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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:50:39 PM EDT
I just realized I have had an internet acct/s for the past 11 years!
   11 years? Much of it spent farking around...  What could I have of have done with all them wasted hours?   It has been fun and sometimes sad...How mnay hrs have I spent online surfing? Could I of have finally gotten my degree had I not spent so much time screwing around?  Met some great folks here and at other sites.  How long have you been on the intardnet? |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:51:23 PM EDT
[#1]
Almost 9 years- march 1997.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:51:46 PM EDT
[#2]
Late 1994
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:51:51 PM EDT
[#3]
About 10.5 years.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:52:19 PM EDT
[#4]
all day and most of yesterday
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:52:31 PM EDT
[#5]
'94 with a 1200 baud modem
(That's a 1.2k modem for all you kids) I bought a Mac and was using eworld. I remember when I bought it I was thinking "I better buy a computer and learn this internet stuff before I get left behind." |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:52:54 PM EDT
[#6]
10 or 11 years
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:53:14 PM EDT
[#8]
+1 |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:53:43 PM EDT
[#9]
since Al Gore invented it.
probably about 8 years, I got an AOL free trial card and filled it out with made up info when I was a kid and it never got cancelled. That went on until we got the high-speed ETA: Damn I type slow
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:54:00 PM EDT
[#10]
Who are you now......my wife!  JK 
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:54:35 PM EDT
[#11]
Seriously, before it was "the world wide web" "information superhiway"
When it was just newsgroups. Not a whole lot, until PRON came in .Then my web browsing became an eye-crossing... I mean opening , experience :) Win 3.1.1 Bay bay!! |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:55:10 PM EDT
[#12]
Since about 1985 - when it was all modem based (usenet).
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:56:22 PM EDT
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+2 |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:56:47 PM EDT
[#14]
A long time, back when it was just text. Not to mention FidoNet and many local, and some not so local, private and company run BBS's. I used to run a kitchen table BBS in the Seattle area myself.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:57:38 PM EDT
[#15]
Since about 1998 when I could afford and ISP
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:57:52 PM EDT
[#16]
Damn, I thought I was going to be the winner. I was on the internet in 1989, before the World Wide Web existed. I had the newer, faster 2400 baud modem. Whatever happened to Telnet, Gopher, Finger, nTalk, etc. I was at Western Illinois, they were running a Sun Unix system. There was no Microsoft Windows. My wife and I met when nTalk was still the way to chat. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:58:11 PM EDT
[#17]
+1 |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:59:06 PM EDT
[#18]
1994.
Mosaic on Windows 3.11. 28.8 dial-up. 
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:59:15 PM EDT
[#19]
when i first started out i had a dial account to delphi into a unix box and had a shell account. the www did not exist. did lots of gopher stuff and text email. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 3:59:26 PM EDT
[#20]
Does FidoNet count? If not, since before the WWW; registered my first domain in 1990.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:01:30 PM EDT
[#21]
1990. I used to be a Usenet junkie. Alt.tasteless when Geoff Miller made us all retch with his stories of pus blister popping.
Just googled my old email address (Usenet was propagated through SMTP) Would you believe thousands of hits? Wow. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:02:32 PM EDT
[#22]
General history: My brother had a Delphi account and let me use it back in about 1992. I used some internet scientific databases at my high school in 1993. I had my own account at the university in 1994. So, 12-14 years, depending on what you count. Jim |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:03:02 PM EDT
[#23]
93 - 94 sometime...Even then the browser had tabbed viewing, what took it so long to come back?
 I cannot remember which ISP it was, but I was just talking about this yesterday...ARFcom is psychic.ByteTheBullet (-: |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:06:33 PM EDT
[#24]
about 12 years
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:06:34 PM EDT
[#25]
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. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:13:58 PM EDT
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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... |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:15:44 PM EDT
[#27]
Late '95. I was part of the beta test group when the telco I work for lit up our ISP. 14.4 dial up was the hot ticket for about 6 months. We skipped 28.8 and jumped to smokin' fast 56k by Septmeber '96.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:16:07 PM EDT
[#28]
Darn you beat me to it. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:24:28 PM EDT
[#29]
I know 1994 or before because of work, remember downloading the Comet Shoemaker-Levey as a screen saver way back then. I want to claim 1993 or earlier but can prove it one way or another
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:29:58 PM EDT
[#30]
about 12 years I would say
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:30:00 PM EDT
[#31]
Since 1994 or so.
Cerfnet was a part of one of my old employers. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:33:58 PM EDT
[#32]
11 years
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:37:33 PM EDT
[#33]
since mac 7.5 and 25 mhz and 14.4
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:39:32 PM EDT
[#34]
Dec. 1996
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:46:10 PM EDT
[#35]
I dunno.....What year were the earliest BBS setups running?
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:48:18 PM EDT
[#36]
About 1991 or 92. I actually had a Bitnet address at Drexel.
In '94 I got into Fidonet and putzed around on that for a few years. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:50:43 PM EDT
[#37]
Me too, I started at working CompuServe in 1989. I used Mosaic too! Man that was crap. G |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 4:58:52 PM EDT
[#38]
First BITNET account (which also got me onto internet machines) was in 1988.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:12:54 PM EDT
[#39]
1994
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:14:56 PM EDT
[#40]
I got it at work for the first time in probably 1995 or so. So 11 years now.
It's a great reference tool and time waster.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:16:01 PM EDT
[#41]
Around 99 or so.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:21:11 PM EDT
[#42]
I started with an AIM account around 2000 or so. Then around 2003 I got a Yahoo messenger account.
<------------- when I joined here. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:22:54 PM EDT
[#43]
Oh, about 4 1/2 hours now.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:23:39 PM EDT
[#44]
1990-1991 time frame. I bought my first home computer and I bought this thing called the "Internet" via a program I bought called "Compuserve". I had to send email to myself since nobody I knew had this "internet" thing.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:25:41 PM EDT
[#45]
1993. Mosaic off a 9600 baud modem in a computer lab at George Mason University.
I used to complete my AutoCAD assignments between pages downloading. Oh the pain.....
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:29:35 PM EDT
[#46]
Since 1995 at home.....first just email and my favorite longbow/selfbow hunting site. That is how they hook you...then like crack you cant stop...LOL
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:30:23 PM EDT
[#47]
Finger and telnet are still around. Just finger is kind of useless and telnet is VERY insecure so everyone uses ssh now. |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:33:26 PM EDT
[#48]
Since before it had a name.
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Posted: 2/24/2006 5:57:37 PM EDT
[#49]
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 |
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Posted: 2/24/2006 6:00:17 PM EDT
[#50]
+1, 2nd year in college |
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