Introduction to the Internet

[urgeok2]

i was on the internet from almost the beginning.
we had college students doing temp work with us - they had access to their school accounts .. it was all command line - i couldnt make heads or tails out of it - all i knew was they were downloading porn and i wanted in !

soon after it was being offered by companies who provided a gui regular folks could actually use.

i remember the old days of, MIRC ... the chat groups where people tried to get laid but didnt fight. its probably the reverse now - or at least 50/50

i've had my nick since the 1st time i joined.

[bloody_ribcut]

first time i was introduced to the world wide web was in high school, i took a computer class and instead of learning how to fix viruses and what not the teacher let us do what ever we wanted which was surf the internet....since then i went through computers here and there with aol trials, till today where im paying out the nose for it.

[ferretchucker]

My Dad owns his own business and so as far back as I can remember we've had a computer. I used to just play games on it. His really old one had a very old Prince of Persia game on it. Then, eventually he set up an email account for me so I could talk to my family around the world. As time went by I just discovered more on it.

[newb]

I've been on since day 1. My buddy Al and myself invented the internet.



ya know.......for porn

[DeVuL]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

all i knew was they were downloading porn and i wanted in !

Why am I not surprised?? lol

[DeVuL]

Originally Posted by bloody_ribcut

since then i went through computers here and there with aol trials, till today where im paying out the nose for it.

AOL are corporate pirates!! They scare me! I feel dirty just from talking about them!

[VampiricClown]

I've always had computers. So I grew up around them. I think I've been using it constantly since 1996-1997? Could be wrong...Pretty sure though.

[Marroe]

Got a PC for my 15th birthday...it came with free "Hours of AOL"

[ManchestrMorgue]

Sort of like NE, I started out on BBS's. Local ones in the mid-80's. I remember getting my first 2400 baud modem - cost about $1000!

Then some local boards got Fidonet. I remember to this day how amazing I thought that was - to be able to type a post and have it sent around the world that night, and get an answer back from the US or Europe etc the next day.

I got a look at the WWW in the 90's whilst at university, but got a taste of usenet in the very early 90's. As you can imagine, things have changed considerably. :)

[stubbornforgey]

I was invited to try out this new thing called the internet..
had no clue what i was doing.
My 1st chat experience was in IRC where i got to meet all these fantastic people.
I was in awe that I could talk to them from all over the world.
Got opped in many rooms and then things started getting too personal so left that.
Then I found other things that fascinated me..like gaming etc.
I never really got into yahoo or msn until a couple of years ago, then
eventually myspace..recently..but that place is starting to irritate me too.

Your right..the internet can get boring.
I wouldn't say that I have a lack of imagination 'so to speak'
Sitting online and browsing gets a bit monotonous ..
True there are thousands upon thousands of sites you can visit etc..but
as of late ..em preferring real human contact again.