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Posted: 2/24/2006 6:02:19 PM EDT

[#1]

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Around 1990 with USENET (us Army at V Corps headquarters).
Then again in '92 while getting my MBA at Michigan State University.
Used dial up internet with the old Compu-something from 1994 to 1996.
Dial-up until I got Cable Internet in 1999.

compuserve. one of the best providers ever. had great forums and news groups. competed with aol but aol couldna hold a candle. a deal gave the network to uunet (i think) and the accounts to aol. a sad day.

shows you what can happen to a great company if they dont watch their topknot...

That was it! Thanks.
First owned by H&R Block and then Sears.
Then dumped.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:04:12 PM EDT

[#2]

Spring '99

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:06:41 PM EDT

[#3]

I remember when I had to use Trumpet Winsock and used SLIP to get on the net with WIndows 3.1.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:14:15 PM EDT

[#4]

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I was on the "Internet" before there were Browsers...back in the day of ArpaNet and BitNet.
Took a long Hiatus, came back and wham there were "Browsers"! That was a shock!

Everything was Graphical.

Oh yeah...it was 1984-1988 then 1994-Present

Yeah, I had CompuServe and then this weird new idea called a browser showed up. I think is as call Spry-Mosaic or something like that.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:16:44 PM EDT

[#5]

It depends on what you mean by "internet". Back in 1990 they had FTP & usenet but that was about it. Then there were community "intranets" that had no real connection to each other like Compuserve & prodigy & america online. Getting an "internet connection prior to 1993 was near impossable unless it was through .gov .mil or colleges. Originally the only company that offered internet service was a company called Delphi and they charged 7$ an HOUR! Then there was the direct connection servers like FTP call-up or billboards. But they are hardly what you could call an "internet". So i guess i actually got the the "real internet" in 1992 and i got on my first network server in 1983. What i did in the days of text only FTP I have no fucking idea! Oh yeah we talked on usenet about Star Trek.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:28:21 PM EDT

[#6]

'89. I was cleaning out a bookcase the other day and came across a Unix manual from the time. They mentioned "literally hundreds of FTP sites" with software you could download.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:30:19 PM EDT

[#7]

Heck...i remember logging on local bulletin boards! Where you actually dialed up to someone's computer! How old is that!?!?

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:33:49 PM EDT

[#8]

I had an account on Dockmaster in the mid80s. Had an account earlier in school, but since nobody else was on the net, used it almost never, except for intra-school e-mail.

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:36:14 PM EDT

[#9]

since winter of 1992 a local ISP called Microserve. Had a 30day free trial that lasted a year and a half..

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:37:12 PM EDT

[#10]

remember the teletype? I am not really sure what the hell that was, but I know we got in trouble in school for using the phone hanging on the side of the machine to call hawaii and book a room for our whole class for a week. We ran up about 400.00 in phone bills in 1 month. Year???? 1979

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:38:03 PM EDT

[#11]

I was a freshman in '95
You could type: Dripping wet snatch into 'Webcrawler' and get an assload of pictures (assload in imperial measurement of course).

These were my first experiences with the unterweb at the 'I know everything about anything' age of 18

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:43:28 PM EDT

[#12]

i remember downloading hurricane Frances images from a swedish website back in 86

i had buddys that mucked about the VAX system at PSU back in the earlier 80s
we played a Star Trek game

The computer class in High School was punch card programing
A neighbor wrote a D&D game
He had it on 3 or for long boxes of cards

i had an Uncle that brought home a phone cup modem & a pen plotter back in the the mid 70s,
we downloaded girly pen plots

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:43:30 PM EDT

[#13]

11-12 years, ever since I was in 3rd Grade. I still have the same original e-mail addy, I've been too lazy to make the effort of converting to a new one

Posted: 2/24/2006 6:48:22 PM EDT

[#14]

I think it was around 97-98 when I first got on the information super-highway.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:22:48 PM EDT

[#15]

mid to late 1995... don't recall exactly. Broadband in 1999 ... Spent waaaaaay too much time on it since.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:27:49 PM EDT

[#16]

Summer '95, Compuserve. Ahh, the good old days.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:34:01 PM EDT

[#17]

Been on since '93 with a dedicated connection.

I registered my first netblock on 1994-03-30.

Owned an ISP from 1994 -> 2000.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:34:44 PM EDT

[#18]

10 years or so, really got into it about 6 years ago.

Posted: 2/24/2006 7:42:29 PM EDT

[#19]

In 1985-1986 I would go over to a buddies house and dial up a bulletin board somewhere to get "cracked" Apple IIc games like Pitfall, Wolfenstein and Swashbuckler.

