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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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And you call yourself a nerd? :smirk:


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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1989? Back then the Internet was only available to universities, government institutions, companies involved in research, and network providers. But if you're counting all multi-user networks, then my start date would be 1987 when I joined QuantumLink, many years before they changed their name to AOL and joined the Internet. I was 11 or 12 at the time. Since then the computer has been my social outlet.

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: nookjohn]
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nookjohn said:
QuantumLink, many years before they changed their name to AOL and joined the Internet. 


That's the one. :smirk:  Cause I remember all of a sudden our provider switched to being AOL.

I just very definitely remember being on GEnie (if you don't count that as the internet, well, I dunno) in 89-90.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Whew has it really been 8 years since I got on this thing.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: sublime40oz]
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damn yeah i think its been like 8 years for me.. since i was like 10 years old.. when my mom brought home a computer i thought it was the neatest thing ever


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: nookjohn]
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nookjohn said:
1989? Back then the Internet was only available to universities, government institutions, companies involved in research, and network providers. But if you're counting all multi-user networks, then my start date would be 1987 when I joined QuantumLink, many years before they changed their name to AOL and joined the Internet. I was 11 or 12 at the time. Since then the computer has been my social outlet.


http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/essay/diff.html

Search for "1989" in that essay and keep going to next, eventually you'll hit passages about how the internet was commercially available in 1989, and the World Wide Web became available in 1990.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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yeah AOL was the first inet service i ever used and used it up until about 4 months ago.. its such a piece of shit service.. im soo glad i moved to yahoo's dsl.. great speed!


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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I started getting on the internet back around 1996 when I was a junior in high school. I went to a very small school, but we got a fairly large technological grant from somewhere or another, so we were blessed with a state of the art computer lab complete with a T-1 line.

I mostly fucked around in this ichat chat room called Open24 when things got slow during Mass Media class. During my senior year, I was editor of the yearbook so I was allowed to take the class laptop home with me on the weekends. My uncle had a dialup account so he let me use it to dialup to the only local ISP.

After I graduated, I used my uncle's computer sporadically, and then when I went off to college in the fall of 97 I took some of the extra money I had and bought a computer. It was a packard bell with a 233mhz pentium/w mmx and 64 whole mb of ram. And a 2 gig hard drive! LOLZERZ! I was totally clueless. :smirk: I spent my time reading Mr. T Ate My Balls and other similarly pointless websites and downloading mp3's on UnderNet.

Then I discovered the computer game, The Sims. WOW, did I get addicted to that game, and I was glued to my computer for the next couple years. Then I found this place, and well, now I'm telling this story, and now its over. Whew! I didn't intend to go through all that, but once I got started I just couldn't stop. Sorry about the lame ending! :grin:

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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89 for me. BBS's and shell accouns on CRIS.COM.

EFnet had only a few thousand people at most.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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In High School I had an Apple IIe. Learned to work comfortably in Basic and Pascal. Abot the time the first Macintosh hit the scene (1984?) I was losing interest and I sold my Apple IIe in 85 or 86.

I didn't touch a computer again until 1996 when I bought a new IBM Aptiva. Paid $2000 for a system with a Pentium 110, 8 megs of ram, a 1 gig hard drive, and a 14.4kbps modem. Spent the next year teaching myself the ins and outs of computers all over again. Learned to work comfortably in DOS and build/rebuild my own systems. That was the year I first got on the internet.


....so the short answer is...about 9 years.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: ToTheSummit]
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I remember playing the game "Tribes" on my dial-up account, back in '98. I would play that game for literally 12 hours at a time in the summer.

One of my favorite online games ever.


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he told me about the true meaning of life...
then he gave me a pretzel..."

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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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well...considering Rocketmail got bought out by Yahoo! back in '97 - I *had to* have been online since before then (couldn't tell ya the exact year...but it's been at least a decade now, anyways)


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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I remember when I was way young and Wow! just came out, or at least in our area, and we switched over to that, I used to love it, it was so cool. Then they left :frown:, that's my first real recollection of using the internet but I remember we had it before then.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: Muppet]
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Wow talk about old bumps :smirk:


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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Actually, I voted 6-9 years, but that's wrong, I know I used the internet before StarCraft came out and I also remember trying to play WarCraft 2 with my friends online, but we were too young and stupid to figure out how to do it.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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yeah...I stumbled upon it searching for something else, and I thought it seemed like an interresting enough topic fora 'round two'  :wink:


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: Muppet]
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wow...I just realized just how old this thread really is  :lol:


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: trendal]
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My earliest memories of the internet are from when I was about 12. So it's been about 12 years for me.


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: Muppet]
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I hate when I post in old ass threads, I never read the dates because I just assume they're recent. Damn you, Muppet!


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Re: How long have you been on the Internet? [Re: jewunit]
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:razz:


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