Archive through January 04, 2001

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Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:42 am Click here to edit this post

For Noslonna...

As I said, I've been bbsing forever... my family had a modem when i was youngish (like, 8 or 9)... i think it was 1200 baud, and they only connected to their pals (huh huh look, we're connected!)... when I was 14 I got a 14.4 for Christmas... I used to telnet around chit chatting... so I guess I was 14 when I really was on da net... so that would be ... hrm... 93, just before the WWW was really born...

How about you?

Flint

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:49 am Click here to edit this post

The internet? Or using a modem?

The internet since 91.

Using a modem, for BBS' and the like, since about 90. Started on 1200 baud modem. thought technology was fantastic when I upped to a 2400 a year later. Now it all seems so slow iwth a cable modem. ;)

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:52 am Click here to edit this post

The internet, which includes telnet and stuff...

Modems to phone line bbs' don't count :)

Noslonna

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:53 am Click here to edit this post

Spam I was reading the thread you started about falling in love on the net and I thought the most interesting thing in it was how long you have had a modem!

I have been having my love affair with the net since 1994 and been in love ever since. I agree with Flint how slow it all seems now that I have cable.

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:03 pm Click here to edit this post

ROFL yes, i hear ya sister :) I've been on the computer practically every day since i was 14... until i was about 18 it was to chat... since 18 it was for work/sites... only recently have I gotten back into the chatting thang...

but without cable, I wouldn't be chatting at all :) no time!

Digilady

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:04 pm Click here to edit this post

Try a 300 baud modem. AND if you can't figure out the year from there, so BE it!

<snark>

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:06 pm Click here to edit this post

rofl... oh man, dig, you're a fogey! :)

Digilady

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:45 pm Click here to edit this post

Now, if she'd ONLY said "Stogey"...

(Which dates me even worse, I'm afraid!)

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:47 pm Click here to edit this post

stogey!

dig, quit while you're ahead ;)

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:54 pm Click here to edit this post

Stogey? Were you one of Clinton's g/f's?? You don't have a blue dress you saved too?

Max

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:01 pm Click here to edit this post

I'm with Digi - 300 baud modem. The kind you put the handset of your phone into. Oh, and that was before PCs, when I hooked a "dumb terminal" into the phone line to access the VAX at the bank I worked for. I remember when 5MB hard drives were HUGE and when Bill Gates said that bit about never needing more than 64K memory and everyone agreed with him! OMG, I'm gettin' OLD!!!!

Digilady

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:02 pm Click here to edit this post

ROFL Lance!

Hate blue. Green, now...

Admin

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:03 pm Click here to edit this post

On the Internet as you see it now, around 1995. There was no internet really until around then. I believe it existed, but nobody was using it except universities and things.

I first dialed into another computer and 'chatted' with someone else in 1979\80. It seemed like the greatest thing!

In fact, it still seems that way...look at us!? :)

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:13 pm Click here to edit this post

We had one of those handset into modem things... i just never saw it used :) haha oh man

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:15 pm Click here to edit this post

(Again, just for Nossie)

My dad was one of the first people who was a computer engineer... anyways, he used to work with those computers that you put the card in that you've put marks on with the pencil and it does stuff... what? I dunno, but we used to have hundreds of those cards laying around...

Anyways, he worked with this guy who made the very first software for this thing somehow... I can't remember what it did... gosh, i think i'm going to ask my dad to tell me the story again :)

Lafatme

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 02:18 pm Click here to edit this post

used my first modem hookup in 1981 and had to have a programmer do it for me. connected to another computer to d/l files.

my first "real" use of the modem and net was aol in about 1992. i connected to aol thru dos because i didn't have windows. finally got windows to get the graphics.

this is my first real experience with chat or message boards though, usually i use the net for information and entertainment, not to meet people.

Elitist

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 02:41 pm Click here to edit this post

Lets see. In 1973 we were hooked up to the University of Texas' mainframe which I think was on the net. I remember being able to mail other people. Also during my summer jobs we used telnet, but mostly for business purposes.

I guess in 77 I really got connected through the Texas A&M system. My first home computer was about 82 or 83 with a commodore 64 with a real modem.

Were those cards punch cards Spam? With holes, not pencil marks?

My most primitive computer experience was when I used to have to program in machine code directly on the processor with dip switches in binary just to load a paper tape that would load our programs off of a magnetic tape. We thought we were in heaven when we got one of those big 1 megabyte drives that were about as big as small makeup bag.

Spamgirl

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 03:23 pm Click here to edit this post

yeah, punch cards... i think the pencil thing was those stupid cards we had with tests...

Gail

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 03:49 pm Click here to edit this post

i was working as a computer operator on mainframe computers in 1977. but for home use connectivity . . i started out with something called GEnie and went to AOL when they had less then 200,000 people - around 1992 i think.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 04:17 pm Click here to edit this post

If you count working in a bank and being connected to other computers on a mainframe, in another location, that would be around 1980.
With the internet, I have been online actively since around 1995.

Optics

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 05:15 pm Click here to edit this post

1976 I worked for Caterpillar, in BC they installed, compact computers, with an inter-company net link, similar to what Elitist referred to. That was my first encounter with a modem. My first at home encounter was 1991-92

Max

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 05:20 pm Click here to edit this post

Twiggyish,
Are we twins? That's what I did, too, bank and all. It was Crocker National Bank back then--later purchased by Wells Fargo. They used to give out cute little plush "Crocker Spaniels" for opening new accounts.

I also "cheated" a bit with that modem and dumb terminal they gave me to use at home and connected to CompuServe to play in the chat rooms. At least until I got my first credit card bill! That was back when they charged based on how long you were connected. EEK! I think my bill was something like $300! That was more than my rent at the time and it cured me really fast! :)

I've been working on internal websites for my company since late 1994.

Mishamisha

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 07:10 pm Click here to edit this post

I bought a Piece of Crap (aka PC) last September, and have been on the internet since then. Um, that would be like Sept 21, 2000. Do I win something?

Admin

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 07:15 pm Click here to edit this post

Sept!? Did you watch Big Brother on the net?

I think you should win the newbie award! What is the newbie award you ask? Keep asking....

Mishamisha

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 07:28 pm Click here to edit this post

Yes, Neil. I watched the last bit live. That's the secret reason I bought a computer. My husb thought it was so I'd look for a house, but we still haven't found one. "Hmmmm, I wonder what's taking her so long? Seems like she's online all the time, why hasn't she found a house yet?"

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 07:49 pm Click here to edit this post

lol

Guruchaz

Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 08:02 pm Click here to edit this post

About 10 minutes now.

Misslibra

Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 01:07 am Click here to edit this post

Guru For me about two years, but for some reason it feels like more.