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

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[YoYoBabyYo]

Originally posted by: malak
I remember kicking people off the internet back on AOL. Good times, good times.

LOL. I remember doing that. The correct term was "punting." Gosh, those where the fun times.

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: 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.

icq# 100246
Nick: Unclewai
First: Thomas
Last: Cheng

 

[DaFinn]

Still got my 2400 baud modem as a reminder... I think our online bank connection was opened 1990? Prolly some proof exists somewhere...

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

My first NannyMUD character dates from third or fourth quarter of '92, that's the oldest proof I can think of.

Edit: Google turned up with this concerning Nannymud

Ysidro: Ysidro was the creation of the Wizard named Bally and was one
of the most feared Damnies ever known. He killed a lot of
players and had amassed quite a bit of money on his many
characters. He played from the Netherlands.

 

[NetGuySC]

can't prove it but was on the Bulletin boards back in the early to mid 80's
then on Compuserve ... paid $12/hr peak time and 8$ off peak ..Plus LD charges.

I also remember salivating over a 1200 baud modem then the 2400 baud... that was smokin fast back then

 

5/22/1994

 

[79Blazer]

Originally posted by: malak
I remember kicking people off the internet back on AOL. Good times, good times.

YES! Punting proggies. HAHAHAhaha.

L33t

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: flyingboujanero
I still have my Intel external modem, a screaming 14.4, bigger than a book... Was back on bulletin boards, and then the start of the interweb.

actually, no.

I used a 300 baud modem in college. Had to put the phone handset on the modem, yep it was one of those old ones.

This was 1994.
The browser I used was text based as well since images dont load too well in dos.

 

[slag]

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!

I had a 4 digit icq number but damnit if i cant remember it now.

 

[sharkeeper]

Tracking Hurricane Gloria sending out advisories via fidonet. September 23-28 1985. 20+ years for me.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I'm pretty sure that I still have Netscape 1.22 on a disk somewhere.

 

[DurocShark]

I was on in 94 but can't find anything... Here's a link to some posts from 97 though:

Fishy Posts

 

[jmgonzalez]

June 1993

 

[dman]

I was involved with BBS's way back (but not all the way back) starting w/ a 1200baud modem. They were tied together with a few different nets for messaging but I wasn't doing any web surfing or gophering or ftping until I got my first tech support job that had internet access.

Shortly thereafter I got an ISP (cybergate) account which was later boughtout by Earthlink.

I did a search of my old email, and found a post from May of 1995 on usenet. (ugh, some of those I wish I had known were never going away... nothing bad, but, still funny/embarassing to see after all these years).

At that time there were still a lot more people who'd been on the net before me, so, not impressive.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
My first NannyMUD character dates from third or fourth quarter of '92, that's the oldest proof I can think of.

Edit: Google turned up with this concerning Nannymud

Whoa... now that's a URL I've not seen in a long time... a long time indeed.
Memories are rushing back now, of downloading demos from HappyPuppy and LordSoth

I think this is my earliest proof, although if I can remember my full email addy from HS I might be able to dig up more.
(From TMBG listserv)

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:06:51 -0700
From: Jason/KnightFire <dalffson@serv01.net-link.net>
Organization: Underground Inc.
Subject: Re: they flock to the strangest places

yeah, i saw it too. it was during "my so-called life" and the individual
was CMooney302, just in case anyone wants to congratulate him/her or
something.

[I removed my sig here, it had a Dr Seuss quote I forgot I'd ever used]

It was talking about some thing on MTV where online users could display a message on TV, and someone typed "They Might Be Giants"

Heh... I poked about a tad more, and my post to the same listserv a few days earlier includes the same quote that's in my sig right now

 

[Linflas]

I posted something to a moderated Atari ST usenet group in 1988 but I was getting to it from a login on a VAX cluster frontend. It wasn't even my login account and I did the noob thing and accidentally cross-posted it to a ton of other groups.

