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Posted: 1/2/2006 5:44:04 PM EDT

[#1]

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Yup... just ask my ex-wife

Well, hi from Trillian (and if T's Mom were around, she'd say hi too).

Posted: 1/2/2006 5:46:51 PM EDT

[#2]

1995

Posted: 1/2/2006 5:48:29 PM EDT

[#3]

A dial in BBS service in 1989 with a 1200 baud modem......them were the days

Posted: 1/2/2006 5:55:33 PM EDT

[#4]

1992. 4800 baud modem on a 486SX33 machine running windows 3.1. Had local dial-up into Bellcore (where my wife worked.) Mostly telnet.

The first commercial BBS service I paid for was Imagination. Sucked big time, but they had an online WWI dogfighting sim.

Posted: 1/2/2006 5:57:37 PM EDT

[#5]

1994-1995 CompuServe
1996-1998 AT&T Worldnet Internet access at 14.4 to 56K
1998-2001 ISDN
2001-Present Charter Business Internet

Reason started visiting the Internet? Computer forums. Sci-Fi forums, Auto Forums.

I don't visit porn sites. Porn is a loser.

Posted: 1/2/2006 6:03:12 PM EDT

[#6]

late 1992, microserve async account. could dial in, sign up for a 30 day free trial, that lasted about a year and a half.

Used to dial in with my Tandy 2800HD laptop and 2400baud modem.. before that I did BBS for a couple years, there were some good locals. I think i got an actual ppp account sometime around 1996... That made Pr0n alot quicker

ETA.. I got it because I was a computer geek

Posted: 1/2/2006 6:08:30 PM EDT

[#7]

Started using local BBS's in early 92 or 93 on an IBM 8088 using a borrowed 4800baud modem. I was on it so often my parents had to get a second phone line. Somehow I managed to cover the costs of long distance bbs calls, i'm sure several here have did that before too Got a realish computer in 94 with Windows 3.1 which lasted for a few months as gaming type toy, then that got sold to upgrade to a brand new 300mhz computer with windows 95. Got the internet from a local ISP shortly afterwards. Porn, usenet, pirating and all that fun stuff were my main motivations.

Posted: 1/2/2006 6:10:32 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
1994-1995 CompuServe
1996-1998 AT&T Worldnet Internet access at 14.4 to 56K
1998-2001 ISDN
2001-Present Charter Business Internet

Reason started visiting the Internet? Computer forums. Sci-Fi forums, Auto Forums.

Don't visit porn sites. Porn is a looser.

Porn is looser than what? Is it looser than a donut on a pencil?

Posted: 1/2/2006 6:56:30 PM EDT

[#9]

Personal account was probably in 97. I got AOL with a computer purchase, but didn't use it for anything but the internet access and an email address.. I didn't use any of their communities or other areas. Even with AOL, I usualy logged in through work, because I would surf while waiting for programs to run at work.

Before AOL I could log in to work from home and get to gopher and search the net. Then came Xmosaic and a few webpages. WOW

Posted: 1/2/2006 6:59:33 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
1994-1995 CompuServe
1996-1998 AT&T Worldnet Internet access at 14.4 to 56K
1998-2001 ISDN
2001-Present Charter Business Internet

Reason started visiting the Internet? Computer forums. Sci-Fi forums, Auto Forums.

Don't visit porn sites. Porn is a loser.

Porn is looser than what? Is it looser than a donut on a pencil?

Don't know what you're talking about. You must be smoking crack or watching too much porn.

Posted: 1/2/2006 7:03:48 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
1994-1995 CompuServe
1996-1998 AT&T Worldnet Internet access at 14.4 to 56K
1998-2001 ISDN
2001-Present Charter Business Internet

Reason started visiting the Internet? Computer forums. Sci-Fi forums, Auto Forums.

Don't visit porn sites. Porn is a looser.

Porn is looser than what? Is it looser than a donut on a pencil?

Don't know what you're talking about. You must be smoking crack or watching too much porn.

Yeah, I thought so.

Bob

Posted: 1/2/2006 9:36:09 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Got a realish computer in 94 with Windows 3.1 which lasted for a few months as gaming type toy, then that got sold to upgrade to a brand new 300mhz computer with windows 95.

A 300 mhz computer in late 1994/early 1995?

P60 was state-of-the-art on Windows machines at that point. I think you lost some years somewhere...

Jim

Posted: 1/2/2006 10:33:14 PM EDT

[#13]

In '94 my parents bought me a Compaq Presari 5040 CDS. It was a 486/66, with 4MB RAM, a CD-ROM, a 1.44MB floppy drive. It also had an integrated 14.4kbs modem! I promptly requested - and got, oddly - a "Taurus" account, thru our local educational coop, as my dad was a teacher. So I got online later 1994 - my 5th grade year ;)

Posted: 1/2/2006 10:55:16 PM EDT

[#14]

Been on BBS's since the 1980's when 2400 baud was fast...
The first service I ever subscribed to was Prodigy...this was before the modern internet...
I continued with prodigy for many years. The first web browser I used was the prodigy web browser. AOL was the shit at the time because you could use internet exploder with AOL. With prodigy, you had to use the prodigy browser, for the longest time.

I remember trying to get ISDN for the longest time, until I finally moved to an area with broadband...I cannot live without it now, it is a requirement...

Posted: 1/3/2006 3:03:11 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Yup... just ask my ex-wife

Well, hi from Trillian (and if T's Mom were around, she'd say hi too).

Mod400 here, if memory serves.

Posted: 1/3/2006 6:30:02 PM EDT

[#16]

Navy Reserve started using it during first Gulf War, then after I go back. Home use started about 96 when I started a lot of business travel and e-mail was much cheaper than voice calling.

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