bloggeries

asks

what year you first got on the internet? I first got on around 1993-1994 on a shell account using lynx browser. Mainly FTP/mIRC though

143 responses to this plurk

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:13PM

  bloggeries

  err irc lol no mIRC back then

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:13PM

  MikeLewis

  says

  aol 1995....yeah...

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:13PM

  Venus

  says

  10 years ago.. hard to imagine. Hubby bought the comp and I didn't want it. Yea, that changed fast!

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:15PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:15PM

  DarinRMcClure

  forgets the year that inet was added to the BBS I was on.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:15PM

  yoonamaniac

  says

  1988

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:15PM

  topsurf

  says

  1993 also...dial up too!! Everyone used to complain the phone line was busy 24-7!

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  yoonamaniac

  feels

  old

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  caff3inated3lf

  my first Juno account (HAHAHA) was sometime around 1993

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  AdamHansen

  says

  in the autumn of 1991. Whew, I am getting old.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  Robyn

  feels

  old too!

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  caff3inated3lf

  I was also using the Quickbasic program to write fiction stories, and had no idea it was supposed to be a programmin interface

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:16PM

  bloggeries

  yoonamaniac I believe I was busy on a comodore 64 back then Load a:\ ...

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:17PM

  Robyn

  says

  omgoodness...Comodore 64 - we had one

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:18PM

  ismail

  says

  1994 - MIRC, FTP and WWW

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:18PM

  ismail

  says

  tried MSN network for a while which totally sucked

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:19PM

  LindaZ

  1997

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:20PM

  jeayese

  says

  1996 and was using hotmail to chat haha!

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:20PM

  ismail

  says

  robyn me too... coding the turtle in logo@ wicked

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:22PM

  otherdeb

  says

  1988 - on a Mac IIci. I really loved that little machine!

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:25PM

  mike626

  says

  In 1990: 1st email acct. In 1992 The Cellar added Usenet feeds. It's been downhill ever since.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:27PM

  bloggeries

  do these responses tell you something about PLURK users? Or are people who recently signed up hesitant to mention withall these OLD dates?

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:28PM

  ismail

  thinks

  ppl are either scared or ppl who sign up first for services are just geeks...

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:30PM

  yoonamaniac

  says

  I've never signed up for any services. I had a shell access from school lab and I dialed into school.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:30PM

  bloggeries

  ismail hmm I wonder which.. No wait it's a bit of both

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:31PM

  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)

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:32PM

  bloggeries

  ismail definitely could be.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:34PM

  AprilTara

  was

  online around 1992, 1993 (Prodigy). Went without for a few yrs then signed up on AOL before it went "unlimited"

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:34PM

  the JoshMeister

  says

  1995 or 1996 for me. And it was with AOL 2.x on a Macintosh Performa 640CD DOS Compatible

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:35PM

  seerysm

  says

  it was my freshman year at Colgate in 1993

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:38PM

  ThatDude

  says

  i was on in 93 as well. It sucked up a lot of my time then too.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 03:46PM

  Suraj

  says

  1999 .. 56k dialup .. basically google search and yahoo mail.. and messenger.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:01PM

  zenfishing

  says

  1994 compuserve

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:02PM

  randomnicole

  um, back before it was the interwebs. in the university environment. way, way, long ago

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:03PM

  codemonkey

  says

  only 4 years ago via AOL then a quick switch to Time Warner

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:07PM

  lucaspereira

  says

  Here in Brazil, it came just in 1996. And I started in 1998.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:08PM

  tamar

  says

  read www.techipedia.com/2008/fifteen-years-of-social-media/

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:09PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:09PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:12PM

  starman

  1988

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:13PM

  AdamDesAutels

  Good question... Don't really remember. Need to think about it

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:22PM

  JulianN

  says

  I've been on since 1994. I was on secondment at Symantec in Beaverton, OR and they were just rolling it out.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:23PM

  nightsky

  says

  I didn't get on the net until I joined the navy in 1998. That's when I discovered Yahoo.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:29PM

  Abbreviated

  shares

  2000 late bloomer

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:31PM

  Abbreviated

  shares

  2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:32PM

  Abbreviated

  shares

  2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:35PM

  philc // me.dm

  1989-90 - really early, through fidonet.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:36PM

  MidnightMoon

  shares

  1995 AOL parenting message boards when my daughter was born

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:40PM

  nightsky

  says

  does Compuserve count? Then I'm with Kristamea. I spent way too much money on Compuserve.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:45PM

  CallKathy

  1988 or so via AOL (believe it or not)

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:51PM

  SharonHH

  says

  I got on around 93-94 on a compuserve account at work. Connecting was a painful process

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:53PM

  nightsky

  says

  I spent a lot of time in chatrooms then. Glad they died off.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 04:55PM

  Rami

  MSN 1996

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:10PM

  nightsky

  agrees. I'm glad how open the internet is.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:11PM

  MichaelKing

  says

  1995 with a AOL and Prodigy account on a Mac

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:17PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:18PM

  iDesignStudios

  says

  I don't remember the year, but it was likely between 1993-1994 with CompuServe

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:22PM

  KitiaraTomsen

  says

  I feel very old. I was on cyber in 1987

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:26PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:40PM

  maneesh

  says

  2000

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:48PM

  Cudd

  says

  Early 90's with a dial up AOL account.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:51PM

  hacool

  says

  I think I started telnetting to the Cleveland Freenet around 1989-90. wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet and got my own shell acct. in '93.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:52PM

  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.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 05:56PM

  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

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:01PM

  motorphilia

  says

  1991 or 92 . . . I think we the first in the neighborhood

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:01PM

  motorphilia

  says

  first picture downloaded was of Cher at my dad's office

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:01PM

  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.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:02PM

  debdebtig

  it was 1995

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:02PM

  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.

