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Looking for a quick, completely unscientific poll here:
When did you first go online, and what was it like?
I got my first laptop in 1998 and that's when I went online. It was all AOL chat rooms, complete with skeezy guys trying to have cybersex.
When did you first go online, and what was it like?
I got my first laptop in 1998 and that's when I went online. It was all AOL chat rooms, complete with skeezy guys trying to have cybersex.
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Date: 2009-06-07 04:33 am (UTC)Everything was very slow (300 baud modem) and there was no interactive chat. One person would call into the bbs at a time.
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Date: 2009-06-07 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 05:28 am (UTC)Or to put it in the language of the Mango "Can you catch a falling star without burning your hand? Can you put the sky in your mouth? Can you say to an earthquake...'Hey hold still for a second'? No!" We had a new toy, we had to use it. That was all the reason that was needed.
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Date: 2009-06-07 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 11:03 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
I too logged into a couple in 1991, so I guess you could say that was my first experience with the internet, although it wasn't called so at the time.
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Date: 2009-06-07 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 09:59 am (UTC)it was pretty funny cos i'd always teased him mercilessly and haggled over every computer related expense. now i'm the one saying 'is this the best modem we can get? can we get more hard drive?' heee!
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Date: 2009-06-07 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 12:37 pm (UTC)Chat rooms scared me. They still do!!
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Date: 2009-06-07 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-07 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-08 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-08 05:48 pm (UTC)