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Old 09-16-2004, 03:32 PM   #11
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I think my father saw and used it first. When I went to secondary school we took it cause it was great for homework. I didn't use it regularly till I found the magic the gathering sites and checked daily. I still remember going to a site closing the connection and read it then dial-in again and repeat with another site. The joys of a dialup connection

Then someday the isdn line broke (perhaps by pets) and we got cable since then.
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Old 09-16-2004, 03:37 PM   #12
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Hmm... '99 I think. I was playing some online games on our school computers at lunchtime. I literally knew nothing about computers back then. But, when my family bought a computer with a dial-up modem a few months later, my skills eventually improved... 5 years later and I'm an uber-l33t h4xx0r! P|-|34r my 1.1MB sk1llz!!

Jokin', I hate all that stuff - I only say it for a joke to poke fun at those hackers who thing they own the internet [img]tongue.gif[/img]
They do. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Actually, a couple of radio-amateurs are responsible for the Arpanet project turning into the internet, and they could now be called first 'hackers'. Don't be ungratefull, son. And remember: Free Kevin! ...oops, done that.... FIGHT THE POWER!
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Old 09-16-2004, 03:41 PM   #13
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I stayed away for a long time... then I installed a browser on my work computer, circa 1997, and it's been downhill ever since
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Old 09-16-2004, 04:06 PM   #14
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It was back in '99 when I first went online. No one around my area knew a thing about how to connect to the net, because it just wasn't common around here. So it took my dad a few months, actually, to connect to the net. It was in the middle of the night and he found a chatroom to a great place that used to be around called Liveuniverse.com, I definately had some great times with people there.
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Old 09-16-2004, 04:13 PM   #15
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I think it was around 1998, cant remeber exactly but around that time. I eneded up getting the internet for school and then i found about all the other stuff on it, but here i am.

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Old 09-16-2004, 04:37 PM   #16
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It was when I was in senior, so 97? Yeah, grade 11, so 97 sounds about right. I think my brother must have shown me how to google, (or though, in those days I dunno if google was quite the monopoly it is now and I used a variety of search engines) to get research for my assignments. But I didn't use it for anything else but that, not even really email, until a few years later.
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Old 09-16-2004, 05:23 PM   #17
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I'm not sure. I remember my dad spent £3000 on an office computer,state of the art at the time, waaaay back. He used it to log into a company to order products for his business. That was when I first got into it. Then it started getting more common (dial up came along) and I got hooked. Oops!
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Old 09-16-2004, 05:45 PM   #18
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It was 1997 when my father bought the new computer. He said the computer can go into internet and want me to check it out. I tried but really disappointed as the connection always disconnect itself after dialing. It was few months later when the thing improve then I started to use it often.
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Old 09-17-2004, 04:07 AM   #19
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To tell you the truth... I really cant remember! It must have been only like 4 years ago or something, (I do live in Australia, and you all know how backwater we are ) so im guessing it was at school.

Having said that, I do have the memory of a goldfish, so im going to justify my lack of remembering on that.

Alternatively, it was an extremelly horrible experience and I blocked the memory out. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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