HI!

[vixalicious]

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.

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[vixalicious]

Why were you online?

[aubieturtle.livejournal.com]

That's kind of like asking a kid with a new bike why he's riding around. We got a modem for our computer and there were a couple of BBSes that we could call and play on. Boredom or intellectual curiousity would be the most accurate answers.

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.

[vixalicious]

Sorry, I worded that badly. What is a BBS, and what did you do on it?

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

Bulletin Board System. My brother was way into that, and the phone bills were obscene as you dialed into computers in different countries and it cost as much as phone calls.

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.