When did you discover the internet? (games, monitor, graphics, wireless)

[Huckleberry3911948]

after i retired see date of CDF enrollment. my world got bigger.
100% reconnect with a life i abandoned 30 years ago in another country.

[msgsing]

1997 with AOL, dial up conection, think there was a per minute charge if I recall correctly.

[swagger]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

Mid 80's. A friend loaned me a 300 baud modem and directed me to some game BBS's.

We've come a long way, baby.

If BBSing counts, '89 is when I first went online. I thought the OP specifically asked about the Internet, though.

[swagger]

Originally Posted by Bowie

I got my first Internet email address in grad school in 1987. I read that it was available for free on request to grad students at the university I was attending, so I signed up.

My first Internet email address was <myname>@disneysoft.com. Disneysoft.com was the domain for the software development wing of Disney, and they let anybody that used their BBS have an Internet email account. Not a chance of that happening these days...

My next email address was <me>@mpb.com. MPB was Miller's Party Board, a SoCal based MajorBBS that was quite popular among the various MajorBBSs out there. I used that for a year or two until I started buying/hosting my own domains. The rest is history...

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by nurit

As this is a "chilling out" section, maybe we can share some memories. When was the first time you used the internet?

I had internet for the first time in 2007 (was looking quite handsome, hehehe). I was using a dialup connection and wasting time on IRC.

I participated heavily on a local BBS in 1994. I started "surfing the net" back in 1998. I have been on line ever since in one incarnation or another. I do miss those old BBS days.

20yrsinBranson

[steel7]

Prior to nov.2001 i rarely used a computer. I have dial up & webtv. I have been on the net now for over 8 yrs.

[MikeJaquish]

1998
Windows 98 and Quantex 286 AT PC
BellSouth Dial up until Time Warner RoadRunner laid fiberoptic either in 1999 or 2000.

[NY Annie]

I was the first non-computer major student permitted remote access to the university system. This is back in the 80s. I had to prove I was competent and I was granted limited access so I could do research from home. When I was on campus, I hung out in the computer lab so I could get onto Telnet. The computer students thought I (a 40ish old woman) was a "gas" to be so comfortable with computers. There were only 5 servers for the entire country - all at major universities, one of which was at Brown. I remember doing my research with gopher and turtle and bemoaning to the head of the computer dept that it was such a shame there was no directory.

I turned in most of my term papers via tcp/ip and e-mail, shaming my professors into learning how to use their e-mail accounts.

Then AOL came on the scene. There were 8 chatrooms and every room name began with "Mass" for the state of Massachusetts.

Originally Posted by swagger

If BBSing counts, '89 is when I first went online. I thought the OP specifically asked about the Internet, though.

You don't think a BBS is part of the internet?

You are on a BBS - yup, CD is a "new-style" BBS.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

Mid 80's. A friend loaned me a 300 baud modem and directed me to some game BBS's.

We've come a long way, baby.

Originally Posted by swagger

If BBSing counts, '89 is when I first went online. I thought the OP specifically asked about the Internet, though.

1988 through Prodigy. I checked and the BBS was in 1984.

Good point.

[artyst]

my x mother-in-law bought me a computer when i graduated from college in 1995. i hooked it up all by myself and was ecstatic when it lit up and worked!! then i joined AOL and reacted like Meg Ryan in "You've Got Mail" when the computer first talked to me saying, "you've got mail!" i was so excited, LOL!!