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

[WooDaddy]

Whutever.. I had a gopher site.. First webpage up in Jan 1994 when I was browsing with lynx. My last school page is still up and I made it in 1998.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: LeetViet
Photoshop is your friend.

chop who?

LOL i haven't been on internet too long....

 

[sswingle]

I don't know the year, but our first modem was a 2400 baud connected to a 486 computer. Back then, the internet was all text.

 

[KoolAidKid]

August 2 1994 Usenet posting: link

I was definitely on before then, though. I remember having to go through a complicated series of commonds to get mosaic to run on the x-terminal in my school's computer lab. The only web page that we could find was www.whitehouse.gov. I remember the first time I got the web browser working all of the people in the lab came over to see what the hell I was doing. Boy, things have changed pretty quickly.

Edit: BTW, if BBS's count (which I don't think that they should), I was logging into them as far back as 1986 with my trusty 300 baud modem.

 

[Rock Hydra]

We got a free trial of AOL on our computer when we got it. It was in the early-mid nineties. Only thing I was able to do or figure out to do was read newspaper articles and stuf. We proptly cancelled since we couldn't figure out anything else. I was like 8 or so at the time and didn't know much about computers then. My mom is a pack rat when it comes to bills. I know the invoice is around somewhere. Just not readily available and I don't feel like searching for it.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: flot
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/813/

My BBS is listed here from 1994, but as I recall, I started it in 1992-93.

I recall getting some killer deals (only $400) on the first 9600 bps modems.

Around 93 some of the SysOps started getting hooked up through some "internet email gateway" nonsense... most of us thought THAT was a silly waste of time.

God I use to rack up huge telephone bills doing BBS's

Ausm

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
I have a note from Al Gore that says I was the second person on the internet. Al, of course, was the first.

I remember one of my earliest pains in the ass was trying to d/l IE 3.0 on a 14.4 modem.

lmao.... You must be too young to remember the old 2400 baud modems (and whatever was before them)

I first started chatting with people via computer to computer connections from University to University in 1986... I probably have some printouts in my mother's attic if she hasn't thrown them away.

 

[cricky]

Originally posted by: Ausm


God I use to rack up huge telephone bills doing BBS's

Ausm

That's why the hardcore used to use PC Pursuit for interstate BBS'n.

(god I'm feeling old because of this thread. I remember running a BBS on a C64 with a couple of 1541's...)

 

[Blazin Trav]

I had a 36k modem, and I remember using Compuserve. I don't know when I was on the net first however. I've been using a computer since I was 5 (not sure but around that age)...

 

[AndrewR]

I kept my Hayes Optima 2400 baud modem for quite some time after I stopped using it since it was a piece of art -- tough metal case and awesome quality all around. I remember scouring Computer Shopper for the latest BBS numbers and DLing all sorts of stuff. Remember the ASCII art some places had? It's quite impressive even now.

First internet experience, if you can call it that, was some experimenting with email in France in 1993. Did some more email in late '93 and '94 in the States and then really got online in 1994 with Vanderbilt's VAX. Had fun sending spoofed emails like the one I sent my brother from Satan@hell.com.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
You haven't seen it in a long time... does that mean you used to play NannyMUD too?

Got especially fond memories from playing at home through a 1200 baud link, buffering commandos and waiting several minutes sometimes for the scrolling to stop
(Killed Merlin's Pet once that way, with a level 6 or 8 character... took ages before someone managed to kill it with an even lower character )

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the only MUD I ever spent any real amount of time on. Even then, I still didn't end up with a very powerful character...

 

[BudAshes]

Just call Al gore he knows i was first.

Ok if that joke has already been done in this thread i will punch myself in the face.

 

[cressida]

I remember surfing a little bit back in the day ... in 94 but didn't have a PC till 97 then I started downloading mp3's. People at highschool told me it was stupid to download songs onto your computer

 

[TerryMathews]

July 17, 1994

I was on the internet before this, but this is the first USENET post I made and thus one of the few things that's still archived.

