When did you first get on the internet?

msnd · 02-02-2011 03:13PM

1997- when in college. Had to set up an email account( i used yahoo for this) to recieve lecture notes from a Maths course I was doing. I think it was January 1998 when we got a computer at home and used dial up internet at the time

Tubsandtiles · 02-02-2011 03:17PM

Any one remember the early days of limewire on dial-up

Vicxas · 02-02-2011 03:32PM

Christ.... i think it was 99. eircom were doing a service where it was 1p a minute off peak internet dial up and 5p peak... man did i ever regret the day i left napster on all morning...

Duggy747 · 02-02-2011 03:33PM

Tubsandtiles wrote: »

Any one remember the early days of limewire on dial-up

I was a Napster man, then AudioGalaxy, then WinMX :pac: The pain of finding & downloading 1 bloody song...............only to find out some twat just renamed some awful pop song.

Remember Microsoft Comic Chat that was preinstalled on all machines up to Win 2000?

03-02-2011 02:55AM

I'm still in contact with 2 people I "met" via the old MSN public chat rooms, 11 and 8 years ago respectively.

Naikon wrote: »

CRT monitors contributed to a reduced amount of time spent in front of the computer for me. Seriously, I still remember having to contend with a bug in Windows 2000/XP(round 2000 onwards) that made it near impossible to set the refresh rate above 60HZ for certain applications. Never had that problem with Linux at least.

Yep, was a problem with NT-based systems. 95/98/ME at least had the option to set the refresh rate to "Optimal" which always used the highest rate the monitor could do in whatever resolution was chosen.

PeterIanStaker · 03-02-2011 03:01AM

1996, the joy of not having a clue about how to even switch on a computer, and then laughing because my dad thought "hotmail" was a porn site!!

starviewadams · 03-02-2011 03:34AM

Mid 90's I think,I used to have go to work with my mam during the summer break when she worked for my uncles music magazine.There was this beautiful American intern who's job was to basically keep me quiet and she used to be playing doom online and she'd let me play every now and then.Didn't get our first family PC til 1999 though,and my da used to take the phone cable to bed with him every night so we wouldn't run up the phone bill!

duffbeer2009 · 03-02-2011 03:45AM

about 2000 for me, dial up........... thought it was the business, oh how times have changed

TerrorFirmer · 03-02-2011 04:00AM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Remember Microsoft Comic Chat that was preinstalled on all machines up to Win 2000?

That was actually pretty cool....

JupiterKid · 03-02-2011 04:45AM

Late 1993/early 1994 in my 2nd year of college for email.

Our lecturer gave us all accounts. It seemed amazing at the time to type and then immediately send a message.:rolleyes::D Thing was, there was hardly anybody to send an email to back then!

1997 for the internet proper in the college computer room, when I was doing my Masters. I used to download images from the Galileo exploration mission to planet Jupiter and then discovered the joys of internet porn...:pac::cool:

Got a hotmail account in 1998 and then internet dial up from home in 1999.

Mahatma coat · 03-02-2011 05:27AM

96 for me, Still have the same Yahoo account.

Naikon · 03-02-2011 08:37AM

Karsini wrote: »

I'm still in contact with 2 people I "met" via the old MSN public chat rooms, 11 and 8 years ago respectively.

Yep, was a problem with NT-based systems. 95/98/ME at least had the option to set the refresh rate to "Optimal" which always used the highest rate the monitor could do in whatever resolution was chosen.

I can't remember how I worked around it, but I eventually just waited for service pack one which provided a fix. The worst bug to my knowledge was back in eary 2001 where it took literally two mins to load applications into the background. Very annoying at the time. Early adoption, eh:D

icrusader · 06-02-2011 12:13PM

Amsterdam , 1992 , 14k modem , compuserve and later netscape navigator :rolleyes:

Irish_Elect_Eng · 06-02-2011 06:34PM

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:

Things have changed very sharpish, a 20GB hard drive cost over 200 old pounds :eek:

God but his thread makes me feel old.

