How did you come upon the internet?

[dbk]

AOL trial on dial up - mp3 took 50 mins to download..then I found those warez chat rooms and I was hooked! Hooked, son, hooked!

 

[xSauronx]

we had dial up when i was 14 or 15, so about 97 or 98

 

[olds]

I had a large collection of porn. I was thinking I might be able to make money off of it and I was talking to my buddy Al about it. He thought he might be able to come up with a way to share it.
About a week later, he called me and told me he had invented something that may help. He was secretive about it and told me I couldn't tell his wife Tipper about it. He called it the interweb.
It was cool at first. Just a couple of us and a bunch of military folks sharing files.
But soon it blew up in our faces and all my files got out.

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I had a large collection of porn. I was thinking I might be able to make money off of it and I was talking to my buddy Al about it. He thought he might be able to come up with a way to share it.
About a week later, he called me and told me he had invented something that may help. He was secretive about it and told me I couldn't tell his wife Tipper about it. He called it the interweb.
It was cool at first. Just a couple of us and a bunch of military folks sharing files.
But soon it blew up in our faces and all my files got out.

Sorry, I really wanted to catch a beat that day

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: dbk

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I had a large collection of porn. I was thinking I might be able to make money off of it and I was talking to my buddy Al about it. He thought he might be able to come up with a way to share it.
About a week later, he called me and told me he had invented something that may help. He was secretive about it and told me I couldn't tell his wife Tipper about it. He called it the interweb.
It was cool at first. Just a couple of us and a bunch of military folks sharing files.
But soon it blew up in our faces and all my files got out.

Sorry, I really wanted to catch a beat that day

But not in this room...

 

[KevinH]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
I started using the interweb back in the early 90's. Back when Compuserv, AOL, Prodigy and others were all the rage!

Same here.

 

[andy04]

Brats

 

[dmcowen674]

300 baud Modem Videotext 1982 then Compuserve 1983.

Later I worked for Hayes Modems

Was on design team for the Accura Modem.

Designed Modem pool banks for Prodigy/AOL etc

Did a lot of things like eliminate the 25 pin connector.

Why have such a huge connector on the modem when the computer side was 9 pin?

Within 3 months of doing that all the manufacturers went to 9 pin.

Demonstrated first working 56K but credit went to U.S. Robotics because Marketing didn't listen to me to send some of the first 100 off the line to CompUSA etc.

 

[Tylanner]

American On Line

 

[BoomerD]

I turned over a rock one day and there was this unusual looking pipe there with a telephone connector attached to it...

I think I bought my first modem about 91. Paid through the nose for it...$300? and IIRC, It connected my NEC 8088 to teh intarpipes at a ripping 2400 baud.

 

[Eeezee]

I got online in 1995, I was 10 years old! I can't remember what our service was called, it started with a Y. After that, we did AOL for awhile.

Not long after that we were the first household in the area to beta test cable internet. That was awesome, especially because it was free. I've been on cable ever since.

 

[Anubis]

it found me

 

[Fritzo]

The first time I came upon the Internet was when I discovered that girls were on free webcams in Netmeeting in the mid-90's

 

[alkemyst]

early 80s hacking x.25 networks and the like.

 

[darkxshade]

It all started with AOL back in 1996. My friend gave me access to an account I later found out to have been created from a fake credit card number generated from a prefix. To this day I still don't know how AOL allowed fake card numbers to create an account, isn't there some kind of validation process?

 

[JDub02]

after I got my first computer. ~1990. dialed into local BBS's and then into AOL.

 

[acheron]

So BBSs and AOL are "the internet" now?

My first actual connection to the Internet was via a local dial-up freenet, around 1992. Could use email, IRC, telnet, Gopher... eventually they added Lynx.

Since we're talking about BBSs and such too, I had been calling local BBSs since 1989 or so. Also had Compuserve for awhile, then Prodigy. As far as I can remember, neither Compuserve nor Prodigy added real Internet access until around 1995 or 96, though.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
It all started with AOL back in 1996. My friend gave me access to an account I later found out to have been created from a fake credit card number generated from a prefix. To this day I still don't know how AOL allowed fake card numbers to create an account, isn't there some kind of validation process?

It's how most of carding worked back then. Things weren't ran 'live'. Even now there are templates that can generate valid card numbers...this is why you need more than just a number to charge to the card.

Back in the day tons of people made a business of carding stuff overnight to vacant houses. By the time the charges were ran they already disappeared with the items.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

would that be in a prone position, or really artsy and lyine on top of the keyboard nekkid like and holding an apple?

 

[Vehemence]

"Free naked girl pictures and videos, dude" "Nah way brah" "Way, brah"
*next day*
Welcome, You've got mail!

From then on I furiously fapped on a daily basis.

 

[Lumathix]

Probably around 1994 during college.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: rasczak

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

would that be in a prone position, or really artsy and lyine on top of the keyboard nekkid like and holding an apple?

more like apple in mouth and in the goatse position.

 

[Mucho]

My local BBS began a experimental set up in 95.

 

[irishScott]

Back when I was ~5 and we had an old Windows 3.1 with Netscape 1.0 or something. I didn't really get the point at the time. The games I could install were much more fun.

I discovered the internet "proper" around 3rd grade for research.

 

[So]

I got it mid to late 1996, but I had friends who had it in 1995. Mmm...Lynx