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it's been five years since I originally joined the forum
tania:
i was really excited when my parents first got the internet in 2000 because it meant i could finally be on neopets, the super awesome new thing all of my friends were into at the time and would absolutely never shut up about. i remember that my pet was called a wocky and i loved him. later i went on the neopets forums and dissed some stupid guy and my account was locked so i lost my wocky and i never went on neopets again because i was too sad.
Bastardous Bassist:
I got on the internet in the early 90's. It was a free demo for AOL. I used it to look up cheat codes for video games (because I was sucking so bad at them) and IM with my friend from down the street. It was the coolest thing ever. Once the demo expired, my dad decided to use dialup through his work (we connected to his office, which connected to the internet). It was beyond slow. I don't remember any of the Windows things, because we had Macs back then (before the G series processors, and that computer still works, by the way).
Orbert:
I'm a dinosaur like Paul, just not as cool.
We had Internet email on our VAX-11 system in 1983, but I had no one to write to. I used to haunt various BBS's back then, discussing movies and music and stuff. Usenet kinda grew out of that in the mid-80's, and I still use Usenet a lot to get new music.
My first modem was 1200 baud, hooked up to an original Apple Macintosh in 1992. I used it play on MUDs and MUSHes. My character's name was always Orbert. My "Internet persona" has always been Orbert. I remember getting my 2400 baud modem and totally grooving on how frickin' fast it was.
I was at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) in 1993 and watched Dr. Bob Panoff demo an amazing new application he was working on called a "web browser". The app was called Mosaic, and many of the patents in Mosaic went into Netscape and are still used by IE and every web browser today. He kicked me off of a Cray once because I was playing Rogue. He hated computer games, the freak.
I wrote my first web pages in 1996. Back then, there were no WYSIWYG tools; everything was written in raw HTML code. I still have a few websites, every one of which is just done for fun, but at least there's FrontPage and DreamWeaver now.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 23 Sep 2009, 04:18 ---I had my first website about fifteen years ago
--- End quote ---
Aren't you only like seventeen or eighteen?
I first started using the internet back when I was twelve or thirteen, so maybe '96 or '97. Our PC was way out of date. No CD-ROM, running Windows 3.1 on like a 486 machine. I passed my time on it going to AOL's chat rooms and message boards, primarily comic book related ones, but a few band ones. I stuck with a single Marvel Comics chat room from the ages of thirteen until I moved out and got cable internet in my first apartment at around twenty. I still actually communicate with a couple people from that chat to this day. My crowning achievement on that forum was a fan fiction parody of comic subculture starring Mr. Potato Head and Kool-Aid Man where we would basically just make terrible puns and in-jokes about how John Byrne was an asshole (The Marvel chat room was essentially the biggest comic chat on the internet back then, so a few various creators would pop in from time to time, Byrne and Walt SImonson being about the biggest I ever conversed with, though I did once get the chance to be banned for a bit for asking Tom Breevort why Spider-Man sucked so bad at the time and who let John Byrne and Howard Mackie write comics).
Ah, memories. I can also remember back when it would take like a week to download an entire album. Oh, Dial-Up...
Barmymoo:
Yeah I am 18, my dad made me a website and I dictated stories about princesses for him to put on, and drew a picture on Paint to upload (I think it was of me and my brother). I also coloured in a picture of Noddy but I think that was later.
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