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In what year did you hook up to the Internet?
#26940235 - 09/17/20 07:29 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dabbled with a C64 in the early 80s, wrote some simplistic programs in BASIC as a kid, skipped the 90s but actually got connected to the Internet on my own computer in the year 2000.
When did your digital journey begin?
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940241 - 09/17/20 07:36 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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1997, my freshman year of college. I recall having to physically go to building to register for my school-based email account. As in, it was optional and you didn't really need it.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940246 - 09/17/20 07:38 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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2000 i believe. I actually had a computer with internet before i got my first cell phone in '02. Reluctant to give into those newfangled smart phones, i did not get me one ov those until '14!
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: badchad]
#26940258 - 09/17/20 07:44 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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1999, my parents got a computer with a modem and I initially was using one of those free internet services with the ad banner. NetZero I think. A few months later we got 1 Mbps DSL. At school I would have used the internet first in something like 1996.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940263 - 09/17/20 07:47 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Late 80's for me.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: mndfreeze]
#26940282 - 09/17/20 08:01 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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BBS?
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante] 2
#26940302 - 09/17/20 08:20 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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1992 I used pine as a freshmen in college to email friends at other schools By the time I graduated college in 1997 I had geocities a site with my resume published as a web page which pretty much got me hired at my first job. My first home connection to the internet was 1998 with a gateway pc and aol dialup.

I had a vic20, commodore 64 and a few others growing up but those were unconnected. I used to be mad as a kid that mom got us the vic20 and c64 instead of the atari we wanted, in hindsight I am thankful she did.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26940307 - 09/17/20 08:24 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26940337 - 09/17/20 08:40 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Sugabearcrisp said: My first home connection to the internet was 1998 with a gateway pc and aol dialup.
Pretty much this.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940497 - 09/17/20 10:48 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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E tower 500 back in 1997-98. I still have the same email from many years ago from my 1st hotmail account.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26940516 - 09/17/20 10:58 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I got on a couple BBSs sometime around 92, with a Commodore. There were ascii/petscii issues, but it worked, more or less.
I had a roommate who I think had real internet in 93. I think I used someone's earthlink account between 94 and 96 in 97 I moved back in with my parents and they had a local isp.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante] 1
#26940535 - 09/17/20 11:16 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Asante said: BBS?
Yesh. BBS -> unix shells with gopher and IRC -> SLIP/PPP accounts with the web as we know it -> etc -> etc -> We are here
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#26940541 - 09/17/20 11:19 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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i guess it depends on what you would consider the "internet". If BBS counts, then like 88-89 for me. Pops was a fairly large hardware / software reviewer and we were some of the first people to hop onto AOL (anyone remember the mosaic web browswer) and the GE service GEnie. It probably wasnt until like 91-92 that we had a dial in ISP to use for internet though.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940597 - 09/17/20 12:07 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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AOL dial-up, i think 1998 or 1999. my mom refused to buy an account because she thought the internet was unsafe so i used every promotional AOL cd I could get my hands on until I made a GUEST account on one of her friends AOL and I was able to use that for free as long as she wasnt logged on, which was almost never.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: mndfreeze]
#26940602 - 09/17/20 12:11 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: gopher]
#26940627 - 09/17/20 12:26 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hook up the internet every day just by gracing it with my presence.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: coda]
#26940679 - 09/17/20 12:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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A friend of mine still has aol I think,I know he has a juno email still active that he uses for his main email.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26940686 - 09/17/20 01:04 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was born into the era of AOL.
First memories are Win 95.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: pirate-blues]
#26940698 - 09/17/20 01:16 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think it was in 94-95. I had to get 1+ dialing to another city to hook up to WorldLynks since there was no internet access in my small town back then.
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#26940734 - 09/17/20 01:35 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I do not remember what systems were in use prior to windows 95 I was still on dial up in `02 when i found the shroomery and got picked on pretty bad in OTD for still using dial up
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