your first time on the internet

[longbedGTs]

When was it and what did you think?

Hmmm, it was early '97 when I first got 'online'. I didnt know much about anything(still dont for that matter :welcome: ) so I typed in 'Chat' in the search bar. I think the homepage was Excite because I dont remember anything else being the first webpage I saw. It had news tidbits, weather, horoscopes, ect...

Anyway, I find the chat program called 'Excites Virtual Places'. I logged in as a guest. I get in there and think its the coolest thing. People just yucking it up! After a few days of repeatedly going back there, I notice everyone is always talking about Cartman, Kenny, Kyle, Stan and everybody else. I honestly thought it was just some peoples names that were in the chat room. Soooo, a few months go by with me not knowing who the heck these people are. I FINALLY catch the 'cartoon'. Dude, theyre talking about these guys! South Park! Yeah, Im slow. :P
So, after that I registered with a screen name and that was my new home online. Then, late 2001 came and a company called 'Halsoft' bought out Excite or something like that. Anyway, Halsoft changed Virtual Places into the most lame, stupid, boring place Ive been. Most everybody(all the regulars) left after that and never came back. I called it quits shortly after Halsoft took over.
So...thats my first 'interneting' experiece.
Share yours? No, not the first time you had cybersex! :banned:

[SYKO]

LOL, man! me and my wife (at the time) got a comp in 2000 or so, and we got surfsouth enternet, it cost like 70 beans a month for dial up!!! well I didnt even use the comp or internet till late 2001, and it was mostly lowrider related, then when we split, I didnt have a comp again till 2003 when I got me a lap top for my business, and my girlfriend at the time hooked up high speed in my shop, then it was on!!! now due to my Job, I HAVE to have the internet, and I can honestly say Im on here 8+ hrs a day!!! but alot of you guys do alot more than me, I jsut hang out at a few of my favorites, here, break,comsumptionjunction,atv florida, ebay,craiglist, gamestop, animie epsodes, manga mart, google video, and stuff like that, I am proud to say that im not a member of any porn sites, lol.:naughty:

[firefirefire90]

Your into that anime crap huh? LOL...I have a LOT OF .gif's like the one in your sig that you would be interested in LOL.

[SYKO]

man I cant get enough of that stuff!! hell Im to the point now where I know parts of the language!!! lol!! oh I got mucho grande' amounts of animie gifs/pics but the more the marrier!!

[250rAL]

I didn't get on until '01. I'd been telling my kids I'd never have a computer because I had no use for it and I wasn't going to get one just because everbody else was. Then I got on the internet at the library and realized just how much information was out there. This site and .org were two of the sites I visited that first time. Now the internet is such a big part of my everyday life, I can't believe it's only been five years.

[ATC crazy]

I cant remember back that far... :lol:

[crackshot]

I have been on net since 93. Back then there were 2 services. Compuserve and Prodigy. We also used to hit all the BBS's around town here.

[oldsking86]

AOL 2.5 was when I first got internet lol dont remember the eyar but AOL 2.5! geesh :lol:

[New2ATC]

It was around 99 or 2000 when we got our computer hooked up with internet. My sister and I would spend alot of time in chat rooms,and browsing the interweb..My sister still talks to the first few people she met online,and now one of them is her boyfriend too.. I think thats pretty cool.. And since then I know that I cant live without the internet. So many helpful things and forums like here,Independant racing,and club cav are a few.. I dont know what I would have done without these web sites..

[Dammit!]

http://members.cox.net/dnotter2/first_time.jpg

[XTrumpX]

'88. Back then it was known as Usenet, all Unix based, no graphics :(

[Billy Golightly]

Man I can't even remember exactly when we got the internet, I think it was around 97 or 98. I had a local friend at the time that had internet access for a while and he told me about some sites like www.country.com which at the time was the website for the channel "TNN" which was like a sister company/channel of CMT the music channel. Anyways they had some pretty neat stuff on there, message boards, java chat rooms about hunting, trucks, info about the latest songs and music, etc. It wasn't to long after that I found out about a site called www.gamesages.com back when I was big into console gaming and I hung out on their UBB message board a ton, I think I was like 11 or 12 at the time. I found ebay right around this same time through that forum and I registered an account all the way back then :lol: Then I found www.atving.com /ATV Connection in probably mid '99 and hung out on their chatroom a lot and thats where I "met" ThreeWheelio and found out about his site. I had an 82 Big Red 200E at the time, been here ever since.

