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

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  June 08, 2008 at 15:13 bloggeries err irc lol no mIRC back then
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:13 MikeLewis says aol 1995....yeah...
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:13 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:15 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:15 DarinRMcClure forgets the year that inet was added to the BBS I was on.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:15 yoonamaniac says 1988
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:15 topsurf says 1993 also...dial up too!! Everyone used to complain the phone line was busy 24-7!
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 Georgiana says sometime in 1994 via Prodigy. NOBODY heard of email then.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 yoonamaniac feels old
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 {caffein8delf} my first Juno account (HAHAHA) was sometime around 1993
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 AdamHansen says in the autumn of 1991. Whew, I am getting old.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 robyn feels old too!
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 {caffein8delf} 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:16 bloggeries yoonamaniac I believe I was busy on a comodore 64 back then Load a:\ ...
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:17 robyn says omgoodness...Comodore 64 - we had one
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:18 ismail says 1994 - MIRC, FTP and WWW
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:18 ismail says tried MSN network for a while which totally sucked
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:19 LindaZ 1997
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:20 jeayese says 1996 and was using hotmail to chat haha!
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:20 ismail says robyn me too... coding the turtle in logo@ wicked
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:21 tmatzner says 1996 via Compuserve. Still have a Compuserve mail address.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:22 otherdeb says 1988 - on a Mac IIci. I really loved that little machine!
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:25 mike626 says In 1990: 1st email acct. In 1992 The Cellar added Usenet feeds. It's been downhill ever since.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:27 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:28 ismail thinks ppl are either scared or ppl who sign up first for services are just geeks...
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:30 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:30 bloggeries ismail hmm I wonder which.. No wait it's a bit of both
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:31 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:32 bloggeries ismail definitely could be.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:34 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:34 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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  June 08, 2008 at 15:35 seerysm says it was my freshman year at Colgate in 1993
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:37 Thiago says 1995, the boom i think
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:38 ThatDude says i was on in 93 as well. It sucked up a lot of my time then too.
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  June 08, 2008 at 15:46 Suraj says 1999 .. 56k dialup .. basically google search and yahoo mail.. and messenger.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:01 zenfishing says 1994 compuserve
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:02 randomnicole um, back before it was the interwebs. in the university environment. way, way, long ago
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:03 codemonkey says only 4 years ago via AOL then a quick switch to Time Warner
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:07 lucaspereira says Here in Brazil, it came just in 1996. And I started in 1998.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:08 tamar says read www.techipedia.com/2008/fifteen-years-of-social-media/
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:09 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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  June 08, 2008 at 16:09 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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  June 08, 2008 at 16:11 ob81 says somewhere around 95-96
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:12 starman 1988
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:13 AdamDesAutels Good question... Don't really remember. Need to think about it
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:22 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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  June 08, 2008 at 16:23 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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  June 08, 2008 at 16:29 Abbreviated shares 2000 late bloomer
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:31 Abbreviated shares 2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:32 Abbreviated shares 2000 late bloomer do i win a PRize ?
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:35 philc // me.dm 1989-90 - really early, through fidonet.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:36 MidnightMoon shares 1995 AOL parenting message boards when my daughter was born
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:37 Kristamea says In earnest? 1993, I think: Compuserve and Prodigy.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:38 Kristamea says I did a 7th-grade science project several years later using websites my dad and I created from HTML-scratch. People were amazed, even then.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:40 nightsky says does Compuserve count? Then I'm with Kristamea. I spent way too much money on Compuserve.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:45 tmatzner says nightsky: I enjoyed it. Had much fun talking about Windows 3.1 and its problems in these days.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:45 callkathy 1988 or so via AOL (believe it or not)
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:51 SharonHH says I got on around 93-94 on a compuserve account at work. Connecting was a painful process
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:53 nightsky says I spent a lot of time in chatrooms then. Glad they died off.
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  June 08, 2008 at 16:55 Rami MSN 1996
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:07 Kristamea says nightsky: haha, agreed! There were so many services that were both amusing and worthless with so few users.
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:10 nightsky agrees. I'm glad how open the internet is.
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:11 MichaelKing says 1995 with a AOL and Prodigy account on a Mac
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:17 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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  June 08, 2008 at 17:18 iDesignStudios says I don't remember the year, but it was likely between 1993-1994 with CompuServe
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:22 KitiaraTomsen says I feel very old. I was on cyber in 1987
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:26 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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  June 08, 2008 at 17:40 maneesh says 2000
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:48 Cudd says Early 90's with a dial up AOL account.
