For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?
irc chatting ~1988, lynx via a BBS was my first browsing
Cool! May I ask, what was the vibe like back then?
very academic. it was largely only nerds/computer geeks that could cobble the hardware together to get online, or were maybe interfacing with the local college. i used kermit to upload my homework.
that said, first porn downloads were from these BBSs which were like little mini local AOLs… provided ‘email’, chat and some gaming
When we got our first IBM compatible PC (a 486) my father wanted to have a modem in it. His friend who sold it to him couldn’t fathom why he would want a modem. But of course he got it anyways.
In the beginning my father used it for online banking over BTX. And when my brother got his own PC a few years later we played Doom with the modems over our house’s internal telephone lines.
My actual first internet experience was reading and writing to newsgroups on Usenet. (that worked more or less the same as Lemmy) My posts can probably still be found in archives. I mostly hung out in de.rec.sf.starwars. That’s actually how I found my first girlfriend.
Besides that I also surfed the web for different stuff. I still remember how Google became popular because it wasn’t so weighed down by ads and clutter and it actually gave you much better results than Alta Vista or Yahoo.
Me: hi!!!
Guest816371: a/s/l
Me: what does that mean???
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Hahahahah!!!
In case this wasn’t a joke question, it’s asking for my age, sex, and location.
Fidonet all the way initially (At the time it was faster to write your terminal program than to load it off tape every time you started the computer. Was only like 5 lines.)
But the with the “Internet” I was the first (I think, never saw any others) to write and release a Windows 3.1 program for Finger
One of my earliest memories of the internet is Yahoo games and playing Lenny Loosejocks.
CompuServe BBS, playing the British Legends MUD they charged $8 an hour for.
Compuserve and BBS in the '80s -> AOL in the '90s with some Prodigy sprinkled in. Aside from their curated content, a lot of NNTP. WWW starting whenever AOL got that (v 2.5 IIRC? Not sure) and IRC as well in the late '90s.
I was attending University in the mid 90s, where I had an account on the University mainframe, and access to a service called Gopher. Al Gore and his “Information Superhighway” showed up a couple of years later.
My very first was my dad showing me his ICQ convos and letting me say hi to one of his friends, the client going OH-OH every now and then. Late 90’s.
I don’t remember, neither the first time I used a computer, I was born in the 2000’s.
