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  • bloggeries
    err irc lol no mIRC back then ;-)
  • MikeLewis says
    aol 1995....yeah...
  • Venus says
    10 years ago.. hard to imagine. Hubby bought the comp and I didn't want it. (LOL) Yea, that changed fast!
  • Alex
    I think I was around 97 I was very young at that time so didn't have a clue what i was doing but i think my dad did show me the internet
  • DarinRMcClure
    forgets the year that inet was added to the BBS I was on.
  • topsurf says
    1993 also...dial up too!! Everyone used to complain the phone line was busy 24-7! :-o
  • caff3inated3lf
    my first Juno account (HAHAHA) was sometime around 1993
  • AdamHansen says
    in the autumn of 1991. Whew, I am getting old.
  • Robyn feels
    old too!
  • caff3inated3lf
    I was also using the Quickbasic program to write fiction stories, and had no idea it was supposed to be a programmin interface
  • Robyn says
    omgoodness...Comodore 64 - we had one ;-)
  • ismail says
    1994 - MIRC, FTP and WWW
  • ismail says
    tried MSN network for a while which totally sucked
  • jeayese says
    1996 and was using hotmail to chat haha!
  • ismail says
    robyn me too... coding the turtle in logo@ wicked
  • otherdeb says
    1988 - on a Mac IIci. I really loved that little machine!
  • mike626 says
    In 1990: 1st email acct. In 1992 The Cellar added Usenet feeds. It's been downhill ever since.
  • bloggeries
    do these responses tell you something about PLURK users? Or are people who recently signed up hesitant to mention withall these OLD dates?
  • ismail thinks
    ppl are either scared or ppl who sign up first for services are just geeks... :-)
  • yoonamaniac says
    I've never signed up for any services. I had a shell access from school lab and I dialed into school.
  • bloggeries
    ismail hmm I wonder which.. No wait it's a bit of both
  • ismail says
    bloggeries, i think its more ppl who sign up for services first have usually been net addicts for a long time (unless they still young)
  • AprilTara was
    online around 1992, 1993 (Prodigy). Went without for a few yrs then signed up on AOL before it went "unlimited"
  • the JoshMeister says
    1995 or 1996 for me. And it was with AOL 2.x on a Macintosh Performa 640CD DOS Compatible
  • seerysm says
    it was my freshman year at Colgate in 1993
  • ThatDude says
    i was on in 93 as well. It sucked up a lot of my time then too.
  • Suraj says
    1999 .. 56k dialup .. basically google search and yahoo mail.. and messenger.
  • randomnicole
    um, back before it was the interwebs. in the university environment. way, way, long ago
  • lucaspereira says
    Here in Brazil, it came just in 1996. And I started in 1998.
  • Konstantino says
    I remember the first site I visited was for Power Rangers, and my Dad helped me. Was the early 90's for sure. :p
  • Konstantino says
    I remember the first site I visited was for Power Rangers, and my Dad helped me. Was the early 90's for sure. :p
  • AdamDesAutels
    Good question... Don't really remember. Need to think about it (g_thinking)
  • JulianN says
    I've been on since 1994. I was on secondment at Symantec in Beaverton, OR and they were just rolling it out.
  • nightsky says
    I didn't get on the net until I joined the navy in 1998. That's when I discovered Yahoo.
  • Abbreviated shares
    2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?
  • Abbreviated shares
    2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?
  • philc // me.dm
    1989-90 - really early, through fidonet.
  • MidnightMoon shares
    1995 AOL parenting message boards when my daughter was born
  • nightsky says
    does Compuserve count? Then I'm with Kristamea. I spent way too much money on Compuserve.
  • CallKathy
    1988 or so via AOL (believe it or not)
  • SharonHH says
    I got on around 93-94 on a compuserve account at work. Connecting was a painful process
  • nightsky says
    I spent a lot of time in chatrooms then. Glad they died off. :-)
  • Rami
    MSN 1996
  • nightsky
    agrees. I'm glad how open the internet is.
  • MichaelKing says
    1995 with a AOL and Prodigy account on a Mac
  • RogueTess says
    late 1994 if memory serves. Prodigy, GEnie, flirted with The WELL in SF, brief unsatisfactory affair with AOL. Had a Kaypro from 1982-88ish
  • iDesignStudios says
    I don't remember the year, but it was likely between 1993-1994 with CompuServe
  • KitiaraTomsen says
    I feel very old. I was on cyber in 1987
  • marywallace says
    good god, all you babies. i took computer class at USF in 1982. used magcard in late 70's/early 80's, computers as soon as they came out
  • maneesh says
    2000
  • Cudd says
    Early 90's with a dial up AOL account.
