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Sugabearcrisp
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I remember playing tom clancy's hunt for red october on a DOS based machine we had. About as visually exciting/stimulating as an actual sub battle but the suspense could be pretty real hunting boomers.

But in monochrome
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940783 - 09/17/20 02:08 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I know I had the internet in 1997, might have had it as soon as 1996 though I can't remember
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26940814 - 09/17/20 02:28 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sugabearcrisp said: I remember playing tom clancy's hunt for red october on a DOS based machine we had. About as visually exciting/stimulating as an actual sub battle but the suspense could be pretty real hunting boomers.

But in monochrome
Haha coolio
I had first dial up 56k on year 150 quid contract with Easynet in 97 + 1 pence a minute on top of that
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26940820 - 09/17/20 02:32 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Asante said: 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?
1993 or so on a Mac II, i believe
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Tulipslave]
#26940837 - 09/17/20 02:46 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I had an original mac with matching printer and the set up. I threw it away in a move.   I didn't know it would become a collectors item. Did the same with an atari 500 game.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: tyrannicalrex] 1
#26940870 - 09/17/20 02:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I worked for an ISP in 99, free netz!
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: gopher]
#26941250 - 09/17/20 07:51 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Aww, Firefox doesn't support gopher:// out of the box anymore. Sad day.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Asante]
#26941261 - 09/17/20 07:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Asante said:
I know unisys and ibm cobol
Ws-witfaw anyone?
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26941265 - 09/17/20 08:06 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Around 2002 I'd say.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: SonicTitan] 1
#26941421 - 09/17/20 09:48 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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1998. There's two things I remember most about my first days connecting via dial up:
1. Napster. Being able to download music!!!!! 2. Porn. Does anyone remember trying to jack off to pictures that loaded line by line?!?
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26941460 - 09/17/20 10:12 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Does anyone remember Hotline? I used to have a Hotline server for movies and TV shows.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#26941683 - 09/18/20 04:20 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: 2. Porn. Does anyone remember trying to jack off to pictures that loaded line by line?!?
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
#26941703 - 09/18/20 05:02 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I believe it was around 1992. We had Prodigy. For the younger crowd, Prodigy was a bit like AOL before AOL dominated the internet. Me and a friend thought we were talking with other young teens (female). In hindsight, they were probably other guys.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26941737 - 09/18/20 05:35 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said:... 2. Porn. Does anyone remember trying to jack off to pictures that loaded line by line?!?
Still better than trying to wank it to the scrambled cable pr0n channel
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26941799 - 09/18/20 06:29 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sugabearcrisp said:
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Jokeshopbeard said:... 2. Porn. Does anyone remember trying to jack off to pictures that loaded line by line?!?
Still better than trying to wank it to the scrambled cable pr0n channel

Oh man I remember doing that. I would flip the channel back and forth as fast as I could to get that half second view.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Urinal Grease]
#26941810 - 09/18/20 06:36 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Urinal Grease said:
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Sugabearcrisp said: My first home connection to the internet was 1998 with a gateway pc and aol dialup.
Pretty much this.
Lol this.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: bodhisatta]
#26941815 - 09/18/20 06:39 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Even if y'all oldtime computer nerds don't like the song, so many of the samples in it are a feast of recognition.
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: Sugabearcrisp]
#26941857 - 09/18/20 07:18 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sugabearcrisp said:
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Jokeshopbeard said:... 2. Porn. Does anyone remember trying to jack off to pictures that loaded line by line?!?
Still better than trying to wank it to the scrambled cable pr0n channel

On our old TV that had a knob you turned my brother and I would turn it really slow and it would lock the signal in and we had sound too! It was just a little bit snowy but we could watch it. It was called "On TV". We'd wedge a piece of paper in the knob there and it worked like a charm. I remember seeing this porn and one of the pick up lines the guy said was , "why don't we go back to my place, I have the whole Pink Floyd collection on reel to reel".
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: tyrannicalrex] 1
#26941865 - 09/18/20 07:25 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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for like 12 months, maybe in like 2005 or something, we had this illegal TV box where we got like every American channel even porn ones,and I think PPV too, they would scramble it every few months but you just had to go on this forum for the illegal box and download a code onto a usb and stick it into the cable box and it would work again, but one day the forum was never updated with the new code and we had to go back to legal cable, it was awesome while it lasted though
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Re: In what year did you hook up to the Internet? [Re: gopher]
#26941867 - 09/18/20 07:27 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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1997 with a company called TheQ
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