Remembering the days when being an early adopter meant more than buying the latest IGadget on the day it is released.

The first time I dialed out was 1984/5 I think, Comodore 64 with a 300bps modem IIRC. (Thanks to Dad, a tech-freak born 30 years to soon):cool:

The modem cost as more than the C64.

It was the start of my love affair with technology.

From "The Pawn" to "WOW"
From BBS to Clouds
From Cassettes to Flash

It's been a wild ride.:D

BraziliaNZ · 06-02-2011 06:39PM

1998 i think. Holy Jesus must have been jerking myself raw for weeks afterwards. I was 18.

whiteonion · 06-02-2011 06:42PM

I rembember connecting to the internet with a 28.8 modem made by US Robotics. This was back in 1994.

Tar.Aldarion · 06-02-2011 06:44PM

whenever we got our 28.8k modem, shockingly recent

Fukuyama · 06-02-2011 06:45PM

This video brings it all back...

The year was 2002. I was ten. My friends dad had an old windows 95 he used to run his plumbing business from.

It had a 56k modem. Man... we watched a lot of porn that day.... or rather we waited eagerly for images to load....

Wasnt until 2006 that my family got a PC. I think we got broadband in 2008. We were late to the game!

Remember how computers used to click and whir like crazy when booting up? Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIj7Tgr17w

BraziliaNZ · 06-02-2011 06:45PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

whenever we got our 28.8k modem, shockingly recent

Looking at your post count you would think you've been here since the 19th Century or so

Tar.Aldarion · 06-02-2011 06:48PM

If only, I have no idea how I got through college just posting all day in class

STIG83 · 06-02-2011 07:43PM

May 99, dial up on a 56k modem

AckwelFoley · 06-02-2011 08:05PM

1994

Mountbellew, Co Galway.

Netscape.

Google was but an unfertalised egg at the time

SuperInfinity · 06-02-2011 08:15PM

About 2000 or so I practically forcibly got a computer with the internet on it at my parents' house.

Ah thems were the days.... waiting about four minutes just to load up a porn gallery, when >5 minute chess was the only game I could play, when you couldn't go on forums on websites with images on them, when downloading a SNES rom took about half an hour.... wait a minute, those weren't the days at all those were horrible!!!!

You could do things that involved text, that's it.

Aishae · 06-02-2011 08:26PM

got my first pc and internet in one go in 97 - thank you parents (i was 13 i think) they insisted i only use it for 1 hour a week. that didnt even last a week. i snook on whenever i could and it wasnt long before it was an hour a day. i mainly used irc - didnt really venture into the web much til 2000. but i did start at star trek continuum, as of course star trek was the first thing i alta vista'd.
ah the memories of being slapped by a smelly trout (irc), the silly wavs (there was a bloody strange one where someone was screaming 'oh my god ive got no pants on... im gorgeous!' and sillier nicknames. i still email the first guy met online. the 2nd is on my facebook.

bought mam a laptop about a year and a half ago - she hadnt been on the net much apart from the odd time when she armwrestled me for it when i was a kid. she soon discovered the addiction! shes the worst ive ever met at ignoring you if you walk into the room and let her know youd like to speak to her - cos shes busy with bejewelled. or losing her MIND if her laptop randomly wont connect to the net.

partyatmygaff · 06-02-2011 08:40PM

First time I ever used the internet was 1998-1999 when I was only five years old. All I really remember doing is typing in WWF in to Yahoo and then browsing some of the old crappy sites of the day.

Then in 2001 we bought a computer for the house and with it a 56k modem. I used to spend hours playing those MSN Zone games.

NeedaNewName · 06-02-2011 09:59PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

1998 i think. Holy Jesus must have been jerking myself raw for weeks afterwards. I was 18.

1994 first. But properly in 1996 or when Doom Came out. Persian Kitty is where it was at tbh.

Galway K9 · 06-02-2011 10:02PM

56k back in 98

When did you first get on the internet?

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