The early days of the internet (1995-2001)

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I got on the net around '90-'91, had to dial in long-distance to a telecommunications company in NYC. I was around 11, and without any books, instruction, help, or even advice, learned how to use a UNIX shell, download source code, debug, and compile it just so I could do things like get on usenet & irc.
Fun times.

The earliest I can remember is playing games for hours on Cartoon Network in my parents' room. Good times.

HELL!
Ill tell ya what I miss!

I miss this very spanking new 2015 model Dell computer that I am using at this very moment!! !!
I miss its early childhood you might say.

I miss it because it came with Windows 8 when I bought it 8 months ago, and I made the mistake of taking up the invitation to download Windows 10 a coupla months after I bought it.

Then yesterday I learned from the Geeks that I can't run certain pieces of software that I was eager to get because they dont run on Windows ten, but they DO run on Apple, or on Windows 7, or on........Windows 8!


@#%!

Semicolon did it. Not me.

You know the mods have said over and over again they don't care about necroposting and nor does Alex for that matter.

Take a chill pill, its a good topic with the other thread about the 2000s.

Anyway I was rocking a 400 Mhz AMD K6-II at this time or at least my brother was but I used it and it was awesome. Windows 95 ran great and games ran decent enough though I remember Star Wars Jedi Outcast lagged on out side environments but it was still playable and that game was released after 2002.

Sorry, everyone. New to the forum.

I will say this; I have used a broadband connection since 2000, and I haven't looked back since.

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i miss the free usenet.

One of the first things I downloaded to a dot matrix printer from the internet using a dial up modem took me 8hrs and I still only got half the image

I miss the feeling that the internet was the start of something awesome and exciting and genuinely new. I miss the sound of my 56k modem dialing up. I miss that it belonged to me, not my parents or sisters or most of the other kids at school. I miss getting yelled at by my parents when they went to use the phone and got an earful of static. I miss that it was my playground, not my workplace.

Would I trade all that for my 100mb fibre connection? Would I? Maybe it's best I don't get to have that choice.

First got on the internet in 1999, at school. Windows 98. I was really impressed by the technology. I do like the old school windows design lookin back now, the aesthetics, its pure nostalgia.

Part of me misses the Digital dumb terminals with the monochrome screen and text based interface we had when we got 'net access in my Uni days, not to mention 2400 baud dialup and the salivating sound you get from hearing it do it's handshake when calling in from home. Commercial ISPs didn't even exist in the regional town I grew up in then. ARPANET provided the Uni's connection via private link to Brisbane which would have cost a motza back then.

I cut my teeth in the days of the Commie 64 and 286 with basic token ring networking.

Now I've got a very high speed connection at home, on my phone and on my iPad with always on connection everywhere I go. Nostalgic to think about, but would I want to go back to those days - nope!