kinda quiet today in here...

[tom502]

I "think" I 1st got online in... maybe 97, 96? I had a WebTV.

[Veganpunk]

Hell, even just a few months ago online is old news now. The superinformation highway only has fast lanes.

[mlkramer]

I'd get drunk and mess with them on Compuserve or Prodigy.

And the porn came in so slowwww.....forehead....eyes....nose......in 20 minutes I'll get to see boobs! hehe

[Veganpunk]

I'd get drunk and mess with them on Compuserve or Prodigy.

And the porn came in so slowwww.....forehead....eyes....nose......in 20 minutes I'll get to see boobs! hehe

lol, yea god bless high speed!!

[justintempler]

I use giganews on a regular basis for tv and movies. You can't beat the download speed of usenet and there is no worrying about pesky lawsuits for filesharing. I remember when it was mostly for news/chat. Kind of like when MTV was about music.

I logged on to the the net in 1997, mIRC, 14.4 k modems and Packard Hell :roll:

[sagedil]

I beat you. first modem was 2400. I got a 14.4 as a birthday present from my father-in-law right after I showed up in town, was the best birthday present I ever had. LOL

Giganews is good too, I just am an Easynews fan. I am not patient enough to get TV off usenet. I am a bittorent fan for that.

Will ONLY use usent to get mp3's though, just too hot to do otherwise.

I discovered usenet in 95, found the alt.drug groups. was a year later when I learned about warez. Was in a software vendor forum on AOL (The first Bryce for Windows). The first version sold was so bad, simply didn't work, and we had to wait a couple of months to get the fix, so was hanging out on the vendor forum a bunch. Someone posted a question that made it clear they had gotten an unreleased alpha version, and the company rep went on to bitch about the "warez" world. Huge mistake he made :lol:

I went on to become about as addictive about warez as I am about snus now. Literally, had millions of dollars of software I never used collected and neatly labeled. I even had a copy of a Japanese word processing program that only worked in Japanese Windows 95. But when someone asked, and I was able to provide, thought I was just the total bomb :wink:

Found MP3's within 2 weeks of the mp3 format's invention. But Napster brought too much attention to copyright issues. And eventually, found a usenet group to DL music videos, and went that direction. At least I watched the music videos I collected.

Ah, the days. I still have every message I ever posted. Will be funny one day to go back and see what I wrote 20 years ago

[ctimb2002]

Yes my child. A whole amazing world where you ahd to use the phone to call a particular site.

for those too young to remember....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Ok I gotta comment to this one. Back in the *cough* Day...My dad was working in IT and to keep my occupied when i went with him to work he had a phonelist of BBS numbers that were actually games. God I used to spend hours inside a cubicle playing that stuff. Ahh memories...Something about a dragon that was drawn out of colourful X's and O's and I's lol god if I could only find a screenshot of that. Of course then came along something evil called Yahoo and I.M.ing and I never looked back.

[Redbeard]

Dude, BBS's had the first online games. I was quite fond of Legend of the Red Dragon and TradeWars 2002.