The internet

[sasguru]

You are a proper female geek, never met many of those,

Easy now Baggy! Remember last time ....

[chicane]

My first modem was two of these...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...stic_modem.JPG

I hope it wasn't as grubby as that one.

[Lockhouse]

The first I remember was when I got access to "Compuserve" for all the techy bulletin boards - that was Mosiac ISTR, then Netscape. There was no proper Internet then for normal folks. Then all of a sudden it just "appeared". I think that was all 2400bd.

[ace00]

........... vast numbers of pointless web pages full of flashing "Hello World", bad graphics and still more drivel.

Luckily we have moved on from that.

FYI: I just made up the 20th aniversary bit. But I say bring back Mosaic!
I forgot these too:

[Pogle]

You are a proper female geek, never met many of those, should we be worried?

Nah I'm mostly harmless
But thanks for the compliment

[NotAllThere]

My first own PC was in 1996. ( Before then, I was using and Atari ST ). PC was a P120, with a 1GB harddrive. Had a 28k modem, and a compuspend account, so my email address was something like akjsd786123@compuserve.com

I used altavista and hotbot search engines.

Didn't really get a "wow" until 2002, having a chat via video over ip (can't even remember the software) with a friend in the US, when we finally had broadband.

Another wow was a few years ago when I had to download a DVD image, and it took 2 hours instead of 2 days...

[expat]

I remember moving up from 9600 baud to 14,400 ( I had one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fax_modem_antigo.jpg ) . Mind you, my first modem was 2400 baud, but that was pre-internet.

Oh, and my internets all came via Compuserve

I also remember the days when bulletin boards were all the rage.


/feeling old

Compu$erve. Monthly fee plus connection time fee plus cost of phone call. Pay per email to send and to receive.

But when people had to pay to contribute to a forum, they contributed a whole lot less rubbish.

My Wow! was using Archie to find a Sinclair Spectrum simulator in St Louis and the brick game Batty for it from Chile.

[BrilloPad]

With it being the 20th anniversary of the internet, my impending flu fatality, and the pointless conf call I'm on right now, let us harken back to those early days.............................................. .................................................. .
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Who remembers Mosaic? When exciting graphics meant ASCII pics :-) ? When all you could access was university thesisi? What was the first thing you got excited about on the internet (if it is porn you are too young to answer)?

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HTH

[Drewster]

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HTH

Bravo Brillo!!!

[voodooflux]

I remember blagging myself a JANET account at Univesity and using it to post drivel on various bulletin boards. Then came IRC and UseNet which I used to post drivel on various channels. Dial up access , Ascii Art, Mosaic, then Netscape back when Lycos was the best search engine around. Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod hosted web pages, Blink tags, Marquee text on the status bar, more drivel on more bulletin boards and appalling page layouts and design.

Much the same here, JANET at Uni (popular lass that Janet) then on to Archie and IRC, then Compuserve before a Demon Internet dial-up. Usenet, AltaVista, Kali, QuakeWorld, GeoCities...the rest is history.