do you remember your first time...

Calibos · 17-01-2010 02:47AM

Agent J wrote: »

1999 was went i was first properly able to access the net.

Esat No Limits. How i remember thee. 30 pound a month for unlimited off peak internet access.

I thought i was in heaven.

Our younger readers must understand that before 98 or 99 there was no flat rate internet. You paid by the minute like a phone call. You put a weeks wages aside to pay the monthly 200-300 pound phone bill (30 in calls and 270 internet usage

)

The Telecoms industry call this period 'Die Glückliche Zeit'

Fluorescence · 17-01-2010 02:59AM

It was about '99 and my older brother and I (10 and 8 at the time

) searched for cartoon network on yahoo.com. We played the games on that website for aaaaaaaages! Our parents went beserk when they saw the first bill and strictly limited our time after that... Aah a few years later and MSN 4.2 and yahoo groups were the cool thing :rolleyes: And cybertown! Though I didn't join that til I was 12 or so

17-01-2010 03:02AM

fluorescence wrote: »

It was about '99 and my older brother and I (10 and 8 at the time ) searched for cartoon network on yahoo.com. We played the games on that website for aaaaaaaages! Our parents went beserk when they saw the first bill and strictly limited our time after that... Aah a few years later and MSN 4.2 and yahoo groups were the cool thing :rolleyes: And cybertown! Though I didn't join that til I was 12 or so

That brings me back, the MSN public chatrooms. Got talking to two girls on there, one in North Dakota and the other in Kentucky. Still in touch with them to this day.

Agent J · 17-01-2010 03:06AM

Calibos wrote: »

Our younger readers must understand that before 98 or 99 there was no flat rate internet. You paid by the minute like a phone call. You put a weeks wages aside to pay the monthly 200-300 pound phone bill (30 in calls and 270 internet usage )

The Telecoms industry call this period 'Die Glückliche Zeit'

Hell some of them we'll explain was "Dial up" is/was.

I remember all the radio ads and such for indio, club internet etc..
It was something like 100 pound to join then the per call charge as well.

ronaneire · 17-01-2010 03:22AM

Someone explain what interweb is?

amandakola · 17-01-2010 04:04AM

i was around 13 or 14 i think.
i just remember always being SO EXCITED when i was allowed go on for half an hour or whatever.
i was such an nerd, the week before we got it i was compiling a written list of thing/sites to look up, mostly bands I liked [i proceeded to print out the lyrics to each and every Atari Teenage Riot song, which is even funnier if you know what their lyrics are like...].
but i was so in awe of chatrooms and the idea that i could talk to a faceless-but-potentially-cute boy in like, America... in real time.

cute story from early internet days: somehow started chatting to some boy in cork, and we talked almost daily for six months, without knowing what each other looked like [this was before everyone had digital cameras or scanners] and eventually we met up one day and we went to the cinema and watched Chicken Run and kissed. it was sooooo romantic and soooo worth being grounded for the first time in my life!!

ScumLord · 17-01-2010 04:07AM

I remember it well but when I turned to look at the calender and record the day at which this momentous day took place I found that I'd become blinded and couldn't see a thing. Luckily I've built up a tolerance to the internet now so don't go blind any more but I do have to wear glasses now.

The_B_Man · 17-01-2010 04:31AM

3 words:

Bert. Is. Evil!

AckwelFoley · 17-01-2010 04:36AM

i remember my first post on an internet forum.

2004

First internet?

1996 pr0n

Fukuyama · 17-01-2010 09:30AM

Mine was just looking over my friends mother's shoulder as she went on to the Smackdown website. She then yelled at my friend for"watching such violence on TV" .. HEHE

My first time ever using it was on a windows XP - I was around 12 at the time ... took me ages to set it up using an eircom disc for a dial up connection. I think broadband was starting to come to prominence then ('03 or '04). Got some crappy search engine and was utterly confused for a few minutes.

Then I went onto Yahoo having figured out how to put in an address ... then my parents left me and my brother alone with the biggest 'boobielibrary' in the world. BIG mistake

hehe

I recall,a short time after that, me and my brothers got in trouble (BIG TROUBLE!!!) because a phonebill arrived for over 550! :O

Internet was disconnected after that and only used for booking flights etc... until we got NTL broadband a couple of years later

Now I make a living on the net!

Agricola · 17-01-2010 09:51AM

Dean0088 wrote: »

I recall,a short time after that, me and my brothers got in trouble (BIG TROUBLE!!!) because a phonebill arrived for over 550! :O

You should have wrote to the Irish Independent. A woman recently wrote in complaining that her son hadnt realised that he was paying for internet access per minute, and ran up a bill of around 400. She believed it was Eircom's duty to monitor the phone usage and if any unusual spikes in usage occured to contact her about it before it ran up a huge bill. When the paper contacted Eircom, they agreed and refunded the money to her!

Moral of the story - having a thick neck pays dividends.

First time I saw the fabled t'internet was in '95. A mate of mine got himself a "pc" and was setting up a dialup connection on it. I remember looking at the phone cable snaking down the hall and into the back of the computer and being completely puzzled by the need for it!

Then, we obviously looked up pron. I was also completely puzzled by some of the images that slowly loaded on the screen that day! I was 13!

