OT - reminising

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you know, when i first heard about the internet, i was a regular on bbs's, but almost never chatted, so when i first heard of the internet, my reaction was yeah, so? there where 3-8 'nets on any bbs with a good chat system and all i'd heard about them was that they were for transmitting Messages and since i wasn't chatty anyway...

so, where were you when you heard of the internet?

man, was that disconnected. need to sleep. shoon.

[ February 12, 2004, 08:23: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Atrocities]

Battle Net.

1995

Prodegy Dial Up

[gregebowman]

Before I moved to Tampa in 1992, I was big on going to all of the Commodore/Amiga Boards in Phoenix (I got my first modem in 1989, and that was to my Commodore 64. then I got a Amiga 2000 a couple of years later), and d/l a bunch of stuff also. I don't remember exactly when I started hearing the word internet, but I was always curious in the early to mid 90's on all of those www. lines at the bottom of the tv commercials. I didn't get my pc until the summer of 98, and that's when I started exploring the 'net. Made all of those old bbs sites look basic and primordal. Now I can't imagine not being on-line at least part of the day.

[Ruatha]

I first thought it was like BBS and wasn't very interested.
But in the med school library in 1995 I discovered it was more than a fancy gui for ftp libraries...

[Baron Munchausen]

Hmm, I 'heard of' the Internet in the 1980s because I knew people at the local University who had access. Was allowed to slurp some usenet news Groups onto my own BBS as early as 1988, actually.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

I remember thinking that the term World Wide Web was kinda ominous and spooky. Obviously another sign of the One World Government.
I had compuserv for my Commodore, Later I got Prodigy for my IBM 486. Gawd that sucked. Constant full screen advertisements that took forever to load. A forerunner of today's popups.