Your first experiences on the net? (110)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-01 22:02 ID:dMpTA6vh

Mine were going to websites to find out about Pokemon cheats. There were at least A THOUSAND pokemon fansites out there, and any one that had a sidebar was considered the cream of the crop.

2 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 01:21 ID:Heaven

porn.com

3 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 03:08 ID:FlLmV03L

Mine was mainly downloading Doom patches, and uploading speed run recordings.

4 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 06:19 ID:Heaven

Playboy and Fravia RE tutorials.

5 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 07:42 ID:iw/dhMh9

playing DeltaForce: Landwarrior online... <3

6 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 12:01 ID:kdo6AD6n

when i was ten, my dad loaded up our old win 95 comp and got us on the net with compuserver, i was also told that there was no such thing as .co.uk
i pretty much just rolled around looking for cool stuff, but it was pretty boring

7 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 12:03 ID:kdo6AD6n

when i was ten, my dad loaded up our old win 95 comp and got us on the net with compuserver, i was also told that there was no such thing as .co.uk
i pretty much just rolled around looking for cool stuff, but it was pretty boring

8 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 12:05 ID:kdo6AD6n

when i was ten, my dad loaded up our old win 95 comp and got us on the net with compuserver, i was also told that there was no such thing as .co.uk
i pretty much just rolled around looking for cool stuff, but it was pretty boring

9 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 14:08 ID:tkfP62HA

i don't remember what sites i visited the first time but i remember that yahoo, especially yahoo chat had a serious impact on me.

10 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 18:55 ID:386qLNDC

my first site was yahoo.com- before the days of google

11 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-02 23:20 ID:k2pK3Vpr

Netscape, Geocities, Websites full of blinking text and animated gifs and embedded midi music, Personal Fanboy Webpage ( full of useless stolen content, naturally), chat rooms with manual refresh, WareZ and AppZ and CrAcKz, Proto-Leetspeak with extended ASCII characters, FUCKING AOL!!

12 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-03 11:36 ID:9DPNk6fQ

I remember somehow downloading some shit that made pictures of scat and corpses float around my screen - I was absolutely horrified

13 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-03 16:13 ID:W4421pob

Neopets.

Cheats for games.

AIM.

14 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-03 22:53 ID:NiW5pDO2

usenet, irc, and ftp were the only ways to do things when I started using the nets.

15 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-03 23:29 ID:k2pK3Vpr

>>12
Oh, Schadenfreude.
How I miss thee.

16 Name: anon : 2007-10-04 01:02 ID:3yXkc3eb

hamster dance...before it got so famous with different hamsters and stuff. i remember when it was just a page with several hamsters on it....dancing...

17 Name: Anonymous : 2007-10-04 07:27 ID:yDr9g7Jt

>>14
Seriously? If there was IRC, I'm pretty sure there would have been web too.

Myself: Used to call lots of BBSes. Got a shell account with a tiny local ISP. (First contact with UNIX too.) So what I first used was stuff that could be used with a terminal program -- mostly email and FTP. And Gopher. Oh, Gopher. Also WWW, via lynx, and later IRC.

Downloading files was a two-step procedure, first getting the files to the shell account, then using "sz" to get them on my computer, through the goodness that was/is Zmodem.

Eventually I managed to get a TCP/IP stack running locally, but used some NAT-like not-quite-IP proxies before that. Must have been a couple of months before I even had a web browser running locally...

18 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-04 15:21 ID:EmX6xP8H

I got my ass right on irc and sat and talked bollocks with other Amiga users.......................on a 33.6 modem, on an amiga 600. Hardcore.

19 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-04 18:34 ID:k2pK3Vpr

20 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-04 20:03 ID:m3ta21LF

We got the internet sometime in 1995, but I don't really remember what I did with it beyond stuff related to video games. I used Yahoo! chat once or twice, but sadly never happened upon camwhores. I missed out.

Later in 2002 or smth I became heavily involved in some animu forum, though little time actually discussing animu, as it's rather hard to torrent on dialup.