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:03PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  1981 for stuff like this, 1977 for email

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:09PM

  disneyr

  says

  1995

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:25PM

  MichDdot

  says

  telnet in 80's

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:27PM

  PopCandy

  says

  I think it waas around 97, 98. but cut me some slack, I was only seven in 97

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:28PM

  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...^_^

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  Jun 08, 2008 - 06:31PM

  thor13

  says

  circa '97 '98

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 01:23PM

  PunchcardMafia

  says

  around 95, we had COMPUSERVE!

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 01:28PM

  shepherd

  says

  same here... November 1993 with shell access and lynx. www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm Also had Prodigy for a short time, then Nando.net

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 01:32PM

  stevelenti

  says

  somewhere near 91 92. Remember gopher?

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 01:34PM

  kaydee

  says

  it was sometime in the 90s, with marjhuana

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 01:35PM

  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.

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:12PM

  Veribatim

  says

  92/93?

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:14PM

  jamar78

  says

  not until 97. Late bloomer I know.

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:15PM

  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

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:17PM

  darrindickey

  says

  probably around 1991 or 1992. Was on BBSs, then Compuserve, then AOL. Found Gopher and Archie through AOL. Then Web via Netcom.

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:21PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  1981

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:22PM

  darrindickey

  asks

  @K D Frawg at .edu?

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:23PM

  pixelator

  says

  1995

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:26PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  No, at Compuserve. I had a Stanford email in 1977.

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:27PM

  darrindickey

  says

  ah! You early adopter, you!

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:29PM

  brucecat

  says

  hmm around 1999...mostly on IRC

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:29PM

  Lelira

  thinks

  1996

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  Jun 09, 2008 - 03:31PM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  I was way early into IT and all of this was a bonus!

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:18AM

  bloggeries

  gives

  n74jw props for the 1989 bomb!

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:19AM

  Raven

  says

  2000. That was when I finally got a computer that was able to access the internet.

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:20AM

  blackfeathers

  says

  '89 my first toshiba orange monochrome computer & w/in same year first ast 386 desktop that i actually owned

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:21AM

  bloggeries

  is

  shocked KDFrawg 's 1977 and 1981. You've "been around a while"

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:26AM

  martinbogo

  1988, UC Berkeley, thanks to my father. I would play on ARPAnet

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:27AM

  martinbogo

  by 1990 I was already using ICB / forum at UC Santa Cruz

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:29AM

  KDFrawg❤

  says

  that it is just that he has repeated been around the block, bloggeries.

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:29AM

  LexFortis

  says

  Was emailing and ftping @ ndiana.edu c. 1989

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:30AM

   Sasha

  1998!

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:31AM

  LexFortis

  says

  Was on Prodigy and AOL back in the day, maybe mid-80s

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:37AM

  martinbogo

  uiuc.edu was great .. between uiuc.edu, ucsc.edu and mit.edu we had the Athena network

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:37AM

  martinbogo

  It rocked .. single login for all three campuses, shared resources in all the computer labs

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:38AM

  martinbogo

  all those VT100, VG50, wyse, and other terminals ...

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:47AM

  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.

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:48AM

  ChangeForge...

  says

  When was AOL first hot and you got booted off every 2 minutes?

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:48AM

  jvedman

  My (now ex-)wife was working for Turner Classic Movies, and I clearly remember the day I discovered IMDB... LoL!!

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:50AM

  LexFortis

  Remembers when Indiana moved all computers to the "NeXT" platform. Whatever happened with that?

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:51AM

  martinbogo

  It failed .. Jobs returned to Apple .. we got OS X and the iPhone ten years later.

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:51AM

  martinbogo

  still has a NeXT cube.

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  Jun 10, 2008 - 01:53AM

  LexFortis

  says

  , thanks Steve, for making my time at IU all the more challenging and for later making my iPhone!

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  Jun 11, 2008 - 11:31AM

  Espen

  1994, I accessed it via a BBS. First time for real (via Mosaic) in late 1995.

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  Jun 11, 2008 - 11:54AM

  NikkiPilkington

  1990

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  Jun 11, 2008 - 05:54PM

  martinbogo

  is

  this thread STILL going? good lord. Plurk lets discussions last forever

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  Jun 12, 2008 - 01:01AM

  GavinLiu

  says

  1998, ISDN dialup 64K and change to ADSL 512K in 2002. it's been change to 1M in 2006

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  Jun 12, 2008 - 01:03AM

  milwaukeeseo

  1995: High School Computer Class. Those were the days of innocence.

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  Jun 16, 2008 - 02:42AM

  bloggeries

  says

  if you haven't replied please do so!

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  Jun 16, 2008 - 02:47AM

  Devyl d'Amore

  98 ... mebbe 97.