Who on Anandtech can **PROVE** They were on the internet first?

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: alkemyst
at 7 years old you dialed up a BBS? it's possible yes..what were you looking for though?

at 11 I was running one.

Wow, that's pretty cool. Most kids that age, have a lemonade stand or something.
Speaking of BBSes, does anyone remember the Software Creations BBS? "Home of the Authors", the pre-WWW "home" of EPIC and iD software. My (late) friend knew the founder/owner of S.C., we went to his home one time, there was a Porsche in the driveway. (Guess you could make good money running a decent-size for-pay BBS those days.) Anyways, through a roundabout way, I ended up with the remnants of the dial-in pool, a huge pile of USR external Courier HST 16.8 and 14.4 modems. Was toying with ebay'ing them, but eventually had to dump them when I downsized my "junk pile" of parts. I had a non-paid acct. back in that day on that board too. I think I only used it to download some of the newest Epic games. Access to the pr0n sections required payment.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: tami
and to top that off, i'm still a female.

are you trying to change?

haha

no... but enough threads on ATOT have required me to continually remind people that tami is not a male's name

:rolleyes;

 

[flexy]

february 1994.

http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=beascjjg&start=40&hl=en&lr=&

But i might have some accounts in a MUD somewhere much earlier...that is if my account ii still active there. Because i first started out in a MUD and only later i was brave enough to go out in the internet

BBSing MUUUUUCH earlier...mid 80s actually first tries with a 300bps coupler...90s then multiport BBS systems and BBS nets/polling...Fido (yikes)

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: Tom
I started with BBs's and Genie, back in 1989.

I can't remember all my old usernames, but here is an ad I posted on Usenet in 1998.

Pentium 75.......................................................$40
2 72-pin 8 meg edo simms(16 megs total).........$40
2 72-pin 4 meg simms(8 megs total).................$20
127mb IDE Hard Drive.....................................$45

link

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