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: s...@netcom.com (Name removed) - Find messages by this author
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 00:48:50 GMT
Local: Tues, Jul 12 1994 5:48 pm
Subject: Help with newborn kittens
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We recently took in an 8 month old (according to our vet) pregnant
kitten. On Monday morning she gave birth to 3 kittens. The first one,
we did not see as it happened before we woke up, but she did all the
things we were told she would do with it. It then took about 1.5 hours
before the other 2 were born and she seemed to have some difficulty
delivering them. She did not clean them and chew the cord, so we did
this for her as instructed. Everything seems to be fine except she
doesn't seem to be taking care of them, other than feeding them. Upon
our vets instructions we have started to swab their genital areas in case
she is not doing this. Whenever we enter the room, she pays plenty of
attention to us and ignores the kittens. Has anyone else experienced
this and do they eventually learn? Any help/experiences would be most
appreciated.


Don


s...@netcom.com

 

[Nitemare]

I was on BBS's @ 2400 extreme poWer, and on newsgroups and telneting back in 1992 @ NCSU

Remember paying like 2 bucks an hour back in 95 or so and was limited to the ISP because I had a 386 with only 1MB of memory.

I was radical as well: used Internet Chameleon vs Netscape and tried Internet Phone back in 94-95

 

[knyghtbyte]

Given i live in the archaic town of London, i first chatted on the internet in 1995, 10 years ago end of this May coming
i'll be a decade old (in online years, 28 chronologically)

not sure how i can prove it tho, was in a Cybercafe i first got it on...lol

I chatted in Gamelahn, Earthweb, Sneakerchat, Surria....so if any of those ring any bells you might know when i was around, also Womenswire, which was a Java applet chat advertised on some Canadian womans TV show and it suddenly became a really popular chatroom, so popular it went to ichat system...lol.

However, before that, i did actually connect an Amstrad 464 tape deck loading computer by modem type thing to a friend in a house a couple streets away, was a direct connection though, number to number. was fun, managed to type words to each toher, couldnt get a multiplayer game to work though :-(
that was back in, um, oh crikey, late 1980's i think...lol....dont ask me any details, even the 1995 stuff is hazy at my age from smoking too much dope....they were known as the cloudy years...lol

 

[TallBill]

I wasn't online untill 1998. No proof though. It was a tough first few years.

 

[Phokus]

***********I WIN****************

Reading through the thread, i can conclude that everyone is is a n00b

Now i don't have any proof, but i had access to the internet (telnet/rlogin, ftp, usenet, email access using commandline unix) through my dad's MIT account via a 2400 baud modem circa 1989/1990. I played some of the first MUDs/MOOS/Mushes that ever existed. SUCK ON THAT!

 

[SuperSix]

09/03/95


This is the first occurance I can find on Google groups.

I started with a 300baud modem, Using Prodigy, then Netcom. Ran a somewaht large BBS (3 lines, paid adult board) for a few years, until I foresaw the Internet taking over.

I remember the CHristmas where my favorite present was a Cardinal 2400 baud modem.

 

[sharkeeper]

***********I WIN****************

Reading through the thread, i can conclude that everyone is is a n00b

Now i don't have any proof, but i had access to the internet (telnet/rlogin, ftp, usenet, email access using commandline unix) through my dad's MIT account via a 2400 baud modem circa 1989/1990. I played some of the first MUDs/MOOS/Mushes that ever existed. SUCK ON THAT!

Umm no. 2400 baud was LIGHTING FAST compared to what we did 30 years ago.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Phokus
***********I WIN****************

Reading through the thread, i can conclude that everyone is is a n00b

Now i don't have any proof, but i had access to the internet (telnet/rlogin, ftp, usenet, email access using commandline unix) through my dad's MIT account via a 2400 baud modem circa 1989/1990. I played some of the first MUDs/MOOS/Mushes that ever existed. SUCK ON THAT!

I had that access in 1987 as part of my job, not through my dad. I bet there a quite a few on here that did as well. You might want to reconsider your "win".

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper

***********I WIN****************

Reading through the thread, i can conclude that everyone is is a n00b

Now i don't have any proof, but i had access to the internet (telnet/rlogin, ftp, usenet, email access using commandline unix) through my dad's MIT account via a 2400 baud modem circa 1989/1990. I played some of the first MUDs/MOOS/Mushes that ever existed. SUCK ON THAT!

Umm no. 2400 baud was LIGHTING FAST compared to what we did 30 years ago.

Heh my "computer class" in high school in 1973 used teletype to talk to a mainframe. IIRC those things ran somewhere between 30-60 baud. I still have some of the paper tape of my programs from that in a box somewhere.