do you remember your first time...

mconigol · 16-01-2010 08:37PM #1

on the interweb?

I convinced my parents to let me use the free cd that came with our new pc to set up a dial up account...so an hour or two and a few phone calls later i set eyes on the wonder that was the Indigo homepage...remember thinking "is this it?seriously? no big fanfare or anything!" the fact that i didn't know any other websites either made the whole experience a bit of a let down!

bonerm · 16-01-2010 08:40PM

First time for me was in college in Sept1996. TBH I didn't even know there WAS an internet until the computer lecturer gave the 101 on sending an email and looking at a webpage.

Big Nasty · 16-01-2010 08:42PM

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me-skywalker · 16-01-2010 08:43PM

haha

we done 'computers' in school and i remember my german teacher askign us to search up somethign on google... and inbetween each word we had to use '+' symbol otherwise 'the seach wont work properly'

or printing out pages and pages of wwf wrestling results just becaues nobody felt comfortable reading it off the screen.. 'only geeks do that'

hahaha niice

Frank Spencer · 16-01-2010 08:44PM

Wow flashbacks of extension reels from the phone socket to my PC and then rows over the phoneline being tied up the whole time.

"What if someone's trying to ring me?" was the usual cry.

Lockstep · 16-01-2010 08:44PM

First thing I went on was the Beano website.
And played their online rock/paper/scissors for ages.
Or as it was better known, pea shooter, catapault, water pistol

mikemac · 16-01-2010 08:45PM

In 1994, on a school trip to Tralee. It was some museum or visitor centre and they sat with us and let us try.
Think I looked up football jerseys for the next season.

And never used it again that decade
I didn't have an email address until 2000. I easily got through college without an email address for quite a while. Didn't need it at all

nevaeh-2die-4 · 16-01-2010 08:45PM

mconigol wrote: »

on the interweb?

I convinced my parents to let me use the free cd that came with our new pc to set up a dial up account...so an hour or two and a few phone calls later i set eyes on the wonder that was the Indigo homepage...remember thinking "is this it?seriously? no big fanfare or anything!" the fact that i didn't know any other websites either made the whole experience a bit of a let down!

That night also was quiet memorable for your parents catching you with your jocks down choking your chicken to gay porn.

My name is URL · 16-01-2010 08:45PM

I was 13 and and I looked up naked women on Lycos

allthedoyles · 16-01-2010 08:47PM

i remember a unison set top box in about 1994 . was able to view some webpages

AlmightyCushion · 16-01-2010 08:50PM

Yeah it was in school on some shítey connection. We were allowed go online on our computers class every once in a while. I went straight to google.com, spent about 5 seconds staring at the screen and I just couldn't understand how google was so popular. If I had searched for something I may have figured it out.

Borneo Fnctn · 16-01-2010 08:52PM

I went straight to redtube dot com and then realized it hadn't been invented yet.

me-skywalker · 16-01-2010 08:53PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

i remember a unison set top box in about 1994 . was able to view some webpages

haha yea I had one of these too!! how imaginative are we Irish.. 'lets get a product, downsize it, call some bits free, make it cheaper' - lollity

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yeah it was in school on some shítey connection. We were allowed go online on our computers class every once in a while. I went straight to google.com, spent about 5 seconds staring at the screen and I just couldn't understand how google was so popular. If I had searched for something I may have figured it out.

Yea i alwas used Yahoo prior to google and when I went onto it i was like.... eeeehh okaay so thsi is the might google?! lollity

Big Nasty · 16-01-2010 08:58PM

My father brought a laptop home from work and hooked up the connection via the phone jack. I waited until the family hit the hay and searched for Pamela Anderson or some other cica with large mamaries. Spent an hour or so having a gawk then hit the cot myself, leaving the comp on. The father got on to me the next morning as I had left the connection running all night! That would have been about '95 - used the net sporadically after that up until '05 when I really got in to it. Total addict ever since, spend a very large portion of my life online now, currently have 7 tabs open between various forums, etc. (I don't like Eastenders!):p

seclachi · 16-01-2010 09:04PM

I hooked up the 33.6kpbs modem back in 1997 to our brand new Cyrix 200 mhz beast. Took me a bit of time to figure out how to get it going, but then out of the blue to worked and I was on Ireland Online. I then went off to altavista to look for stuff on the Amiga, which I was still convinced would make a comeback. Then 10 minutes later I got bollocked out of it for tying up the phone line and kicked off again. Back to quake I went.

