Online memories...

Infernum

I'm sure at least some of ye have been around ye olde internet block since time immemorial and have some stories, either fun, terrifying or both, to recall from your various online experiences over the years.

Let's hear some of them!

McGinniesta

I first watched Chris Chans sex tape after a skin full of brandy.

Bad move.

Mint Sauce

You first OP.

Feisar

Yer man on here looking for advice about his grinds teacher.

Gregor Samsa

The exploding whale video is the first one I remember seeing on the internet, around 1995, so a decade before YouTube existed, and before there was enough bandwidth for the ubiquity of porn videos. I remember watching it and thinking "this internet thing will take off".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y

1990sman

fetish for the old dial up tone. even fantasied about dropping it in a mix.

silver2020

the screeching of the line connecting to the internet and hoping to "fast" 100kb download

hellsing101

McGinniesta wrote: »

I first watched Chris Chans sex tape after a skin full of brandy.

Bad move.

Chris Chan?, the Sonichu fella?

Temptamperu

Getting shouted at cause your mom needed to use the phone.

1990sman

there was another thread about this 2 years ago. does that count?

dzsfah2xoynme9

Rotten.com

jonnny68

the chat room on oceanfree.net circa 1997/98 used to be great for the ladyz :pac:

McGinniesta

hellsing101 wrote: »

Chris Chan?, the Sonichu fella?

Yeah. Theres a clip of him on pornhub shagging a blow up doll

Your Face

About.com

Trigger Happy

www.askjeeves.com

The search engine with manners.

Gregor Samsa

jonnny68 wrote: »

the chat room on oceanfree.net circa 1997/98 used to be great for the ladyz :pac:

Feekey McGee of course

JohnnyFlash

Lemon Party.

Not a good memory, but an online memory.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

I watched a movie recently, where they were using floppy discs! lol

Is it possible that the internet and PC's were both simultaneously one of the greatest inventions ever, and also one of worst in terms of their negative impacts on society?

El Gato De Negocios

Rotten.com and the hun.net for everything a boy on the cusp of manhood needed.

MzMurfy

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Lemon Party.

Not a good memory, but an online memory.

God, I wonder if its still there.

nj27

Lake city quiet pills. Enjoy that rabbit hole if you have an abundance of free time.

gifted

Yahoo chat rooms........God the boobs lol lol

cml387

Working for a large computer company that may have had two locations in Ireland one of which was in Galway (I was in t'other).

They had a collaborative bulletin boards system which was also used for non-work discussion topics. I thought it was good fun and there were some very imaginative and inventive posters.

Lo and behold someone uploaded the whole contents to the web and I could re read my pretty pathetic contributions from over thirty years ago.

PommieBast

sugarman wrote: »

Meat Spin.

Could never listen to Dead or Alive in the same way after that one..

JeffKenna

A/S/L?

BrianD3

i first accessed the internet in the mid 90s in college, Windows 3.1, Netscape and Trumpet Winsock, I always found the latter a funny name

There wasn't much point looking at porn, downloads were too slow and images were often in 16 colours IIRC.

However when the college PCs were upgraded to far superior Windows NT machines a year or two later, massive quantities of porn were viewed. I wonder in more modern times does that still go on - logon to a PC in college and spend several hours looking at porn, would such activities be monitored and sanctions imposed.

Ten of Swords

BrianD3 wrote: »

logon to a PC in college and spend several hours looking at porn

No, phones ftw

cml387

BrianD3 wrote: »

i first accessed the internet in the mid 90s in college, Windows 3.1, Netscape and Trumpet Winsock, I always found the latter a funny name

There wasn't much point looking at porn, downloads were too slow and images were often in 16 colours IIRC.

However when the college PCs were upgraded to far superior Windows NT machines a year or two later, massive quantities of porn were viewed. I wonder in more modern times does that still go on - logon to a PC in college and spend several hours looking at porn, would such activities be monitored and sanctions imposed.

My sister in law worked in an "internet cafe" years ago and was plagued by dirty old men looking up porn on the internet, and then...well.
Not a nice job.

Church on Tuesday

McGinniesta wrote: »

I first watched Chris Chans sex tape after a skin full of brandy.

Bad move.

I googled that because I have no clue who that is.

Even badder move.

