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  • #16
    hehehehe...if you include BBS...1985. Sufing the BBS system on my friends Apple IIe.

    Jammrock

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    • #17
      Lessee, I guess I got online about 1996, cos I was working for my local cable co at the time and had free access at work. (And we had cable TV in every office too )
      *Sigh* I'll never forget that year. 4-1 against the Dutch...and loosing to the Germans on penalties *again*.
      Still, at least Man U paid them back in the 1999 Champions League final. They are good for something I guess.
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      • #18
        That Amstrad, was it the 1640 or the 1512 (I had the 1640) and did your pc slow down when the clock batteries went flat?

        Dan
        Juu nin to iro


        English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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        • #19
          1982 or 1983, my parents bought the then "brand new, just released, we only have one in the store" Apple IIe.

          Came with a 300bps modem. Wow, that was fun. Those were the days. Waiting until bedtime to queue up a bunch of file downloads on a BBS.

          Stayed at the BBS game through an Amiga and my first homebuilt PC as well as Macs until I hit college... and had a permanent modem/terminal link to the Internet.

          And then suddenly, in 1991/1992, the Web was born. Woo! Hatemail (our early name for HTML, which wasn't a programming language but everyone thought it was and we CS geeks couldn't understand why) 1.0, man.

          I've been online via modem ever since.

          - Gurm

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          If only life were as easy as you
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          • #20
            I first went on line in 1994, before what I think was the first commercial browser, Internet in a Box, came out. I was confronted with a UNIX interface, which, frankly, was a shock to my liberal arts sensibilities. I'd make a typo, hit the backspace button and characters would pop up in the command line. Gopher? Archie? I had no idea what the hell was going on.

            Paul
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