by Ri 41 Replies latest jw friends
1992. No GUI, no HTML, no color, no graphics, no links, no WWW. Just Gopher, Archie, Veronica, WAIS, Usenet, Pico, Pine, IRC, Unix Shell accounts, and a Unix command line driven interface. Downloads took two steps: download to your host and then download from your host to your PC at the blinding speed of 1200 baud.
Very primitive by today's standards.
Farkel
1995 for me, first my husband just bought the computer, then one night we did the Prodigy trial and wow, what an awakening, we stayed up till 4 a.m. looking all around.
It was then that I got hooked and have had a love affair with the internet ever since.
1995.
My first search engine was altavista.com. It cost a small fortune to have a dial-up access at the time.
Having an e-mail address was a biggy at the time.
My brain is going out on me. I can't remember much about my past computer history. I was on a bulleton board before I got on the internet. I remember Compuserve, or the word compuserve, can't remember what it was though. I get so frustrated trying to remember things. I hope it isn't that disease that starts with an A. Old age sure has got my brain not working as it should.
Ken P.
Ken,
:I remember Compuserve, or the word compuserve, can't remember what it was though.
Compuserve was originally a bulletin board. I used it in the 1980's.
Farkel
1997, dial up.
2002 dial up.....second hand pentium 2 computer with a huge heavy monitor........so embarrasing beat that!
1988: first started using dial-up modem in college at my job to access databases
(interesting footnote: in those days, when I got scans of old WT publications I wanted to share with ppl I knew, I thought maybe I could say I got it from the internet, thinking that this would be viewed as a safe, neutral, source -- how times have changed!)
1990: my sister got a modem and started chatting on BBs
1993 (spring): my first exposure to the WWW via the Mosaic browser
1993 (August): I got my first email account and began to very regularly use PINE, GOPHER, and USENET
1994: my first access to Netscape and I started to "surf the web"
1995: first started using online webchat
1996-1997: read the old H20 website as a lurker but did not sign up
1999: started chatting via mIRC and (in 2000) Snak
I'm very slow,,, 2006. But I love it now.
'94, netscape.
S
