How did you find the internet?

[dreamer]

Did anyone else start their internet life MUD'ing?

 

[Kalyn]

The internet FOUND me.

 

[Wiggles]

AOL, it's a gateway drug for the internet world.


And it's evil.

 

[Zamdrist]

Did anyone else start their internet life MUD'ing?

I started on the Internet dialed into work into a Unix network, SunOS. I had just a enough clue to fuck up things.

Learned how to FTP and thought that was the shit, the greatest thing.

I once downloaded a postscript file and sent it to a regular printer. Needless to say the boss was pissed when he could'nt printer out his e-mails in the morning. For those who don't know a postscript file is meant to be sent to a special printer, if sent to a regular printer it prints all the source coding, and tons of it. Quite a mess.

 

[tortoise]

I forgot to take that left turn at Albuquerque.

Seriously, though. I was putzing around with an SGI computer at work in the late '80s, when I stumbled on a program called nn, which is a Usenet news reader. I was hooked instantly. We then got one of the very earliest versions of NCSA Mosaic, the first WWW browser, in the early 90's. It was fun, but I had no idea it would explode like it has.

 

[Private Vasquez]

I was in this little box with blinky lights

 

[Sex & Diamonds]

I was following this rabbit, and fell down a hole.




Or was that..

I fell down a hole, and followed a rabbit

 

[badasschick]

1992 with too much time on my hands

 

[Sillyman]

My six grade computer class.

 

[Nigel]

Turned left at Greenland.

Sorry.....

I actually started out dialing in to local BBSes with the good ol' 2400 modem.....

Then I (don't throw things at me) joined AOL when it was all bulletin boards....and the interface was a DOS program.

After that....CompuServe, GEnie (dear god), and then the infamous internet explosion....where the common folk could access what our tax dollars were paying for.....

Nigel

 

[The Gimp]

Back in the early ninetys I was in high school and I was aware that computers could be used to download information but I never really used them. Around '94 I was in a college library and they had a bunch of computers with net access. Out of curiosity I just so happened to type playboy.com inot the address box and I've been hooked ever since.

 

[dreamer]

I feel all alone. I started in 91 playing MUDs on campus. I remember scheduling cis classes that had NOTHING to do with my major just to have private lab time instead of needing to go to the public labs and explain why I was playing games...hehehe

Still miss those mudding days. I checked and the game I was playing is still going strong and has hundreds when not thousands of players on at any given time.

I remember also I used to either play late at night, or early before classes and I got to know quite a few Aussies back then too. I remember thinking how cool it was at that time to get to know a different perspective from someone on the other side of the world.

 

[paphian]

Geeze. Y'all are making me feel really old (and I'm not that friggin' old!)

I started on the internet when you still had to have an access account via DOD, a participating university, or a participating contractor. Usual access method was via an acoustic coupler, strictly text-mode video or hard-copy terminals at a blazing 300--yes, you read that right--300 bits/second, unless you were at one of the host sites.

 

[RastaPope]

Local bulletin boards with a 300 baud modem, back in the early/mid 80's. Then Genie came along, etc, etc.

 

[mistressastra]

We got ours at work and were told not to surf unless it was for clients. Then my boss told me how to get an email and the rest is history. I love it love it! I've met new friends, posted fiction, learned new things, reserved my vacations, and have had the best times here in front of my computer.

 

[RastaPope]

Local bulletin boards with a 300 baud modem, back in the early/mid 80's. Then Genie came along, etc, etc.

On a Commodore 64. And an Atari ST, I believe. I was very young.

 

[mistressastra]

OMG I had a Commodore 64 too. LOL ancient history. The things it *couldn't* do compared to now. I had to actually type out my own programs on it to do anything at all. Remember that? If you made one mistake, you had to find where and fix it. Gahhhhh give me CDs any day.