YE OLDE INTERNETE

150cc

So doggs... when did you first discover the internet?

When I was a kid back in the ancient days of 1992, we got a glorious service called PRODIGY, back in the olden days of BBS



It had this awesome game called MAD MAZE (IE ONLY, sux)

http://pages.prodigy.net/rdbrownmsb/MadMaze2/

I used to post on bulletin boards back in the olden days with my friends. We were old school forumers 15 years ago. Me and my grandpa would email back and forth. I miss him. He was a cool dude. He may have been almost 70 years old, but he was a gigantic nerd and always had the newest computers and the newest internet stuff. Whenever I'd go to his house when I was little I'd sit in his lap and we'd play old school video games.

He gave me my first ever computer game: SIM CITY





It used to be about a monthly fright as I'd think I'd lost that precious red page... only to discover it again in some corner where I'd put it.

150cc

username: SSG76B
password: homeschool

I remember this from 15 years ago

Goodness gracious

potatoe

i don't even know when i first went online

but i think it was through AOL, so not that far back

150cc

c:>

c:> cd\pga

c:\pga> golf

run golf.exe

potatoe

i always used nintendo for my passwords back then

FF

Global Village.


Been using a Mac that long.

Artreus

I uh.. I only remember something about PPP connections on my mac around.. 95? Same time Warcraft I was out.. just before II..

Centipede Damascus

I first discovered the Internet back in about 98 or so when my parents set up a subscription to AOL.

Man, I had a numbername and everything. The first messageboard I posted on was a messageboard for Pokemon. Man those are some memories.

150cc

Ah, the glorious old sound of hearing my modem dialing up the local line so that I could go to the Prodigy
Carmen Sandiego site and see what games I could play

I remember a moment fondly

My dad took me in and said LOOK AT THIS

ON THE INTERNET THEY CAN SEND PICTURES NOW, IT'S THIS THING CALLED JPEG

CHECK THIS OUT

Then he downloaded an amazingly lo-res and lo-quality picture of a kangaroo

wow

Obbi

I never got around to doing the Internet thing

potatoe

who was fucking the kangaroo?

Kazhiim

username: machwing

password: fart

my very first internets account, circa 1993, maybe? 1994, perhaps

Orestes

150cc wrote: »

Ah, the glorious old sound of hearing my modem dialing up the local line so that I could go to the Prodigy
Carmen Sandiego site and see what games I could play

I remember a moment fondly

My dad took me in and said LOOK AT THIS

ON THE INTERNET THEY CAN SEND PICTURES NOW, IT'S THIS THING CALLED JPEG

CHECK THIS OUT

Then he downloaded an amazingly lo-res and lo-quality picture of a kangaroo

wow

I bet it seemed awesome to you.

150cc

the kangaroo was boxing

:winky:

Randall_Flagg

when I was young my dad told me that computers could take your picture

he told me to smile at the computer monitor

and then he was all "oh! here comes your picture"

and he loaded up a picture of a monkey on the screen

150cc

Orestes wrote: »

150cc wrote: »

Ah, the glorious old sound of hearing my modem dialing up the local line so that I could go to the Prodigy
Carmen Sandiego site and see what games I could play

I remember a moment fondly

My dad took me in and said LOOK AT THIS

ON THE INTERNET THEY CAN SEND PICTURES NOW, IT'S THIS THING CALLED JPEG

CHECK THIS OUT

Then he downloaded an amazingly lo-res and lo-quality picture of a kangaroo

wow

I bet it seemed awesome to you.

Dang old orestes

This was when images were first being able to be sent by average users

DANG OLD NEGATIVE ORESTES ALL PRETENTIOUS AND SASSY

Anyway Orestes when this was happening you were maybe a one year old or something

Artreus

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

I first discovered the Internet back in about 98 or so when my parents set up a subscription to AOL.

Man, I had a numbername and everything. The first messageboard I posted on was a messageboard for Pokemon. Man those are some memories.

Oh man. Yeah.. when I first started really using the internet was around 98 I think. I went to.. pojo.com to look up pokemon information all the time. And then around 2000 I started playing Mechwarrior 3 hardcore on MSN gaming zone back when that was still around. It was so great. The community for that game was fantastic.

Also Quake II... all back on dial-up..

Orikaeshigitae

i remember watching porn slowly download on my dad's BBS when i was a kid

Orikaeshigitae

Randall_Flagg wrote: »

when I was young my dad told me that computers could take your picture

he told me to smile at the computer monitor

and then he was all "oh! here comes your picture"

and he loaded up a picture of a monkey on the screen

hahahhaa your dad is awesome

potatoe

randall

your dad is awesome

cj iwakura

My first experiences were on Freenet BBSs at libraries. Seflin Freenet.

