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When did you first get on the internet?

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  • #92
    Dr. Jonathan Crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭Dr. Jonathan Crane


    I don't know, around 2000 I believe. Imagine my horror when an innocent 8 year old typed WWF into Google and looked through all the pages looking at all my heroes only to find "WWF babe Chyna XXX pictures.."

    Scarred. For. Life


  • #93
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    tinet.ie email address, using doras.ie as the search engine. IOL No Limits. :cool: Wired bb is still not available in my house in Ireland, Mammy has wireless though. :)


  • #94
    oeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Hmmmm, Mid 90s I guess. I think I was doing my junior cert when we first got a modem. So that would have been about 1995 or 1996.


  • #95
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Don't know exactly but I remember going down to the library with my sister and playing games online :D I properly started using it when I was about 11 or 12 I set up a gmail account and joined every site that appealed to me and then I learned of MSN and set up a hotmail and spent a week chatting to my American cousins for hours :)


  • #96
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM


    Probs around 1998/1999 for me


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  • #97
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    Back in 98 when I was in 6th class, a load of us went out to CIT. WWF.com was up on all screens!

    At home I got an iMac 0S9 in 2001. One time I got a €300 eircom bill :mad: We weren't told when we signed up, but appearently the connection was going on and off, even though I never got disconnected. Was supposed to cost only 2 cents a minute.


  • #98
    mconigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    I did this thread ages ago!

    (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055801516

    You obviously haven't been around that long OP! :rolleyes: :pac:


  • #99
    Nadser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Nadser


    Think it was probably around '94 with Ireland on-line on a 14.4K modem. Must have been around then because I was able to log on to my college account and I graduated in '94. I also remember buying the first issue of PCLive! around the same time and getting excited about being able to read an Irish magazine. Stopped getting it when they dumbed down though and starting focussing on multi-media and stuff


  • #100
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    i had a ****ty 56kb for years before i went high speed in 2000, but i never saw its practical uses and therefore never really used it.


  • #101
    keithm1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭keithm1


    I first heard of the Internet in 2007 and got online 2008 ,I think it was called the inter web back then


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  • #102
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Around 2000, when my mother insisted on sitting beside us and watching everything we did in out half our of internet usage each.

    Ah, those were the days :rolleyes:


  • #103
    mconigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Aoifey! wrote: »
    Around 2000, when my mother insisted on sitting beside us and watching everything we did in out half our of internet usage each.

    Ah, those were the days :rolleyes:

    That must have been awkward??...with all the porn and fapping like?


  • #104
    gingernut79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭gingernut79


    lol ^^^


  • #105
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    1997 on a school tour in Tralee.
    I think it was some visitor centre and it was my first time on the Internet. We had somebody helping us with it

    I looked up the jerseys for the next Premier League Season.
    I think the company we used was called Indigo? Might be wrong

    The next time I used the internet was two years later in 1999 when our school got computers.

    I started college and never used Windows in my life. The lecturer was disgusted and some of us had to stay back and learn how to use Microsoft office and other tasks like how to save files.
    He thought we were fools and from the stone ages. Hey, gotta learn sometime, we were all new to computers once
    And this was first year of an IT course in college :pac:

    Nowadays most 7 years old would have more skills then our college class back then


  • #106
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    1989.

    I had an email and Usenet account via TCD on a Digital VAX 'mini' computer.

    I posted up a problem with an assignment on Usenet and got an email a couple of hours later from a guy working in NASA.

    This is the future, I thought to myself.


  • #107
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    baraca wrote: »
    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..
    Eh...
    Why didn't you just get a longer lead??


  • #108
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Remember when someone registered BertieAhern.com about 12 years ago and fill it with what was, at the time, unspeakable smut? I had but didn't use the internet much for awhile before I really got into it, highpoint was probably games moreso then the internet itself, which I only started using regularly around 2001/2002 when i started using various forums.....countless hours of sneaking up at 6am to enjoy those off peak hours in Unreal Tournament though around 1999...man, could still play and enjoy that game to this day.


