How did you come upon the internet?

[HeroOfPellinor]

1995 as a freshman in college.

 

[MikeyLSU]

probably about 1993-1994 with AOL and the slowest of the slow dialup.

 

[Scarpozzi]

1993: My friend's cousin started doing tech support for Prodigy. She got 5 free accounts to give family members....so I had a friend down the street with Prodigy. He ended up getting AOL too since it was a faster connection (Prodigy was 2400 baud at the time and got upgraded to 9600 eventually). I picked up Compuserv in 1994 and used it until a local ISP came in with a faster connection...of course that was short lived becuase they had more than a 1/25 ratio of customers to modems....which was the average.

 

[spidey07]

College 1989. Being able to "chat" and "read news" along with "mail".

Private BBS before that. But big I Internet, 1989, college and a shell.

 

[Q]

I read about it in a book

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
In 1975 I played "StarTrek" on a 64 x 64 grid using a teletype tied to a timeshared mainframe which linked to the old ARPANET with the computer geeks at UCLA

winter

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: Imp
When I started playing multiplayer games with dial-up. I played on the Zone, which was browser based, so that got me going.

After my failed attempts at playing Doom II over KALI, my first gaming experience online was with MPlayer.

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
1995 as a freshman in college.

Same here. My uni was one of the first in the nation to wire the dorms for high speed Internet (1.5mbit shared, I think). Before that I was on several BBSes that had mail gateways set up, and I remember thinking "Who needs 'electronic mail'? Just use FidoNet!"

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
In 1975 I played "StarTrek" on a 64 x 64 grid using a teletype tied to a timeshared mainframe which linked to the old ARPANET with the computer geeks at UCLA

I spent a lot of spare time getting an old Fortran IV version of that workable on a VAX 11/785. My first access was when I worked at NRL through usenet groups on one of the VAX front ends to the Cray we worked with.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
In 1975 I played "StarTrek" on a 64 x 64 grid using a teletype tied to a timeshared mainframe which linked to the old ARPANET with the computer geeks at UCLA

I spent a lot of spare time getting an old Fortran IV version of that workable on a VAX 11/785. My first access was when I worked at NRL through usenet groups on one of the VAX front ends to the Cray we worked with.

1st RULE MOFO!!!!!

1st rule.

 

[Pastore]

Prodigy(1994) -> AOL(1997) -> Local dialup(1999) -> Cable (2000)

Oh yeah, does anyone remember the "Internet Yellow Pages"? That thing was ridiculous.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
In 1975 I played "StarTrek" on a 64 x 64 grid using a teletype tied to a timeshared mainframe which linked to the old ARPANET with the computer geeks at UCLA

I spent a lot of spare time getting an old Fortran IV version of that workable on a VAX 11/785. My first access was when I worked at NRL through usenet groups on one of the VAX front ends to the Cray we worked with.

It was a pretty good game. Kind of a cross between Chess, Battleship and, D & D. It even had NPC dialogue if I remember.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

using mosaic at college in the lab. then along came the wonder called netscape 1.x I think it was.

 

[MiniDoom]

Reminds me of the good old days...

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape
using mosaic at college in the lab. then along came the wonder called netscape 1.x I think it was.

My first experience with the web was through Lynx. Needless to say I was less than impressed.

 

[Modelworks]

Natural progression.
Started by using BBS in 1986, then online services like Genie, then dial up with dos and playing games using kali for dos, then on to windows.

I was always excited about communicating via computer.
I soldered together a 25pin serial cable with a 300 baud modem because the local radio shack didn't stock serial cables at the time.

 

[jessieqwert]

I was sat in front of it, literally.

I think it was 4th grade and my teacher had probably just learned about it. The school had a Netscape account. I think they knew about as much as I did, sat me down, and said play with this.

 

[zinfamous]

I got lost on my way home one day. Turns out I was on the internet.

 

[effowe]

BBS's starting around 93-94. Got FTP access to a college server about 95-96 and was able to lynx into pages, pretty 31337.

 

[DangerAardvark]

I found it lying unconscious behind a 7-11 and raped it mercilessly. 9 months later, 4-chan was born. Coincidence?

 

[FeuerFrei]

Oh back around 1994 or so my college computer lab got hooked to the Net.
I started poking around and found it somewhat entertaining. Pics of models printed out on the labs B&W laser, yay.
I remember writing down URLs on paper.

 

[KlokWyze]

I was going onto local BBS's around the mid 90's. Got Netscape dialup around.... 96, 96 or 98??? can't remember. Got DSL or cable some time around 2000... don't think I've left my house since then.

 

[tfinch2]

I invented it.

 

[Tweak155]

Diablo 1

 

[arrfep]

pretty sure most of ATOT comes upon the internet on a nightly basis