I used to speak with Victor Ireland on the Working Designs/Lunar boards at alt.rec.games (or something).

These were orange-on-black days.

Blake T

I remember back when I had ICQ I had only 7 digits as my UIN.

That back in the day was a sign of rep.

Orikaeshigitae

BBSs in general were sweet, though

anyone remember Empire? that game was awesome

Orestes

150cc wrote: »

Orestes wrote: »

150cc wrote: »

Ah, the glorious old sound of hearing my modem dialing up the local line so that I could go to the Prodigy
Carmen Sandiego site and see what games I could play

I remember a moment fondly

My dad took me in and said LOOK AT THIS

ON THE INTERNET THEY CAN SEND PICTURES NOW, IT'S THIS THING CALLED JPEG

CHECK THIS OUT

Then he downloaded an amazingly lo-res and lo-quality picture of a kangaroo

wow

I bet it seemed awesome to you.

Dang old orestes

This was when images were first being able to be sent by average users

DANG OLD NEGATIVE ORESTES ALL PRETENTIOUS AND SASSY

Anyway Orestes when this was happening you were maybe a one year old or something

Two, actually.

I was busy playing NES.

150cc

randall that is the raddest

who here used to play games with their dad

there were times where we would be up until 3 Am working on "POOPVILLE" in Sim City

potatoe

i played a lot of atari with my dad

lots of seaquest and river raid

150cc

Man, I wanted an NES but I was not allowed to have one as a kid

Weird paradox: parents will let me play computer games for hours a day but are afraid that I will play "too much" if I get an NES

I had to go next door

Kazhiim

150cc wrote: »

randall that is the raddest

who here used to play games with their dad

there were times where we would be up until 3 Am working on "POOPVILLE" in Sim City

my dad was fucking rapesauce at Space Merchant, an old browser-based game

I could hardly muster myself up a good ship and he had whole solar systems

Dichotomy

I'm young and stupid enough that I don't remember finding the internet

like a strange, creepy uncle that's always been there, trying to get you alone in a dark place

World as Myth

remember when computer software came in huuuuge boxes

then they started making them in tiny boxes and I thought "well that makes a lot more sense actually"

150cc

Orestes, why do you hate me so

Orestes

150cc wrote: »

randall that is the raddest

who here used to play games with their dad

there were times where we would be up until 3 Am working on "POOPVILLE" in Sim City

Man, I would game with my dad so much.

We would play Super Mario after school everyday on our SNES.


After the N64 was released and FPS games came around, he kinda lost interest.

I feel bad for not gaming with him anymore.

Obbi

randall your dad was behind the times even then

I bet he had that happen to him like 5 minutes before he decided to try it on you

Orikaeshigitae

World as Myth wrote: »

remember when computer software came in huuuuge boxes

then they started making them in tiny boxes and I thought "well that makes a lot more sense actually"

i still miss those boxes

fun fact: i still have my deus ex box

t one fiddy: my dad got me into monkey island games and text adventures, and i am so glad he did

so glad

150cc

Man when I first got Riven I remember WOW

5 CDS

THIS GAME IS EPIC

and huge old box

That game's roller coaster thing was rad

I used to go from island to island just to go on those things over and over again

cj iwakura

My uncle was the reason I bought a computer.

He got me hooked on Doom.

Orikaeshigitae

150cc wrote: »

Man when I first got Riven I remember WOW

5 CDS

THIS GAME IS EPIC

and huge old box

That game's roller coaster thing was rad

I used to go from island to island just to go on those things over and over again

riven? dang, son

i remember begging my dad to buy Myst for $20

i finished it by myself, and that was the last time i ever played it

i still have it somewhere, next to 'the lost treasures of infocom'

Wallhitter

I played Myst and Riven with my dad.

I still remember that fucking rocketship keyboard puzzle.

And man, Riven blew my fucking mind. Even today the game looks so good.

THAT FUCKING ROCKETSHIP KEYBOARD PUZZLE

Also I really loved Command And Conquer, though I sucked greasy anus balls at it.

World as Myth

my mom got us this awesome lucasarts box set for christmas one year

it had indiana jones and the temple of atlantis, day of the tentacle, dark forces 2, x-wing, and TIE fighter

what I would not give to buy that set again

Kazhiim

first LAN I ever went to, I was like 6

and it was actually just my dad and his work buddies playing Marathon in our livingroom

good times as [Insert Name Here]

Zonugal

I joined the internet around maybe 7 years ago. My proudest achievement is having slef-taught myself DnD by only reading the DnD forums.

Proud indeed!