The best bit was that we got about 6 months free internet off our 1 month trial, probably because IOL were clueless about how to actually restrict an account to 1 month or something.

Good times

SoupyNorman · 16-01-2010 09:12PM

I do believe my very first act was to look for porn.

Mr Benevolent · 16-01-2010 09:26PM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

I do believe my very first act was to look for porn.

You're not alone there.

SoupyNorman · 16-01-2010 09:27PM

Confab wrote: »

You're not alone there.

Well I was at the time...

Dudess · 16-01-2010 09:33PM

Hmmm... Think it might have been late 1996/early 1997 when I was doing a computer course at college. I think I just typed what I was looking for into the address bar...

I actually didn't learn how to use the internet properly til early 2001 - when doing another (obviously better) computer course. But it took another five years I'd say before I became what you'd call proficient. Didn't have much access to the net til 2005.

pickarooney · 16-01-2010 09:35PM

Arsed about on newsgroups in '93, waiting for someone to invent a browser

jimi_t · 16-01-2010 09:37PM

It was about 94-95, brought by my dad to a dodgy looking place under a Laser video rental shop (Planet Cyber?) and pretty much told to knock myself out as he fecked off to the bookies. A confused 10 minutes ensued until I closed the Netscape Navigator (:D) window by accident and saw that there was a shorcut on the desktop to something intriguing called DOOM...

opinion guy · 16-01-2010 09:50PM

mconigol wrote: »

on the interweb?

I convinced my parents to let me use the free cd that came with our new pc to set up a dial up account...so an hour or two and a few phone calls later i set eyes on the wonder that was the Indigo homepage...remember thinking "is this it?seriously? no big fanfare or anything!" the fact that i didn't know any other websites either made the whole experience a bit of a let down!

And then you discovered boards !!! There are other websites too you know you might enjoy. Do you likey looking at naked people ?

<hopes mconigol discovers other websites/pron before he starts more threads here.... :P>

IvySlayer · 16-01-2010 09:58PM

Was in school playing some stupid game.

Then I went home, did the ERRR ERE RER E RE RE RRRRRRR thing (you know dial up sounds) and spent more time playing that stupid game.

Then I realised what else there was on the internet :eek:

Steyr · 16-01-2010 10:14PM

me-skywalker wrote: »

or printing out pages and pages of wwf wrestling results

Ah yes , to see who won WWF RAW, did The Rock win or lose, and if we missed Smackdown on a Saturday night!:cool: Memories:(:)

mconigol · 16-01-2010 10:16PM

opinion guy wrote: »

And then you discovered boards !!! There are other websites too you know you might enjoy. Do you likey looking at naked people ?

<hopes mconigol discovers other websites/pron before he starts more threads here.... :P>

logged on circa '98....joined boards May 09...what exactly do you think i've doing for the last 10 years?!

brummytom · 16-01-2010 10:29PM

Would have been around 1998/99... Can't actually remember what I went on though, but it took hours to load! God bless broadband

SoupyNorman · 16-01-2010 10:32PM

brummytom wrote: »

Would have been around 1998/99... Can't actually remember what I went on though, but it took hours to load! God bless broadband

What is this 'Broadband' you speak of, in this country we pay the highest prices in Europe for internet that seems to travel over twine cables.

rubadub · 16-01-2010 10:34PM

About 94 or 95. I remember I had the use of a lecturers PC in UCD, he was into computers and had an incredibly fast connection for the time.

I remember using netscape and altavista

emeraldstar · 16-01-2010 10:39PM

Yahoo chatrooms! My god, the hours spent on there, absolutely amazed that I was able to talk to someone in, like, Australia or anywhere in the world :eek: ..with my mom shouting at me in the background to log off that bloody internet. Then when I wouldn't, she'd just lift up the phone receiver which would automatically disconnect the internet connection.

Micilin Muc · 16-01-2010 10:39PM

I remember sending an e-mail to a classmate in 96 and vague recollections of each message costing 10p or something. Am I right or is that a figment of my imagination?!

brummytom · 16-01-2010 10:40PM

Oh chatrooms. God I remember those. Was using them from the age of 10 without a care in the world :eek:

"/me is bored"

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