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

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Hi
i still have a old modem in a pentium mmx rig

its a cardinal modem at 14.4
and had aol version 2.0 i think

Pshaw! I first went on the 'net with a 386, followed by a crappy Leading Edge 486-33 desktop (updated with an Evergreen ***HIGH-SPEED UPGRADE*** 486-66 CPU) and a speed-demon NEC 486-50 laptop. I foolishly skipped the Pentium generation entirely, and later (spring 1998) moved to a Pentium 2-233.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Back in 1996, browsing the web for a school project... and no proof.

 

[imported_Hi]

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: Hi
i still have a old modem in a pentium mmx rig

its a cardinal modem at 14.4
and had aol version 2.0 i think

Pshaw! I first went on the 'net with a 386, followed by a crappy Leading Edge 486-33 desktop (updated with an Evergreen ***HIGH-SPEED UPGRADE*** 486-66 CPU) and a speed-demon NEC 486-50 laptop. I foolishly skipped the Pentium generation entirely, and later (spring 1998) moved to a Pentium 2-233.

do you have pics avalible though
cause i do

 

[BurnItDwn]

hmmm ... oldest proof .. is probably MP3s I ripped and uploaded in 1996.
I have some files that I downloaded and burned with timestamps from before that (though nothing was burned until 1998 since thats when I got my first CD-Recordable drive)
I remember Backing up my copy of Kali which I got around 1995 ... (Warcraft and Duke3D kicked butt over the net ... though Duke was kinda lagged at 9600 baud)
I also had a geocities webpage back in the olde olde days ...

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Hi

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: Hi
i still have a old modem in a pentium mmx rig

its a cardinal modem at 14.4
and had aol version 2.0 i think

Pshaw! I first went on the 'net with a 386, followed by a crappy Leading Edge 486-33 desktop (updated with an Evergreen ***HIGH-SPEED UPGRADE*** 486-66 CPU) and a speed-demon NEC 486-50 laptop. I foolishly skipped the Pentium generation entirely, and later (spring 1998) moved to a Pentium 2-233.

do you have pics avalible though
cause i do

Actually I still have the NEC lappy floating around somewhere. It had a nice bright 8.4" active-matrix screen and 270MB HD, but unfortunately no optical drives or built-in modem. I used to use it with a serial USR 14.4 modem. It came with a whopping 4 MB of RAM, but fortunately I bought another 8 MB for the bargain price of $300 (which really was a Hot Deal at the time).

 

[yllus]

From: Sxxxxx Xxxx (xxxxxx@torfree.net)
Subject: AustinMUD down all the time!
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.diku
Date: 1995/10/01

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: WannaFly

Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Can you find out dates on ICQ numbers? I have my old number but no password. Look at me on 72882145.

I dont know but you have a really high ICQ number - mine was 414939!

they're not in sequential order.

 

[Quasmo]

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

are you trying to change?

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Ok guys, how's this:

pic1
pic2
pic3

man that is awesome!

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Ok guys, how's this:

pic1
pic2
pic3

HAHAHAHA for security your password shows up as '******' HAHAHAHAHA

 

[n666]

yahoo called and asked if they could add our site to their db.

also 2800 baud modem in the closet back from like '92
and of course bbs before that

 

[thomsbrain]

I can't PROVE it but i was using it back in the gopher days.

 

[SportSC4]

found my aol 1.1 diskette. i remember using the net back in middle school and i remember that it used prodigy (woo mmporg ). it was in dos and i think it was in '92. again, no proof.

anyone remember neverwinter nights (kw: nwn) on aol before they removed it?

 

[edmundoab]

think i've only started using the internet in 1997
no prove on that though, was in cyber cafes

only evidance is an empty pocket for overspending on these Cyber cafes

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: n666
yahoo called and asked if they could add our site to their db.

haha, nice.

i began logging IMs in november of 1995. i had a program called powertools that did that. scary, eh? (i've been logging ever since be afraid. be very afraid)

NWN? haha, yeah. do you remember rabbitjack's casino? i think my screenname may still be listed on their website.

 

[richardycc]

did a quick search on the usenet, some of my posts are dated from early 93, I even did an online auction there too, wonder if that would invalidate the online auction patents.

