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Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:17 am

Even though I dabbled before, I permanently logged on in 1999. (Hello 56k)
What year did you log on for good? :?:

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:20 am

2true wrote: Even though I dabbled before, I permanently logged on in 1999. (Hello 56k)
What year did you log on for good? :?:

I was just thinking about this the other day. We had AOL at mom & dad's back in '95, running on Win 95 :roll:

I think we were all still calling it the "web" back then.

It's come a long way!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:25 am

not longer than two years, i dont want a computer at home due to distraction for the whole family, .....one eyed monster is not the T.V.!!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:26 am

I've been on since the days of Prodigy.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:27 am

fall of 1993 was when I got my first email address. By 1994 I was checking email everyday and I have been ever since.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:28 am

Back in 95 when the only seach engine I could find was WEBCRAWLER. Is that even still around?

I was on AOL back then too. Piece of shit!!! I think my PC was an HP 100 Mhz. With an 8GB HDD. SMOKIN!!!!!!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:29 am

1997: The days of dial-up and the world wide wait. :lol:

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:36 am

got my first e-mail address in 1991 in college. used the net sporadically until 96. ive been on pretty solid since then.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:46 am

Got my first e-mail in 1990 at Idaho State University. Got my first home internet in early 1991 with Prodigy. My ID was WXJA24A. Don't know why I still remember it. I could log on at a blazing 2400 baud. I could also connect to the school to check my e-mail there, but they only supported 1200bps.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:47 am

I was a late starter. Not till 2005

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:50 am

alexs64 wrote: Back in 95 when the only seach engine I could find was WEBCRAWLER. Is that even still around?

I was on AOL back then too. Piece of shit!!! I think my PC was an HP 100 Mhz. With an 8GB HDD. SMOKIN!!!!!!

Damn! I remember Webcrawler! :lol: And yup, it's still around.

http://www.webcrawler.com/

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:56 am

notchback wrote: Got my first e-mail in 1990 at Idaho State University. Got my first home internet in early 1991 with Prodigy. My ID was WXJA24A. Don't know why I still remember it. I could log on at a blazing 2400 baud. I could also connect to the school to check my e-mail there, but they only supported 1200bps.

Damn that's right! I take that back. I was on Prodigy, but I had no idea what I was doing. I remember bringing it up and then thinking, now what?

then turning it off.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:08 pm

I think the first time was when I went to college '94.
Been on ever since.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:12 pm

When I was 15 in 1995.

With my old 486 66 Mhz monster machine complete with a giant 12 inch monitor and a hard drive of 450 megs. I make files bigger than my first hard drive every day. Boggles the mind.

I spent a lot of time in the chat rooms back then... because there was nothing to look at online. Made my first web page that year too. It was just for downloading fonts... I was such an exciting teenager. :lol:

Oh yeah, all the people in my high school thought I was a hacker just because I had a computer! :roll:

Just a note, I remember getting ready to leave for college in 1998 and I almost bought a $500 6 gig hard drive to go with my bitchin' new 233 Mhz barebones ebay bought machine!.......... Glad I waited on that one!

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:14 pm

CompuServe, late '94 IIRC

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:23 pm

1989 I was using dialup BBS.

I remember when Mosaic first came out.

I was the owner of IRC channel #volkswagen on the Undernet for many years.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:33 pm

For a home account, sometime around 1995.

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:33 pm

I got my first email at college in 1990, (coincidentally when I got my first car, my 1978 bus) but didn't really get started until joining the fledgling vanagon@lenti email listserv back in the spring of 1994...and it's been all downhill since then.
:)

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:37 pm

telnet and mosaic on unix based Sun machines - someone once tried to explain kernals and acorns to me but all it did was give me the munchies

Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:41 pm

I dont know...97' ish. My ebay account goes back to 98' I think!
BUT, my dad is a software engineer, worked NOSC (Naval Ocean Systems Center @ Point Loma, then it was./is NRAD (Naval Research and Design?)
He brought our first *computer* home when I was 11 I think, in 1984- he says that his thermostat for his hot water heater has more computing power than that computer did.
As much as I can remember, he had a modem - he'd dial the # at work by hand, and set the phone receiver in the modem thing and he would let me play VERY primitive flight simulator and word games (written by his buddies at work). The flight simulator was a kind of gyroscope/cockpit graphic thing with a flat line as the horizon. Little * (astrisk's) and # signs were thrown in for scenery and obstacles against the black screen- and the runway was more lines.