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When did you first get on the internet?

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  • #32
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    robinph wrote: »
    Via an acoustic coupler back in '80

    Have always wanted to used one of those ever since I saw the movie Wargames. Must have taken ages to download porn over one of them tho.


  • #33
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    About 1995. Was using a US robotics 28.8 modem, that was X2 (meaning it could be moved to 56.6 with a firmware update). Was basically chatrooms is all I went into!


  • #34
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    bonerm wrote: »
    Have always wanted to used one of those ever since I saw the movie Wargames. Must have taken ages to download porn over one of them tho.

    Porns not so great when you've only got a mono green screen text output available.


  • #35
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    robinph wrote: »
    Porns not so great when you've only got a mono green screen text output available.
    index_1.jpg

    you make do!


  • #36
    daveyboy_1ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭daveyboy_1ie


    About 1998, in college and immediatly got the family to get the slow as be damned dial up, still seemed a marvel to me at the time.


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  • #37
    Stargate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    March 1995 a day i will never forget :p

    14.4 modem and dropping the connection every 15 mins , having to dial back in and been charged Eircon crazy prices :rolleyes:

    Forget trying to download even a 5 mrg file ....it could take a week :eek:

    Anyone remember the newsgroup back then ??

    Awwww 1995 happy days :pac:

    Stargate


  • #38
    Loomis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    robinph wrote: »
    Porns not so great when you've only got a mono green screen text output available.
    peatcass wrote: »
    index_1.jpg

    you make do!

    It was good enough for the lads in the Matrix :D


    Signed up to Hotmail in 2000. So must have been then or possibly a year before. Thought it was longer tbh. That's how much time I spend online...


  • #39
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Whenever Oceanfree started. In the end, I used to get a couple of ok emails and about 3000 spam ones everyday.

    ...MP3s. Leaving the dial-up connected for hours just to get one. By the time you downloaded a whole album, you could get it for 10p in the bargain bin at your local record shop.


  • #40
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    I think we got the internet in about 1995. We were connected via a tiny little ISP in Cork called Eirenet on a 28.8 modem! Fast for its day. Netscape 1.0 and Eudora mail :)

    We then moved onto IOL or Indigo (I can't remember) and 56kbps modems, then ISDN, then eventually eircom iStream DSL in late 2001.

    From there it's ramped up from 1mbit/s to 24mbit/s with eircom, BT, eircom, UTV Internet, then eircom again! Then Smart Telecom unbundled :D


  • #41
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Mr. Anderson wrote: »
    It was good enough for the lads in the Matrix :D

    They had a network port in the back of their necks though, I suspect that added to the quality of the images they saw.


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  • #42
    Spore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Spore


    Back in 95. Immediately saw the lulz potential in trolling internet chatrooms (I was 14). "You're all a bunch of fags!" Cue response: nine people hitting the ignore button, one person taking the bait "No you're the fag, fag!" Ah, good times...


  • #43
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    1998, Indigo 30 day free internet trial

    Probably used it only once. Remember my mum using it send a load of faxes though because it was easier to type than write it out!


  • #44
    morgana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭morgana


    1993ish with a small local Cork Internet provider just email and bulletin boards on a 2.4 modem. I remember the excitement browsing a site in the States on Lynx (that was the text based browser). Nothing much to see but just the thought ...
    The moment IOL was available in Cork I was on it :P with an amazingly fast 14.4 modem.
    The joys of a graphical browser - remember Mosaic? Now that was progress :P


  • #45
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    First got a glimpse of the interweb back around the mid-90's but it wasn't until 1998 when we got the internet in the house.

    My, the wonders of the high speed before having to get off it because Mammy wanted to talk to her friend for 16 hours on the phone.

    Ah, little did I know that when I got onto my first website which was Gateway's homepage that I would end up many years later trawling the perverse side of the web like it was a stroll in the park :pac:

    Anyone else have 6,124,643 of those AOL / etc 30 Day Free Trial discs that were never used?

    I still get Vietnam-esque flashbacks of the sounds of dial-up...................*shudders*


  • #46
    Dymo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Dymo


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    1995, the joys of 56k modems and crappy speeds...it was all sooo new and fresh back then. Realplayer was king!....ICQ :eek:

    Don't laugh but my area only got broadband in the last 12 months, I've been using 56K for the prior 13 years


  • #47
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I still get Vietnam-esque flashbacks of the sounds of dial-up...................*shudders*
    just spat my tea all over my keyboard in work!

    could tell if it was going to connect by the tone:rolleyes: happy times.


  • #48
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,937 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.

    95 for me with college picking up the tab. Lycos was the search engine of choice and we browsed on netscape :cool:


  • #49
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    To remind you of the good old days :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0


  • #50
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    2000, dial up with eircon. Got broadband in 2005 and it was an information overload!


  • #51
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Solair wrote: »
    To remind you of the good old days :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

    That reminds me of the giddy, tingly bolloxed sense of anticipation I used to feel at the prospect of a long hard night of fetish porn viewing.


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  • #52
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭phill106


    97 i think , that is how old my hotmail account is at least.
    The noise of the modem, ahh the memories!


  • #53
    alastair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    1991. Gopher on college machine. Went on the web in '93 - Mosaic and everything centred around CERN servers. First designed a website in '94.


  • #54
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    2007.

    I was waiting for it to get good.


  • #55
    messymess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭messymess


    Back in 1995 for me on a 28k modem. The internet was a fun place back then.


  • #56
    Vico1612
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 929 ✭✭✭Vico1612


    1994 ... 33.6 modem, Compuserve account [ with an account ID as long as your credit card number :-) ]


  • #57
    gingernut79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭gingernut79


    1998 at college in UK. Very unreliable even for a college. Got dial up in at the parents in 2000 ish (cue long nights of typing utter rubbish into chatrooms), and BB in my own house by 2005 (waiting a long time for exchange to be enabled, months and months of going to the eircom website and typing in my phone number to see if I could sign up) then a few months of trying to get the bloody thing working properly. Cant remember what the problem was the same router is still working perfect today.


  • #58
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    Back in 98/99, with 56k Eircom dial up. Back before Google owned the world. Expensive as f00k.


  • #59
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    1997 or 1998! Ah the slow dial up never forget that yet I would only have been online only a few hours in the day either early in the morning or late in the eve.


  • #60
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I do believe it was in 1994. We might have been the only people in Mayo online back then. I'm not too sure.

    All there was back then on the internet was The Beastie Boys webpage and William Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

    Our monitors couldn't even display .jpgs properly and our connection was so slow we had to browse with images off. Remember the images off option?


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  • #61
    merlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    Back in about the late 90's early noughties, I didn't even have my own computer as I couldn't afford one at the time so used to use an internet cafe called the Internet Exchange in Temple Bar ( now gone )

    They were great days and the days before the YouTube, when I used to watch music videos on Launch Yahoo. And that was when Yahoo was big and a bunch of my friends would all chat online at Lycos Yahoo chat!

    Those were the days!


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