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DarkLord2008 on 25 February 2008

Back in 1999. Yahoo has certainly gone downhill since then it was once a good email/ good search engine/ good chat back in its hey day.



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tarheel91 on 25 February 2008

I was seven so 98? First place I went to was ESPN.com and then Nintendo.com.



jlauro on 25 February 2008
Sqrl said:
I think he was referring to the internet as the World Wide Web specifically (the two words have the same meaning now but it wasn't always the case). Which unless I am mistaken (its been a while since I learned this) was created back in '89 by Tim Berners-Lee and not Al Gore no matter what he tells you lol.

I'm not entirely sure when the first time I utilized non-web based computer communications but I know it involved a BBS =) I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who were using similar stuff long before I was either way.

Technically I predated the internet, as it was called the arpanet when I started back in the late 80s which then became the internet, but the internet still predated the web brosers by a few years.

If you talk BBS, and dialup modems, etc...  it goes back a few years more to early 80s for me.



fkusumot on 25 February 2008

I started on DARPANET as part of my job. It was pretty crude but the email worked. Before that I played a multi-user version of Space Wars on the PLATO system, but not on an "everyday" basis (just weekends). That was in '76 - '77.


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stclam on 25 February 2008

About 15 years ago, 28.8K modem was the fastest model
At that time, not every computer equipped with a mouse, can you imagine it?



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nordlead on 25 February 2008

The first time on the internet was ~93-94 when they started with AOL for windows.

The first time I used a modem for anything was probably a couple years earlier on a BBS, on which I dominated the game that they had.




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kirby007 on 25 February 2008

not too long ago maybe 1998-99



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LISMDK on 25 February 2008

1998



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tabsina on 25 February 2008

can't really remember the year.. i remember the era though, 95ish



kn on 25 February 2008

1993 with Mosaic on a Sun workstation. There wasn't much to the web back then -- mostly university file transfers. That was the real world wide web...

Before that, I got into being "online" at 300 baud with the first generation 300Kbps modems and green screens...



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