When did you first use the Internet?

[thrasher]

For me, it was in the fall of 1986. I had a 300 baud modem.

back then, it was Usenet newsgroups and BBS's. Its interesting that Usenet is still around...

[TJ Willy]

1991. 1400 baud modem. long distance phone call. I was in high school.

[TJ Willy]

Originally Posted by BigMike

The Internet as in the World Wide Web.

1993 - all text, no graphic browsers.

Not sure BBS counts as Internet though. My first modem was 1200 baud and I used to hit a few BBS sites. Probably in the late 80's using my Tandy1000.

Snap! I had a Tandy 1000! I was kicking the commy kids ass with 256k ON BOARD BABY! And lets not forget the BUILT IN 5.25 floppy. My external 3.5 floppy only cost $99 too. What a deal!

!995, I believe.

Right after Al Gore invented it.............

[thrasher]

I was referring to the Internet in general,... even before the WWW when Unix machines, VAXs, and PDP11's ruled the net. I just thought it was funny that people used to discuss and argue with each other on usenet newsgroups and BBSs back then the same way we do here and now.

Nothing much has changed in that respect.

Yeah, and everybody else is still wrong and I'm still right.

My first computer (which I still own for some bizarre reason) was a Commodore 64. I seem to recall a speed demon 300 baud modem......

First real business computer was a 386SX, with a whopping 20 meg hard drive. The salesman actually tried to talk me into a 10 meg, saying there was NO WAY anyone would have any use for a bigger hard drive.

[Dirty Dan]

Mid 90's. The first time I tried to log on with the dial up, I kept hearing that dial, static sound. I thought something was wrong so I kept cancelling the connection trying to figure out what the hell was wrong. Finally, it honked me of and I just let it go. To my great surprise, it connected. I sat up the whole night playing with it and saw the sun come up the next morning. I was hooked.

[Scabbydoo]

I was a late bloomer. 1990, Prodigy on a Packard Bell 386sx with blazing fast 14.4 modem and a whopping 40 meg hard drive...

[TJ Willy]

Originally Posted by Scabbydoo

I was a late bloomer. 1990, Podigy on a Packard Bell 386sx with blazing fast 14.4 modem and a whopping 40 meg hard drive...

I had a similar machine in 1991 and it cost my folks around $2300 with the SVGA monitor. Magnavox Sx386 - 1 mb RAM which I upgraded for $200 for 3 megs. 40 MB hard drive. I remember the salesman saying that I could never use all that space..... That was my computer for a long time - it went to college with me. My graduation present.

I got the Tandy 1000 when I was about 12. I have till this day my folks to thank fo r getting me into computers which is now what feeds my family.

That was a ton of money to us as we were just po-folk. So I am extremely grateful for their sacrifice and forethought.


Thanks Mom and Dad!!!!!

[vindex1963]

Originally Posted by BigMike

The Internet as in the World Wide Web.

1993 - all text, no graphic browsers.

Not sure BBS counts as Internet though. My first modem was 1200 baud and I used to hit a few BBS sites. Probably in the late 80's using my Tandy1000.

I had a Tandy 1000. Came with 512 meg of memory and I "upgraded" to 640.
7 Megahertz and you could turbo it to 14.

Got on the net with my 286 zero wait 25 mhz in the late 80s

[TJ Willy]

Originally Posted by vindex1963

I had a Tandy 1000. Came with 512 meg of memory and I "upgraded" to 640.
7 Megahertz and you could turbo it to 14.

Got on the net with my 286 zero wait 25 mhz in the late 80s

There were a few different models of that puter...

Mine looked like this:



and it was screaming along with 256 K of memory and a 4.77 Mhz processor running on basic DOS with 8088 architecture. Year was 1984/5.

I wrote my first computer program on that 1000EX that organized all our VCR tape recordings. You could either enter the number I put on the vhs tape (remember those little sheets of numbers that use to come with VHS tapes) at the prompt and it would list all the shows on the tape OR you could enter the name (if you happen to know EXACTLY what the name was.. haha) and it would give you the tape number. I obviously made millions....

"press 1 to enter VHS tape number or press 2 to enter recording name."


I thought I was hot sh!t.

[swmnkdinthervr]

1999...I got tired of everyone else but me gettin' to see all the porn...

[TJ Willy]

Originally Posted by BigMike

I had dual 5.25 drives. Wrote an entire DbaseIII Inventory and Order Entry system for the Equipment company I worked for. Compiled it with Clipper. The entire thing fit on a 5.25" floppy.

One upper...

[Kfengler]

Around 1982...







This is the last Hewlett Packard 9000/730 UNIX worstation I used, others for a lot of years... all I did was email (elm) and newsgroups...