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:17:37 PM EDT

[#20]

Hmm.. I was on GEnie (so intra-net, but it was internet-like, IMO....) since like '86-'87 ?? But ACTUAL honest-to goodness INTERnet....'89? '90? but online since "86. (just not ONline

)

ETA...okay, someone said that internet wasn't until 93... when did AOHell "begin?" It was about 6 months AFTER they formeed I THOUGHT it wasn't THAT long after I go onto GEnie.... 3-4 years... but it was a while ago, about 6 months after I first heard f AOHell.. there was a bi of a "mass exodus" frm GEnie to AOHell... I prefered GEnie, personally.... I didn't go to AOHell, but I'm pretty sure about the time FRAME in refrence TO it. Didn't care for Fraudigy either .... I used some fly-by initially, after getting successive "free trailsz" from Compuserve, Fraudigy, AOHell, etc... I was on Cocentric for a while .... <shrug>

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:23:40 PM EDT

[#21]

87!

Oh yeah.. and it should be BANNED!

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:26:43 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Late 1994

+1

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:53:30 PM EDT

[#23]

Since about 1997, but I used it at least once in 1995. Oh yeah, I was only 8 in 1995.

Posted: 2/24/2006 8:54:48 PM EDT

[#24]

In 1974 we were using a phone cradle modem to connect our Wang to a mainframe in Philly. Each student was allocated (memory fails for an exact number) less than 30 seconds of mainframe time. You couldn't use it up no mater how hard you tried. The Wang used cassette tapes for storage and had 8K of RAM.

Remember playing Hammurabi? Hammurabi, Hammurabi, I beg to report to you...

My first privately owned box was a 1984 Tandy T1000 with proprietary Tandy DOS 1. something or other. I upgraded the machine several times and in the end it was smokin'! CGA graphics, a 20 meg hard drive (at a time when you called all your friends over to see your 20 meg hard drive), 640K RAM, a 6.5mHz 8088 (not 8086) processor and an aftermarket math coprocessor running MSDOS 6.0. Used that for years to connect to text based BBS's, first at 300 baud and later at a blazing 1200. At 300 baud, you could see the pages load a line at a time on your screen.

Anyone remember Reverenet?

In 1990 I upgraded to Compaq 486SX and bought an account with a local ISP to get on the internet proper. Started with a 2400 baud modem and then progressed up to 56K before signing up for cable the first day it was offered in Delaware County. Never looked back...

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:05:11 PM EDT

[#25]

My wife bought our first computer in '98 shortly after my parents bought their first. It was the only way she could keep me home due to the countless hours i was spending surfing the net at my folks house.

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:08:06 PM EDT

[#26]

I was into BBS's back in the day. I was a member of Windows On Line up in the Bay Area which was one of the biggest on the planet. You could get all kinds of great programs for DOS and Windows 3.0.

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:10:45 PM EDT

[#27]

'net since ~'94
before that I was on bbs's, DRIG being the biggest time and $$ waster (>$100/month phone bills!)

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:19:40 PM EDT

[#28]

1994, running OS/2 Version 3.0. I resisted wintendo for a long time.

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:27:39 PM EDT

[#29]

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Late 1994

+1

Which one of the internets are we talking about?

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:35:17 PM EDT

[#30]

I don't know... I was using it in the mid-1990s at NASA.

FYI, the oldest e-mail I have on my home computer is from March 1997. Ironically, it's from Tommy Lee of Motley Crue.

Posted: 2/24/2006 9:40:31 PM EDT

[#31]

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Late 1994

+1

+2

+3

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:16:27 AM EDT

[#32]

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I dunno.....What year were the earliest BBS setups running?

BBS counts???

That would make it somewhere around 89 or 90 then

Posted: 2/25/2006 4:30:58 AM EDT

[#33]

1993 - I was working for MCI and got my first internet experience on a PC connected directly via a T1. Using dial up after that just plain sucked!!

Nowadays, anybody with a cable modem has a much faster connection than we did back then and we were right at a major hub on the backbone. Up until then those ckts were owned by NSF (National Science Foundation) and were provided almost exclusively by MCI. My how things have progressed!

Sadly, that was probably the best thing about working for MCI. The job otherwise sucked bad!

Posted: 2/25/2006 5:48:26 AM EDT

[#34]

I remember Windows 3.1, 486DX, AOL, and getting a newer, faster 14.4 modem.

I remember the ar15 mailing list, also IPSC, and M1/M14 mailing lists.

...and rec.guns newsgroup.

What year would that be????? 1994? ?

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