[russell56443]

I guess it was around 97 or so,I remember I bought a new P2 350mhz AMD with 128 ram with a 4 gig HD and thought it was the baddest thing out there lol!!!!

[Huffa]

Think it was around 02 for me. We had dial up at the time and my wife would always sign me in as I knew nothing about internet, computers, dial up.....zilch, not one thing.

She went away one day and I was real anxious to go on and not knowing what I was doing I somehow got it to try and log me on, it made all kinds of strange noises and I thought I broke the computer, I quick shut it down and went out of the room and waited till she came home to sign me in.

[troy]

Think it was around 02 for me. We had dial up at the time and my wife would always sign me in as I knew nothing about internet, computers, dial up.....zilch, not one thing.

She went away one day and I was real anxious to go on and not knowing what I was doing I somehow got it to try and log me on, it made all kinds of strange noises and I thought I broke the computer, I quick shut it down and went out of the room and waited till she came home to sign me in.



LOL...Ah yes good old dail up...I laughed the first time i got it, making them funny noises, that was about 2001. Right now i'm on high speed but going back to dail up because i don't really use the internet as much as i use to. also i'm paying for a service i'm not getting:twisted:

[theonlyjosh]

wow it must of been 98-2000 somewhere in there... i remember i was like the only one without a comp than we bought a top of line one... in like 02... so ya we must have had the net since 2000... anyways... now the top of line one is crap haha.

[traxxasx]

the fisrt time was in 98 when windows 98 came out i eas playing all these tacky stupid virus infected games all day long till the puter took a crap on me and back then i dident know why.

[03 ORANGE SHEE]

2000 for me, i still have to adjust the rabbit ears every time i go to get online:lol:

[ChrisD]

It was the late 80's for me. When were bored, we used to use the dial up modem to crank call people. My Stepfather was a technogeek at the time. We had Compuserve. It was pretty dumb, but we thought it was funny at the time.

I got back into it in the early 90's while in college. It was still UNIX based, no graphics, etc. I thought it sucked. I took HTML classes at the time.....should have stuck with it.....then in the late 90's I got online again to find out that HTML caught on and the net was way more fun.....shortly after, I met Tim Warburton while looking for a short track tank kit....and have been with 3WW ever since.

[Dave223]

I dont remember what year I got on but it must have been around 96-97 cuz alot of people didnt have windows 95 yet, most were still using 3.1? I believe..I remember that we bought a top-of-the-line comp and it had a 33.6 modem, we were burning up the phone lines at 2-3 kbs! I downloaded Adobe photoshop one day(and night) from a Warez site (remember when they were all over the net?), it took me 27 hours straight!
My first time on the net was to d/l "7th Sphere" so I could join MIRC and chat. Anyone remember IRC? Back then you could flood and nuke people. We used to be so into it, there was even a meet and greet in kansas for everyone in "wasteland" (our channel).

I wonder if anyone still goes into IRC?

I do remember that our hard drive was big at the time..1.2 gig! I filled it so fast that I went out and bought an IOmega Zip Drive. And I had my comp upgraded before it shipped, to 32Megs of ram! Back then, there were very few videos. Mostly I remember lots of porn sites and Warez..and it seemed as though EVERYONE had a "homepage". Hacking and phreaking was big back then, so was typing L1K3 Th1s, god I still hate that. Dave

[longbedGTs]

Hacking and phreaking was big back then, so was typing L1K3 Th1s, god I still hate that. Dave

3WW l33t h4x0rz 0wnz j00! :lol:
'Wincrash' was a cool program. :naughty:

[XTrumpX]

I wonder if anyone still goes into IRC?

I do remember that our hard drive was big at the time..1.2 gig! And I had my comp upgraded before it shipped, to 32Megs of ram! Back then, there were very few videos.
Wow, you were lucky. Other then my Vic20, 64 and apple IIe, my first comp was a 386dx33 with a 40 meg drive and 4meg ram! My first cycle game was Stunt Cycle... remember that one? That's where you jump over barrels...LOL

As for MIRC, that's where all the warez have went to recently.

[Chevy200s]

Wow, you were lucky. Other then my Vic20, 64 and apple IIe, my first comp was a 386dx33 with a 40 meg drive and 4meg ram! My first cycle game was Stunt Cycle... remember that one? That's where you jump over barrels...LOL

As for MIRC, that's where all the warez have went to recently.

