Your earliest Internet memories

getting a Netlink and joining the Netlink Elite Crew. Basically played Bomberman, V-On and DUke Nukem all day.

Internet usage was too much so my mom eventually had to get a second phone line to recieve calls. So then we connected to 2 internet connections at a time, LOL
 
Messing around on AOL back in... 1993?

We had an Apple IIe from the early 80's until 1995 so I didn't get to do anything online at home until then. Still, spending endless summer nights playing Warcraft II and Duke 3d one on one over a modem against my friend across town was incredible.
 
1997, my friend gave me his cousin's dial-up login so that I could get online for the first time.

Watching gamefaqs.com grow to what it is today.

Probably best times on the net back then was getting up during summer vacation to play You Don't Know Jack the Netshow.
 
Ah this thread reminds of that good ol dial up connection sound. My first memories of getting on the intenet was in junior high using netscape to look up information for reports. My first fond memory was at my best friends house. His dad had just bought a new Dell and signed up for MSN. We spent a good part of the evening taking turns chatting in the Gamepro chatrooms.
 
93 or 94 BBS's in computer science class in seventh or eighth grade. I spent most of my study halls in the computer lab browsing the bbs.

I got a phone number for a local bbs and would connect to it late at night after my mom went to sleep and my dad was at work.

We didn't have unlimited local calling so I ran up the phone bill and got the wrath of my parents.

My first online game I played was Warcraft II with a friend on the other side of town. Good times :) After that it was Duke Nukem 3D and Rise of the Triad the first game I played with someone across the USA was Quake.

Shortly after I was playing Quake regularly online, my dad finally got an extra phone line and the internet. I remember switching back and forth between Netscape and Internet Explorer because certain sites would load better than others.

I also found out quickly how to cover my tracks so no one knew the sites I visited. During the day it was chat rooms and the occasional video game site. I used to be a huge fan mIRC it was also the first place I found out about newsgroups, ftp servers and mp3s. My love for music that was not on MTV and commercial radio also came from the IRC chat rooms.

It was also how I got links to porn sites and web cams. The great thing was IRC and newsgroups always found out stuff quicker than other places. For example I knew about Napster well before any of my peers at school. I was very well known as the computer geek at my school and there were rumors of "hacks" I did, some true others greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, geek was not chic like it is now so I was not very popular.

I was stuck on dial up until I moved out in 2001 and finally got a cable modem. Finally, I could stream movies and download stuff so much faster. Not to mention I could play PC games online without so much lag.
 
I remember visiting the computer lab when I first got to university in 1991 and spending about 1/2 hour visiting random newsgroups and being bored with the whole command line interaction.

A couple of years later (late '93ish) I was in class with a guy who was proselytizing about the internet and how it would revolutionize industry and culture and I just thought back to my experience and figured he was out to lunch and that there was no way the internet would ever be popular with the masses.

In a way, I was right. However, in another much larger way I was a complete idiot.

Oh, and anyone old enough to remember bulletin board systems and modems rated in baud speed should know that BBS ≠ Internet.
 
[quote name='Mafia']1997, my friend gave me his cousin's dial-up login so that I could get online for the first time.

Watching gamefaqs.com grow to what it is today.

Probably best times on the net back then was getting up during summer vacation to play You Don't Know Jack the Netshow.[/QUOTE]


i remember what igno used to be like when it first started. i spent crazy hours on that site especially abck when they were previewing robotech crystal dreams for n64. damn shame they never released the game. maybe nintendo will get crazy and bring it back as a 3ds title.
 
Reading Spiderman comics through the AOL webpage. At that age i didn't know about websites so after reading the comics i would just log off and wait for a week.
 
1996-97, I somehow discovered emulation and frequently searched for ROMs on sites like The Dump, EmulationExcitement and others like it.

It was awesome (and still is) to play NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, games on my PC, but what really blew me away was MAME and the ability to play arcade games at home.
 
[quote name='Indigo_Streetlight']Going on Gamefaqs for walkthroughs circa 1998-1999. It seemed pretty novel then, getting near-complete homebrew guides for free.[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, then there was happypuppy.com which was more just cheat codes but which I believe is now defunct. I still remember always wanting to get the newest GamePro so I could get the cheat codes. Now the internet makes those cheat codes so readily available that they aren't as interesting anymore. Back in the day though, cheat codes were awesome.
 
