Oldest memory of the internet?

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

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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?
 

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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.
 

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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!
 

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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...
 
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Ooooh, this topic was made for me. My family had AOL in the 90's, so I can tell you about the modem noises, the "Welcome" and "You've Got Mail" guy, etc.

The internet was flooded with fan pages. Doom.com used to take you to a blank-ish page that said, "If you're looking for information on the popular video game Doom, you've come to the wrong place." (something like that) In fact, the internet was more wild west, so personal sites were the draws. You needed to know the .com address for a time, but there was a search engine boom resulting in Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, and the usual suspects.

It's weird thinking about how personal the internet used to be. These days, you can't put a web search in without getting results for the big guys. It used to be the opposite, with guest books to sign, empty message boards to find, and funny rants from 13 year old's to read.
 

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I know we got some users that actually watched it go from nothing to what it is now. For me I'd say the days of yahoo messenger rooms and flooding people with chat room bots breaking connections. Fun times.


Best one is probably young like 3-year old me just watching videos on youtube.
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I know we got some users that actually watched it go from nothing to what it is now. For me I'd say the days of yahoo messenger rooms and flooding people with chat room bots breaking connections. Fun times.


also another one of mine is that every morning in my moms classroom at school i had to boot up google meet on a windows 7 computer. to be honest, back then was actually goot times.
(No, I am not little timmy born in 2019.)
 

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I remember coming home to play club penguin. I also had a friend introduce me to "an Untitled Story" by madeline makes games and I spent hours just looking around her website and playing her games. I was fascinated because I also had a copy of game maker installed on my familys computer and I really wanted to learn how to make games.
 

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Trying to connect to AOL, hearing the horrific dial tone, while AIM makes its door opening/shutting notification racket alongside it, loading for a solid 5 minutes, only to get entirely booted off because my mom got a phone call.
 

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