserve to CADVision(?) internet.

[photon]

I think through one or another of the BBS's (Nucleus maybe) that offered gateways into the Internet for some stuff, before SLIP dialup access.

But I remember using Archie, Gopher, etc...

[HotHotHeat]

My family got Cadvision when it came out. Man, the internet really sucked back then. No idea what year that would have been. 1995 maybe?

[Bobblehead]

A guy in the room next to me in residence had his computer hooked up to the internet. Pretty rudimentary at that time, but it was 1987.
I didn't get online with my own computer until 1995. A Spry account. No email. A couple years later I got a Hotmail account. I still have it - it gets absolutely hammered by spam.

[Montana Moe]

1995 when I joined the Marines as a 4066 (Small computer systems specialist).
I think I set up my hotmail account, and then jumped into the magical world of internet smut.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by brownie

Yeah just wondering when you were first introduced to the internet? And what were your first things you recall doing with the internet?

Mine was in 1996 when I set up my first email account.

Are you ever going to give us closure on the license plate theft?

[REDVAN]

I think in '96 my dad hooked us up to the internet through his work computer, and there was a "flash" game called celebrity slugfest where you could punch out OJ and all them. Was pretty cool.

Then in '97 we got a new home computer, and we got Starcraft, so then I started going nuts. In 98-99ish, I had a jr. high crush on a girl, and we basically "dated" by sending emails back and forth for an entire year. You've got mail = my life at that age.

It was a god-send when I got my own hotmail account, rather than use my family's account.

Over the years, I think we had the following ISPs:

iStar Online (name changed, iStar)- owned by someone big I thought?
AT&T Canada bought iStar
AT&T Microsoft Canada (name changed to AT&TMSN Canada), I think microsoft musta have partnered with AT&T
Microsoft Networks Canada (name changed to MSN Canada)- AT&T scrammed for some reason
Shaw Cable- we wanted more speeeeeeeeeeed!!!!!

Now running into my place we have Shaw Cable and Telus DSL.

It's amazing to look at archives, and to think how far we've come without even noticing. For those of you over 40 I can't even imagine. You had TV when you were kids, but not microwaves probably. Today's kids, 20-some years younger than me, will grow up with even more crazy stuff. I wonder what will exist in another 15-20 years??

[Eastern Girl]

I don't remember how old I was, but the first thing I did was set up an email account of my own. That was about all I did. My friends wanted me to go to messageboards and such, but I always thought they were too geeky....

Anyways, I was fairly anti-internet at the time. It takes me awhile to come around to new technology.

[Drunk Skunk]

Um, I'd ball-park it around '97 or '98. I didn't join a message board until around 2000, and it happened to be a hockey board.

Wow, I'm getting old.

[jolinar of malkshor]

I remember my first time on the net. 1994. Dial up, 2400k modem. Took about 5 mins to download a website that had several pics on it.

[Jude]

Originally Posted by V

If BBS's count, I spent hours and hours and hours playing LORD.

Legend of the Red Dragon?

I think my first real legit experience with the internet was playing on Microsofts The Zone...

[sadora]

Originally Posted by brownie

Yeah just wondering when you were first introduced to the internet? And what were your first things you recall doing with the internet?

Mine was in 1996 when I set up my first email account.

About the same time and for the same reason.

[RougeUnderoos]

1995 for me. The dreaded Cadvision. I remember having to download naked pictures of Jenny McCarthy onto a disk for viewing. I hadn't honed my skills yet, so I printed them for off-computer use. "What happened to all the ink in the printer?!"

[Drunk Skunk]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

1995 for me. The dreaded Cadvision. I remember having to download naked pictures of Jenny McCarthy onto a disk for viewing. I hadn't honed my skills yet, so I printed them for off-computer use. "What happened to all the ink in the printer?!"

I remember those days. My sister found the folder I kept what I suspect to be the very same pictures in.

[Ice]

1996, dial up, AOL. Even though it was slow, the pages didn't have as much content so I don't remmber the speed being unbearable. Although, I'm sure by today's standards it definitely was.

I primarily used it for email, but AOL had these "buttons" that took you to different sites. One of them was labeled "shopping" and I had fun with that one. The first thing I ever bought online was a VHS movie....VHS, hahaha.