Archive through January 04, 2001
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Archive through January 04, 2001
Spamgirl | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:42 am  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  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  The internet, which includes telnet and stuff... Modems to phone line bbs' don't count |
Noslonna | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 11:53 am  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  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  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  rofl... oh man, dig, you're a fogey! |
Digilady | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:45 pm  Now, if she'd ONLY said "Stogey"... (Which dates me even worse, I'm afraid!) |
Spamgirl | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:47 pm  stogey! dig, quit while you're ahead ;) |
Lancecrossfire | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 12:54 pm  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  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  ROFL Lance! Hate blue. Green, now... |
Admin | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 01:03 pm  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  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  (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  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  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  yeah, punch cards... i think the pencil thing was those stupid cards we had with tests... |
Gail | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 03:49 pm  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  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  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  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  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  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  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  lol |
Guruchaz | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 - 08:02 pm  About 10 minutes now. |
Misslibra | Thursday, January 04, 2001 - 01:07 am  Guru For me about two years, but for some reason it feels like more. |
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