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

[Perknose]

I remember upgrading my 8086 FULLY IBM (bios) compatible with a blazing Cardinal 2400 baud modem bought for the then truly killer price of $50 at a vendor's bazaar outside a PACS (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) meet in 1985.

Logging onto BBS's at night on the porch with the amber screen aglow was thrilling! Also, belonging to PACS felt like being amongst a Band of Brothers.

. . . Realizing that 5 1/4" floppies were binned and that you could buy a pack of single sided 180 kb's and most would format both sides to 360 kb. :laugh:

. . .The snooty, know-little, well dressed clerks @ that overpriced mall franchise store Eggheads didn't like me and I didn't like them, but they were just about the only b&m store around in my East Coast burbs. :|

. . . I had a genuine Hercules vid card, not a Hercules compatible, that sported a screen font program! :thumbsup:

. . . Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE I knew, had the very same Seagate 20mb hard drive, with a Western Digital controller. :Q

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I was online in high school. My buddy intoduced me to interpent porn by showing me a chick with a baseball bat in 1993. I clearly remember using AOL and having a 9600 baud modem on a 386. Woot!

 

[bobsmith1492]

Bulletin boards on dialup back in '92? Does that count? I downloaded Wacky Wheels from one of those...

 

[johncatral]

I was visiting Bulletin Board Systems and I was on QuantumLink (which is AOL now) for my Commodore 64.

 

[sharkeeper]

I downloaded Wacky Wheels from one of those...

They need an updated version of that game.

That one and the game where you drove radio controlled cars through the neigborhood and even on the deck of Titanic. The latter game was probably 1998 or so.

 

[EyeMWing]

Back in... '93? I was in a training video for teh-intarweb (well, in this case, gopher)-in-education. I believe my lines consisted of my loudly shouting the login information and some retarded pun about how gopher stands for "go-for". If anyone has a copy of this video, by any chance, I'd LOVE a DivX.

 

[Random Variable]

I was on Prodigy in 1991, but I don't know if that counts.

 

[Hammer]

i used a dos based prodigy and a 2400 baud modem. i can't remember the year, i think like 1993 or 1994.

 

[Maetryx]

December 2, 1993

Still Matrix (with alternate spelling) after all these years. This also serves as proof that I did not name myself after the 1999 movie.

 

[Saulbadguy]

June 7th, 1994 was the first day I was on the internet.

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: Maetryx
December 2, 1993

Still Matrix (with alternate spelling) after all these years. This also serves as proof that I did not name myself after the 1999 movie.

wow! I will give ya 2 :thumbsup: for that one!

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Maetryx
December 2, 1993

Still Matrix (with alternate spelling) after all these years. This also serves as proof that I did not name myself after the 1999 movie.

wow! I will give ya 2 :thumbsup: for that one!

Oooh! Thanks. My sig includes a quote from the 1993 B sci-fi/cyberpunk movie Nemesis. I was enamored with it at the time. That phone number (can you believe I actually posted my phone number in my sig back then?) still belongs to my ex-wife.

 

[CraigRT]

i can't prove, but it was on the net in 1996 for the first time.

 

[NietzscheRCN]

Summer of 93 for me. I had no idea what I was doing though. My friends dad had it.

 

[KoolAidKid]

Originally posted by: Perknose
. . . Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE I knew, had the very same Seagate 20mb hard drive, with a Western Digital controller. :Q

I still miss my ST225 hard drive.

 

[Sensor]

Aug. 22, 1995

I did my first BBS in 1993, and got on "The Internet" through CyberComm.net (who still provides dial-up and Tele-Arena, I believe) in 1995. Although not the earliest by far, I do take some pride in the fact that my screenname is still the same as it was when I was 12! ^_^

--Ed

Edit: Cybercomm is no more? Good-bye fond memories! I'll always remember your ANSI color!

 

[SonicIce]

it was like 1998 or 1999, i was in some free poker game and i had to ask what "lol" meant

 

[Rayden]

In networking today our teacher was going over the history of the internet and he was asking people when they got their first email address. Most got it mid to late 90's. So then he goes on to draw his own "internet timeline." He got his in the late 60's. Back when ARPAnet was around.

 

[Sphexi]

Used to be on Prodigy when they were just numbers, before that Compuserv. After that AOL, then we were on Verizon DSL when it first came out, but probably the earliest of any of that that still exists is my Yahoo! usernames from '98, or ebay account from '99 or so.

 

[gaidensensei]

too bad they didn't attach dates to screenshots of quake.. which was the reason why I was on during the 96's anyways.

those days the word lag became popular!

edit: oldest i could find was a 98 reminiscence of online quake~

http://www.clan-rum.org/Lagapalooza/ > season 2 of Lagapalooza '98. nova [x4] (my old handle)!! the memories..

 

[MechJinx]

I was on Prodigy back in '91. I was part of New York Mets fan club. I'll have to try and dig out some of the newsletters I was mailed (hehe, mailed since it would take up too much bandwidth online)

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: PCHPlayer
OK I read every post and I have you all beat. In late 1982 I sent my first internet e-mail to my ex-girlfriend. I was working at TRW in CA at the time and she was going to school at RIT (Rochester, NY). I had to route the message through the internet myself using the "!" addressing scheme. It was something like trwgateway!uscd!...!rit!girlfriend

Congratulations.

All those years online, and you've still yet to learn electronic mail != teh intarweb.

 

[drewski]

when i got to college in 1989 . . . ya know, back whengopher searches and anonymous FTP were the sh*t.

a 14.4 modem was just a glimmer in a designer's eye.

proof. hmm, i'll have to look into that!

1992 is the earliest i could find

andrew chang = drewski

 

[vailr]

Anyone recall the full screen, color "face of a cheeta" photo?
http://www.liceoalberti.it/~pompei/images/cheeta.gif

 

[LukFilm]

Originally posted by: vailr
Anyone recall the full screen, color "face of a cheeta" photo?
http://www.liceoalberti.it/~pompei/images/cheeta.gif

LOL, I sure do