21 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-04 20:28 ID:PfgABbSQ

looking for Final Fantasy summoning images and printing them...
on google image, so I guess that's not very old

22 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-04 21:37 ID:w8ZYq4zi

Nick.com

23 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 01:49 ID:5gkoSUZv

>>1
I was the same way, but funnily enough it was not until years later that I found the Mew cheat.

24 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 05:24 ID:hUtBEipP

I remember when Yahoo had almost nothing on it and a graphic representation of a baby for "what's new".

ahh... far away times...

25 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 06:58 ID:cTwjb11+

Downloading DOS games, text porn, and playing on MUDs. I think at the time Yahoo just had a list of categories under the search bar. Dialing in to local BBSes listed in the local computer free papers. Downloading with Zmodem and scanning for viruses with F-Prot. By the time I got a fast enough computer to use graphic browsers every site was trying to be a "portal" and launching its own two-bit email service.

26 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 19:36 ID:w8ZYq4zi

My very first time on the Internet was in grade school, back when visiting a WWE or what ever site was a real big "no-no".

27 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 21:04 ID:xwRVX8Pm

ha, anipike just came to my mind. I should go to check if it still exists.

28 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-05 22:46 ID:pryW11Cj

gamefaqs.com

29 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-06 05:55 ID:oNOC8wb1

playing sonic games on ZZT

30 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-06 22:55 ID:c4pVimhF

>>25

>text porn

like, ASCII porn, or erotica? if it's the former, how the hell could you get off to that? wouldn't just using your mind be more effective?

31 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-07 17:54 ID:k2pK3Vpr

>>30

I suppose some children were deprived, not being able to steal real porn from their father/brother/uncle

32 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-11 14:35 ID:A6wBlGa2

july 1992, 2400 baud modem + local freenet + hax + irc rfc = fun times

33 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-11 20:13 ID:6fZyhHoW

I first accessed Internet through a text-only terminal connected to something called a VMS system. That was in 1994 or 95 I think. Those weren't computers, just a screen and a keyboard and modem hardware. It was slow, ugly (gray monochrome screen, text only) and pretty damn confusing to use. I used it to browse Yahoo.com and I remember I was searching for rules on how to play card solitaire games. :) Now if that's not nerdy enough for you - I did this in high school library. Über-NERD - that was me...

34 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-12 01:43 ID:iObtTcOq

I was into The Nutcracker at the time... so I was looking up the ballet, then I got bored and turned it off never to go back on for a month or so... then I chatted on IRC and became addicted to that and hoarding Sailor Moon pictures and making Geocities websites... ah 1999, good times. XD

35 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-12 05:52 ID:v7vGjBJb

Downloading roms, reading up on video game cheats, and writing bastard fanfictions.

36 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-12 19:08 ID:k2pK3Vpr

Smack talk about my 14.4 from a 28.8 user.

37 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-12 21:17 ID:0zdRZ2P9

One of the first things I did was spend a ton of time on sega.com's web-based chatrooms. It was very simple, you got to choose a SEGA-based avatar, and people loved to make hyperlinks with JavaScript to change the page's colors when you moused over them.

38 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-13 12:27 ID:JDhuyp24

Geocities, Yahoo, web sites about cats and fucking WinSock.

39 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-14 02:41 ID:kPWtA8eL

This one SNES rom site, then from there totl.net and brunching and some other humor sites. Good stuff.

40 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-16 03:07 ID:Heaven

>>32
/me is surprised no one noticed...

> july 1992, 2400 baud modem + local freenet + hax + irc rfc = fun times

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/text/rfc1459.txt

> May 1993

unless of course the hax involved time travel...

41 Name: Anonymous : 2007-10-16 23:09 ID:yDr9g7Jt

>>40

> "The IRC protocol was developed over the last 4 years [...]"

Standards usually come long after the implementation. I'd like to know what >>32 really meant by "hax + irc rfc" though.

