were you online in 1994?

[Paratus]

1981 - My mom let me get online on our dumb terminal with 300 baud accoustically coupled modem, log onto the Carnegie Mellon University mainframe and play Collassal Cave and Rogue.

 

[waggy]

Yes. i was at RIT at the time.

i remember being at home on a 14.4 and downloading porn. i would be finished before the picture was full (it would show a line at a time).

 

[destrekor]

it's a series of pipes

I think we got AOL on our 1994 Acer desktop, but I can't remember. We might not have tried the whole internet thing until 95 or 96.
I think that computer may have only had a 14.4 modem.
There was a 56k modem (or we ended up upgrading the modem to 56k) in the Gateway system we got in 97. We were definitely running with AOL on the Gateway, ended up getting a dedicated phoneline for the PC too.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i actually used a 300 baud modem with a mac classic at one point. i didnt get on the web until a year or so after 1994, probably 1996

 

[Chaotic42]

That's hilarious. I didn't get online until 1996. In 1991 I got an 8088 computer and I kept it until Christmas of 1995 when I got a Pentium 60. I thought Doom was virtual reality. It was a big jump.

 

[Fingolfin269]

If BBS's count then I've been online since probably 1987 or so. Otherwise it would have been when I got a unix account in high school ~1993 or so.

Thinking about the BBS life just reminded me of Empire and Tradewars!

 

[pcgeek11]

early 80's and BBS... that is also online...

 

[pcgeek11]

Yes. i was at RIT at the time.

i remember being at home on a 14.4 and downloading porn. i would be finished before the picture was full (it would show a line at a time).

HA! You were empty before the picture was full.


I spit my coffee.

 

[Perknose]

We were definitely running with AOL on the Gateway, ended up getting a dedicated phoneline for the PC too.

Ha! I'd completely forgotten the days of having a second, dedicated land-line just for your dial-up account. :awe:

 

[grohl]

Was emailing in 1992/1993. I was playing MUD's on a 2400 baud modem in college in 1993. I can't remember doing browser related stuff until 1994.

 

[eplebnista]

No, got online with AOL in 1998 for a few months before moving to MindSpring.

 

[waggy]

HA! You were empty before the picture was full.


I spit my coffee.

lol at the time it downloading pictures would do sections at a time and take like 5 minutes to get a color picture. so yeah..hell i was young! lol

 

[alkemyst]

since 1983 only it wasn't refered to as the internet as much. Not just BBSing though.

X25, tymnet, etc. Mostly chatted on tchh, lutzifer, altgiers.

 

[shortylickens]

since 1983 only it wasn't refered to as the internet as much. Not just BBSing though.

X25, tymnet, etc. Mostly chatted on tchh, lutzifer, altgiers.

 

[alkemyst]

well with an Apple //e pretty well loaded for it's time anyway.

 

[jupiter57]

Didn't get online until '98.
That's when I bought my 2nd Computer: P1-133, 16 MB RAM, 1.2 Gig HD! (First was an old 286 box from a school surplus sale)
Did not come with a modem, so I bought a 33.6K, only thing available at the time.
About a month later they introduced the blazing fast 56K!!! (At least here in my neck of the woods)
I lived 15 miles from my ISP with old crappy phone lines and always got a crappy, slow connection. (The noise from my electric fence chargers didn't help either)
The 33.6 modem actually was slightly faster than the 56K.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Ha! I'd completely forgotten the days of having a second, dedicated land-line just for your dial-up account. :awe:

I have even fonder memories of getting knocked offline when my parents picked up the phone while I was online and the madness that would inevitably ensue... thus finally leading to the 2nd one.

 

[rudeguy]

AOL Chatrooms

Ahh those were the days. A/S/L

I got laid more out of AOL chats than I can even count.

Those were the days!

/edith bunker

 

[Whisper]

I believe I started with BBS and Prodigy networks sometime in the late 80's, and then moved to INN (Sierra) in the early 90's. Shadows of Yserbius was the cause of many, many large monthly usage bills.

 

[Rubycon]

<<<Guide Moo has entered the room>>>

:biggrin:

 

[Phokus]

I had internet as early as 1990-1992 via my dad's university account... all i had was telnet and ftp back then.

 

[dwell]

Since at least 1992.

 

[Ichinisan]

Hah. Their graphic person made an "a" with a circle around it instead of a tail. It's not even a proper @ sign.

1995 for me...kinda. The XBAND Video Game Modem for SNES had "X-Mail" and you could send to email addresses.

 

[alkemyst]

<<<Guide Moo has entered the room>>>

:biggrin:

<<WinkyBot has entered the room>>
<<BinkyBot has entered the room>>
<<PhoebeeBot has entered the room>>
<<Alkemyst has entered the room>>

<<netsplit detected>>
<<WinkyBot changes nickname to Guide Moo>>
..
...
..
<<Guide Moo has entered the room>>
<<Guide Moo changes nickname to WinkyBot>>
<<WinkyBot sets +o BinkyBot>>
<<BinkyBot sets +o PhoebeBot>>
<<WinkyBot sets -o [Current Op #1]>>
<<PhoebeBot sets +o Alkemyst>>
<<BinkyBot sets -o [Current Op #2]>>
<<PhoebeBot sets -o [Current Op #3]>>
rinse and repeat.

<<WinkyBot sets +b [Ex Op #1]>>
<<BinkyBot sets +b [Ex Op #2]>>
<<PhoebeBot sets +b [Ex Op #3]>>

rinse and repeat.


it went something like that.

 

[thegimp03]

1995 or 1996 for me I think. We didn't even have a computer until then either. I remember being in 6th grade and typing papers on my dad's computer at work or using the typewriter we had at home.