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  June 08, 2008 at 17:51 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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  June 08, 2008 at 17:52 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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  June 08, 2008 at 17:56 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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  June 08, 2008 at 18:01 motorphilia says 1991 or 92 . . . I think we the first in the neighborhood
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:01 motorphilia says first picture downloaded was of Cher at my dad's office
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:01 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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  June 08, 2008 at 18:02 debdebtig it was 1995
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:02 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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  June 08, 2008 at 18:03 KDFrawg says 1981 for stuff like this, 1977 for email
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:09 disneyr says 1995
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:25 MichDdot says telnet in 80's
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:27 PopCandy says I think it waas around 97, 98. but cut me some slack, I was only seven in 97
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  June 08, 2008 at 18:28 GabbieG 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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  June 08, 2008 at 18:31 thor13 says circa '97 '98
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  June 09, 2008 at 13:23 hayst says around 95, we had COMPUSERVE!
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  June 09, 2008 at 13:28 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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  June 09, 2008 at 13:32 JBligh says Circa 1994 or so... AOL came preloaded on my Performa 460... AOL sucked even then, but no one really knew any different...
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  June 09, 2008 at 13:32 stevelenti says somewhere near 91 92. Remember gopher?
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  June 09, 2008 at 13:34 kaydee says it was sometime in the 90s, with marjhuana
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  June 09, 2008 at 13:35 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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  June 09, 2008 at 13:40 andiesmith says 1996 my parents got AOL....we were only allowed 15 mins a week....
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:12 Veribatim says 92/93?
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:14 jamar78 says not until 97. Late bloomer I know.
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:15 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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  June 09, 2008 at 15:17 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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  June 09, 2008 at 15:21 KDFrawg says 1981
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:22 darrindickey asks @K D Frawg at .edu?
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:23 pixelator says 1995
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:24 JBligh says I remember when someone asked me if I surf... I said the waves off LI usually aren't big enough...
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:26 KDFrawg says No, at Compuserve. I had a Stanford email in 1977.
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:27 darrindickey says ah! You early adopter, you!
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:29 brucecat says hmm around 1999...mostly on IRC
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:29 Lelira thinks 1996
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  June 09, 2008 at 15:31 KDFrawg says I was way early into IT and all of this was a bonus!
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:18 bloggeries gives n74jw props for the 1989 bomb!
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:19 Raven says 2000. That was when I finally got a computer that was able to access the internet.
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:20 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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  June 10, 2008 at 01:21 bloggeries is shocked KDFrawg 's 1977 and 1981. You've "been around a while"
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:26 martinbogo 1988, UC Berkeley, thanks to my father. I would play on ARPAnet
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:27 martinbogo by 1990 I was already using ICB / forum at UC Santa Cruz
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:29 KDFrawg says that it is just that he has repeated been around the block, bloggeries.
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:29 LexFortis says Was emailing and ftping @ ndiana.edu c. 1989
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:30 Sasha 1998!
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:31 LexFortis says Was on Prodigy and AOL back in the day, maybe mid-80s
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:37 martinbogo uiuc.edu was great .. between uiuc.edu, ucsc.edu and mit.edu we had the Athena network
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:37 martinbogo It rocked .. single login for all three campuses, shared resources in all the computer labs
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:38 martinbogo all those VT100, VG50, wyse, and other terminals ...
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:47 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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  June 10, 2008 at 01:48 ChangeForge... says When was AOL first hot and you got booted off every 2 minutes?
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:48 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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  June 10, 2008 at 01:50 LexFortis Remembers when Indiana moved all computers to the "NeXT" platform. Whatever happened with that?
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:51 martinbogo It failed .. Jobs returned to Apple .. we got OS X and the iPhone ten years later.
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:51 martinbogo still has a NeXT cube.
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  June 10, 2008 at 01:53 LexFortis says , thanks Steve, for making my time at IU all the more challenging and for later making my iPhone!
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  June 11, 2008 at 11:31 Espen 1994, I accessed it via a BBS. First time for real (via Mosaic) in late 1995.
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  June 11, 2008 at 11:54 NikkiPilkington 1990
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  June 11, 2008 at 11:56 jarkkolaine thinks it was 1995 - but i didn't use it that much yet back then... I was still a C64 kid.
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  June 11, 2008 at 14:28 adondai got broadband in 2003... didnt use it before cept at school
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  June 11, 2008 at 17:54 martinbogo is this thread STILL going? good lord. Plurk lets discussions last forever
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  June 12, 2008 at 01:01 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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  June 12, 2008 at 01:03 milwaukeeseo 1995: High School Computer Class. Those were the days of innocence.
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  June 16, 2008 at 02:42 bloggeries says if you haven't replied please do so!
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  June 16, 2008 at 02:47 ❧ Devyl ❧ 98 ... mebbe 97.