How long have you been online?

[Pale Rider]

I can still do a pretty good impression of a dial up modem.

So can Sky around here.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

A hugely underrated console, and one that I still love.

Internet wise, around 20 years for me too. I can still do a pretty good impression of a dial up modem.

Still got mine in the spare room. Might dig it out one day and see how far I can get through Shenmue after all these years

 

[AndyRM]

Still got mine in the spare room. Might dig it out one day and see how far I can get through Shenmue after all these years

Get Jet Set Radio fired up. Unless you want to sleep tonight.

 

[jefmcg]

spam

Oh, flash back!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

Imagine connecting to the internet one morning, and every page said "Green Card Lottery"

Not a perfect analogy, but close.

 

[User33236]

I started with Compuserve in 1992. Back them the email address they gave you was a string of numbers @compuserve.com.

Prior to that I used a number of bulletin boards.

 

[TVC]

I've been on line so long my e-mail address doesn't have any numbers in it.

 

[speccy1]

About 35 minutes now..................

 

[srw]

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.)

I love the found poetry of this one.Try reading it out in Dave Gorman's voice.

Child or no, Dan's postings are generally balanced and informative.
Yours do nothing but impugn the skills and common sense of all the
other cyclists on the net, while touting your own superhuman
prescience and reflexes. Somehow I think that most of us will be more
apt to respect his judgment hereafter, despite his "lapse" into this
flame war. Welcome to the kill file, friend.John
___
This is your brain: {~|~}
~~~
This is the road: / | \


_o _~
This is your brain on the road: /~-|-_\~
~~ ~

With apologies to those who don't like font changes - but you can't really do ASCII art in a variable width font.

 

[stephec]

I've been on line so long my e-mail address doesn't have any numbers in it.

I'm close, I had to put the number 1 after my name for a hotmail.com address.

 

[Lonestar]

1996 and first started chatting with the Americans on Compuserve Chat.Also had ICQ..Windows 95 was what I was running and registered for Ebay in Aug 2002.

1996 was happy days.Also my first PC was 133mhz but don't remember the memory size though...First game was Quake and second game was Championship Manager which I still play to this day.Quake really blew my socks off.

I do distinctly remember using bulletin boards in the early 90's on the old Amiga...Anybody remember Moon Moth and a sysop called Bill Welch? I remember it distinctly.Was never interested in computers while at school so I never did a computer course and look at me now.

http://mirror.bagelwood.com/textfiles/bbs/BBSLISTS/ukbbs

I've just found this BBS list.

 

[DCLane]

I've been online since 1995/6 when the 'Internet' launched commercially. At that time we had a 28.8k modem and dial-up. Things were mostly text with a few photos.

How things have changed ...

 

[Trickedem]

In about 93, I discovered a way of downloading user group stuff from my work email, by sending an email you could get a reply back with loads of jokes from alt.humor. Absolutely a sackable offence now, because of the jokes that were sent to you, but there was some good stuff too.
I then got web access in 95 at work through a modem. As I was the IT manager I had sole control. A lot of time was wasted!

 

[Tin Pot]

I was subject to spear phishing in 1989.

It turned out to be a pleasant experience though.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was first online around 2002/03, Windows 98se and AOL dial up, my modem would sing to me as it connected. I remember 2004 and my first digital camera, I would upload to the internet for printing and it would take all evening, I would go and do something else whilst it was doing it and just check back now and again to make sure it hadn't dropped the connection.

 

[Crackle]

95/96 in Work by modem. One of the first things I learned to do was turn the damn sound off with M0 in the modem configuration file. 1997 was the year I bought my first computer. I recall reading the PC Upgrade and Repair Manual cover to cover in the local maternity ward waiting for the appearance of son1. I didn't build it that time but bought a Gateway one with a 56k modem and a dial-up through Dabsol. Even when I moved jobs in '98 the internet was not available for everyone just those of us lucky enough to have a modem but that soon changed.