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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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We first logged onto the internet in about 1997 with AOL dial up, Didn't have a clue what we was doing, but I do remember the £125 phone bill for first month.  .
What are your first memories of the internet. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh yes, I remember dial up. You waited ages for a text message to download. Mind you, we were lucky to live in plastic bag in gutter, me and family of 6 with father down the cheese mine.
I loved the beeps from the modem though. |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love |
"Oh yes, I remember dial up. You waited ages for a text message to download. Mind you, we were lucky to live in plastic bag in gutter, me and family of 6 with father down the cheese mine.
I loved the beeps from the modem though."
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!"
Are Hanson still gigging ? |
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By *ervertsCouple
over a year ago
halesowen |
Telewest (now Virgin) dial up, can't remember what I first looked for but it's a very strong possibility it would have been porn. I remember using Yahoo chat rooms a lot, the old cam chat rooms were great. |
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My memories of the early internet:
RRRRRRRRRRRR
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep....
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR
etc. for about 5 mins before a message comes up telling you the connection has been 'lost' so you'll have to start all over again  |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love |
"My memories of the early internet:
RRRRRRRRRRRR
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep....
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR
etc. for about 5 mins before a message comes up telling you the connection has been 'lost' so you'll have to start all over again "
Ping you got mail |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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AOL chat rooms. I learned very quickly that some people on the internet are nutters.
It amazes me that some people still think you can trust everyone on the internet! |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!
Are Hanson still gigging ? "
You can go off people, you know!  |
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surf time 2001 cost about 30.00 a month with a pentium 3 computer
first thing searching for downloading films and music
swinger sites as was a couple then escort connectx where you emailed other swingers for free |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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ICQ. MIRC. Fuckmywife chatrooms. Carol Cox porn site. Yahoo chat. MSN chat. Met quite a few people off them. But my first memory was the noise of the dial-up modem and picures taking a minute to load  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yahoo messenger, I had a cam2cam relationship with a married woman in Michigan for five years. I'd like to think the good people of GCHQ enjoyed watching me wankin' away. |
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Before the Internet, exchanging data between computers directly 1-2-1, even as an engineer it seemed little magical.
Couldn't wait to get connected to the Internet but it started with only a few connect points in the bigger cities. Excitement increased when a location popped in Birmingham but that was still a national call rate from outside of Birmingham. But then AOL offered service at a local call rate but make no mistake, that was still expensive at the time. And so too was the monthly subscription with only 3 hours allowed online per month (or something like that). Worse still, there was bugger all content on the Internet at that time and AOL doing their damn best to monopolise the whole thing.
Once again the 'magic' even as an engineer, it still seems amazing as to how much its changed/progressed in such a very short time. From a few kilo baud to tens of megs! To be lucky to stay connected to a very slow AOL chatroom, being VERY lucky to find a picture of a bit of totty to almost live streaming of full HD sound/video and high resolution images of ANYTHING you might, or might not of imagined...
All taken for granted  you youngsters today, you don't know your born! Back in the day we used to have to make our own fun like knocking on doors and running away, or chasing a cat up a tree... |
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My first experience of the internet was with the Sega Dreamcast games console. You could buy a keyboard for it and a cable to connect to the internet. It cost 1p a minute. First thing i did on it was look for porn, lol. Not sure of the exact year but it was sometime in the late 1990's. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Aohell dial up... That shocking noise, aohell chatrooms... can still remember my user name... sarky bint. msn, and website called faceparty, guess the new version would be Fbk. |
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We were clueless, dial up, really bad and tediously slow connection. Sat next to a gorgeous lad in a cyber cafe, we were both on chat, he had a female profile, flirting with men - was frustrating! |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
Netscapeonline chatrooms, Excite.co.uk personal ads, and working for BT and trying to explain that yes, they really did owe that much on their phone bills for dialling up t'internet. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We first logged onto the internet in about 1997 with AOL dial up, Didn't have a clue what we was doing, but I do remember the £125 phone bill for first month. .
What are your first memories of the internet."
paltalk chat rooms, oh happy days |
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Probably been said but Im not reading all the posts just incase.
Pressing a button and hearing some electronical noise, then when your connected watching a page load from top to bottom.
Used to take me about an hour and a half to download one mp3 on Napster, its about 30 seconds on BT Infinity |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Freeserve dial up! Oh the memories, late nights waiting for web pages to load. Emails that took an hour to send. MSN messenger, why?
Those were the days..........
Big upside tho' I met Mrs N via a chat page back in the day. |
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"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!"
was the bass player kim deal by any chance ? |
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I can't remeber when we forst got tinternet but it was mid nineties some time. A friend and I were discussing teh supposed fact that if you put anything in a search engine information would come up and found it incredible "I bet" she said "that if you typed sex with a donkey nothing would come up at all".
I am here to tell you dear reader that even in those days....it did! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I can't remeber when we forst got tinternet but it was mid nineties some time. A friend and I were discussing teh supposed fact that if you put anything in a search engine information would come up and found it incredible "I bet" she said "that if you typed sex with a donkey nothing would come up at all".
I am here to tell you dear reader that even in those days....it did! "
So sex with donkeys isn't just a modern phenomena |
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I remember having to buy my first PC from Time on the never-never as it was so friggin expensive and my son would drag me down some back street shack to pay for stuff to make it do things it wasn't designed to do.
He would then invalidate the crappy warranty by dismantling it on the kitchen table to redesign it.
I've still got it somewhere. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!
was the bass player kim deal by any chance ? "
It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon. |
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Dial up in 1996. Our provider was Globalnet and cost us £35 a month - plus the cost of the dial up - which, thanks to me and my obsession with chatting online, came to £1000 in our first quarter - boy I was in deep shit over that one! lol.
We moved over to The Sun as a provider some time later which was renamed 'Currant Bun'.
I remember the MSN chat rooms and groups - it was such a thrill back then 'chatting' to people from all around the world. Doesn't seem a big deal now.
Emm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!
was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?
It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon. "
Kim Stone ? |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.
P"
I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft. |
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"was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?
It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon.
Kim Stone ?
Kim Coletta. I loved her band. "
Oh !
It's true then.
You are a nerd
Phwooar ! |
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"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.
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I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft. "
What makes you think he wasn't correct ? |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.
P
I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft.
What makes you think he wasn't correct ?"
Maybe, but I haven't noticed any goat sacrifice apps when I log on to iPlayer. |
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