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[Belwarrior]

Make me feel like a newbie here. Since 2001, thought it was like 1999? I wasn't even on the web in 1993.

My memory is messed up 😅 i did my Polytechnic studies twice, first in 1993 and went back again in 1999 so it should be nearer to 1999 as around that time i was helping my Polytechnic friend from 1993 batch (hence my memory is jumbled up a bit) with issues with his Matrox Millennium II and the solution that worked was in MURC and i was lurking from then and joined in late 2000. My sincere apologies

BTW in 1993 we had BBSes around the world and it was kinda like the web, just a tad slower, you can finish your breakfast before a jpg of Raquel Welch finishes loading up.

[VJ]

It is amazing how time passes... Just the other day, Facebook reminded me of a post where I announced I was moving to Spain for two years. That was back in 2016...
I've already worked longer in Poland than I did in Belgium... And so many things just feel the same... Weird...

I remember the dial-up times... My first home internet was via my father's computer (he had 4 computers in a Novell network for a small business, three of those were diskless computers that booted dos via a remote boot), and I actually had a long coax network cable to connect to his network (two floors down), which had a 9600 baud modem. Later we moved and then I had a phone-line which allowed me my direct connection at 56K! I still have the modem (and use it in lessons to demonstrate communication with devices: students are often surprised that you send commands to a device and it responds or changes a state). For the demonstration it does not matter if it is a modem on rs232 or an inverter on rs485: the idea is the same. Sad thing is that I cannot fully demonstrate it any more as we do not have telephone connections at work (everything is IP based) and I haven't bothered with wiring up some simulation device - but I can demonstrate enough (I can make the leds change status, make it beep, dial and return stored numbers). Still, I'm still amazed by the fact that I know have a 300 Mbit fibre-optic connection, and that is the lowest offering of my provider.

[Delany]

I hadn't been here for a couple of months and seeing I always started at forums.murc.ws I was beginning to panic until I realised that murc.ws was always there as the starting point...Whilst we are getting nostalgic, I registered back in 1996 when I bought my first PC, A Pentium 150 with an 8MB Matrox Millennium 2D Card....hardly ever posted, as you can tell from my post count but I was here pretty much every day until probably 7-8 years ago and then the checking became less and less and then kinda stopped until I remember that I hadn't done it for a while. This place was the home of my internet family for so long it's not funny. It's nice to see that there are still a lot of names that come back here every now and then

[Umfriend]

BTW in 1993 we had BBSes around the world and it was kinda like the web, just a tad slower

Yeah, I just did not have the money to use dial-up seriously when in high-school (so until 1987 when BBSses where already around for some years), especially abroad. And when I got a bit of money I didn't have the time (work, gf, study) and it was still way expensive. I got cable internet, a whopping 1.5Mb/128Kb/s down/up in end 1997 (was it 1997, I am pretty sure it was, early adopter) which was a life-safer. Sure, it was expensive but never on a meter and thus cheaper.
Delany, same, though I check here more often than you do I think.

[VJ]

Interesting... I remember that in Belgium there was an internet provider "tijd.be", related to a weekly business magazine, that offered free numbers for internet dial-up. So that made using internet quite cheap, but you needed the equipment at home and you needed to manage to dial in. I even had my first email with them, and I remember at one point using my Psion 5mx connected via irda to a mobile phone to achieve a dial-up (this was more expensive, but I needed mail access urgent).
My parents got faster internet somewhere around 2000, I never got fast internet in my flat when I was living near the university (after studying) as I had 24h access to the labs and my own computer there; I felt internet was too expensive and for a long while I managed without internet, until I got a cheap 3G connection. My first fixed internet connection was in Poland...

[TransformX]

Today I have finally emerged out of the bronze age of ADSL and ascended to fiber optic internet.
Oh and my first Matrox was a Millenium sometime in 1996.

[Dr Mordrid]

ON THE PC I started with a Mystique and ran all the way through the RT cards. I'd been using Amigas before that, and still have some working ones.

The kids have grown and started families, a grandson is courting some hussy who wants to reel him in (she's actually quite nice, studying geology), and we are in Cruise mode.

[Umfriend]

Man, I wish I still had the A1000 (that was actually my brothers').

[Dr Mordrid]

I had several Amigas ranging from the 500 to the 4000, too equipped with Video Toasters, I believe today you can run AmigOS as a layer in Windoze, iOS, and Linux.