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When did you first get on the internet?
Richard Dower
1995, the joys of 56k modems and crappy speeds...it was all sooo new and fresh back then. Realplayer was king!....ICQ :eek:
Things have changed very sharpish, a 20GB hard drive cost over 200 old pounds :eek:
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jimthemental
2004 I think. Didn't even know how to use email until half way through first year in UL we were so starved of experience with computers in Kilkenny's Vocational Schools
Gyalist
At university in 1987. The www didn't exist then.
bonerm
1996. Clinton was in the White House, Ireland still had a good football team, the end of the world was only 4 years away....
galwayrush
Too lazy to google the year, but the headlines were about Princess Diana's death.
_feedback_
1998. Eircom dial up. Using netscape navigator to visit the oceanfree chat rooms!
Sunnyisland
2007 :eek:
jester77
95, the memories... mozilla browser, geocities, fortune city, angelfire, hotmail, altavista, chat rooms and the joys of waiting a few mins for a blurry pic to load to see if it was worth saving to a floppy disk!
pickarooney
1993 from a SPARC station. alt.rec.humor.bestiality here we come!
Funglegunk
96/97.
I had a 33.6k modem, and spent a lot of time on yahoo chat, irc and icq. The following year I ran up the phone bill like **** once I discovered you could play half-life online.
Rick Deckard
went into compustore on Stephens Green, got a packard bell with 16mB ram,
<1gb hdd.
was too nervous to go to actual porn sites, so was an avid member of Yahoo Clubs!!
late 97ish..
deman
1996... 28.8k modem (btw, are you 56k modems were available in 95?)
Used IOL free disc. No email or anything.
AltaVista was my favourite search engine.
tallaghtmick
only about 7 years ago,im going on 27 this year so i was a late bloomer,my parents never had use for a pc so we never got 1
Garseys
1999, Crappy Eircom Dial up.
Then we got NTL's first Broadband offering!
enda1
Can't remember when exactly, but I do remember I did it without family knowing. Got a IOL disk in the door one day with a free trial number. Then you were supposed to pay for the right to ring them as an ISP?!
I used this number continuously for about 6 months I'd say.
I do remember musicmatch jukebox being one of the first glimpses at mp3s. The early versions had only the ability to rip 3 or 5 songs for free before buying the ****ty software.
I guess it was in the mid-nineties. I remember the computer having an 8gb drive I think and windows 95. Brand spanking new Packard Bell piece of sh
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JohnathanM
Pdfile
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anyone remember BBS ??
I remember acoustic couplers, very large phone bills and very angry parents.
Pdfile
anyone remember BBS ??
anyone remember the first on ??
i beta tested that with echo...
and thats all i done, still on the net though. :pac:
JONJO THE MISER
First time i was on it was in 1995, i remember thinking it was just nerds who were into it and i really had no interest in it until 2000 when i read about flutter.com which was the first and best betting exchange and i guess it took off from there.
Yakult
around 98. Only used it for tabs and then Broadband came and my life left.
Senna
Our home computer was in the kitchen and the whole family used it. I panicked when i realised the search box in Yahoo remember what i had searched for:o.
WindSock
95 or 96 or something. When Yahoo was the most useful thing for me. God, what a mess it was.
PeakOutput
too soon
Senna
1997 or so.
Used to spend hours just typing random stuff into Yahoo. Then Napster arrived and i'd spend a full night downloading 4 songs. I'd just sit there watching the download speed, if it got over 4kps i'd get excited, you couldn't use the internet while downloading a song and thinking back, i mustn't have realised minesweeper or solitaire were there:D
stoneill
1993 - Vax based gopher system, all text mostly ascii and no graphics.
Until I managed to get my hands on Netscape!
Sticky_Fingers
Think it was '97 or '98, crappy dialup that cost an absolute fortune, had to use it late at night to keep the costs down and even then it was only for a very short time. I remember being completely bewildered by the whole thing and struggling to find my way around.
Also dirty pictures took an age to load and what with the possibility of being discovered at any moment by the parents it was a very trying time for a lad my age;)
LighterGuy
Sega Dreamcast in 2000.
The console was already out since October 1999. But Sega didnt allow the internet service become available until April 2000 for Irish owners.
The web browser wasnt the best. But it was alright at the time. Couldnt download anything tho. But the problem was that the internet was evolving fast around that time. So by 2001-2 the sega dreamcast browser wasnt good enough anymore.
tails_naf
Richard Dower
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56k modems
Flash bas***d, 14.4k for me....for many years.
Stuck with eircom 'broadband' in the countryside now.
Think the 14.4k was a bit faster....
Was in 95 when I first got on too. Remember paying 120 punts for 4mb of ram. Made my computer a rocket though!
TheMilkyPirate
Must have been around 1998 or 99, Used to have to drag the whole pc plus desk out to the hallway so i could plug the internet lead into the phone socket.. It's hilarious when i look back on it now and amazing to see how far we've come seen as i'm now lying in bed on my smartphone on boards :P
