Remember The Internet In 1995? I Do

[Spindulik]

Oh yeah. I had full blown internet access in 1995 with my super fast 28.8 modem. A serious upgrade from the 1200 baud modem that I had.

I remember finding porn sites was a difficult challenge then. SPAM wasn't an issue then. Netscape was the ultimate browser. Popups weren't discovered yet.

Bulletin boards were still the craze, using special DOS style browsers.
Windows 95 "upgrade" (from Win 3.x) was $80.00

YAHOO was new. It was "THE" search engine.

No eBay then.

No Napster or P2P. If you found a file to download, it took ages to get, and most of the time, the website disappeared in a few days. Blank CDs cost $7.00 each. 2X CDROM burners were new.

Remember FREE internet, with those banners?

Historical internet. It would be interesting to find old websites and ads from then.
I have had many websites and e-mail addresses since then, but I still have one that is 7 years old.

[Virtualbody1234]

Yeah, I remember all that and even my 300 Baud modem for bulletin boards. :01:

[ZeroTolerance]

computers leaped in a higher level form than 8yrs ago ,just think about this we are in 2004 what would computer be at in 2012?

[[B][O][T]]

Harddrives ~750MB = SUPER good

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[Askjeevesbot]

Originally posted by [B][O][T]@7 February 2004 - 22:33
Harddrives ~750MB = SUPER good

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:lol:

[100%]

I didnt even know about inernet then
but i knew alot of other things

now
i know alot about internet
but not about other things

[h1]

I still own an Apple ][ and an Atari ST...

[Billy_Dean]

A couple of years ago l gave my old 286 to the local museum. 10mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 256k graphics, 300 modem, 14" monitor. It was my first "Super Computer" :)


:)

[Askjeevesbot]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@7 February 2004 - 23:49
A couple of years ago l gave my old 286 to the local museum. 10mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 256k graphics, 300 modem, 14" monitor. It was my first "Super Computer" :)


:)
:o this is my computer specs 1.79 ghz 256mb of ram 40 gb hard drive lol soon that will be considered trash

[Billy_Dean]

Originally posted by Askjeevesbot@8 February 2004 - 14:53
:o this is my computer specs 1.79 ghz 256mb of ram 40 gb hard drive lol soon that will be considered trash
That is trash RapDude, get rid of it now. :lol:


:)

[Askjeevesbot]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean+7 February 2004 - 23:55--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Billy_Dean @ 7 February 2004 - 23:55)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Askjeevesbot@8 February 2004 - 14:53
:o&nbsp; this is my computer specs 1.79 ghz 256mb of ram 40 gb hard drive lol soon that will be considered trash
That is trash RapDude, get rid of it now. :lol:


:) [/b][/quote]
<_< well what is your computer spcs.?

[Billy_Dean]

l&#39;ve got a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466N4 mobo with twin 2400&#39;s, 1 gig RAM, 21" Sony Monitor. And oodles of bits and pieces&#33; In a few years it will be in the museum with the rest of the dinosaurs.


;)

[Askjeevesbot]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@8 February 2004 - 00:19
l&#39;ve got a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466N4 mobo with twin 2400&#39;s, 1 gig RAM, 21" Sony Monitor. And oodles of bits and pieces&#33; In a few years it will be in the museum with the rest of the dinosaurs.


;)
Well not everyone has the money to buy that stuff

[Monkeee]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@8 February 2004 - 05:49
A couple of years ago l gave my old 286 to the local museum. 10mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 256k graphics, 300 modem, 14" monitor. It was my first "Super Computer" :)


:)
my gawd that computer is old&#33; can it even handle explorer? the mouse click n stuff instead of plain ol dos?

[Askjeevesbot]

Originally posted by Monkeee+8 February 2004 - 01:53--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Monkeee @ 8 February 2004 - 01:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Billy_Dean@8 February 2004 - 05:49
A couple of years ago l gave my old 286 to the local museum.&nbsp; 10mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 256k graphics, 300 modem, 14" monitor.&nbsp; It was my first "Super Computer"&nbsp; :)


:)
my gawd that computer is old&#33; can it even handle explorer? the mouse click n stuff instead of plain ol dos? [/b][/quote]
dos :lol: omg that old

[Nightwolf]

My first gateway to the internat was AOL ( :rolleyes: ) around &#39;94 - &#39;95, and even though my modem was 28.8, the highest speed I could connect at was 2600&#33; I spent the entire first night downloading AOL updates. I spent the second night searching for porn. ;)

[Billy_Dean]

Originally posted by Monkeee@8 February 2004 - 16:53
my gawd that computer is old&#33; can it even handle explorer? the mouse click n stuff instead of plain ol dos?
l put the original Windows on it, it came on two 360k floppies&#33; An XP full install is 1.3Gb, 3 thousand times bigger&#33; :)


:)

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

:D No I do not.Never used a Computer untell late 1997. :D

[bigboab]

I remember the old computers where you had to change the disk in order to carry out an Msdos command. I still have one of those old 286 computers in the house Billy. Twin disk drives. 3 and a half and 5 and a quarter. Was going to throw it out. But somehow kept hold of it. Museum piece Eh&#33; So Am I. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Yogi]

I still have my first one.

