How long have YOU been on the internet?

The ClubHouse: General Discussions - Jan -Apr. 2001: February: How long have YOU been on the internet?
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Noslonna

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 02:24 am Click here to edit this post

Admin... what is the newbie award?

Resortgirl

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 05:46 am Click here to edit this post

I got "hooked" up in 1996. The computer came with a coupon for 300 hours of AOL, "free". We live in a small town in northern Minnesota so there was no local access number but so what? They had 800 numbers to connect with. I was on day and night for that month trying to use up my free 300 hours. It was so much fun... until I got my phone bill. It was $600! I knew there had to be a mistake. I called the phone company and they told me that no it was no mistake. There was a charge to connect with the 800#. I was weeping on the phone when my husband came home and with a look of deep concern asked if someone had died? I could only nod my head yes and point to myself, "me when you see this phone bill" His response, Did you enjoy being online? Yes.... Then Happy Birthday! and he never brought it up again. I have learned a great lesson from this. Read the small print!

Merlin

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 05:51 am Click here to edit this post

Except for the last two years, I have lived in a area where access to the internet was by long distance telephone calls so I never bothered getting connected. Even though I have used the internet for the last two years, I never considered chatting with unknown persons. The idea of chatting seemed a little strange to me.

When big brother started, my intrigue with the show took me to AOL and from there to this discussion board. I now find myself in late night chat and using icq to chat.

Now my family thinks I'm strange. I guess that is my payback for assessing those who got here before me.

Wink

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 06:26 am Click here to edit this post

As an "active" user only since June 2000 when we installed cable modem. When I found BB live on internet I thought I had died and gone to heaven. When I finally settled in at BB fan club I KNEW I had. My family however is not nearly as enthralled. I was informed by my "leader" that we were cancelling the cable in December (we have free unlimited phone internet thru husband's employer). He hasn't called the cable company yet(I was very good to him over Christmas), so I'm going day to day. Can't imagine going back to phone line which will limit me strictly to daytime use when I'm the only one home.

Noslanna perhaps you have some kind of spell that could be applied to impede his memory? Any help would be appreciated.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 07:57 am Click here to edit this post

Wink, 2nd phone line for your birthday, to be celebrated Jan. 5 this year.

Wink

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 08:09 am Click here to edit this post

Thanks JuJu but my birthday passed in November. Besides the phone is sooooo slow after being spoiled by cable. I think if I can keep him busy with his shop vac and new drill I might get lucky.

Noslonna

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 10:01 am Click here to edit this post

Wink try this on your husband:

Cable Potion #9

9 oz. sweet red wine
9 basil leaves
9 red rose petals
9 cloves
9 apple seeds
9 drops vanilla extract
9 drops strawberry juice
9 drops apple juice

By the light of 9 pink votive candles, put these nine ingrediants into a cauldron on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the month. Stir the potion nine times with a wooden spoon, each time reciting the following magical incantation:


LET THE ONE WHO DRINKS THIS WINE
SHOWER ME WITH CABLE LINE.
SWEET CABLE POTION NUMBER NINE
LET THIS BE FOREVER MINE.

Wink

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 10:23 am Click here to edit this post

ROFL Nos. You are da best. One cable potion coming up. Tank you.

Spamgirl

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 10:31 am Click here to edit this post

NOS! you rock :)

Admin

Monday, January 15, 2001 - 11:15 am Click here to edit this post

So far today, about 5 hours! :)

Scribe

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 08:03 pm Click here to edit this post

Ah what fun to return to the Board after a few months away and find all NEW stuff.

Read through this thread. Max, Spamgirl and a couple others beat me on this.
But not by much.

1983
I was informed that I would have to do my own First Draft typing for an academic journal and I started to cry!!! I couldn't type, let alone spell!! I was also told that I would be using a dedicated word processor (a Lanier I think) with codes for formating etc...it was a New Language...after my tantrum...(I threw my paper in the trash in front of my journal editor and walked out of the journal office) I came back and my editor typed my first draft but then begged me to help with inputting edits in the footnotes. I complained and complained but did it...and then miracle of mircles...I absolutely LOVED working on that dedicated word processor...(as much as I hated to admit it after my tantrum etc)

I went out shortly thereafter (that was 1983 or so) and bought Byte magazine (it was huge then) and I read it through...understood almost nothing...but I like foreign languages and puzzles so I just kept reading..for about 4 or 5 months...every monthly issue of Byte over and over until I began to undestand what was going on..and I began to form an opinion as to what computer I shoud buy for my first one..

Got my first PC in 1984...an Atari 800XL..the 400 had just been replaced...I said I got it for my son, yeh. I wouldn't let him touch it with sticky fingers, I wanted to learn basic he wanted just to lay a game...when the game wouldn't work because DOS had a problem I aw that as an opportunity to get lost in troubleshooting for a few hours...my son just was frustrated...we got another computer...a child friendly Commodore 64. remeber those....then we had one for each of us.

But then the MAC was born and I was hooked...small footprint..cute desktop....rememebr that advertisement..I got one of the first ones...joined my first Bulletin Board...it was a Mac Users board...then subsribed to AOL in 1985...it was sooo small then.

Left the MAC in the dust in the early "90s returning to a pc.

Reading some of the posts made me nostolgic.

Or was the questions how long have I been on the itnernet today? Not much, too much work in the office unrelated to the internet.

Glass

Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 11:24 pm Click here to edit this post

Wow Scribe!! I too had a Mac in 1985 and loved it. It came with Compuserve. The very first time I tried a chat room I made the mistake of using my real name. Within 10 seconds I had heard enough lewd suggestions - I mean really, really bad stuff - to turn me off of ever visiting another one (It took me over ten years to recover from that trauma). Luckily I found this group and it has been great fun. Thanks everyone!

Digilady

Thursday, February 15, 2001 - 08:38 am Click here to edit this post

Welcome aboard, Glass!

Hope to see ya in chat again tonight.

Egbok77

Sunday, February 18, 2001 - 12:43 pm Click here to edit this post

I bought my first PC in September 2000 because my daughter was going away to college and taking her PC with her!! Eeeks!! I couldn't imagine life without the BBFC!! I bought the PC and have learned to get along with it since my daughter isn't around anymore to help me out. Also, may I add that the tvclubhouse.com posters have been so much fun to interact with on these postings. I sometimes feel like I'm out of my league with Internet knowledge but I'm slowly learning. Thanks for having me aboard!!