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BobbyBrown06 |
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'95, AOL chat rooms...was da bomb!
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peppermintgum |
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My friends and I used to always go to Yahoo chat and make fun of the pagans and christians. This was way back in like 1998/99, when I only had internet at
school and I had to go to my friend's house, where her dad would always accidentally kick us off by using the telephone.
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NewOrleansIsSinking |
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we FINALLY got a local provider in 1994 and they had a bbs. How lame to be talking to people in your own town.
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SmrtAss |
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AOL chat after we got our first computer in 96.
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Lost Shaker of NaCl |
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AOL chats were entertaining back in the day.
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RoMa |
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I had a college service that included email, chat and college info linked to the PC in the dorm my first year in college (1992 eck!)
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CBRetriever |
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AOL trivia games here too
and a CBR board |
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EmmaPeel |
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The Well, Prodigy, lots of time in Compuserve cb chat...mirc, dalnet...etc
My mother bought one of the early 286 machines...she was an early adopter and we all fell in |
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Peachie Keene |
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I shudder when I remember back to some of those monthly Prodigy bills when it was $4.95 an HOUR to chat.
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Shorty |
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Yahoo Survivor forum. Online games that I'd just google and find to download.
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Lamont and Ray |
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Compuserve...1988 or 89? I was a freshman in high school. My grandfather worked for NASA and dealt with computers all day long. He told my parents they needed
to get us a computer because he didn't want stupid grandchildren tying to get around in a world run by computers. To this day, my grandfather is the
biggest computer nerd around, and he's in his 80s. I remember it being really expensive back then... like $20 an hour?? Maybe $10??
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Hamdingers |
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Usenet, Prodigy. I hacked NORAD and played Global Thermonuclear War. Shit like that.
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TravelRachel |
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AOL ACLU message boards 1995. You could curse it was not a TOS violation. Oh that hate that passed through those boards.
From reading this thread so many people had AOL, I bet most don't now. AOL really lost their market share. I remember a 200.00 + AOL bill one time. Fuckers. |
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IFY0USEEKATE |
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In 1996 I started in VP Chat. The only place to find adults was in the "sex chat" section. Back then, my hangout was Sex Chat 255. There was probably a group of 200 or so regulars that frequented the place. We had avatars and sound bites that
only registered people could see and hear. If you weren't registered, you were a MUG --- the lowest of low. MUGS were automatically given the "java
chat coffee mug" for their avatar. Since they were not registered, they could not see it, so they had no idea what a MUG was.
Man, those were some hilarious times. The MUGS would bounce in the room by chance and then try to "cyber." Oh the fun we had. VP Chat had a function where someone could open up a "tour" and a certain number of people could jump on the bus and we'd go hopping from room to room, terrorizing all the good people. It was all good times until it took a weird turn. People started hooking up into cyber couples. Cyber weddings, cyber funerals, and morphing of couple's nicknames. I thought it was all in good fun until I discovered that some of these women took these cyber relationships literally. Those were some whacked bitches! After that I was out of there. Oh how I miss the MUGS though. |
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Tres Gay |
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Bitnet in 1986
then nothing until AOL in 1996. I was depressed at the time and let AOL take over my life. I broke free only after meeting Foo in a chat room. I <3 Foo. |
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Zzunk |
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Something called PeaceNet, circa 1986. Also, PMUG (Portland Mac Users Group). That's when Wordstar and Symphony ruled the PC software market (although I
was using MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw and Talking Moose).
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memyselfand1 |
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Didnt AOL originally charge like $2.00 a minute? I knew people who had like $1500.00 bills, plus their phone bill
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rolandofthewhite |
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Yahoo Chat, telling all the babes I was 19.
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NewOrleansIsSinking |
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I had an $800 bill once.
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Mister Peepers |
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I had a backdoor into a university VAX back in 1985. Then I got AOL in '95. I think my highest AOL bill was $80. I soon found a local ISP that offered
unlimited dial-up for $12/month. Back in '96 that was a big deal.
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