Internet where I came from and grew up? you may as well be talking about trying to get to the moon. About '99 or thereabouts when I was in 6th class primary we "got" the internet, not until I went to 3rd level was it a regular thing and advances in technology.

.anon.

I first got the internet in the summer of 1997. When I returned to school after the summer holidays that year, I was first with all the Princess Diana jokes.

McGinniesta

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I googled that because I have no clue who that is.

Even badder move.

Internet where I came from and grew up? you may as well be talking about trying to get to the moon. About '99 or thereabouts when I was in 6th class primary we "got" the internet, not until I went to 3rd level was it a regular thing and advances in technology.

Do yourself a favour. Don't look any further into him. He's so autistic that it will actually affect your own mental health.

No joke.

Duff

Yahoo pool is probably what I miss most.

gogo

I remember the first time we got internet at home it was one of those boxes you hooked up to the tv.. remember falling over myself to show my dad how the ‘internet’ worked, cue me waiting for at least ten mins for the dancing hamsters to load.... I can still see the disappointment on his face, I was trying to tell him it would change the world..... the dancing hamster’s probably wasn’t the best advertisement

teediddlyeye

McGinniesta wrote: »

Do yourself a favour. Don't look any further into him. He's so autistic that it will actually affect your own mental health.

No joke.

There's a guy on YouTube. Making a history of his life. He's on his 42nd 45ish min video.

Fascinating!

Homelander

Some of my first memories of the Internet include playing Starship Troopers flash games and my mother visiting BertieAherne.com after some lad bought it and filled it with porn hoping to get a payoff.

Wonder if he ever got the cash.

Hamsterchops

My 1st screensaver on my Gateway 2000, seemed amazing at the time

https://youtu.be/okS0p89G4Ys

Greta_Funberg

My first time on the internet was my first day in uni. I hadn't a clue but somehow managed to master it. I still remember my first search was for sexy pics of Amanda Carter (Sam in SG1).

fryup

yahoo chat rooms

EmmetSpiceland

Greta_Funberg wrote: »

My first time on the internet was my first day in uni. I hadn't a clue but somehow managed to master it. I still remember my first search was for sexy pics of Amanda Carter (Sam in SG1).

Tapping, Carter was the character’s surname.

Greta_Funberg

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Tapping, Carter was the character’s surname.

Thank you. Yes, she was a fine bit of stuff. Sure I might do a search for old times sake...

Badly Drunk Boy

Greta_Funberg wrote: »

My first time on the internet was my first day in uni. I hadn't a clue but somehow managed to master it. I still remember my first search was for sexy pics of Amanda Carter (Sam in SG1).

Amanda Tapping, who played Sam Carter. I actually worked with a lad called Sam Carter.

When I started university in 1991 the internet wasn't quite ready so we went on Usenet groups. Amazing at the time but it was all text. Still, at that stage people had lyrics to any song you wanted, scripts to any television programme, etc. It was impressive. And I got my first two e-mail addresses in 1991, one of them I could pick my own username.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^

was the porn in text too?

EmmetSpiceland

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^

was the porn in text too?

Probably some “low grade” ASCII stuff.

Badly Drunk Boy

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^

was the porn in text too?

Yeah, baby!! :pac:

bilbot79

Unadulterated, unmoderated trolling in chat rooms circa 1997

'Hey Lazer Lips. Your momma's a snowblower'

Gregor Samsa

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^

was the porn in text too?

8===D --- (.)(.)

Agricola

An older mate of mine got a PC in about '97 and I remember three of us waiting an eternity for a photo to load of a girl kneeling in front of a large erect penis. It's still the most erotic moment of my life.

kowloon

Website that look like this.

Lewis_Benson

Oceanfree chat, yahoo chat, mPlayer.com, ICQ, paltalk, AOL instant messager.

Thehun
Rotton.com
Dialpad (could make free calls to any number in the world)
Quake 2 and later Quake 3 Arena
Unreal Tournament

The first almost flat rate dialup in Ireland from esat surf no limits (paid a flat rate per month, and was no call charges between 8am and 6pm), then getting a letter telling everyone not to abuse it and later disconnected towards the end of the summer in 2000.


Great old tímes.

iamstop

Anarchists Cookbook
Doom mods/skins
Irishhiphop.com
A Wu Tang forum
Friendster
Napster then Limewire
The Pam Anderson leak
The Star Wars kid
GTA I and II on the college network