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snalin:
According to wikipedia, the World Wide Web went public two months before I was born. My dad's a computer guy, so it's been with me always. We got it at home quite late, back when 128kb was the big thing, and just a few people had ADSL, but I had a lot of fun times. Spent most of my time at a terrible norwegian chat site for kids (short story; 12-14 year olds cybering) and a Paperinik forum in decline. That's where I learned the joy of good spam. It's wonderful if done right.

Ozymandias:
Guys I used to be on Prodigy, and I would go in chat rooms and in these chat rooms we would RP and I was MagiCaros because Caros was a name I made up for Gemstone 3 but then they took down Gemstone 3 on Prodigy and I was sad, but I was MagiCaros and I owned a bar and sometimes I would duel people and we would type up crazy things to sound impressive as we fought int he chat room.

I guess this was 95?

Goddamn.

mberan42:

--- Quote from: est on 23 Sep 2009, 04:47 ---I used BBSes with my Amiga uh, ages ago.  I was in highschool I think.  BBS games like Legend of the Red Dragon, TradeWars, The Pit and Hack N Slash were The Shit.

--- End quote ---

Man, LoRD was a good game. Barren Realms Earth was fun, too. I also used to play a game called VGA Planets - you had to email your turn to the host, as would all the other players, then the host would email you back a file to load that would show all the other players moves, etc. A RISK-like game, in space.

I got Prodigy when I was 12 or so, in 1993, (I don't remember using Prodigy a whole lot, though), when I got my first modern computer, a Gateway 2000. It was a 486, had a 66Mhz processor, 4Mb of RAM, and something like 200Mb hard drive, along with a 9600 baud modem. I BBS'd a bit, but it wasn't until 1994 that I really started getting into it, 'cause we moved back to Chicago and there were many more options out there. The Lake County Radio Group BBS was the one I spent the most time on, mostly playing games and using the message boards, but also downloading stuff and trying to get into ANSI. When I turned 16, (1996), I asked for, and received, a 28.8bps modem for my birthday. It was awesome. Sometime around then the family decided to sign up for AOL. We had version 1.5. I still have the same screen name for AIM, which was a shortened version of the handle I used for all the BBSs I frequented, and my parents still (unbelievably) use AOL.

memories

Lines:
You kids and your internet. Get off my lawn.

Finin:
from 96 till 99 I had free internet from AOL because we kept getting free demos and when we would call to cancel after the demo expired they just offered another 2 months or so. Back then I didn't do much on the internet because there didnt seem to be much too do, I also had a neopet and remember some god awful games. 

Mostly what I remember was my parents being all fearful and timid of the internet and giving me a set of rules for the internet as though I could some how be taken through the screen by some crusty pervert.

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