Internet back in 1994

WOW internet in 1994 i would have only been about aged 8 then and i remeber somwhere between 94-95 i think when we got a new computer for our classroom in school and had it hooked upto the web, The browser i remember using was Netscape Navigator. I Never thought the internet would get so big as it is now back then.

 

Same here. I think the first time I actually had the opportunity to sit down & spent time on the net was on Nintendo's site (during the early Donkey Kong Country days), in my Dad's work office. That's also where I accidentally stumbled across http://zelda.com...before it was a Nintendo site!...

 

Lol! At least give an advice that there's pr0n following the link!
BTW, I'd pay to see the face of the Nintendo crew when they found out that the domain was already taken and what was inside...

 

I started using the internet in 95 or 96... 14.4 or 19.2 modem? can't remember right now.

Websites were so primitive. Everything was gray with a couple of images. Sega.com and Nintendo.com were also some of the first places i visited.

 

Back in the day of 1994, there I also started with the internet (Netscape baby ! ) was the coolest back then. And of course, I was in my early puberty, so I looked for porn bigtime . But anyway it was a natural thing to do. But anyway, I also started reading computer magazines back then. So I read and read like crazy, to understand just a bit of it all

 

I remember visiting some site in the early 90's waiting F*ing ages for a tinny screen shot of the first King of Fighters to download ! man it took like 5 minutes !

Yakumo

 

Anyone remember the Mosaic?
The forerunner of Netscape...
When I started to use InterNet it wasn't even invented yet...

 

I started in...1998.
Freestart? Freecast? Whatever it is, 56K dial up, huge phone cord across the house and a modem that used a serial port that looked like a parallel port, longer than a DB-9.

 

I remember Mosaic. I remember gopher protocol.

 

Oh yeah! My grandma went into a chat room around 1997-1998.

I remember her saying this in a conversation about it:

There was this guy in the chatroom named "Trash can man". He must work for the sanitation department. I got out of there when I saw a guy named "Big Pimp" in there though, I don't want to be chatting with bad people like that!

And she never touched the Internet again.

My brother and I tried to tell her it was some kid or teenager, but she kept telling us how Naive WE were.

 

at my 9th or 10th birthday party I showed my friends comedy central's website with south park flash games. (such as Kill Kenny). When Earthlink gave the Illegal Operation my friend freaked out and thought we were going to be arressted. He was like "I'M SO SORRY HENRY!" xD

 

I remember trawling anime websites in the early 90's and finding every other one was a "lolita" russian site in disguise, or a primitive version of Rotten.com

Also remember downloading the Jolly Rogers Cookbook and nearly getting kicked out of college for getting caught printing bits of it...

 

ah, i just remembered! Me and some classmates used to surf for pr0n back in the day on the internets , circa 1997-8. Man was that exciting - nowadays i cant bother with pr0n at all, it has long lost its magic.

 

First time (that I can remember) I used the tubes was back in 97, to play some game on LEGO.com.

 

Started back in 93 or 94 (Don't remember witch, leaning more toward 93). Since we didn't have a PC, I had to use my mother's laptop on the rare occasions that she brought it home. Mostly went to places like cartoon network's homepage and such. I really didn't have a PC until around 98, when we moved in with my grandparents for about a year, and discovered gamefaqs when looking up stuff for this one game that I can't remember. Finally got our first PC in 2000 (Dell with ME, not a good choice OR combo), and we got suckered into using MSN for about 6 months.

I must say, the internet is grown quite a bit. I can't really remember how we lived with such low internet speeds (I remember some pages taking about 2 minutes to load). It seems like the internet really didn't start to explode until the 2000s, with the creation of 4chan for westerners in 2004 (I know 2chan has been around for awhile), youtube in 200, what, 5? Myspace in 2005, and wiki back in 2005, I believe (Don't remember too well with some of these , all of them seems to have just popped up from nowhere).

 

And lets not forget about Galbadia Hotel! (Ok, so its not that popular, but its still got tons of great game OSTs up, and is fairly new)

 

My first exposure to the real internet sucked. It was some shitty email only service that took days to get your email. My school was more focused on getting into heaven than the internet super highway. I moved to Austin and went to Univ. of Texas in Jan '95 and they had the real stuff. My first email address: wacky-ass@mail.utexas.edu (Jerky Boys fan). Wasn't a problem for the rest of my college career. Then... I had to get a job... phone interview... "what's your email address". Whoops.

 

I still remember using BBSes back in the late 80s and early 90s when V23bis modems were the bees knees and were full length ISA cards. Still remember using Telix and Bluewave to log onto BBSes and to download my fidonet mail, and the joys of writing an MS-DOS config file to load up ANSI.SYS and modem device drivers to log on and to play games. Hell still even remember my fidonet mail address 2:254/233.8080

My first use of the internet was back in the mid 90s when I used Telix to do FTP and Telnet as well as browse websites in plain text.

 

I still don't have Internet. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get these smoke signals to go into that little tube.

 

If theres something I remember about the internet is how excited I was about it............and how crappy it was when I finally got to try it in 95...

To my credit I was just 8 yrs old and was obscesed with VR, so after I saw that the "Cyberspace" was just a bunch of text with crappy backgrounds it was a real downer.

I still went to a cybercafe some times to check on stuff (there wasnt that much "stuff" anyway...). My Dad's computer had a modem and everything but he didnt want to get into the net cuz some IT guy from work was a real paranoid and told him hackers were going to steal his documents.

That idiot also told him to "always buy Compaq, cuz those systems are great!". Big mistake...