Oldest memory of the internet?

salazarcosplay · Oct 23, 2024

having a kids account so reading about planets, then visiting website pojo for dbz lore, and lore on upcoming gen 2, digimon series 2

sarkwalvein · Oct 24, 2024

mIRC, a lot of mIRC. And the /con/con shitty exploit.

I also remember reading about different BBSes in my PC magazines in the very early 90s. (not really Internet, but who cares)
Then I finally got a modem and used some of them that were still alive, this was probably 1996.

But long before that I remember using mIRC a lot in a place that was kind of an IT institute, but also had turned into something like an early Internet Cafe where plenty local nerds gathered.

retrospect · Oct 25, 2024

The web page for the SongBoy, which was an mp3 player for Game Boy.

LoggerMan · Oct 25, 2024

When I was a kid internet was new, for regular people. A radio station had a competition to win 60 minutes on the internet, on a coin operated machine in a department store, and our family called in and we won. I had all these websites I planned to visit, some ads on TV started putting website addresses on the bottom of the ads and I was intently curious what all this "internet" stuff was about. I was just a kid so I didn't understand, the machine was loaded up with 60 minutes and I was left at it. I had never used a GUI before, our computer at home was just DOS. The first thing I did was click the "x" in the corner of the window, a message come up saying the session has been ended. I was meant to be picked up 60 minutes later, but I was so distraught that I started crying and ran all the way home from the department store.

Maximumbeans · Oct 25, 2024

emigre said:
Using an internet free trial disk to browse thr internet for the first time with my sister. None of us had a clue in how to use it.

I was about 8 and had only limited use of computers but never the internet in my underfunded state school.

Mate I feel you. We didn't have proper internet in our house til I was about, what, 15/16?

Fien · Wednesday at 11:36 PM

I think it was in the earlier '00's, using Netmeeting with my dad. And playing games on the CartoonNetwork webpage using a dial-up connection. The games used the Macromedia Shockwave plugin which took a long time to download using dial-up (56k). And because internet access was paid per minute, I must load the games when connected and play them offline at a later moment after they where cached in Internet Explorer.

MetalheadedKermit · 2024-11-05T01:32:30+0000

Sonic.exe made me not sleep for at most years.

aoimatsuri · 2024-11-05T01:47:51+0000

Gbatmw and figuring out my gbamp basically

Cute lil.thing

SeventhSon7 · 2024-11-05T02:30:29+0000

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

impeeza · 2024-11-05T02:51:17+0000

Gopher!

CMDreamer · 2024-11-05T02:52:27+0000

Mine would be using a modem and the sound it made while trying to establish a connection.

I remember once I downloaded a 5 MB game demo, it took "barely" 43 minutes to finish downloading!

Also, no less important for me: Netscape Browser. I loved it!

Used to hate AOL with all my bones! Their free CD's were a pest everywhere!

lwiz · 2024-11-05T07:42:26+0000

Getting the algorithm and C implementation of CRC32 from usenet & public ftp server when somebody needed it on friends 0-day site. Using vt100 connected to mainframe and emailing the results to myself for transfer as the vt100's were a bit lacking on storage department...

Ricken · 2024-11-05T07:44:45+0000

It was a YouTube video. Markiplier, in particular.

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