Me too, but that's mostly because my country was behind the times in terms of technology in that period... We caught up pretty quickly in the past 8 years...
When did you use the internet for the first time?
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hehe Nice. We used mainly 3.5" "floppies" and then CD-ROMs for some stuff.
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oh the horror, dial up.....
makes me feel old. Slow times back then. Yet no one. Hacks into dial up anymore, well.. Might be wrong
Yeah, I remember those days. And unless you had a dedicated phone line for the internet you couldn't spend too much time online because you couldn't take phone calls or call other people while online.
Yeah, I remember my parents telling me to get off the internet so they could make a call! lol.
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I was seriously starting to feel old while reading this thread until I saw Z's post..
It was about 1996 for me.. I was a freshman in high school and if I didnt connect at the library then it was at home on my mom's computer..
And yeah, it was AOL.. so that creepy dial up noise will be forever etched into my brain until the sweet release that only death can bring..
I didn't get my own pc with internet until 2002, and yeah it was on dial up.. it was still AOL but unfortunately, I went on to a site for game downloads that installed a dialer worm which linked to a sex cam feed somewhere in Romania whenever I connected to the internet and that resulted in a $960 phone bill for my mom on her AOL account..
She got the charge dropped from her bill and it was that year that I engrossed myself into learning everything I could about pc security..
I didn't get cable until sometime in 2004 just before I started my first forum.
It was about 1996 for me.. I was a freshman in high school and if I didnt connect at the library then it was at home on my mom's computer..
And yeah, it was AOL.. so that creepy dial up noise will be forever etched into my brain until the sweet release that only death can bring..
I didn't get my own pc with internet until 2002, and yeah it was on dial up.. it was still AOL but unfortunately, I went on to a site for game downloads that installed a dialer worm which linked to a sex cam feed somewhere in Romania whenever I connected to the internet and that resulted in a $960 phone bill for my mom on her AOL account..
She got the charge dropped from her bill and it was that year that I engrossed myself into learning everything I could about pc security..
I didn't get cable until sometime in 2004 just before I started my first forum.
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We mainly used 3.5" diskettes. The CD-ROM Encyclopedia was the shit tho!
I still owe the phone company a DSL modem and a $300 bill I never paid. lolI've been communicating with people via computer since at least 1990.
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You know something, I actually forgot about AIM.. so yeah it was probably before I started high school when I first spoke to someone online.. but in that case, it was family members I spoke too..
I used AIM to talk to friends from my job. They always insisted on a group chat. I preferred ICQ and still have several friends that I met there in like 1998.
i remember those days. i kinda miss AIM.
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Aren't they still around?
Anyway, I certianly don't miss the WildTangent spyware that came with it.. it was a nightmare to remove..
Anyway, I certianly don't miss the WildTangent spyware that came with it.. it was a nightmare to remove..
hahaha When I was 7 there was no internet and I used an Apple IIe in elementary school.