That I was the millionth visitor and I could claim my free iPod.
I remember the “to download this answer this survey and win a free iPad” and being smart enough to know it was a scam but also dumb enough to think it might be real and just enter the info of the vacant house down the road and check it every day to see if it had came
And also smart enough to invent a safe test.
“Under Construction” gif and blinking fucking html.
But really it was “connecting to 087762534 BEEEEEEEEEEE BEEE BEEEE BEEEEEEBEAOOOOOOKSCSHSCSHSVSHSHSVSVSVSHSVSVSVSVSVACHSHHHHSHHHSHSCSCHHHSHSHSHSHSHH…”
Though that was audio.
I can still tell you if the connection is gonna be successful by hearing it.
Easy! It makes for a pretty fun mobile ring signal btw. I get a lot of laughs with that one. :)
The dancing baby
My high school mass media teacher thought it was the greatest thing ever. Looking back, that experience should’ve told me exactly what the internet would become.
I hated it instantly, and I KNEW what Internet would become.
I was not disappointed. I mean, I was, desperately, but you know what I’m sayin.
BBSes. My first modem was for my Commodore 64. All you could connect to were Bulletin Board Services which were simply someone else’s computer that was running software. Usually you would get some sort of menu if options when you connected.
CompuServe came not too long after that probably on an 8088 or 386 PC.
Dial up modem sound. Followed by the AOL portal site.
I didn’t know what a URL was, so I was stuck with going through the kids section of the site, which I believe was a webcrawler that grabbed sites that had games on them. That was pretty much the internet for me.
What you need my friend, is a web portal!
Depends on what you mean by online. If anything internet related counts, it was e-mails I got from teachers at university. That was totally new at the time and only people in computer science and related courses had access.
My first multimedia experience was with Usenet. The internet access was from a terminal account on a UNIX host. I had to telnet into that from a Windows machine (3.1 had just come out). There was this post in several parts named “cute girl getting it up the ass”. I had to download all the posts as text files, stitch them together in an editor and uudecode the whole thing. Then i had to ftp it to the Windows machine and install a JPEG viewer on that (similar procedure). Then i could finally open the Jpeg, which took about a minute on that machine. The girl wasn’t actually that cute.
I never figured out those binary files. Such a gyp every time. I can’t masturbate to that!
uudecode for the win! But yeah, took me quite a while to figure that out too. Especially tricky when you have to do it all with one hand!
Some pictures loading pixel by pixel, first in very large pixels, then a bid smaller, in finer resolution, and by the time the smallest pixels start to appear, you are already finished.
Besides the dialing sound? Good question. Maybe ICQ sounds… annoyed the hell out of my parents probably
That annoyedme right now, I could hear that uh-oh!
“Welcome!”
“You’ve got mail!”
This is about all I can remember for my first online experience. Just remember opening AOL and not exactly knowing what else to do except click around random links, looking at whatever websites I came across, all with that classic 90s basic HTML look.
When we got internet for the first time when I was a kid, and I immediately went to the cartoonnetwork website because it was shown on TV between cartoons.
I also remember that there was a vote held between a number of cartoons, and the one to receive the most votes would be shown 24h after the vote. I voted for my favorite one (some girl that secretly travels with some aliens on missions after school or something) and I realized that I could just vote again. So I voted like 100 times haha. Don’t know whether it was my doing, but that cartoon was being shown the whole day after the voting ended.
Heh, my first site was also Cartoon Network. And I remember the voting too, we had them in my country too. I can’t recall if I ever voted myself, but I remember some of the 24 hours days. Sometimes I loved it when it was a show I liked and sometimes I would be like “Well what do I watch today now?” if I wasn’t a fan.
The first Internet thing I remember actually doing is my friend helping me sign up for my first email account, on Hotmail… In high school computer lab, so it must have been 96 or 97.
I do remember reading about the Internet and trying to find a way to connect from home on our Packard Bell… But we were remote… It would have been some extreme long distance bills…
I don’t know what the very first thing was back when I didn’t yet have internet and could only use it when visiting my uncle who did.
But I remember the first site I visited after I had internet myself. I went on the Cartoon Network site to play some of the games they had.
A list of usenet groups on my dad’s computer around 1989. Porn groups, I think, but that may be mixed up with another later memory.
Ask your dad when you’re old enough.
Lol, he’s dead
Definitely some sort of Christmas Santa whatever 3D animation on yt that made me feel uncomfortable. That was back when my parents thought I was too young to explore the internet on my own. Couldn’t tell you what video it was because that’s too much work for my brain sinc that was around 2008 if I remember correctly.
I was like 5: I typed in yahoo.com, searched “pop” because it was the only word I could think of at that moment.
Earliest interesting thing: I played the old flash game where you get X-ray glasses and you look at people’s junk when I was like 6.