[quote name='mr_burnzz']
A friend and I would have cyber sex with older women all the time. It was some really good stuff. I would've probably fapped if I was alone.. Anyways, at the end, we would reveal ourselves to be 14 and 15 year olds and just read the reactions. Alot of it made me cringe and it just felt awkward as hell but we just kept doing it to numerous women. Good times..?[/QUOTE]

In hindsight, probably not really "older women" you guys were talking to :whistle2:#
 
I remember happypuppy, I think I used to get PC demos from then. Then sites wanted to start charging for access to demos, and that really sucked. Looking at you fileplanet.
 
Using Netscape Navigator at the library to look up ECW news and wrestlers' real names. When I finally got the internet at home, I used AOL at the end of 2000 to go up in chatrooms and such.
 
[quote name='QiG']In hindsight, probably not really "older women" you guys were talking to :whistle2:#[/QUOTE]

9 times out of 10 it's a guy in prison that got an hour in the computer room for good behavior.
 
Wow I guess I arrived late to the party. My parents refused to get a pc so I didn't get one until late 99 after I had moved out. Remember playing the heck out of Worms 2 and getting ranked pretty high on the BNG Cases ladder
 
Prodigy, back in the mid 90's. Looking for video game codes and moves. I remember being part of some lame Mega Man X club. My first online handle was Zero. I was so cool.
 
[quote name='Rodimus']Prodigy, back in the mid 90's. Looking for video game codes and moves. I remember being part of some lame Mega Man X club. My first online handle was Zero. I was so cool.[/QUOTE]

Since my first PC was a HP from Sears I started on Prodigy. Played some 3-d first person maze game that had riddles you had to answer.
 
I remember back around 1998-1999ish I started using dial-up and thinking the internet was the best thing ever. I can't ever go back to that though.
 
Registering for classes on the network at college in 1993. Also a bit later playing Battletech and Neverwinter Nights on AOL.
 
[quote name='eldergamer']Since my first PC was a HP from Sears I started on Prodigy. Played some 3-d first person maze game that had riddles you had to answer.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I seeing ads for that. I always wanted to play but my parents wouldn't pay for it.
 
First time I used the internet was back in 1996 during my freshman year at college. The first sites I remember were Geocities and Chathouse. Chathouse was really popular on campus and was pretty much a slow, clunky, HTML version of an instant messenger.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219122523/http://chathouse.com/

I think that site is dead now as I haven't been able to get in, but back in the day it was one of the most popular sites on the net.
 
1990- At college I remember chatting with friends at other schools around the country. It was mind blowing at the time.

But 1994 with AOL is when I really started to get online regularly.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Chathouse was really popular on campus and was pretty much a slow, clunky, HTML version of an instant messenger.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219122523/http://chathouse.com/

I think that site is dead now as I haven't been able to get in, but back in the day it was one of the most popular sites on the net.[/QUOTE]

I remember Chathouse very very well, I used to hang out there and on IRC when not playing games on my pc.
 
[quote name='Gentlegamer']1996-97, I somehow discovered emulation and frequently searched for ROMs on sites like The Dump, EmulationExcitement and others like it.

It was awesome (and still is) to play NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, games on my PC, but what really blew me away was MAME and the ability to play arcade games at home.[/QUOTE]

That's a good one. I loved all the emulator stuff when I discovered it and remember futzing around with NESticle, ZSNES, and Genecyst trying to get my Sidewinder pad to work with them...but the MAME thing fucking blew me away. I flipped out at being able to play shit like arcade Punch-Out!!, for free, on my PC. The first time I fired up TMNT and saw the intro I couldn't believe it. I remember bothering the shit out of some nerdy friends while trying to figure out how to set it up/use it. Later on I got a frontend but at the time I was just using the command prompt and the keyboard to control it. Didn't care, still was amazed.
 
Back in 96 I think, parents got a computer. Lots of gamefaqs, and various shockwave games. I remember my younger brother coming into my room at 2am to do some various neopets quests too haha, those that you can do like every 12 hours or something. Remember browsing a lot of geocities too, looking for everything from music to anime fan sites.
 
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