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- Joan Vinall-Cox
1997, and it was just to find and chat with my future husband, didn't know then that it would change all my life
- Olga Rasulova
1984. (Might have been 1983.) I'm really old.
- Kevin Gamble
1979. My dad volunteered to run a new department at his University. It was a new computer department running a DEC PDP 1134. Not long after we were connecting a dumb terminal to our analog phone at home to dialIn to access his mainframe at the school. I was 10. Dad's a blogger now and never has lost touch with technology. :-)
- Julian Seery Gude
from BuddyFeed
1985. Dialing out on a 300 baud modem with my C64.
- Kevin C. Tofel
1994, with a super fast 9600 baud modem. With the incredible Trumpet software providing a solid SLIP connection. 100hr/month for 25$ ! Holy shit, I was RICH than!
- Éric Senterre
1988 - Father-in-law introduced me - I was a big time BBS man with my 2400 Baud back then too :)
- Owen Greaves
1995 with my 14k modem using microsoft comic chat
- Nelson Mateo
1991 at college, U of C had an awesome internet setup. ran my first web server on a mac IIci running AUX in '94.
- felix
1992/3 - I was forced to learn it so I could teach using it. I remember sitting at a 486 reading while I waited for a page to load, so I could plan how to use it in class. Luckily the college provided tutorials and I had IT-smart friends. I fell in love with the computer & web and wrote my PhD thesis about that (ongoing) adventure - http://www.scribd.com/doc...
- Joan Vinall-Cox
1996? Whenever AOL went unlimited and it usually took hours to connect. I remember being as excited as a kid at Christmas when it finally connected!
- Josh Begin
When I was 10 I remember my dad bringing me to his work on a weekend and setting me up in front of a computer because I kept hearing something about a Cleveland Indians website on the radio. I begged him to take me back to work everyday after that.
- Alan Witzke
Think a few people here are referring to ARPAnet and/or online services?? 1993 ... Launched my first company (with it's own URL 1995)
- Charlie Anzman
Kevin - You're not old. 300 baud Compuserve ... text ... WOW!
- Charlie Anzman
Officially 1994. We used networked computers in the DoD in the 70s, but I was totally away from any web after that until '94. PCs were a shock to my system.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
'93 using an amateur radio modem. '96 for AOL using a Performa 400 (no web, just used AOL chats/email and telnet) and text-based web at the library. I think '98 before I was using a graphic web interface.
- Alix Whitmire
1997 but just in 1998 I have access to it with my first computer.
- Bibi
1997, I was 14 years old. My brother bought a computer and it came with an AOL Trial.
- Pamela
1994 with a 2400 baud modem and an AOL hourly account.
- John Fox
when i was about 10 years old in 4th grade on AOL...took my best friend and I about 45 mins to figure out you needed to plug a telephone cord into the computer lol. (about 1996-97)
- stanleyyork
1994 - it was all about AOL, web crawler, geocites ......I always thought how this thing, the internet, was going to get faster in the future..at that time I was 12.
- iTbay
Early 80's. There was only hosted chat rooms and it was all text and ascii art. I think MedDirec and the Green Door was a couple of them and I think some universities were toying with email. You really had to know protocol to get 1200 baud out of the modems. I came up with the idea to put a toggle switch on the front of the box instead of bridging the pins on the motherboard to go from...
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- Robt.D.McKenzie
1992 i think, trumpet, slip, telnet, stuff
- Liviu Barbat
i used 'sz' to download a file via zmodem, and slipknot to slip-over-shell circa 1994 yee haw
- Brian Hendrickson
91 or 92 via ampr.net over 1k2 baud shared radio channels. Then I signed up for demon.net "tenner a month" package at 14k4 full duplex :D. The rest, as they say, is net>
- Nick B.