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Posts: 127 (06/27/08 9:31 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	There was this one BSB chatroom my sister and I would frequent where we would think it was hilarious to type random sayings over and over in all caps. OMG YOU INVENTED 4CHAN!
sadllama		#62	[-]
Posts: 1958 (06/27/08 9:47 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My parents didn't get a computer with internet access in our home until 1999. Like most in this generation, my first internet hangouts were the yahoo chat rooms. This was before the pedophiles and porn spammers took over and there were actually other humans chatting in them. About a year later is when Napster hit and it was amazing that it only took 30 minutes to download a 3 minute song! Ah, the days of dial up.
Jakob Speed		#63	[-]
Posts: 1457 (06/27/08 10:24 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	sadllama wrote: Ah, the days of dial up. Bitch please. It was 300 baud phone coupling in 1983 in our class. 2400 baud modem was elite in 1988 in 1989(?) when the HST US Robotics modem was available it was something like $600 56k was like a rocketship arriving.
Remington Steele		#64	[-]
Posts: 1392 (06/27/08 10:31 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Oh, yeah? Before I got my abacus, I had to write in the dirt with a stick.
B DeBrun		#65	[-]
Posts: 16975 (06/27/08 10:34 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	sadllama wrote: Ah, the days of dial up. The big joke was "ahhh Christmas modem sales" every January whenever the wankers and newbies flooded the chat rooms with their inane kiddiot language....
numb		#66	[-]
Posts: 132 (06/27/08 10:37 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Remington Steele wrote: Oh, yeah? Before I got my abacus, I had to write in the dirt with a stick.
sadllama		#67	[-]
Posts: 1959 (06/27/08 10:41 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Jakob Speed wrote: sadllama wrote: Ah, the days of dial up. Bitch please. It was 300 baud phone coupling in 1983 in our class. 2400 baud modem was elite in 1988 in 1989(?) when the HST US Robotics modem was available it was something like $600 56k was like a rocketship arriving. srry I'm not old.
memyselfandi		#68	[-]
Posts: 14172 (06/27/08 11:00 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don't remember where exactly it was I hung out when the Internet started. I think there were some music message boards that my friend Abby talked me into hanging out at and this would have been around the time I was in 7th grade so 1995 or thereabouts. It was dial-up through some no-name provider whose owner would oddly wind up scalping tickets to "Varsity Blues" to me and a friend years later, but anyway we didn't have AOL because it was a long-distance call. I think I started chatting on mIRC in 1997 or thereabouts when my parents got a new computer so I got to have the old one in my room. That's really the first place I hung out online.
Fork		#69	[-]
Posts: 231 (06/27/08 11:18 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	PLATO
ACG2003		#70	[-]
Posts: 1643 (06/27/08 11:43 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	AOL chat & message boards.
Kimbob the Magnificent		#71	[-]
Posts: 4666 (06/27/08 11:45 AM) Yes, smarter than you Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	memyselfandi wrote: I don't remember where exactly it was I hung out when the Internet started. I think there were some music message boards that my friend Abby talked me into hanging out at and this would have been around the time I was in 7th grade so 1995 ... If you were in 7th grade in 1995, you were in the womb when the internet started. Hope that helps! Kimbob the Memory Keeper
Mister Slippery		#72	[-]
Posts: 14950 (06/27/08 11:53 AM) Registered Abuser Administrator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Jakob Speed wrote: sadllama wrote: Ah, the days of dial up. Bitch please. It was 300 baud phone coupling in 1983 in our class. 2400 baud modem was elite in 1988 in 1989(?) when the HST US Robotics modem was available it was something like $600 56k was like a rocketship arriving. In the mid 1980's Telebit introduced their trailblazer line of modems that offered 19,200 bit/s, Telebits were a strange beast and it wasn't easy to make them talk at the top speeds, but I was one of the few in Silicon Valley with a LOT of them in store and a mandate from my employers to learn how. I figure I doubled my salary in the span of 4 years because I could make Telebits do things that other people couldn't. It was my ability to frob telebits that got me the job at Autodesk. I beat out some serious completion for that job and I was told that my telebit experience made the difference.
NellB		#73	[-]
Posts: 371 (06/27/08 11:59 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don't know squat about computers. In 1990, I was a freshman in college. There were a few computers in one lab that connected to the "fnet". We could chat with people from other universities. It was fun for a few days. I officially went online in '99. I have always been partial to message boards, mostly ones relating to TV, because TV is the other crack.
GnarlsInCharge		#74	[-]
Posts: 1678 (06/27/08 12:01 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My first message board register was in 2002 at imdb before that internet use was confined to downloading porn or music.
WiscBadger95		#75	[-]
Posts: 11499 (06/27/08 1:12 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My first hangout was an IRC channel called Cheers. That was back in 1993.
sadllama		#76	[-]
Posts: 1964 (06/27/08 1:27 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	GnarlsInCharge wrote: My first message board register was in 2002 at imdb before that internet use was confined to downloading porn or music. You mean its no longer used for that?
Buggles73		#77	[-]
Posts: 26435 (06/27/08 1:37 PM) Kid Hater Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I guess late 90's...all I did was burn CD's from shit i DL'd from NAPSTER while IM'ing w/ friends when I installed the first MSN Messenger thingy. Also used to go to some chat room called The Park and fuck with people there.
pinkdolphin		#78	[-]
Posts: 7070 (06/27/08 2:21 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	99 - ivillage. They had all these messageboards for preggo people and other fun stuff. Then they changed the format added more ads and I left. Then I found this place which is much better because I can type what I want without an entire board of crazy women attacking me.
partyflavor		#79	[-]
Posts: 128 (06/27/08 2:25 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I started with Prodigy in 1990 on a good old Tandy computer from Radio Shack. My mom got our first computer in 88 or 89 and I remember coming home from school and finding her in %$%+* because it said abort/retry/failure and she was afraid she had messed it up and was afraid to push reset because she thought it erased everything. Silly mom. I put in the boot disk and away we went. In the next year, I got lots of online time between prodigy and my friend's BBS where we played King of Trivia and some game where you went from sector to sector, as well as an online risk game. We tried AOL once or twice, but never really liked it. In 1995, we first started hearing rumblings of this world wide web and in 96 we tried it out. My first response was, okay cool, you can connect to pages other people put up, but what good is this. My first online home was in Yahoo Chat before they had a room dedicated to trivia. We used to create a room called "Trivia Madness" and have fun, mostly avoiding people typing crap like a/s/l? That is where I met the first person I knew whose doctor told her to get off the internet because she was addicted. I started to notice the internet had real potential when I saw my first movie trailer online. It was for Independence Day and rocked my world. I was hooked. Then I was introduced to the battle between ain't it cool news, coming attractions, and Dark Horizons. Then one fateful summer day, much like today, I saw some crappy tv show and decided I should search for it online and the rest is history.
Pahrump Mania		#80	[-]
Posts: 1282 (06/27/08 2:40 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Pretty typical experience, I tried all of the Big 3 - AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. AOL ended up being the best because that's where the most people were. Dabbled in IRC when I found out it was a way to chat cheaply, went back to AOL when the rates went down. Those were the good old days when you could get laid by women you met online. Then everyone found out and it was paradise lost.

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