How long have you been on the Internet?

[SoV]

I remember deleting a System 32 file as a 6 yr old, cos I wanted more space for my games.

 

[SoV]

2400 bps?! We were using 56kbps modem and that was considered to be awesome.

Also spent many hours playing this:

With the sound coming from the CPU.

 

[Matty]

My first soundcard (Sound Blaster 16) came with the shareware version of Doom. Some next-level shit right there.

That was pre-Internet-at-home though.

 

[FairWarning]

Learned computers on a Commodore 64. We were the only area school to have them.

 

[betplom]

Learned computers on a Commodore 64. We were the only area school to have them.

Same here, Commodore PET 64 in highschool.

Used to load programs/games from a cassette tape drive. Printed using a very loud dot matrix machine.

REM goto 100
100 print mr z is a fag
REM loop

 

[Saulty]

Same here, Commodore PET 64 in highschool.

Used to load programs/games from a cassette tape drive. Printed using a very loud dot matrix machine.

REM goto 100
100 print mr z is a fag
REM loop

That's what we had in high school too. The tape cassette..lol

 

[Bay Bud]

1996 on a packard bell that cost about $2k from what i recall.

 

[Gilmartin]

n00bs. 1993...rocking FTP on BBSes with my 2400 baud modem. Totally maxing out both megs of RAM I had.

 

[Matty]

My video game pusher in the very early 90's had access to BBSes. We'd trade all the Sierra games. Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Police Quest, etc. Those were the best games ever.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

1993. There was a pretty decent underground of pirating on FTP sites before the web was started.

I got addicted to playing a MUD for a short period of time and helped code some of it.

I actually ran up about a $150 phone bill one month from dialup.

When the web first started, there were exploits all over the place. Pretty fun.

 

[Tron]

1996 on a packard bell that cost about $2k from what i recall.

Yeah if I recall correctly, I payed my friend about $750 for the PC he built me.

 

[Gilmartin]

My video game pusher in the very early 90's had access to BBSes. We'd trade all the Sierra games. Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Police Quest, etc. Those were the best games ever.

Sierra games were amazing. Too bad adventure games kind of died out in the 90s.

 

[Gilmartin]

1993. There was a pretty decent underground of pirating on FTP sites before the web was started.

I got addicted to playing a MUD for a short period of time and helped code some of it.

I actually ran up about a $150 phone bill one month from dialup.

When the web first started, there were exploits all over the place. Pretty fun.

Remember wardialing?

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

I had 7th Guest with a 2x CDROM drive.

Made all the bitches wet.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

Remember wardialing?

LOL. Yup. One of the reasons for a ridiculous phone bill.

 

[rito]

Had Prodigy around 1990. My grandfather got it for us, he had two computers then. Kind of funny since my father has still never touched one in his entire life.

After that AOL through the 90's. Got in trouble with local porn bb for calling every day and downloading his pictures. Called our house. I remember getting some sort of actual internet account through the University of Denver when I was still really young and it was all unix. Remember when i couldn't even get broadband in college. Damn getting old now.

 

[Gilmartin]

LOL. Yup. One of the reasons for a ridiculous phone bill.

Entering even further into nerd territory, ever build one of these?

 

[rito]

My parents spent 3k on an apple iigs in the later eighties. Thing didn't even have a hard drive. Then we got a Magnavox PC a couple years later. It hat a 40mb HD and 4,b ram. I booth the modem, it as like 12 baud or something like that.