  • margalit says
    This is REALLY gonna age me, but I worked for BBN and was on the net in 1982 when it wasn't even the internet. It was Darpanet/then Arpanet.
  • hacool says
    I was using email as of 1984 but only to other schoolmates. Later I remember thinking Gopher was very cool and took to checking Usenet daily
  • motorphilia says
    1991 or 92 . . . I think we the first in the neighborhood
  • motorphilia says
    first picture downloaded was of Cher at my dad's office :-)
  • hacool says
    I'm glad to see there are other oldsters here. I starting tinkering with HTML in 93 when I was still using Lynx.
  • RogueTess says
    margalit Sistah! Nice 2 see a geek gal in my demographic. Took programming classes etc from 1979ish, later dabbled mostly in usenet groups.
  • KDFrawg says
    1981 for stuff like this, 1977 for email
  • disneyr says
    1995
  • MichDdot says
    telnet in 80's
  • PopCandy says
    I think it waas around 97, 98. but cut me some slack, I was only seven in 97
  • KitKat4Me
    I have been using the internet everyday since about 3 or 4 years but been on the PC for as long as i can remember...^_^ (s_music)
  • thor13 says
    circa '97 '98
  • fireshaper says
    around 95, we had COMPUSERVE!
  • stevelenti says
    somewhere near 91 92. Remember gopher?
  • kaydee says
    it was sometime in the 90s, with marjhuana
  • CajoleJuice says
    probabaly 94/95. Had AOL at first, but then his dad switched to EROLS internet for a bunch of years while everyone else got AOL.
  • jamar78 says
    not until 97. Late bloomer I know.
  • definatalie says
    In 93 our school only had internet access in the library, but 95 I was at a new school using telnet talkies to get around the chat room ban
  • darrindickey says
    probably around 1991 or 1992. Was on BBSs, then Compuserve, then AOL. Found Gopher and Archie through AOL. Then Web via Netcom.
  • KDFrawg says
    1981
  • KDFrawg says
    No, at Compuserve. I had a Stanford email in 1977.
  • darrindickey says
    ah! You early adopter, you!
  • brucecat says
    hmm around 1999...mostly on IRC
  • Lelira thinks
    1996
  • KDFrawg says
    I was way early into IT and all of this was a bonus!
  • Raven says
    2000. That was when I finally got a computer that was able to access the internet.
  • blackfeathers says
    '89 my first toshiba orange monochrome computer & w/in same year first ast 386 desktop that i actually owned
  • bloggeries is
    shocked KDFrawg 's 1977 and 1981. You've "been around a while"
  • martinbogo
    1988, UC Berkeley, thanks to my father. I would play on ARPAnet
  • martinbogo
    by 1990 I was already using ICB / forum at UC Santa Cruz
  • KDFrawg says
    that it is just that he has repeated been around the block, bloggeries.
  • LexFortis says
    Was on Prodigy and AOL back in the day, maybe mid-80s
  • martinbogo
    It rocked .. single login for all three campuses, shared resources in all the computer labs
  • martinbogo
    all those VT100, VG50, wyse, and other terminals ...
  • jvedman
    rubs his chin and reminisces. I was working for IBM, around '96, before that I would dial up to connect through terminal emulation s/w.
  • ChangeForge... says
    When was AOL first hot and you got booted off every 2 minutes?
  • jvedman
    My (now ex-)wife was working for Turner Classic Movies, and I clearly remember the day I discovered IMDB... LoL!!
  • LexFortis
    Remembers when Indiana moved all computers to the "NeXT" platform. Whatever happened with that?
  • martinbogo
    It failed .. Jobs returned to Apple .. we got OS X and the iPhone ten years later.
  • martinbogo
    still has a NeXT cube.
  • LexFortis says
    , thanks Steve, for making my time at IU all the more challenging and for later making my iPhone!
  • Espen
    1994, I accessed it via a BBS. :-o First time for real (via Mosaic) in late 1995.
  • martinbogo is
    this thread STILL going? good lord. Plurk lets discussions last forever :-)
  • GavinLiu says
    1998, ISDN dialup 64K and change to ADSL 512K in 2002. it's been change to 1M in 2006
  • milwaukeeseo
    1995: High School Computer Class. Those were the days of innocence. (s_LOL)
  • bloggeries says
    if you haven't replied please do so!

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