The first time I used it for myself was in college in 1999.

razorblunt · 17-01-2010 01:34PM

I did an ECDL course back in about 95 remember failing one of the exams because the webpage wouldnt load in the allotted time, think I went onto toyota's website clicked on a few random links and got passed.

Didn't get the internet at home until about 2000/2001, first search was for my name!

bonerm · 17-01-2010 02:00PM

Calibos wrote: »

The Telecoms industry call this period 'Die Glückliche Zeit'

Genau.

The internet was (technically) shít back then but at least it hadn't been overrun by the web2.0 generation yet. Ah how I miss psychadelic wallpaper, "homepages" and telnet!

17-01-2010 03:35PM

The_B_Man wrote: »

3 words:

Bert. Is. Evil!

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053819/www.fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm

Mint Sauce · 17-01-2010 03:42PM

we had a few drinks, went back to her parents house and.......

oh you mean the first time i used the internet, nah cant remember

17-01-2010 03:51PM

It must have been at school. But I can't remember.

cherryghost · 17-01-2010 04:04PM

looking up alta vista for madonnas new song, ray of light*

*circa 1998

amdublin · 17-01-2010 04:10PM

1998 I was abroad in the US. A friend showed me how to set up this thing called a yahoo email account.

I remember ringing home and trying to explain my address and the @symbol to my dad: "Just write it down dad and show it to Mary (older sister) she uses this email thing in work and will know what it is"

Then my other sister and my friend used to email me from my friends brothers computer. But they could just type it up, they had to call him when it came time to "send it" lol

Vinta81 · 17-01-2010 04:34PM

Yup we were first among our friends to get the internet/pc etc...AOL at the time back in England, then we moved here in 01' and had IOL :pac:

I remember those msn chat websites, thinking back on all the perverted things I would read there lol. MSN groups, making one for your favourite band/artist oh lord.

EDIT: Oh and before Rapidshare/Megaupload etc does anyone remember yousendit.com, only 25 people could d/l that file and it was a balls being 26 lol.

foxyboxer · 18-01-2010 02:37PM

In March 1997 (geography dept. in UCC), searching yahoo for Gwyneth Paltrow pictures

Seaneh · 18-01-2010 02:41PM

First time I used 'tinertnets IE didn't exist and webpages were very very rare.

Jesus Juice · 18-01-2010 03:01PM

I remember telling a dude in computers that a dominatrix was a really cool type of car and he searched it.

I'll never forget the look on his and then the teachers face.

Blazer · 18-01-2010 04:07PM

First found out about the internet in 1998 when I started working at a PC manafacture;)
Found yahoo chatrooms and chatted to loads of girls all over the world.
Then I had an eureka moment.
Someone had about 20 mp3 on the office pc with Winamp.. and I thought to myself..ok they had to come from somewhere..let's try the net :
And voila

few days later our music choice had increased by about 5000%....
Luckily that pc company had it's own 10 meg pipe so I reckon we definitely had the fastest internet in ireland at the time...
was very dissapointed when I discovered that ordinary joe soap had only dialup

Dean820 · 18-01-2010 05:44PM

2001. I went to wwf.com, I was big wrestling fan back then. That month we kind of overdid it and the dial-up bill came to about 120 pounds. A complete rip off that dial-up was, slow and ****ty yet they charged so much. Plus it tied up the phone, people giving out that they were expecting a call and to get off.

Kipperhell · 18-01-2010 05:45PM

It was either 93 or 94 I used to go to a Virtual Irish Pub. I remember showing people how to use it in a pub I worked.
All the clichés of people saying the wrong things were there but about 5 years latter I was working with a project manager who couldn't understand anything with e-mails/internet.

Some of her greats were:
1) Email addresses were e-mail numbers often just saying numbers(that one just used to bug me as she was constantly asking for numbers which to everybody else meant daily reports and when saying somebody's name meant phone number)
2) she always used the term World Wide Web and didn't know the internet was the same thing. Never found out what she thought the difference was
3) didn't know what the www stood for even though constantly saying it as above
4) she unplugged her computer from the network when she wanted to write a confidential letter because people on the internet were watching
5) The confidential letters from above were constantly sent to everybody in her contacts once somebody else attached the document to the e-mail for her.
6) She couldn't open any attachments because she couldn't double click the same icon in a row. Mostly she wasn't even clicking on the right icon.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 18-01-2010 05:46PM

mconigol wrote: »

the fact that i didn't know any other websites either made the whole experience a bit of a let down!

w w w . s e x . c o m FFS:D

Pyr0 · 18-01-2010 06:09PM

Around the year 2000 or so when I was 10 had my first game of counter strike!

Thomas828 · 18-01-2010 06:10PM

My first time was in January 1997 at Whiteley's in London. Cost £6 an hour! And I think it was on a 486. The first pages I dialled up were Yahoo and BBC. And then I went on some Japanese sites! I got pictures of Mariya Yamada, Satomi Yoshida, Tomoe Shinohara and Ryoko Hirosue among others. But because the computers didn't support Japanese text all I got was gobbledegook.

Dudess · 18-01-2010 06:12PM

How long has the internet actually been around? I only heard of it first in 94/95 - on the Gerry Ryan show.

Atavan-Halen · 18-01-2010 06:15PM

The internet as we know it? Probably early 90's

As we don't know it - Early 60's

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