  • #109
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    My first time was in a computer lab at Imperial College in London around November 1987. You had to have at least a basic knowledge of UNIX to even log on. This was before HTML was even a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee's eyes so the main use was for email though you could chat to other users on the network.

    First time at home was a Compuserve account in New York around 1990. Getting online was a pain as Windows for Workgroups 3.1 didn't come with a native winsock, so you had to master the black arts to be able to get online. There was still no www in those days and the main protocols were FTP, and Gopher, Archie and Veronica searches, etc. Alt.winsock was the most popular newsgroup on Usenet and you were really elite if, like me, you'd sent off a postal order to Australia to get a copy of Trumpet Winsock!

    I just did a Google search and it pulled up posts that I made on Usenet, using my full name, from as far back as 1991. The internet was a kinder and gentler place back then.

    I'm a centenarian in Internet years!


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I first used the internet in school in the summer of 1998 via dual channel ISDN. Got it myself later in 1998 but could only get a stable 33.6k connection where I was. While it was possible to connect at between 41333 and 50666 it regularly disconnected. So I never really got to "enjoy" V.90 dialup in its day.

    I was also one of the IOL "No Limits" subscribers who was to be booted off for usage "not in keeping with the spirit of the service." A quick call to claim their No Limits brand was false advertising meant they kept me on. :D


  • #111
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    56k, man.


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  • #112
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    1997. Was living on 28th street in NY and had a dial up connection. Took forever to download decent porn.


  • #113
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Getting shouted at the parents if you went on the internet before 6pm

    Dialup back then and you paid peak rates to Telecom Eireann before 6pm.
    And you'd unplug the telephone to hook up the modem and a brother or sister would be moaning as they want to chat to their friends as now the phone was out of action.
    In those days a mobile phone cost 80p per minute peak and something like 35p off peak, bad times :(

    God bless broadband!


  • #114
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Mister men wrote: »
    1997 Was living on 28th street in NY and had a dial up connection. Took for ever to download decent porn.

    ASCII porn?


  • #115
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Getting shouted at the parents if you went on the internet before 6pm

    Dialup back then and you paid peak rates to Telecom Eireann before 6pm.
    And you'd unplug the telephone to hook up the modem and a brother or sister would be moaning as they want to chat to their friends as now the phone was out of action.
    In those days a mobile phone cost 80p per minute peak and something like 35p off peak, bad times :(

    God bless broadband!

    I had a trick to cut somebody on the internet off. Simply press the phone hangup button for about 30 seconds non stop. Always managed to free up the line:d


  • #116
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Naikon wrote: »
    ASCII porn?
    ASCII porn? You were lucky.

    We used to get up at crack o' dawn to load punch cards into t'hopper and be thrashed about the thighs and buttocks...


  • #117
    mloc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭mloc


    I'd say 1995/96 was when I first started using it.

    I remember using a few BBS before that.


  • #118
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Hmm 1993 or 1994 when I bought a modem for my PC from Peats. Used it a bit for email and stuff but in 1996 a game called Quake was released which meant a lot of my cash went to Eircom on phone bills because I became addicted. The rest is history.


  • #119
    Pretty_Pistol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Pretty_Pistol


    1999 but didn't really get into it until 2001. Looking back dial up was a nightmare. I spent most of my time on Napster and on a site called teenchat.
    :o


  • #120
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    DublinWriter wrote: »
    1989.

    I had an email and Usenet account via TCD on a Digital VAX 'mini' computer.

    I posted up a problem with an assignment on Usenet and got an email a couple of hours later from a guy working in NASA.

    This is the future, I thought to myself.

    Usenet was a fantastic resource in those days before the Web. After 1995, when Windows 95 made getting online easy, the quality quickly disappeared. If you looked for an answer to a problem with an assignment you would have been more likely to receive a quick DYOH message.

    Thankfully, since then web-based forums have become wildly popular leaving us old fogeys to enjoy Usenet in peace.


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  • #121
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    baraca wrote: »
    i'm now lying in bed on my smartphone on boards :P
    You're doing it wrong!


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