bloggeries asks Jun 08, 2008 03:12PM 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
Venus says Jun 08, 2008 03:13PM 10 years ago.. hard to imagine. Hubby bought the comp and I didn't want it. Yea, that changed fast!
Alex Jun 08, 2008 03:15PM 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
topsurf says Jun 08, 2008 03:15PM 1993 also...dial up too!! Everyone used to complain the phone line was busy 24-7!
caff3inated3lf Jun 08, 2008 03:16PM I was also using the Quickbasic program to write fiction stories, and had no idea it was supposed to be a programmin interface
bloggeries Jun 08, 2008 03:16PM yoonamaniac I believe I was busy on a comodore 64 back then Load a:\ ...
mike626 says Jun 08, 2008 03:25PM In 1990: 1st email acct. In 1992 The Cellar added Usenet feeds. It's been downhill ever since.
bloggeries Jun 08, 2008 03:27PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 03:28PM ppl are either scared or ppl who sign up first for services are just geeks...
yoonamaniac says Jun 08, 2008 03:30PM I've never signed up for any services. I had a shell access from school lab and I dialed into school.
ismail says Jun 08, 2008 03:31PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 03:34PM online around 1992, 1993 (Prodigy). Went without for a few yrs then signed up on AOL before it went "unlimited"
the JoshMeister says Jun 08, 2008 03:34PM 1995 or 1996 for me. And it was with AOL 2.x on a Macintosh Performa 640CD DOS Compatible
Suraj says Jun 08, 2008 03:46PM 1999 .. 56k dialup .. basically google search and yahoo mail.. and messenger.
randomnicole Jun 08, 2008 04:02PM um, back before it was the interwebs. in the university environment. way, way, long ago
Konstantino says Jun 08, 2008 04:09PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 04:09PM I remember the first site I visited was for Power Rangers, and my Dad helped me. Was the early 90's for sure. :p
JulianN says Jun 08, 2008 04:22PM I've been on since 1994. I was on secondment at Symantec in Beaverton, OR and they were just rolling it out.
nightsky says Jun 08, 2008 04:23PM I didn't get on the net until I joined the navy in 1998. That's when I discovered Yahoo.
nightsky says Jun 08, 2008 04:40PM does Compuserve count? Then I'm with Kristamea. I spent way too much money on Compuserve.
SharonHH says Jun 08, 2008 04:51PM I got on around 93-94 on a compuserve account at work. Connecting was a painful process
RogueTess says Jun 08, 2008 05:17PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 05:18PM I don't remember the year, but it was likely between 1993-1994 with CompuServe
marywallace says Jun 08, 2008 05:26PM 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
hacool says Jun 08, 2008 05:51PM 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.
margalit says Jun 08, 2008 05:52PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 05:56PM 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
hacool says Jun 08, 2008 06:01PM 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 Jun 08, 2008 06:02PM margalit Sistah! Nice 2 see a geek gal in my demographic. Took programming classes etc from 1979ish, later dabbled mostly in usenet groups.
PopCandy says Jun 08, 2008 06:27PM I think it waas around 97, 98. but cut me some slack, I was only seven in 97
KitKat4Me Jun 08, 2008 06:28PM 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...^_^
shepherd says Jun 09, 2008 01:28PM 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
CajoleJuice says Jun 09, 2008 01:35PM 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.
definatalie says Jun 09, 2008 03:15PM 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 Jun 09, 2008 03:17PM probably around 1991 or 1992. Was on BBSs, then Compuserve, then AOL. Found Gopher and Archie through AOL. Then Web via Netcom.
Raven says Jun 10, 2008 01:19AM 2000. That was when I finally got a computer that was able to access the internet.
blackfeathers says Jun 10, 2008 01:20AM '89 my first toshiba orange monochrome computer & w/in same year first ast 386 desktop that i actually owned
KDFrawg says Jun 10, 2008 01:29AM that it is just that he has repeated been around the block, bloggeries.
martinbogo Jun 10, 2008 01:37AM uiuc.edu was great .. between uiuc.edu, ucsc.edu and mit.edu we had the Athena network
martinbogo Jun 10, 2008 01:37AM It rocked .. single login for all three campuses, shared resources in all the computer labs
jvedman Jun 10, 2008 01:47AM 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 Jun 10, 2008 01:48AM When was AOL first hot and you got booted off every 2 minutes?
jvedman Jun 10, 2008 01:48AM My (now ex-)wife was working for Turner Classic Movies, and I clearly remember the day I discovered IMDB... LoL!!
LexFortis Jun 10, 2008 01:50AM Remembers when Indiana moved all computers to the "NeXT" platform. Whatever happened with that?
martinbogo Jun 10, 2008 01:51AM It failed .. Jobs returned to Apple .. we got OS X and the iPhone ten years later.
LexFortis says Jun 10, 2008 01:53AM , thanks Steve, for making my time at IU all the more challenging and for later making my iPhone!
Espen Jun 11, 2008 11:31AM 1994, I accessed it via a BBS. First time for real (via Mosaic) in late 1995.
martinbogo is Jun 11, 2008 05:54PM this thread STILL going? good lord. Plurk lets discussions last forever
GavinLiu says Jun 12, 2008 01:01AM 1998, ISDN dialup 64K and change to ADSL 512K in 2002. it's been change to 1M in 2006
milwaukeeseo Jun 12, 2008 01:03AM 1995: High School Computer Class. Those were the days of innocence.