Early internet memories :: Remember when......
 

It used to impress you that you could download a full song 3min song in under 20mins :1orglaugh

I remember finding all sorts of music and remixes i'd never had been able to track down before on AudioGalaxy or Napster, and being amazed at how "quickly" i could have them.

I remember getting my Sega Dreamcast online aswell and thinking it was pretty cool. You couldn't actually do much with it, but i remember loading up TheHun and thinking "shit i'm looking at titties on my Sega".


Amazing how much has changed since then.
What sticks out for you when you first went online ??

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I actually first went online with a dreamcast

Never ending loops of popups.

I always had just regular old 56k dial up for a few years(from about 14 or so until 18). I remember when I was 16, I went to a friend's house who had cable & I could download an album in about an hour. I was floored.

Now I bitch when my 50mbps down connection doesn't download something to my liking...

The console itself never had any games which were available online in the UK i believe ?

It did have some cracking games though. Pity Sega bowed out of the console market...

i still have 56k modem.

yeah, there was one, they sent out free copies to registered users. I don't think it was that great though.

Creating websites on Geocities :thumbsup

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I remember making my 1st sale :thumbsup:thumbsup

Once my brother showed the Alt+F4 trick, my life became easier.

Remember surfing for porn clips on usenet newsgroups? You had to download all the parts of "hot babe takes it doggy style", then stitch it together for a grainy 3 minute clip and pray it would be something you could actually beat your meat to.

"Chu Chu Rocket" springs to mind actually.

But yeah never played it but think it was shite anyway...

That was it! I don't know how but I ended up with quite a few copies of that, couldn't give them away!

i used to have iwon.com as my homepage :/

circia 1999

15 copies of Lightspeed SuperServer plus a now defunct billing company's customer list :pimp:pimp:pimp:pimp

Plus 30 phone lines each with either it's own dedicated dial up account or DSL line.

Goodbye one bedroom apartment:winkwink:

Haha I had a 14.4k dialup modem card for my IBM 486 laptop !

I remember when the 2400 baud Supra modem was the best thing going.

I remember being on AOL and playing turn-based wargames where we had to save the game after each turn and then email it to our opponent. Me and a guy played the entire Utah Beach campaign that way with the V 4 Victory game.

I remember playing a challenge ladder for the Perfect General game on CompuServe. It was hideously expensive with the long-distance phone rates and super slow transfer rates.

I remember signing on to BBS's and spending forever to download gif (not jpg) files of sexy photos, such as the legendary Bluebird series of Japanese glamour models.

Ah yes, I remember the days. Things are much faster now, but not necessarily better.

300baud modem, a hacked Sprint dialing code, and 2 hour call to a BBS in germany to download some horrible 16color nude image files on a Commodore64

This was a machine I learned computer programming on in school. It was before the world wide web, but it was "on line", and crazy fun.

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Would love to have one again

My mother worked as a systems analyst at KFC and would bring home 2 of these on the weekends.
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I remember taking one to my friends house and leaving it there overnight. I went home and called him up with the other one and we sat there and typed to each other for hours. I thought that was the shit! We wasted all my mom's paper and she was pissed but that is my earliest memory of being online (kinda).

I remember when the Net looked like L-O-R still does today...minus the lime green.

56k modem, what a time for working on net for many hours! :)

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Old days :1orglaugh

I remember most the weird screeching noise of the dial up modems....
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8
I first got on the internet in late 1993, omg thats 20 years ago this month. and I first started networking in 1983 with a commodore 64, they were bulletin boards back in those days , omg that's 30 years ago.

Early GFY memories.

Making a thread a checking back on it only an hour or so later and finding it on the 3rd page (yes things really did move that fast).

I also remember the 1,000,000 th post and the chaos in the hours/mins leading up to it. Never seen the board or any board move so fast in my life. Crazy times!

That was a crazy time waiting for that 1 millionth post.

Long shot but can you remember who won it ?? There was a shitload of prizes up for grabs.

We are now well over 18 million posts! :helpme

i don't i know i didnt though..

Started BBSing sometime around 1987-88 in the Toronto area.

I remember we had a 1200baud internal Zoltrix modem in a PC-XT (20mb HD and 640k of RAM). We reached 14.4 USRobotics in the XT before we upgraded to a 486DX-2 that allowed us to get to a 56k USR modem.

My first IP was in '92(ish) - at 56k dialup. Nutscrape Navigator was on four 3.5" floppy disks at the time.

Usenet newsgroups were all the rage back then. Anyone remember the UUencode'ing? :1orglaugh

hotbot search engine

The moment when the image finally loaded enough to first show a nipple!

CHECK OUT http://archive.org/web/ you can find copies of your old sites:thumbsup