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What is your first Internet Memory?

How about this one. Being a softball coach,the very first thing I was for was the nan'l softball assn site.(N.S.A.). Up pops a screen asking for a password. The national security agency!! On aol dialup no less. I quickly hung up!
 
first time i used the Internet
looked up cheats for conkers bad fur day for the Nintendo 64
downloaded Nintendo, super Nintendo entertainment system emulators, roms
 
Vicmodem on commodore 64 on text based bbs boards ( i think that is what it was called) compuserve also was around. Yes I feel old now!
 
Bomfy said:
4th grade we were the fist public elementary (maybe public school or school) in the county to get a computer lab going. Very small school <150 students and we had 8 Macintosh Classic (I think that was the model) donated partially by a teacher and his father who was dying and thought computers were a needed thing for education.

We had been the first class to get to see the Internet in action and the phone lines hadn't been hooked up properly so no Internet.

Two days later we had it up and running and I recall a student doing something the get us kicked off a BBS.
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You sound about as old as me. We had a bus come around that had I think TRS80s on them and they only came around once awhile. Those were the days.
 
Telnet and newsgroups using winsock. Before GUI! My dad is a computer programmer so I grew up with computers!
 
1st real internet memories
1997 in school/home
at 16 i was the school tech lol and win95 nuke master :p
but already surfed bbs with my dad in early 90s downloading games/pictures in 16/256 colors yup good ol'time
also remembers downloading Carmageddon Demo (14mb) and took about 5-6h to download on a 33.6k modem
and 1st online game memories was Warcraft 2 (over battle.net)
 
Hmmm yahoo chat telling people press ctrl, alt, delete brought up the boot people off menus. ICQ, Napster, Ah the good ol days. WHile in the military they put computers in the flight chiefs office with like 40 passwords to keep us off the internet and the games. Took me 5 seconds to bypass all that lol. The flight chiefs was mad but I never showed anyone else how to do it.
 
It's a jumble, so it's kind of hard to remember them in order. My mom was a teacher and was going back to school to become recertified. She got a dialup shell account on her college's VAX/VMS. Needless to say, I was the only one to use it. Used gopher and telnet to access MUDs (text based World of Warcraft type of games).

When she started teaching, she had another dialup account on the school's *nix based system. Wasn't as useful as the VAX/VMS since it lacked a shell.

Then I also remember being on AOL dialup and beta-testing their client in return for free hours of usage, back when you paid for X amount of hours per month and were billed when you went over. I remember AOL before you could actually access the internet from their client. I beta tested their web browser (Netscape I think) when they were integrating it into their client, and as such was one of their first Mac users to actually access the WWW through AOL. That was before Google, when Webcrawler was the search engine of choice.
 
Trumpt Winsock and a whole lot of IRC via bash shell. Back when I would pay for access by the minute. Realizing I was chatting with people on the other side of the earth via my 1200 baud modem.

I remember the BBS I used to access the Internet via actually pulled my access when I upgraded to 14.4 assuming it was someone using my account. lol
 
Mine was at work in the mid 90's. It was the first time I ever went in a chat room too. Yahoo Spades. I dont even go there anymore. Either learning how to play spades or playing checkers online. Some one was trying to chat and play and I didnt know what to do...lol

Netscape, Excite, Alta Vista, Net Zero, AOL, 56K modems....memories.
 
Hold on there a minute young fella, let me get my spectacles and walking stick.

My first internet memory was using procomm plus to access the Cleveland Public Library.
 
Mine was visiting my mom's lab as a little kid back in the mid 80's and seeing here communicate with coworkers in other places via Darpa-net on her computer (all black screen with green characters). I remember being fascinated that you could do that, but couldn't understand how the user interface worked (there was no GUI in those days).
 
my first Napster download wassssss: Macy Gray-I try

And after it finished downloading, I went to play it and...NO SOUND!
So, ask my dad to call his computer friend, and found out I had no sound card...
My reaction: Wow, that sounds expensive, guess I won't be able to listen to it.

I look back at that now, (while having like 10 sound cards in my collection of parts now) and just laugh. Then I didn't even know what drivers were, much less a sound card.

I was 11 at the time...how far I've come.
 
I pride myself on remembering every little detail of my early computing days...but this thread has me scratching my head. :confused: Somehow, everything's gotten jumbled and I can't really separate them into discrete memories.

Back in the mid-'80s, I remember using uucp (UNIX to UNIX copy protocol). At that time I was the programmer and sysadmin at a furniture store chain, and I had replaced their IBM Sys/3 mainframes with a multi-location, multi-user UNIX system. We had 2400 baud modems--that sometimes only connected at 300 or 1200 baud. :eek: I remember upgrading to state-of-the-art 9600 baud modems--and they were expensive!--and how they were like night and day compared to the old ones. But the Internet, per se? I don't think so.

Somewhere around that same time I had a CompuServe account--back when they offered UNIX shell access. I remember when they first offered a web browser, Mosaic, and when it became possible to send/receive e-mail to people outside CompuServe--in other words, Internet mail. When was that?! 1990? '91? I really don't recall. I'll have to look it up.

Also somewhere around the late '80s or very early '90s, I used to connect to various BBSes. I remember FidoNet...but again, it's all kind of fuzzy for me right now.

Finally, I had a service called US Videotel. They provided a terminal--black and white as I recall--and it was text based, but it was really cool. It had message boards and I remember talking to people from all around.

I noticed several comments about the awful screeching sound the old dialup modems made. Um...didn't you know that you could silence the modem? :D
 
The "internet" has been around for a while as it connected military and universities and I don't honestly remember any of my first memories using it. I do remember connecting over 300baud modems where you put the phone handset in a carrier. Using Telnet, FTP, Whois, Archie and all the other commands.

However, I do remember the most altering moment in my internet usage. A professor came into class late, stating that he saw the future of computers, called Mosaic. He insisted we all use it. I tried it out that night and was floored.

For those that don't know, Mosaic was the first web browser, and every single web browers since is based on it's code. With that, the World Wide Web and HTML was born.
 
wow.... i feel quite young now :P my first clear internet memory was playing a boxing game online between bush and gore (right before the 2000 election) I know I'd used the internet before that, I just cant remember exactly haha
 
Being in the classroom, to show everybody that the school only blocked internet explorer from viewing adult websites, but they can use Netscape to view them.
 
My first internet experience was on my parents Win 95 computer with dial up when I was about 10. So late 90's. I didn't even start using the web until about 15 so only about 5 years. So it's mature now and I only really remember Netscape and how it was junk. :P
 
BBS'es, Compuserve, Sprint, Delphi, GEnie. PINE, LYNX, and TIN. Tymnet, TELNET... oh those crazy days... When I finally got a 1200bps modem I was really uptown!
 
My first experience was with a WebTV box. That lasted about 2 weeks. I used to to order a new Gateway and then sent the WebTV back to the store.
 
My first internet memory was being introduced to IRC on a friends i486 with a 14.4 modem. That was about 1996. Within a month I bought my own comp and never looked back.
 
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