EDIT: I should probably point out that I was 11 at the time.

 

[GreenGhost]

My first e-mail was setup August 1990. Most people still had bitnet ones, and we would specify how the message would be routed. I remember I would send to UIUC, then to the real recepient. Not much else existed. I used telnet and ftp to acess mainframes I had access to. Library searches were via telnet, too.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
You haven't seen it in a long time... does that mean you used to play NannyMUD too?

Got especially fond memories from playing at home through a 1200 baud link, buffering commandos and waiting several minutes sometimes for the scrolling to stop
(Killed Merlin's Pet once that way, with a level 6 or 8 character... took ages before someone managed to kill it with an even lower character )

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the only MUD I ever spent any real amount of time on. Even then, I still didn't end up with a very powerful character...

'Powerful' was more a matter of knowledge, reputation and luck combined than anything else A bit of skill helped, but wasn't needed if you had enough knowledge.

Edit: Cause of all the memories I logged on again on NannyMUD, my wizard (Bally) and most important second char (Ysidro) still exist

 

[mpitts]

I couldn't even begin to try and find posts that I made via BBS's in 93/94.

The oldest I could find in USENET was July 7, 1995 when I was stuck on AOL in Michigan. There weren't any local ISPs that I could find. It took me a good six months to find out about the freenet in my area.

Edit: It's funny. I just looked in my drawer and found the copy of Pitfall 2 for the 2600 that I paid $12 for online 10 years ago. Hard to believe it was that long ago!

 

[dmcowen674]

I still have some print outs from when I was online with a service called VideoText in 1983. Used a 300 Baud Acoustic coupler modem that looked like a phone headset.

 

[UTmtnbiker]

Two words. Trade Wars.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Xafgoat
Just call Al gore he knows i was first.

Ok if that joke has already been done in this thread i will punch myself in the face.

Make sure to get it on webcam. That sounds entertaining.

 

[slycat]

I was an occasional channel OP on #warez back in the day

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

'Powerful' was more a matter of knowledge, reputation and luck combined than anything else A bit of skill helped, but wasn't needed if you had enough knowledge.

Edit: Cause of all the memories I logged on again on NannyMUD, my wizard (Bally) and most important second char (Ysidro) still exist

Hm... either I can't remember my old login, or my character is gone.

 

[dphantom]

1988 dial up 300 baud modem to compuserve bulletin board. No proof though. Needed it for my Master's.

 

[alkemyst]

You can search for PS/2 FAQ, the IBM one...Last-modified: 1996/02/20

but this seems about the beginning of GOOGLE

IBM PS/2 with Cyrix Cx486DRx2-40
I just finished building a system and ran comptest 2.59 on it. It is a IBM PS/2
with Cyrix Cx486DRx2-40,83D87-33, 4MB RAM, and cirrus CL-gd5426 video chipset. ...
comp.benchmarks - Oct 13 1994, 8:47 am by CHRISTOPHER J FEENY - 1 message - 1 author

In the LOD vs MOD hack war, I was part of that also. Altgers-TCHH/Lutz-QSD etc were the the Telenet X.25/Tymnet networks of the day....it was ARPAnet/MILnet still....no AL GORE internet .

An interesting sidenote was Kimble of kimble.org was on some of those exchanges.

I was fortunate to have a loaded Apple //e with printer and graphics cards, etc under the Christmas tree in 1983.

I did have posts under altavista I think at early as 1992....I had 'internet' posts throughout the late 80's, however; with disk space costing $1000's a MB noone saved non-financial gains.

 

[AntisociaL]

First logged on in 97 with a WEBTV ! YEAH

I remember having a deja email account and using the newsgroups there and getting an email saying they were transforming to a company called GOOGLE
Couldnt afford a pc at the time and was wanting the internet badly.