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Posts: 1440 (06/27/08 4:39 AM) Registered User |
Feb 1988 I had three regular haunts. A dialup message board called The Anarchy Zone. Next was an INC Courier pirate board (416) The Jolly Roger. And a (716)
INC board called Plutonium Mines.
Then later in 1989 to '93 I was a WWIV and WWIVnet dev fan and TradeWars addict, so I ran a few boards decent sized boards.
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Posts: 34454 (06/27/08 4:45 AM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
How did you guys find out about it back in the 80's??
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MsJones4 |
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Posts: 2853 (06/27/08 4:52 AM) Registered User |
Al Gores Basement
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1441 (06/27/08 4:57 AM) Registered User |
I played with an Apple II (i think) in 1981 in middle school (some rich patron of the school brought them in to show us)
In 1982/3 to 1985 I played with Commodore Vic 20s in High School. I was limited to 20 minutes of time a week. My bud was at University of Toronto and his hobby was computers... he used to tear apart a couple at his night shift job in 1987 and we'd screw around with them without the geeks knowing. He sold me my used 286/10 Lunchbox (big ass portable) in February 1988 with a Samsung 14" EGA monitor and a ATI EGA Wonder Card all for $1600, I was online within 30 minutes. Fucking crack cocaine. |
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Mister Slippery |
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Interesting how we are seeing several clear cases of pre-WWW internet community use but no body has called out why so many early users have that near ten year
gap between their early non web use and AOL (or similar) .
The BBS movement as well as USENET actually precedes the internet. It all started on modems. I had a talent with modems back in the day and as an admin I could squeeze every bit of performance out of them there was to be had. The cloud of internetworks hereafter called "The Internet" started happening in earnest around 1983 although It's seeds were planted in the Military an a few Universitys much earlier. "News" and "Notes" were my first exposure to this stuff, and right out the gate I was running the (local) show. I was a Sys Admin at HP and I was also a "News Admin" there taking care of HPDA which was a major hub of USENET. Somewhere in the early ninetys Tim Berners Lees World Wide Web came along and within months of it's public introduction ate up about 90% of all internet traffic. At the Time I was working at Autodesk in the advanced technology group and we were working closely with project Xanadu ( THE Ted Nelson Xanadu for those who know what that is). |
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Hamdingers |
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Posts: 9370 (06/27/08 6:47 AM) |
Yeah, that's nice. Can you just let me know when my router's installed, Geek Squad Guy? Thanks.
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ScruffyGuy |
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Posts: 8215 (06/27/08 6:49 AM) Registered User |
The BBS movement as well as USENET actually precedes the internet. The Bear's Den BBS, San Diego, dial-up. About three hours to download a scanned GIF at long-distance rates... and it didn't even include any DICK! Today's internet gives you so much more pornography for your dollar. |
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Posts: 6199 (06/27/08 6:53 AM) Hi, you two!!! : ) : ) |
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Posts: 3226 (06/27/08 7:06 AM) Registered loser
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I don't know if you could call it hanging out on the internet when I first started. To navigate it you had to know some unix. Like Slip my messageboard experience pre-dates the internet (at least the internet we know today). I ran a politically based messageboard which is funny cuz now I avoid politics on messageboards like the plague. As a sysop I was able to connect my board to other boards by a network of hubs and spokes. Each board connected to a hub. A hub connected to other hubs. And the messages flowed. It was a slow process because everything happened late at night when the long distance rates were less. But it worked and we thought it was grand. |
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hossc |
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Posts: 16356 (06/27/08 7:14 AM) Registered User |
Lamont and Ray wrote: If I were yourGramps I would have opted for sweet release years ago.
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kinghouseplant |
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Posts: 4450 (06/27/08 7:19 AM) Registered user |
Yahoo Spades
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Apprentice Talker |
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Posts: 5398 (06/27/08 7:21 AM) WRP Official Spokesperson |
I was first registered a social network called Friendster which my country people had only 9.7 million profiles in 2004.
Yahoo Messenger - I first saw YM on a computer shop when I was in first year college (2004, when I was 18). I first used internet after my high school graduation four years ago.
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Kimbob the Magnificent |
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Posts: 4664 (06/27/08 7:28 AM) Yes, smarter than you |
I sent my first email in the early 80s when I worked at Ungermann-Bass, which was one of the first networking companies. Then I was at sun micro which had a
hell of a WAN, including our own internal BBS with users all over the world, and access to others via arpanet and UUnet. From there it was dial-in BBS (using
those old modems where the phone receiver sat on the cradle), mostly piratey kind of stuff because it was so easy to get software (mostly games, but for a
while adobe and others had framemaker and other programs just SITTING there on servers waiting to be downloaded) and the pirate boards had tons of reg codes
and pass crackers and mucho fun stuff. Then USENET OMG IT WAS AMAZING!
DEFCON!!!! SPOT THE FED!!!!! FREE KEVIN MITNICK! Gah - he runs a computer security company now LOL. I had my first home computer (apple IIe) in about 80, 81? But I didn't get access to the outside from home until like 1989. Until then it was all from work. Nobody was monitoring, life was fun. We all worked a lot of overtime, LOL. You kids have it so easy. But you really don't have the same fun we did. Kimbob the Sitting in Her Rocker Reminiscing |
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Posts: 16972 (06/27/08 7:31 AM) |
NewOrleansIsSinking wrote: I was there as well. I didn't pop on that much... ETA: My company had internet access. I used the backdoor to log on secretly and therefore access chat rooms for free. If someone else beat you to it, you couldn't log on 
Lead to a mainstream isp provider, found chat rooms, did the poster meets, etc. Back then they had a club rate to keep bills down. Some addicted chatters had phone bills of $800 or more since they had to dial in LD. Then they did away with club rates, jacked up the cost, and everyone fled to IRC, AOL, etc. I also had Prodigy early 90s. Tried using the lame "jump" feature to hop around. I found it unwieldy. AOL I passed on. Major meat market.. How R U? MORF? RUMorF? ick..
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1443 (06/27/08 7:38 AM) Registered User |
If you built your own boxes, or had access to a phone box - you had no LD dial up charges.
I prolly stole $100,000 to $250,000 in LD charges. Guys like Capt Crunch (John Draper) were my geek heroes.
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Posts: 12426 (06/27/08 7:42 AM) Registered user |
Prodigy, Yahoo chat rooms.....circa 1996.
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Mister Slippery |
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Jakob Speed wrote: I worked with Crunch (John Draper) at Autodesk. The man had no skillz whatsoever, total fraud. I set up a SUN machine for him to take home and use to telecommute.
All he had to do was plug it and turn it on, and he managed to fuck that up. For realz!
His single talent was that he was a pitbull about getting other people to do his work for him. Usually those "others" were teenage boys whom he lusted after.
He also has bad BO. |
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SmrtAss |
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Posts: 3129 (06/27/08 9:28 AM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
Is there good BO?
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Shag |
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Posts: 5431 (06/27/08 9:28 AM) Still OT Forum Dominator
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I love my OT daddy.
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Penelope McBagpipe |
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Posts: 3060 (06/27/08 9:31 AM) Geenyus extraordinaire
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Sucks and a couple of the splinters are the only only only sites I've ever chatted on.
I just came here to get Survivor spoilers back in the day. |
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