Haha, yup, I've got some even older out in the barn. IBM AT's, XT's, and PC's, 8086, the old Timex ones, IBM 286s, ahh the oldies. As far as old games goes, I had Chopper 2, Zaxxon, Street Rod 1 & 2, and of course Wolfenstien 3d:w00t:

[XTrumpX]

Haha, yup, I've got some even older out in the barn. IBM AT's, XT's, and PC's, 8086, the old Timex ones, IBM 286s, ahh the oldies. As far as old games goes, I had Chopper 2, Zaxxon, Street Rod 1 & 2, and of course Wolfenstien 3d:w00t:
Some of those that you mention were made before you were born! Timex? Almost as bad as the TI!

[random-strike]

a long time ago

[bigredhead]

Archie and Veronica Search.. " Google of the time " .. that pretty much sums it up.. hooked ever since.

[Billy Golightly]

Who remembers when Altavista was the top search engine? Or when Yahoo's search was powered by Google? Netscape Navigator:lol:? Or the chat program ICQ? I still have my UIN memorized.

[Chevy200s]

Some of those that you mention were made before you were born! Timex? Almost as bad as the TI!

haha, I know right. Forgot about the Texas Instruments, haha, I think we have one of those too. My dad kinda acquired a bunch of them over the years when he used to work on them. yeah so as soon as vintage computing takes off I'm gonna be all set, haha:lol: :crazy:

[Dave223]

Who remembers when Altavista was the top search engine? Or when Yahoo's search was powered by Google? Netscape Navigator:lol:? Or the chat program ICQ? I still have my UIN memorized.

Ummm...I STILL have Altavista as my startup page when I open up Firefox.Its what I used to find this site along with the other site...and up until firefox, I still used Netscape, and my desktop had ICQ up until last year! myself along with my Mother and brother used ICQ until earlier this year.

On another note..what irc servers are best to find warez, Dalnet, IRCnet?

[crackshot]

undernet here. MIRC

[350Xhilaration]

You'd be surprised how many people's PCs use IRC...or at least connect back to them to carry out their zombie orders...:lol:

I think it must have been in 1995-ish. My bro bought an HP Pentium 133 with a 1.2GB drive and 16MB RAM. He upped the memory to a whopping 96MB and upped the proc to a 200 a year or so later. Total cost over $3,000 :eek:

Got my own pc in 97 and spent many a night til morning playing Age of Empires & Motocross Madness on the "Zone". That Voodoo3 was pumping out the polygons!!!

Now I don't think I have one single game loaded on my PC(s).

[scooterroo]

aol original, not aol 2.0, original aol, i believe i was even running windows 3.1 at the time. win95 had not even come out yet. long time ago, hahahahaha.

[troy]

aol original, not aol 2.0, original aol, i believe i was even running windows 3.1 at the time. win95 had not even come out yet. long time ago, hahahahaha.


good old windows 3.11 how can we forget. i had lots of fun with version. Then old hell was released with windows 95. THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. every time i try doing some thing there it was, and the illegal operation..

[longbedGTs]

Those were the days...

[Kilborg]

I can remember looking at some of the old bbs boards in the late 80's though it didnt hold my interest much.

In the early 90's I remember playing Doom over services like DWANGO and just went from there.

[tanks350x]

I was a late bloomer, this is my first computer, got it in 2004. It came with aol 5.0 I think.. that is since long gone.. Damn, i was 32 when i got this thing

[The Goat]

I think it was 94 or so...first thing I looked up was game cheats...the second thing was porn. lol...never looked back.

[longbedGTs]

Yeah, I remember when my uncle got Windows 95. He had a Nascar game on there I used to play the hell out of. Also, Chuck Yeagers flight. I think his ISP was ATT but the browser was Netscape. Having to sit through the various chirping and buzzing sound before getting online...I have those sounds memorized!

[WaimakRydah]

I think we got our first one in 98 or 99 it was windows 98 and a compaq pc. Im using the speakers from it right now as i cant find the plug for our new ones. We still have dial up. We got this pc in 2006 which is on xp. On our first pc we had netscape navigator then eventually it disappeared (i think dad deleted it) and internet explorer took over. I remember dad always being on altavista or whatever it was called.