Your first experience with the Internet

[D5]

My first experience with the net was back a long while ago. I was running a 75Mhz Pentium/ .775Mb HDD/ 8 bits RAM/ 14.4KBPs modem/ Acer Aspire. It seemed like a cool first-experience but the Web Pages were so slow at loading, I constantly got board of the wait and usually lost interest of looking at the page before it even got done loading.

Thank goodness I have a FASTER computer! Now, I can chat with YOU guys a lot....interesting. :)

Thanks...
D5

Reguards :)[nbsp]

[Deb]

Geee..... I feel very very old now[nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp]:P

Welcome aboard!

Deb
[nbsp]- Those are records, not frisbees!

[D5]

Thanks, Deb! ;)[nbsp][nbsp]

Feeling old? I'd say you should feel lucky! My system's getting to become an important piece of history like yours......."an old fossil"! :D

Nice aquainting with you!

Thanks...
D5

Reguards :)[nbsp]

[Jason]

Hehe...

I got on the internet for the first time back in 93 (erm... well, it wasn't the internet, it was AOL - but it was what they called the internet back then).

I was running a 386dx40 processor with 2 MB of RAM and a 2400 baud modem - and at that time I thought it absolutely screamed (compared to my best friend's 286 with 512k RAM and 1200 baud modem, that is).

In 94 I upgraded to a 486 laptop with 4 MB of RAM and a 9600 baud modem - quite exciting!! I still have that laptop hanging around here somewhere - I was still using that laptop (upgraded to 8 MB of RAM and a 14.4 modem) as late as 97.

Now, of course, I'm on a Celeron 550a with 128 MB of RAM (still just 56k, though - no DSL or cable modems out here) and to be honest, I'm finding this computer mindbogglingly slow. I can't even imagine going back to that old 386 now!

Jason

[JoeRT]

Compuserve, 1984 (or 85?), Atari 1200XL, 300 baud modem.[nbsp][nbsp]:)

Punch cards, Southern Pacific Railroad dispatcher's office, Tucson, AZ, 1971 (but I was only nine).[nbsp][nbsp]:)

I remember being on the old Imagination Network (INN) about five years ago and someone asked if INN should go internet based... a lot of people said "what's an internet, and why do we need it."[nbsp][nbsp]:)

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Joe Torsitano
www.weatherforyou.com (http://www.weatherforyou.com)
www.tiswest.com (http://www.tiswest.com)

[Storm Shadow]

Joe,
Atari 800XL, 300 baud modem for me.[nbsp][nbsp]Saved money for months to buy that $39 modem.

Then an adult friend in the neighborhood showed me the Zenith PC compatible he built up from a mail-order kit and my world changed again (although it would be years before I had enough money to build my own PC/Wintel machine).

-SS

[D5]

Whoa! You guys seem more experience than me! Perhaps, I should look up to you in the near future. :D

Storm Shadow,

I couldn't help but notice your signature. It remembers me of an old member who, not too long ago, stopped coming. DO you know anyone called "SkySlash"? His initials were EXACTLY like yours and just couldn't help but wonder if this was coincidence of finding one of the ex-HWC members here. If you're not, it's good to know you anyways! :)

Don't let me slow you guys down! Let's hear your story! ;)[nbsp][nbsp]

Thanks...
D5

Reguards :)[nbsp]

[John Kennett]

Does a BBS at 300 baud on a CPM machine count?

That was around 1982, and lasted until my Dad got the next phone bill and I was banned from using the computer!

I next got on-line around '94 on Compuserve using a 286.

John
-- Bet the next post mentions punch cards ;)[nbsp]

[Justin]

My first experience on the 'net was in June of 98, with Windows 98 on an AMD 233, 32 megs, and a 33.6 modem that wouldn't go over 28.8... pathetic, huh?

Not that I haven't been into computers forever - just never got on the net until then. My oldest computer was a Commodore VIC-20, complete with cassette drive... Then (much) later on, a Zenith XT clone with (I think) 12 meg MFM hard drive, CGA adapter, and a 512k memory expantion card (added to the 640k on board)...

Then a few years later, I had a Packard Bell 386 (it was used; the Pentium MMX's were already out by this point), then a 486, then finally I broke down and put together the 233 system mentioned above...

Now of course I have the PIII 450 clocked at 558, two 233 MMX systems, a K62-350 in the car, and enough spare parts to build more... and of course I now want a laptop (with wireless ethernet so I can surf the net from the front porch ;) )

I do still remember the days of wishing for a Commodore C64 with a diskette drive...

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support