What is your first memory of the internet?

[feather]

Mine was my uncle's setup: He had one of those suction cup things that you would put a phone receiver onto, and dial in and somehow connect to a BBS. I had no idea how it actually went online.

At uni in the labs I discovered Mosaic, Eudora Mail, IRC, and IrfanView.

And then my own modems from U.S. Robotics! It would take me a few days to download a mix or mp3 off FTP on dial-up Even on dial-up I was already setting up my own always-on connections before ADSL and cable.

And ICQ for chats RIP and WINAMP of course

[da hype]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

Prodigy online...playing some stupid golf on there

this was back in 1990

[AchtungBaby!]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

In all fairness, the first memory that comes to my mind about Internet is porn..

Weak contribution but nice thread

[Krystyan]

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ICQ and IRC... trying to download KoRn bootleg concerts over IRC... it took ages...

the sound of the dial up... the sound of ICQ's "message from..."

[el presidente Highsteppa]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

Porn.

Lots of it.

[hansh20]

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i remember using yahoo to download winamp, then the music software (audiogalaxy) and then 4 complete days to download Armand Van Helden's - You don't even know me. Funny though, i was not pretty much into electronic music, and the first track i downloaded it was house plain and simple as that; i guess it was meant to be.

[go0gle]

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[Simeon]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

56k dialup sound......Netscape Navigator..........

[diegoff]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

ICQ, IRC, hotmail

[floridaorange]

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56k dialup sound......Netscape Navigator..........

This - I remember asking family to get off the phone so I could go online

[Huggie Smiles]

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93. My friends were talking about it.
I had no clue what they were talking about - then it was onto a 28k modem.
then 56k

[ribbario]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

What is internet ?

[Kamal]

Re: What is your first memory of the internet?

ICQ, Hotmail, IE 3, MSN Chat on dialup.

[Huggie Smiles]

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I actually still have my hotmail account. Largely for symbolic, historic reasons - it was the first email I ever had . Must be heading towards 20 years old i would think.

[floridaorange]

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I have my first email account - yahoo .. by early 2000 I knew "gmai" would be the best free email option so I got my full name (which is very common) - both first and last name and then first middle last name. I still use the second one to this day as my primary email address