 

[Zebo]

About 1992.. I used lynx browser... Also used tin for news. No proof though.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

May 30 1994, 11:41 pm

I was selling my 2x CDrom drive on the newsgroups. I was selling it because I couldn't afford to buy games.

 

[Shawn]

Here are some more disks I've found:

Compuserve
AOL for dos
AOL for dos 2

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
Ok all.. Lets see who really pwns anandtech..
Find your oldest PROOF that you were on the internet and post it here..

Hrm. I think I still have my signup reciept for my shell acct that I got sometime around 95 or 96. (Edit: fixed, I think. My oldest Usenet post that I can dig up on Google is from '96, but that doesn't seem right at all. I found some files on my HD that were ancient backups of my first web site, and those were dated from the middle of '95 or so.) Back then, PPP was "new", in terms of being a consumer service, and actually cost significantly more than just command-line shell access.
PS. Anand owns Anandtech, if you didn't know.

Here is a useful Web history timeline to use for reference.

Edit: I forgot, I was on the net via a college connection at least one or two years before that. I used to post to comp.sys.ibm-pc.demos back then. (So why has Google forsaken any memories of that? Darn google. DejaNews was better.) I remember "Demo Site 1", when all of the scene demos were in LZH, I think, before they started using ZIP, and eventually moved to cdrom.com.

 

[ts3433]

We first got the internet in 1996 with a (go ahead and laugh) Power Mac 100MHz and 28.8k external modem, both of which we still have. I was only 5 at the time, though, so I really didn't use the internet a whole lot until I got a Dreamcast in 2001.

 

[bobbybe01]

late '93

 

[Sketcher]

It's cold in the garage so I ain't going digging unless I have an actual claim to defend.

I have a Commodore modem (300 baud) from the BBS days. Though some around these here parts don't consider BBS's as "Internet", we hosted sites, traded console tricks, transfered software and digitized music from tape. Eh yep, music. That'd be waaaaaaaay back in '85

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: Jigga
I dunno about the Internet, but I started BBSing back in the 5th grade on a 2400baud modem (1988), in 1989 I logged onto Usenet for the first time (after watching my dad send messages back and forth between DEC's sales office in Australia.) My father bought a 14400 baud modem (venerable Courier) the day it came out, and we experimented with Compuserve and Prodigy before switching to AOL when they first released version 2.0 (1992?) My family's been on AOL ever since, but around 1994 I switched to pure dialup PPP after becoming frustrated with AOL's "web browser" (seriously their first version of WWW was the worst hacked crap evar!) By this time Netscape was already at 1.2 or something, so I was never a pure NCSA Mosaic user.

No cable?

Huh?? Cable internet wasn't out back in 1994. I only gave a brief history of how I got started on the net. Sometime after that I went to college and discovered the joys of ethernet, 1.5mbps up AND down, Napster, LAN gaming, etc. etc. I remember during breaks I had net withdrawal and couldn't even bear to use dialup. By the time I graduated though I was able to sign up for RoadRunner. We still have the same AOL family account because my dad doesn't want to lose that email address!

As far as PROOF goes, I actually had my first web page up in 1994. It described all the stuff in my "homebuilt" computer, including my 1337 Pentium-75 (which I upgraded to Pentium-100!! One hundred megahertz!!) Incidentally, that is how Anand got started, just writing a page describing the stuff in his computer!!! My ISP was MV communications (MV.net) which is still around today! My homepage was jain.mv.net--yes instead of using www.isp.com/~user this ISP was actually giving each subscriber a subdomain and fixed IP back in 1994 (on dialup!) Of course, I just tried it and apparently those bastards deleted my account and homepage after I stopped giving them money

 

[glugglug]

First used the internet from Duke University back in 1986 (but how would I prove this?) Used USENET, gopher, & ftp stuff from OSU in 1988. Was online from my dorm instead of the lab in 1992, ran an ISP out of the house in 1994.

Oh, and http://bbslist.textfiles.com/407/ lists the BBS we ran out of the dorm as being from 1992-1994, but actually it started in October 1991.