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What is your first memory of the Internet?

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  • #32
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    Pamela Anderson pics


  • #33
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Anybody else ever have a million of those 100 Hour Free Trial CD's?


  • #34
    Captain Commie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    cml387 wrote: »
    I remember seeing connection messages from CERN in Geneva,who were the originators of the Internet back in the 90's.

    Dont ya mean Arpa back in the 60's?? thats when the internet was first put in motion as such, the "World Wide Web" was created in the 90's by CERN, believe it or not they are 2 different things.

    My first memory has to be getting online in the mid/late 90's at an internet cafe using dialup, was painfull slow, that first day online i created a hotmail account that i still use to this day


  • #35
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    OP, what are you like 14 or something?

    Jeez


  • #36
    Captain Commie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Didn't we do this thread about a week ago?

    yup im sure we did


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  • #37
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Posted this before but basically there used to be an Internet cafe on George's St (underneath Lazer Video) and I went in there to see Drew Barrymore naked. She had recently done Playboy and couldn't get a copy. Was my first time using a computer since Commodore 64 also, so the notion of a 'window' meant nothing to me and remember asking the guy how I could make the page bigger, as the last ass clown to use it had left one window open like a little box in the middle of the screen (most likely he was looking at porn, the pervert).

    The second reason was to find out how Gary Holton died (the guy from Auf Wiedersehen Pet) as it was bugging me for years that I didn't know. Seems strange for young people today I would imagine, to think that people wanted to know about something or someone and that they had no way of doing so, but unless they went to a library and researched it - they could go for years not knowing the truth of something and just getting by on urban myths and rumours.

    Kids today eh, you don't know you're born :mad:

    I'm old ... ffffffffffuuuuu!!!


  • #38
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    I remember emailing someone with my hotmail account and telling my family not to turn the computer off so I could get a reply :o


  • #39
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Waiting for ten minutes to see a picture of a naked woman.


  • #40
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    Trying to check out Booble.com on dial-up.

    Very frustrating...

    if you know what I mean


  • #41
    Enoch Hissing Zipper
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Enoch Hissing Zipper


    icq and irc and everything being slow


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  • #42
    The Brigadier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭The Brigadier


    Newsgroups 20 years ago.


  • #43
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    UKChatterbox: http://www.ukchatterbox.co.uk/

    Joined and got banned within an hour for 'upsetting the regulars'. I didn't understand Internet etiquette and I had never heard of trolling:o (or wumming as they called it). Fair enough I was insulting people but I thought that's what the internet had been invented for?
    I'm a good girl nowadays!!


  • #44
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    GrizzlyMan wrote: »
    getting yeld at because i had unplugged the phone :(

    And yelled at again when the phone bill came in :(


    I can hardly remember what sites I looked at originally as it was on our windows 95, 1GB harddrive, 256 mb ram computer with feck all graphics card....mabey just stupid company charters etc!


  • #45
    celticbest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭celticbest


    Getting my first online e-mail account.....

    Hotmail.jpg


  • #46
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    bluewolf wrote: »
    icq and irc and everything being slow

    I really miss ICQ :(

    Sometimes I log on for nostalgia, but then get depressed when I see a contact list full of offline users.


  • #47
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I remember in the old IRC chat rooms, one guy posted a joke and I wrote LAMO by mistake - well the guy lost the plot: "Well, you post a better joke if you think that one is so lame, or maybe you're calling me a lamo, is that it?"

    :p


  • #48
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Diablo 2 online play, going to the Cow world. ****ing dial up man.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hmm. I don't know. Neopets probably :o And ridiculous chat rooms.

    I can't believe people are saying Bebo...yer either all really young or started (internetting) really late!


  • #50
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Dial up on the Sega Dreamcast, and almost getting put into an orphange when the first post Christmas phone bill came in.


  • #51
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Jeez OP, you must be able to remember all the way back to 2006! :pac:

    Mine is a computer class in UCC in 1996/7 - I remember trying to look up particular bands/TV shows but doing it wrong and giving up. :o

    I didn't get properly acquainted with the internet until 2001 - and even then, it took until about 2004/5 for me to fully get my head around it. :o


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  • #52
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    phunkymonk wrote: »
    oceanfree chat via dial up...great craic :p.

    someone pissed you off leave chat then log on on a different name and abuse :pac:


  • #53
    BO-JANGLES
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭BO-JANGLES


    Winning a unison internet set box and attaching it to the TV and disconnection the phone line. I thought this was as high tech as it would get. The waiting for the page to load on the TV and the noise of the modem connecting..Happy days.


  • #54
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    celticbest wrote: »
    Getting my first online e-mail account.....

    Hotmail.jpg

    Expect to be signed up to many, many gay websites


  • #55
    Xivilai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    Using the crappy dial-up connection while the parents were gone to download snes and gameboy roms


  • #56
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    celticbest wrote: »
    Getting my first online e-mail account.....

    Hotmail.jpg

    Can you keep us informed of all the websites you get signed up to now after posting your e-mail address.

    Please???

    For the lulz:pac:


  • #57
    sparkle_23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sparkle_23


    The plastic clips on the end of the cable used to always get broken and it would be real easy to pull them out from the wall. I'd be in the sitting room on the computer and someone would walk by the phone socket in the hall and get their foot caught in the wire and pull it out... wouldn't be able to get connected again then!


  • #58
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Earliest memory is probably the horrific noise that dial up made when you were connecting.

    The first thing I can remember actually doing is using Napster. First song I downloaded was Bon Jovi - Its my Life (I know, I was 12 and it sounded cool at the time) and since that day I dont think I've ever paid for music again.

    Also, getting yelled at a million times a day to get off the internet as someone wanted to use the phone. The day we got a second phone line in was heavenly :)


  • #59
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    the dream arena on the dreamcast


  • #60
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,427 ✭✭✭cml387


    Kiith wrote: »
    You talked about blasting people with piss 30 years ago?

    Much more genteel then.

    "Inundate with urine" we'd say.


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  • #61
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Dial up noises and playing hearts with a bunch of strangers.


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