HookUPcom2
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1994 - America Online - first time I signed in, I found a chat room and one of my favorite bands Widespread Panic's bass player was hosting a chat. I was blown away...
When Did You First Go Online?
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gtull2
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I know my friend's wife wanted to divorce him after they got their first phone bill post modem. Long distance calls were expensive back then. We were in Alaska and he had to dial numbers in the lower 48. They were basically treated like international calls.
The phone company had a real racket going on back then. They were probably the first to make a billion off the internet.
The phone company had a real racket going on back then. They were probably the first to make a billion off the internet.
SilverJanuary
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I first went on the line back in 2001 when I started playing Neopets. Seriously.
Zwielicht
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April 2nd, 2003 at 5:14 p.m. I was shown "The Smurfs (The Lost Episode)" on eBaum's World by my (at the time) step-mother. That was also the first time I had used a desktop computer.
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gtull2
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I would trade at least 1 testicle for your memory.
Zwielicht
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The story and time are correct since I remember glancing over at the time, although the exact date (it was in April, although now that I think about it, this may have happened in 2003 since that was the year my step-mother bought that house near McDonald's) might be wrong. Regardless, I only remember it because it changed the way I look at the Smurfs, the Internet, and computers,
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Zwielicht
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I remember playing that NeoPets game when I was 9! I tried logging on right now to see if my old account that my step-sister created for me still existed, and it's apparently still there since I was able to get to the screen below. Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact fake birth date I used to make myself appear 18 at the time and I'm not going to waste my time brute forcing my way in.
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The real question should have been, what have you done since you've entered the Internet? Have you spent the majority of your time wasting time? Or did you build or learn something over the years? I know I've wasted a lot of time.
gtull2
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I guess there's different ways to look at that? If porn is a waste of time, I'm pretty much screwed.
But seriously, relaxation and learning are two of my favorite hobbies. I would much rather spend a chunk of my free time reading online than watching TV, and I wouldn't really consider that a "waste" at all. It's like saying that going fishing (for the casual recreational fisherman) is a waste of time. That seems silly to me.
Now if you earn your income online, maybe you could think about the time you have wasted on it?
Capo Dei Capi
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I've probably wasted about 4 years of my life online to f*cking bs stuff.
gtull2
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Just goofing off online, within moderation, doesn't seem like a waste at all to me.
If you are counting on IM to support yourself, and you spend most of the day reading O or something, then yeah, I guess that is a waste.
Capo Dei Capi
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Most of it was before I got into IM.
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Mid 90's or so. Amazing how fast time passes.
Capo Dei Capi
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Its amazing that internet speeds have grown so fast over the past few years, but now webpages are starting to catch up by getting so much more bloated. Its even worse when you factor in that in many markets around the world still have low caps that have changed over the past few years.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/
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Conor
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Not that long ago actually. Dialup in South Africa probably only faded out around 2004 - 2006.
I was around 10 I think, when I first experienced the internet. I remember using a search engine called Ask Jeeves, which has since changed to ask.com
So, my first internet experience would have been around the year 2002.
I was around 10 I think, when I first experienced the internet. I remember using a search engine called Ask Jeeves, which has since changed to ask.com
So, my first internet experience would have been around the year 2002.
Capo Dei Capi
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Ask jeeves was awesome its too bad that it went nearly the some way yahoo did by getting so much bloat on the home page. It wasn't as light as google but in 2002 it was much lighter than today. It appears that google is one of the few that actually went down to become more minimalist.
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Somewhere between 1999 and 2002. Can't remember honestly.
Browsed yahoo, found a page about dumb jokes, and a picture of a penis that hadn't been cleaned for a while. Yes, people were already doing that.
Apart from that traumatic experience, I was mostly fascinated by the internet :}
P.S. Having done the math, should have been 1999 ;}
Browsed yahoo, found a page about dumb jokes, and a picture of a penis that hadn't been cleaned for a while. Yes, people were already doing that.
Apart from that traumatic experience, I was mostly fascinated by the internet :}
P.S. Having done the math, should have been 1999 ;}
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