Originally posted by stvy
haha! the best was the BING BING @0:13
This reminds me of before I had internet, when I would play doom or warcraft by having the modem dial the other player's phone number directly. I'd have to call them just before and remind them not to pick up the phone so the modem would kick in.
paulandrews
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Originally posted by Lira
I thought it was a person with his hands up. lol \o/
Me too, lol.
High five o/\o
SYSTEM-J
It was probably the Ask Jeeves search engine back in 1998. The school had a new computer room put in (having previously had Acorn computers from the late 80s that ran brilliant ultra-retro games) and we were allowed to browse the Internet during the dinner break. I remember there was a big book of URLs and we had to look up everything we wanted to visit in the book, because we had no concept of a search engine.
Eventually we figured out how to send emails and sent a lot of profane and abusive messages to as many sites as we could think of. The school was fined and we got in big trouble. Ah, the joys of being 10.
Excess
first website was definitely ask jeeves...couldn't tell you exactly what i asked that man though.
i remember everything in school was always banned/blocked by a proxy server. you could search for things on yahoo; but you could never click the links. lol
malek
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Originally posted by Cpt.Cocaine
This reminds me of before I had internet, when I would play doom or warcraft by having the modem dial the other player's phone number directly. I'd have to call them just before and remind them not to pick up the phone so the modem would kick in.
yes that!!
damn it was so prone to ups!!
Arbiter
no
bananas
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Originally posted by Arbiter
no
real Keyser Soze-esque input
woscar
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Originally posted by eowyn797
and i remember PowWow. i used it all the time until mIRC came around :)
:gsmile:
That program was the !
bananas
I just remembered my oldest email and it's still working [email protected] lolol:D
Silky Johnson
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Originally posted by eowyn797
altavista... whatever was the homepage for that horrible dial-up we first got in high school.
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It was probably the Ask Jeeves search engine back in 1998.
YES.
Then I found the REAL internet. mIRC, ICQ, Napster, and all those ty websites like something awful, etc.
We actually had a modem and a bare bones connection to the internet in 1994. My dad was a massive computer freak and HAD to find a way to be a part of the internet...I remember he spent many late nights trying to make it work.
I don't even remember what it looked like/how it functioned when he finally connected, I mean it wasn't even really the internet at that point...at least there were no dedicated service providers yet. And we only had a ty 386 DX40 running DOS. I do remember the start-up and menu screens though, lol.
