were you online in 1994?

[nageov3t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTPX4JW_Ts

Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric want to know what internet is and if it's something you write to, like mail. :awe:

 

[amdhunter]

Nope. I was online in Fall 1995. Bought my first PC in June 1997.

 

[LikeLinus]

Yes, I had internet around 1992 IIRC. CompuServe.

 

[olds]

In 94 I had a friend who was online and I used his computer.
It wasn't till Dec 95 for me personally.

 

[ksheets]

Does that count as Online?

 

[mmntech]

I think we got it in 1996. May have been earlier though.

 

[pcslookout]

The internet was around back in the 1980s technically. At least Usenet was.

 

[Away]

Bought my first PC in 98 and have been online ever since. Built my first PC in 2003 thanks to the information I found online.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

exciting

 

[Rage187]

91 or 92, Prodigy.

 

[shortylickens]

Yup. Gopher with a shitty local dial-up company.

 

[her209]

Bought our first family computer in 1992ish. 486DX2 66Mhz baby! I didn't get "online" until I went to college where we had T3.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i miss the day before the internet. things were much simpler.

 

[pcslookout]

i miss the day before the internet. things were much simpler.

Sometimes they were but yeah I remember those days.

 

[her209]

i miss the day before the internet. things were much simpler.

Simpler like:
- if you wanted to talk to someone, you had to find a landline phone and hope the other person was there
- if you wanted to send someone a document, you had to snail mail it
- if you wanted to look something up, you had to go to the library
- if you wanted to wank off to porn, you had to buy the dirty magazines and/or moves (unless you had the hookups to bootlegged VHS copies)

 

[Arkaign]

Netcom, 1993 for me USR External model with the speaker that went to like 11. Hilariously loud. IRC!

 

[stargazr]

No, not till '99 but I got my first computer in '93.

 

[Brainonska511]

I think sometime around 1998 with 56k dialup with AOL. My dad was originally going to go with AT&T dialup, but the program wouldn't install properly. The tech for AT&T on the phone told him he had to go online and download the patch to fix it. LOL, how do you download a patch when you're trying to install a program to get online in the first place. At that point, we just went with AOL. Around 2002, got cable internet service and dumped the dialup stuff...

 

[aircooled]

84

 

[TheVrolok]

I can't quite remember. I don't think so, though. If I had to guess, I'd say I was online by '97-'98

 

[SuperjetMatt]

i miss the day before the internet. things were much simpler.

Things were better then.
Men were still men.
Certain folk weren't allowed to vote.
A man's word still counted for something.
Women were still chained to the stove.



I went online in late 1995.

 

[JimmiG]

Early 1996 I think.. with a 33.6kbps modem and my Amiga1200, using iBrowse for the web and YAM for email.

 

[QueBert]

Simpler like:
- if you wanted to talk to someone, you had to find a landline phone and hope the other person was there
- if you wanted to send someone a document, you had to snail mail it
- if you wanted to look something up, you had to go to the library
- if you wanted to wank off to porn, you had to buy the dirty magazines and/or moves (unless you had the hookups to bootlegged VHS copies)

Compuserve did all this in the 80's...

 

[Vette73]

Internet, try BBS

Only several hours to D/L Wolfenstein 3d

DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE!!!!

 

[Perknose]

Got my first PC in 1984, back when many "IBM clones" were sure to advertise that their reverse engineered BIOS' were "fully IBM compatible," which was still an evolving and imperfect art back then!

Got my first Cardinal modem shortly thereafter, which I used to access the PACS (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) bulletin board. I still remember the glowing green screen on the sultry summer evening when I first connected. It was thrilling!

Those PACS monthly meetings were hella cool and vastly informative. I felt like I was part of a Band of Brothers. Being a command-line guy, I took to DOS like a duck to water. Good times.