Commodore 64. :wub:

With the famous cassetteplayer&#33;&#33;&#33;

http://tihlde.org/~jorneh/images/c64.jpg



Yogi

[Keikan]

Funny huh? My computer was actually an performance pc at one time&#33; :blink:

[Alucard1475]

No, I don&#39;t. I had no internet at that time.

[Emdee]

I remember the glory days of 28.8k. My first internet access was through Compuserve with a browser called Mosaic which really sucked. <_<

[Spider_dude]

my first modem was a 7k. borrowed from a friend. we never had the internet till late, althought i grew up with computers. my first os was dos then windows 3.1
jp posted a pic yesterday of a portable computer, it was the exact same one my dad had. we used to play a game called rogue on it which you had to load manually. it had a black screen with green writing, it was cool. pity we chucked it out when we moved house 9 years ago it would probably be worth something now.

[DWk]

I started with the net at like 96-97. So I wouldn&#39;t remember internet in 1995.

[Skweeky]

Went online in 1998, and it was sooooo slooooooowwwww back then <_<

My first computer was a Tandy, with the memory inside the keyboard :lol:

[mikenmike0001]

i remember back then i was barely introduced to the net, they had some free shit called owow.com and i was using it....it was cool

i still had my spare, had a monitor in only green, dos only....those fat ass 6 inch wide floppy disks that hold like 50 kb or something, had a few games like kings quest and rampage, but some idiot spilled pepsi on one of them, and when i cleaned it it left a stain on teh soft part and wouldn&#39;t read.......fuckers&#33;&#33;

[NikkiD]

My first introduction to the internet wasn&#39;t until &#39;96 when I was taking a computer upgrading course (which was supposed to be 18 weeks long and I completed in 2 weeks and was subsequently hired by the company to teach).

Shortly thereafter I got my internet access at home, and very shortly thereafter was part of a pilot program for broadband in my area (probably early &#39;98 might even have been late &#39;97, but I can&#39;t remember now). I wasn&#39;t on dialup for long. :)

So in answer to your question... No... I don&#39;t remember the internet in 1995.

[JONNO_CELEBS]

Yes kind of, I knew it was there was a thing called internet, and email.

We had a phone hooked upto an old Arcamedies (spelling) at school, and could dial out to certain Ftp&#39;s I presume, we just got pages of text, never really did know what it was all about, I had my Spectrum +2 at home :D :D


(which was supposed to be 18 weeks long and I completed in 2 weeks and was subsequently hired by the company to teach).

Modest much??..........Or do you just read aboat it :P :lol: :lol:
Ain&#39;t she clever :)

Jonno B)

[Nightwolf]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that at that time AOL charged by the hour, and my first monthly bill was &#036;94. Needless to say I didn&#39;t stick with AOL very long.

[Joakim Agren]

Hello&#33;

This is my experience with computers:

-1990 I first touched a computer. It used Windows 2.0. I dont know the spec it had. You navigated trough a 3 colored menu and selected programs with the function keys it only had like 10 apps to choose from. One simple word processor,and a simple paint app and some learning tools like a math program and a grammar tool. This computer costed around &#036;7000 and because it was so expensive the school could not afford to buy enough of them to fill up a separate computer classroom. Instead one of those computers was placed in each class classroom from grade 4-6 a total of 9 class computers at a total cost of &#036;63000. My school was one of the first schools in Sweden to buy computers. I must say they where extremely expensive considered what they where used for the kids used them to teach math and grammar and then we used them to play simple games like solitaire card games.

-1991 My best friend bought a Commondore C64 computer and we used it to play games my fave game was a car game with Eddie Murphy I think it was a Hollywood Cop game.
-1992 I started in Junior High School and it was a newly built Junior High School so our grade(7) was the oldest students and becase it was new it was one of the first schools in Sweden to have a dedicated computer class room. Unfortunatelly the Compaq computers was constantly beeing hacked by some computer knowledgable students so our access to them became strictly confinded to lesson time. They had Windows 3.11 and we used them for word processing,painting, card gaming and also for simple database tasks in Excel. This year my Cousin also got Amiga 500 for Christmas and we used to play games with it.

-1995 I started in High School and by now they had mandatory computer courses but still no Internet training since it was hardly used in Sweden yeat and it was hard to find a ISP.