42 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-16 23:13 ID:5xE+o7W4

My first experiance with the internet was tooling around AOL and trying to figure out how to download the Duke Nukem side scroller demo.
I was like, seven.

43 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-17 07:33 ID:4qtgYPOa

searching for boobies on yahoo.com

44 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-18 03:37 ID:9c6UIG0l

>>43 was such a promising lad.

45 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-20 04:22 ID:tHHEgB8R

>>41
the local freenet provided access to email and usenet and a couple other services through a shitty text menu interface.
the hax was escaping from the text menu interface to a shell so i could use telnet to connect to irc.

i often made up shit in 1992 and said it was from the irc rfc, and some of it actually is in the rfc.

46 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-20 08:23 ID:MvPpvytB

telix

47 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-21 00:28 ID:ho3EAxgl

Looking for Lemmings passwords with my Dad's work computer.

48 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-22 03:02 ID:MowLwsZE

playing Megarace all day in 94-95

when i got my first comp. in like 98, i joined the gamewinners forums and posted there

49 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-10-22 07:06 ID:lxKI/NOC

>>1
Same here, I was trying to figure out how to push that fucking truck.

50 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-02 11:27 ID:mjfPlvda

back there in early 90's... PORN SITES... i was looking at them randomly from ad banners...

51 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-02 14:20 ID:7uV9XL/S

Looking up sailor moon fansites

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53 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-05 19:20 ID:rQbEqNUm

>>52
why?

54 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-05 20:00 ID:jHN4XhMj

My first experience was just searching for something random via a search engine, I don't remember which one it was, but it was definitely not Google. I just remember that the layout was horrible.

55 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-06 11:40 ID:Heaven

Hey, my Pokemon red/blue site had a sidebar. It was the only site at the time detailing the maths behind the game in English, long before the current crop which make it really easy to find out anything.

56 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-08 16:57 ID:U5tz2jJn

leeching other people resource for psGames cheat code

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58 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-09 10:12 ID:dg2BROvI

porn

59 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-09 23:09 ID:E4pMiubL

I'd have to say going to GameFaqs is probably one of my earliest internet uses.

Aside from that, I played Graal Online (essentially a Legend of Zelda: LttP MMO) starting about 1998/9, maybe.

60 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-09 23:12 ID:Heaven

>>59
If that sounds exciting or cool to anyone, btw, I think it's completely pay2play now. I quit after they started that shit.

61 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-10 17:39 ID:QlSZt5nB

I think my first experience was talking in an AOL chat room at a friend's house. They had AOL, and it was pretty cool.

62 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-14 05:58 ID:+cAg9ChS

Mine was at school searching the net on Alta Vista and Yahoo, and Google didn't even exist.

63 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-18 22:47 ID:ZdumVZGN

>>36

Funny, mine was talking smack to a 14.4 user, saying my 28.8 was superior.

64 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-19 04:37 ID:Az95P1TY

TRADE WARS 2002

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66 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-19 18:23 ID:pUMxLYyZ

Dancing baby and Dragonball Z text based RPGs soon after ;-;

67 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-25 23:01 ID:lFBYUtY+

Looking for... Pictures of airplanes on the internet as a ten year old, and being shocked at the amount of porn.

68 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-26 05:27 ID:Dc3IYtEf

spam and junk.

69 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-26 09:54 ID:a/AYsbwv

My first experience on the net was seeing various cheap graphics on various websites(Pokemon fansites mostly) and thinking "I could do that!", and then proceeding to make a website. I was obsessed with Choose Your Own Adventure books at the time, so I made a whole Choose Your Own Adventure scenario as a website, working mostly in notepad. I was a very geeky child.

70 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-26 14:55 ID:+ylFtMJR

>>69

Link to the site.

71 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-27 10:04 ID:Heaven

>>69

Link, or it doesn't exist.

72 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-27 12:55 ID:fKuFQEJ2

Searching for Diddy Kong Racing and other N64 game information, IIRC.

73 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-28 00:58 ID:B1wK1qMU

>>72
same!
only mine was Mario Kart 64 (better game, obv)

74 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-29 18:43 ID:vOFSctd2

I can remember having AOL for a few months back in the day, then dropping them for a local ISP and playing TF on Quake.

75 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-30 15:36 ID:keB8lNGv

AOL in the Mid 1990s and on IRC, Mostly hanging out in the ZZT-MZX community and making terrible adventure games.

76 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-11-30 23:02 ID:/kMI1mvB

Looking up Dragon Ball Z plot summaries and pictures, since it was before the decided to dub all of it.

77 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-02 16:31 ID:Heaven

getting onto IRC through a proxy on GE's old dialup service (GEnie).

78 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-03 01:46 ID:4fsMxcDm

I started off with IRC. Some otaku IRC chat that's probably dead now.

79 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-15 14:30 ID:UeZN69+F

Working my way through retro snes roms :)

80 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-18 12:36 ID:Heaven

it makes me sad that there are people who don't know what the internet was like before 1993.

81 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-22 03:03 ID:8ktv2oTR

>>80

  1. In 1993 I was 7 and starting out on the long path to geekdom by coding games on a computer liberated from a school.
  2. I know and appreciate what the internet was like before then from accounts by others, but sometimes wish I had been born earlier so I could have experienced it for myself.

In short, Help! I'm trapped in the existence of a newfag.

82 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-22 03:58 ID:Heaven

>>80
Get used to this feeling. That's how it is when you get older; young people keep coming. Also, substitute anything in the world for "the internet".

83 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-23 05:06 ID:Heaven

>>81
In 1993 I was 8 and using my dad's password (post-it notes stuck on the bottom of the keyboard can have really useful information on them) to dial in to the university he was teaching at and get on the internet.

84 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-25 09:28 ID:Heaven

going to cheat code central for SNES cheats, waaaay back when it first opened ... can't remember for which games.

85 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-26 03:25 ID:miECh45u

dialing into various boards via compuserve. dialing into their tex-based Dungeon game, which cost $$ per minute.

86 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-27 02:09 ID:achvJNpv

AOL

87 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-27 14:54 ID:8StaFHaY

Trading warez on various BBS

88 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-12-30 15:32 ID:SQLWxOTg

AOL Chatrooms.
Looking for user submitted cheats on supercheats.com

89 Name: bobby hill : 2007-12-31 21:50 ID:0EWqVdro

playing muds, a space ghost one, yes it was a bbs code game.

90 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-02 03:23 ID:jGOiHrg7

My first online experience: calling BBSes when I was 9 years old with a 300 baud modem I got for Christmas. There were a lot of BBSes, and I was confused about why the ones with the most child-themed names turned out to be adult only, like "The Toy Box"

My first Internet-related experience was a BBS that had Usenet feeds coming in. I'd read the Usenet Oracle mostly, and this gave me a feel for net culture before I had net access.

My first Internet access was from the local community college. I actually got to submit questions and answer questions with the Usenet Oracle, and even got some of my questions and answers posted as Oracularities.

91 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-03 09:13 ID:k4JUrPbS

Late bloomer here. Got internet access in 2002, lots of Kournikova pics, matrix fan pages, random crap, using IE's own search function for a while (ugh) and Kazaa.

92 Name: 500 - Internal Server Error : 2008-01-13 00:35 ID:F3iAuNQv

I remember using Windows 95 and Netscape v2 in middle school. Even then I could sense that IE was trouble. I messed around with the school network, screwing up the printer system and setting a virus in the schoolwide T: drive. I wouldn't discover teh pr0nz until much later though.

93 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-14 08:15 ID:EM8MLOjH

Online: Prodigy and Compuserve. 7ish yrs old, on a 286/386(ish). Can't even rem what I did with it at the time. Just sort of poked around.

Prodigy Internet. 9ish yrs old, on a brand spanking new 486, saying "There's no way in hell this is going to work. It's all flashing gifs and crappy search engines that crawl...no content."

94 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-15 04:58 ID:Heaven

>>93
There's a lesson there for the jaded Anonymouses who dismiss new things now.

95 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-17 06:22 ID:Tvea9YFY

MSN Chat was the anime ghetto of the cyberverse and I was a highly-decorated, chat-fight picking kickass Megaman original character out to save the world from whatever the RP flavor of the day was and knock heads with school-RP douchebags and space pirate fuckoffs that dared to slight me. YEAAHHHH!!!!

I soon realized that this was quite possibly the stupidest possible way to spend my time and promptly quit. That was about ten years ago.

96 Name: slack : 2008-01-23 20:45 ID:d5Wl890E

seeing a girl shit on a guys chest from some BBS back in the day. Once I saw that i knew the internet was for me

97 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-24 22:06 ID:gdkXE8XQ

Hacking into the NASA mainframe on my Commodore 64. Ah, good times, good times.

(No, not really.)

98 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-01-27 00:41 ID:0T/9l9LJ

>>97
Woah, I did the same thing.
Only mine was a MSAI 8080 and I hacked NORAD.
Turns out the only winning move is not to play.

99 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-08-13 06:39 ID:HPlM7az4

gamefaqs
fuck yeah!!

100 Name: »Propmin« : 2009-08-23 08:35 ID:huq9ggXF

>>98
winnar

101 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-08-30 05:36 ID:9w704Mij

Looking at NASA website.

My friend and I in middle school used to skip lunch to browse the internet at our school's computer lab

Actually, I remember using the internet even sooner in 5th grade. The first web browser I used, Netscape! I don't remember what I browsed though.

102 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-01 09:48 ID:aPWB+KZy

Late bloomer - Win98 system, online activities consisted of chatting on a RP/Gaming community by the company 3DO, IRC downloadz, building craptastic websites.

>>101
Astronyomy picture of the day was great back in the days.

103 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-03 10:01 ID:aCima3ig

got internet back in 98, 99 maybe, i cannot remember. was what, 9 or 10.
use to use google to search for things, nothing specific, never used any forums or anything. Just anything I was interested in the time I would look up. lota science shit.

The first time I used a chat room was in 2006.

I don't use any of that stuff now. All i do is browse chans as anon.

104 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-06 08:53 ID:QbcyielU

> I don't use any of that stuff now. All i do is browse chans as anon.

Amen. That's the point of the internet.

105 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-08 16:28 ID:86ubLJwQ

First I remember was hanging out in the "Boys Only" chatroom on Prodigy, and raging at the fact that girls went there (I didn't understand why yet, lolol). After that came pokemon RP on AOL 3.0 (15 hours free!!!! omomgomomgomgomg), then EverQuest, then IRC.

My earliest site was a crappy video game link site. Then I had a Pokemon website (it even had a sidebar! Also had a MIDI that played in the background, that you could select.)

106 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-13 14:18 ID:jMWIT2CV

Fucked around in the late nineties as a kid, started growing some balls with the use of IRC and stuff, eventually found Something Awful and eventually followed the draft of the Internet until meeting a funny guy named moot and his website 4chan.

My father was in the chat room where the Soviet Union coup attempt was unveiled to the rest of the world. Pretty hardcore stuff if you ask me.

107 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-14 22:55 ID:Uyc1Utj+

Pokemon cheats, and Neopets.

108 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-17 07:51 ID:JbCBKLvJ

Using Netscape to search for Monkey Island walkthroughs with Altavista. Waiting for an hour to download a tiny video from the intro of Worms. Finding random chatrooms and just talking shit.

109 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-17 10:30 ID:98KRobhq

Another youngin' here, learned my way through the internet first from Digimon fan sites (whatever shit i needed for pokemon i'd just use a strategy guide because it never occurred to me that online walkthroughs existed) and DBZ spoilers or whatever sites on a 56k modem in 2001.

110 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-09-20 01:10 ID:NwMnTZTo

>>8
judging from your posting ability i assume this was last year?

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