07-03-2004, 04:58 PM | #11 |
Jack Burton
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The first time I got on the net was when my brother showed me hotmail at his workplace about six or seven years ago.
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07-03-2004, 05:25 PM | #12 |
Knight of the Rose
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my first time was when I was house setting for my neighbor who was moving, I had just had Caleb, he was still in the hospital, and I was watching her house, my husband was sleeping, and I was just going to see what it was about, this was at 9 pm mind you, he came over before going to work at 5 am [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] and I had no clue what time it was, spent the entire night in a chat room
it was about 5 years ago [ 07-03-2004, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]
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07-03-2004, 05:30 PM | #13 |
Gold Dragon
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Geez, kids!
Doesn't anybody remember the iNet, Compuserve days? You'd spend more time trying to connect to the BBS than you actually spent on it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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07-03-2004, 05:37 PM | #14 |
Zartan
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I (and a few class mates) actually managed to bluff my way through an extensive high school thesis about the moral implications of the Internet as a mass medium purely based on articles we'd read about it, way back in 1997 - I'm not even sure what it was exactly that we ended up writing down, but I'm pretty sure it's laughably bad if you put it in a modern day perspective. Good thing our teacher had hardly ever heard of the Internet himself - we suckered him into rewarding our creative bungling with a 9.6 out of 10, despite the fact that we'd spent about 5 minutes online during the entire 6 month project, when we used the world's slowest connection at our local library to download a picture of Evil Bert (of Sesame Street Fame) being caught red handed with Pamela Anderson. Ah, those were the days.
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07-03-2004, 05:41 PM | #15 |
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Animal, I remember when my Compuserve email address was a bunch of numbers with a dot (or was it a comma?) somewhere in the middle...
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07-03-2004, 05:45 PM | #16 | |
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Back in the good old days, we used regular mail, not this newfangled e-mail. We didn't even know what e-mail was. We had to walk to the mailbox, uphill in the snow bothways, to get our letters printed on paper. *walks away muttering about postage stamps and envelopes*
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07-03-2004, 05:49 PM | #17 |
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Paper? Paper...
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07-03-2004, 06:19 PM | #19 |
Gold Dragon
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Yup, I remember Prodigy. All this "good old days" talk has sure brought up some memories.
I remember when I first saw Bard's Tale and being totaly blown away by the graphics! [img]smile.gif[/img] You're probably around the same age as me, Ziroc. I've got a full, working Apple IIc sitting in my office, along with a Vic-20, TRS-80, Commodore 128, and a Tandy 1000. I never did beat Dungeons of Daggorath on the TRS-80. Maybe it's time to go play some.
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07-03-2004, 07:16 PM | #20 |
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I remember... I had gotten AOL 5.0 and was pretty excited about it. My dad taught me how to go to websites (because I had never been on the net) and the first thing I went to was a Legend of Zelda website. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Edit: I even remember my first screen name!!! It was "ZELDAFREAK178" [img]tongue.gif[/img] [ 07-03-2004, 07:17 PM: Message edited by: SomeGuy ]
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