-1996 My School got Internet access and I first surfed the web. The browser used was Mosaic a Crappy browser that crashed all the time. The best and dominating search engine was Infoseek(largest index) and Yahoo(best quality and easy to find stuff). My fave was Infoseek&#33;. Most of the real world companys had not yeat found its way out on the Internet so it was still a very free anarkistic place with mostly personal web sites and virtualy no regulating laws not even distribution of child Porn had been outlawed in Sweden(it became Illegal in 1997). I used Internet mostly for mail(Hotmail which I still use),and fun surfing. In this very early history of the web people had a different user behaviour then they have now. Since the web was a very unexplored territory people really surfed the web and doing random searches just for fun and see what they would find
. Only a total of around 50000 websites existed. This year my best friend got his very first computer at home it was a Fujitsu Siemens and a 33.3Kbit/s Robotics modem it was a &#036;3000 computer. It was very expensive to search the web back then in Sweden the cost was about &#036;2 per hour.

-1997 My school swithed to another browser Netscape Navigator 2.0. It was slightly better by now the number of sites on the Internet had grown to around 100000 and some companys(beside the porn ones that where very early) started to discover the benefits of beeing on the web and gradualy over the years to come they started to regulate the web to a place that fitted their needs and due to their lobbying new laws came to be and the freedom of ordinary Internet users suffered from it. Later this years My School changed browser to netscape Communicator 2.0 a better version of Navigator with more built in functions such as a e-mail client. Netscape was still the king on the web&#33;. A new better search engine was also borned WebCrawler that was the first one to beat Infoseek and it became my new fave search engine.

-1998 Internet Explorer started to take some market shares from Netscape due to the fact that it was free. The number of webpages had increased to around 2000000. I was still using Netscape though&#33;. The new king amongst search engines was Altavista that was superiour and I started to use it. Google was founded but was still in its infancy. I designed my first website this year and I handcoded it in Angelfires webshell. This site was about an unusual topic that I for some strange reason is an expert on bodyheight and human growth. So if you have any questions about these subjects then I might be able to answer them. Due to its early nature it contains facts errors(I know more now) but it is still available on the web check it out:
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/agren/index.html

This year Napster was born(atleast I think so if I remember correctly)

-1999 Internet Explorer had won the battle and was now the new dominating browser&#33;. Google started to offer some serious competition to Altavista&#33;. This year I got my first home Computer an iMac DV Strawberry with a Powemac PC400MHz(the equvivalent to a Pentium 3 550MHz) processor 64Mb RAM,10GB ATA-66 5400RPM HD and a 66MHz systembus and a DVD player(the first consumer machine on the market with this function) and a 15" monitor. I payed &#036;1500 for it. And it was a great computer with a great design that I still have and sometimes uses. I have upgraded it to 320MB RAM and a 41GIG IBM ATA-100 HD. It has a 56Kbit/s moem and I thought it was very fast to surf on compared to my friends 33.3Kbit/ Robotics modem&#33;. The number of websites had grown to around 50000000. Gnutella started to grow as an alternative to Napster and LimeWire is now one of the oldest P2P client still in use

-2000 Google took over as the king search engine. The web had evolved to a very commecrial place and the so called fun surfing behaviour had almost died out and people had started to find their fave spots on the web and forums such as this started to become more and more popular. The web had evolved to a more community based experience. The number of pages had now grown to around 200000000(200 million). This year I got my first broadband connection a 512Kbit/s ADSL connection and it is the single largest revolution in my computer life as I started to use my computer twice as much and stayed online for 17 hours a day. The web became extremely fast compared to modem speed and P2P started to become actually usable.I started to use LimeWire for Gnutella and used it to download music.

-2001 Amount of webpages hit the 1 billion mark. more and more communitys started to grow up. More and more P2P options to the old Napster started to surface.

-2002 I got an even faster 2.5mbit/s broadband ADSL connection. Number of webpages hit the 2billion mark. Kazaa was the new dominating P2P client and Sharman Networks took over but I was still only using Gnutella and LimeWire since I was a Macintosh user and that was virtually the only p2p option for us Mac users.

-2003 Number of webpages hit the 3 billion mark. Life as P2P pirate started becoming dangerous since RIAA and their likes started to target individuals. Late this year I got my second computer the one that I am using now a Hp Pavilion A200.se with a Athlon XP2600+ processor and 80GB HD which I am happy with so far but will probably upgrade sometime this year(2004)

-2004 Number of webpages 3.3 billion. Late 2003 and early 2004 People and some P2P programmers are starting to take counter actions to protect their privacy against svine gestapo organisations like the RIAA.

-Future... Who knows what is to come but hopefully RIAA and their likes will not win the battle and hopefully we will be seeing fantastic speeds on the Internet in the future. I for sure would want a 10GB/s line for Christmas HEHE :D

[Keikan]

I had the internet in 1999 it was Sprint Canada...

[Smith]

i prefer not 2 remember :lol: