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it's been five years since I originally joined the forum
Slick:
I remember being excited by the prospect of AOL but it wasn't really what I had hoped. Firstly, we were not in/near a major city so it was long distance fees on the free trial, and the place just wasn't very cool. It was like, hey, let's take the idea of the internet and then make a new one entirely separate from the internet so that we shut off the pioneers and the interesting people. I guess I can see why they thought it might of flown, but it really just always sucked.
My first internet experiences were talking in chatrooms set up for magic: the gathering. I remember one guy mentioned he popped someone's cherry and I was like 'what does that mean?' and they had to explain it to me. Also I read lots of webcomics. Lots and lots. Now I just read a handful.
celticgeek:
Well, I joined this forum about three years ago.
I first got on the internet on May 19, 1996 (I have records to show this), with a 14.4 dial-up modem. It was a local ISP, FutureOne, which was subsequently purchased by a series of other ISPs, until Mindspring (EarthLink) finally bought them, and I just couldn't stand any of their crap any longer. And about that time (2000), my cable company came along with internet for our house, and I remember being extremely impressed by the speed of the cable internet. I also remember that I essentially had to reinstall Windows on an erased hard drive to get rid of all the EarthLink crap on the computer.
Bastardous Bassist:
Oh, man. Cable internet reminds me of the funny time when we got cable internet. I was all, "Man, I can start downloading so much music. It'll be great!" So I did, and it was fast. So fast! Then I went to play it, and nothing came out of my speakers. Not a damned thing. It had worked fine before. After much searching, we found that our computer didn't have enough IRQs to run both the freshly installed ethernet card and the sound card at the same time. So, I could download my music, then I'd have to go into the back of the computer and disconnect the ethernet card from the PCI slot to get everything to work. At the time, I wasn't aware that the software could have probably handled that, but we're hardware people in my family.
Mnementh:
I remember Mosaic! I used it briefly. We didn't get the internet at home until the late 90s, but I first used it over a 2400 baud modem in the early 90s (I want to say 92/93) in school.
I didn't do much with it at the time other than check out Usenet, but hey, internet history!
squawk:
I've been using the internet since I was probably five or six? I remember playing CD-ROM games with my brothers when I was three, but later I went online solely to play shockwave games. Then in 2002 I started my own website about my birds and some comics. All incarnations of this are still running. Then I discovered this forum and consequently webcomics in early 2005. This was also the advent of "Social Networking" and shit, which is now my major timewaster.
Then Texts From Last Night launched early this year and that is like the only recent new habit of mine in terms of internet usage since 2005 and also my other major timewaster.
Oh I finally got some fuckin' DSL in May of this year. That was ridiculous.
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