How long have you been online?

[pplpilot]

10:47am Thursday 8th February 1996 I sent my First Email to my boss at the time, he never replied to it, just a Test/hello message he was the only person I knew with an address! . And I have every single Email (other than spam) that I have ever sent/received both personal and work! spose its just one of those habits I cant get out of .

 

[Bazzer]

10:47am Thursday 8th February 1996 I sent my First Email to my boss at the time, he never replied to it, just a Test/hello message he was the only person I knew with an address! . And I have every single Email (other than spam) that I have ever sent/received both personal and work! spose its just one of those habits I cant get out of .

And there was me thinking a friend of mine who has retained every single bank statement he has received, needed help. (My friend is 64).

 

[ianrauk]

I created the Yahoo email address I still use in about 1998.

I'm still using both my Yahoo and Hotmail address I in the late 90's too.

 

[Haitch]

At work, in 1988. People used to work in the evenings and it would be on my computer in the morning when I got in. I would place it on a "website" (no one ever spoke about the "web") and subscribers all over the world could read it. Sander had the first mouse, we gathered round his desk as though he had discovered a new continent. Everyone agreed it would never catch on.

At home, a couple of years later. The neighbours used to come around and ask to look at it. The web echoed to its own emptiness and uploading a page could take the whole evening.

 

[jonny jeez]

I cant recall the year but do remember having to wait for the email to go and then for my reply...i remember it taking about half a day as the servers didn't just push email to a local handler like outlook back then. You had to dial up and pull them down.

I suppose my first reliance on the web was with the introduction of online gaming, not just the playing but the guest boards, clan pages and chatter. That all still exists, just in a different form.

I still feel that we are only scratching the surface of web connection, although deeper than a decade ago.

I believe that scheduled television, telephones (even IP phones), navigation (maps) and of course library's, will very soon become a thing of history. I also think that as we become ever more hungry for integration and seamless communication we shall develop some amazing ways of living, learning, working and relaxing that we haven't even considered.

Untill the power goes out.

 

[lazybloke]

Compuserve at work in 1995 then later at home via Pipex, AOL and Freeserve before going "adsl" with BT.

I did briefly try Prestel in the 80s via my Beeb Micro and an acoustic coupler modem that the local office had discarded. 150 baud! My parents banned it for fear of high phone bills.

 

[growingvegetables]

- E-mail? 1994/5
- Slight involvement in a project to transfer photos and reports electronically from W Africa in 1995 (helped to sink THAT daft idea without trace! ).
- Home connection to the web - 1998
- Came to be heavily involved in DMOZ (ah - those happy days before google's algorithms ) from 1999, for many years - [among many others, I edited the UK cycling categories for a long time ]
- First website - 2000; an early "blog", pre-blogging software.

 

[jefmcg]

I started the first ever helmet debate back in '96.

And the next year you invented sex!

1990:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!s...$201986/rec.bicycles/R4uzVByruT8/O0PvQCXuM_cJ

plus ça change

("kill file" == "ignore" on cyclechat, everything else is the same.)

 

[MontyVeda]

november 2002 at home and at work. I don't think i've logged off since.

 

[jefmcg]

I was referring to it in the manner the judge was using it in the OP...

Well, in answer to that, the first internet porn I saw was some time in the mid-late eighties. You had to work hard for your porn then. They were encoded into plain ascii (not an ascii image, just a string of characters). The ascii was broken into chunks and shared on a binary news group. To view them all you had to do was save each file on your computer home directory and append them in order, then run them through the correct ascii-to-binary decoder, then send them to the departmental printer (because you couldn't view them on your 80x24 character green monitor) and leave them lying in the out tray of the printer for female staff to see and raise hell with departmental head.

 

[jefmcg]

You seem to be conflating the world wide web and the Internet. If 'online' in the OP refers solely to 'on the web' then fair enough, but clearly you know that they're not the same thing, even if popularly used synonymously.

Spooky. That is nearly word for word the rebuttal I had in my head, including "conflate" and "clear you know". Weird.

 

[summerdays]

I think it was the mid or late 90's, and mostly genealogy related.

 

[raleighnut]

Latecomer here, about 2008/9 before I even had an e-mail address although I worked with CAD/CAM and CNC Overhead routers but they were all data transfer by 'floppy'.

 

[jefmcg]

but they were all data transfer by 'floppy'.

Sneaker-net.

 

[raleighnut]

Sneaker-net.

I've heard of that but more people exchanging 'dodgy' stuff by posting (snail mail) discs and memory card/sticks to each other. Not sure what an 8'x4' (2440mm x 1220mm) CNC overhead router would make given those design details though.