Scoobychick

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I first went on it in 1998 using my dad's Windows 3.1 PC and dial up I remember wondering at the time what on earth the point of the internet was. I logged in to his home page (Lineone or something) after about a half hour wait and saw lots of garish flashing adverts and things that I didn't want to read.

About a year later I came back from RallyGB and did a search for 'rally'. It brought up a bulletin board - Rally365 - and I found a lot of like minded souls all talking about rallying so joined in. I made good friends with a chap on there who I'm still friends with now Anyway from that I did a search on 'Scoobies' and that brought me here

Now I can't live without the internet and can barely remember how we used to live before it

subaruturbo_18

I think i was around the same time, although i was only 10


I diddn't quite understand it really, then i discovered msn messenger and my mates and I used to chat on that. Now if my internet has a temporary problem and doesn't work for half an hour i have a panic attack

davegtt

1996 when I first started work but didnt start using it on a daily basis until about 1997-1998. Windows 3.11 the same

fivetide

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1995 university. Cutting edge dudes!

5t.

HankScorpio

94/95

Mosaic was the browser of choice followed by Netscape Navigator.
Alta Vista (at digital) came along as search engine and revolutionised the whole thing.

PeteBrant

Around 94/95, although I was using a modem to hook up to BBS before that around '92.

Fear my geekdom.

Scoobychick

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I do, I do

boxst

Well, in around 1984 I had a modem and started calling bulletin boards and then a few months later used to run one. It then carried on from there really, hacking 'Janet' which allowed you to connect to various computers, then Compuserve and finally the internet proper.

Wow I'm old.

Steve

subaruturbo_18

I wasn't even alive then

Scoobychick

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It looks like we have a winner for the Crown of Geekdom

PeteBrant

We need to fashion him a crown out of wires and old NHS specs

David Lock

What were the old search engines in the 90s? Pre-Google. Have they disappeared or more likely been taken over? I can't remember now. And I don't thing viruses were a big problem then?

Alta Vista

Hotbot

Lycos

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boxst

And Excite. I used to work next door to them in California. They had a huge warehouse made out into an office with several slides. So you could climb up to the roof and slide down into the middle of the office.

Steve

davegtt

Mamma was a search engine that was quite good back in the day.

SJ_Skyline

First used the web in 1992 at uni, I later signed myself up at home in 1997.

fivetide

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also a lot of people started out using portals like Yahoo! simply because it was easier.

We were all Netscape Navigator back in the day too.

I was working on a IT mag in 98 when one of the other reporters asked us all to try out this new Google thing with the I'm Feeling Lucky feature saying "this is brilliant, it'll be massive". The site said Google Beta on it at the time.

5t.

chocolate_o_brian

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Ooooh, I was 16 I think and had just started college.

£2200 my mam paid for a big ol' computer system with an 18gb hard drive

Internt was courtesy of a 56k dial up model via NTL. Then in 2001 @ 17 we went the whole hog and got 512k dial up for about £30 a month

lozgti

Cor.We haven't even got a computer at home.

Am I behind the times then?

eClaire

1995. My dad has always had his finger on the pulse, so to speak I was only about 12. Went onto chat rooms and ran up a nice wee bill - when he came home and caught me he went ballistic. I was barred from using it for a few years after that!

eClaire

I think I may be older than c_o_b!!

stevem2k

pah , all these come lately windows users ...

DOS\Kaq9 from demon internet in 1994 I think. Way before that I used bbs' and prestel on a bbc 'b' and a nightingale modem (and a frankly scary phonebill as it was in the days before local POP's ).. 1200 baud FTW

mike1210

1998 when I went to University, got it at home couple of years later via a modem and oh how slow it was compared to Uni

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Demon 1995 on the dizzy heights of a 14,400 modem...

Am still with them!

movi-star

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1998/99 using Autotrader.co.uk to search for a Granada 2.9 Cosworth saloon, I wanted to chop my R5 GTT for one!! Never did find one, they were circa £5k back then.

dunx

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I too was trawling JANET for pirated Amiga games back in the mid 90's....


You might even say I subsidised my phone bill ?

Maybe !

DunxC

Scoobychick

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What was this JANET thing you speak of?

SJ_Skyline

Joint Academic NETwork

HTH

Scoobychick

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What was its purpose? (Other than for the illegal distribution of **** for bored students)

GC8

1991/1992 for Pipex Dial at work but 1996/1997 for normal t'internet, such as it was.