Remember when?

Evil Chris · 08-03-2004, 11:18 AM

Remember when...

You could register domains with internic, and not have to pay for them for the first three months?

YNOT was the only webmaster board around?

You accessed the information superhighway with a SLIP connection on a 14.4 modem?

add your own...

B O B · 08-03-2004, 12:36 PM

Ahhh the simple days....

i was also about 30lbs lighter...LOL

Panky · 08-03-2004, 01:13 PM

LOL @ Bob!

People were addicted to BBS and newsgroups.

Commodore 64's were popular.

yanik · 08-03-2004, 05:54 PM

I think i wasnt online at that time :P

I registered my first domain in 1998, had no choice to pass by networksolutions.com 70$ for 2 years.

I had no CC so i was obliged to send a money order...

Now i pay them 8$/yr hehe

Ounique · 08-03-2004, 07:13 PM

My first exposure to the internet was WebTV! LOL!!!

Don Soporno · 08-03-2004, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by yanik
I think i wasnt online at that time :P

I registered my first domain in 1998, had no choice to pass by networksolutions.com 70$ for 2 years.

I had no CC so i was obliged to send a money order...

Now i pay them 8$/yr hehe

get out of my head

yanik · 08-03-2004, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Don Soporno
get out of my head

You mean?

tina · 08-04-2004, 06:28 AM

i was at the university then and i remember internet wasnt so commercialised and i used to surf without seeing a pop up or hundreds of adversiting banners in every portal i visited...

good days...

Sarah_MaxCash · 08-04-2004, 07:42 AM

yes but then I also remember surfing and BBS with a 1200 modem and being one of the faster ones.

The other day I was talking to some friends about the days when I knew every BBW site (porn and otherwise) on the web because there really weren't that many. Considering the BBW community was one of the first to take advantage of the web (and the 'net..there were a bunch of BBW BBS's) that must mean I have been on the web WAY too long.

08-04-2004, 08:39 AM

Hi Chris,

I remember the 14k modem, I had to phone to connent to someones pc.

Then in 94 I was connecting with a 28k modem for AUD$4 per HR. But first was more interested in polar bears and started gocities websites for fun and interest. Did many other sort of sites eg; tropical fish, black bears and even a site on the planets and space.. Warez sites, music and movie sites. All before 96-97 I think before I became interested in porn online.

Always have been interested in how the interest works and I don't know what I would be doing today if there wasnt such a network.

I still get a rush turning on the pc each day.
I am and have been hooked on this information super highway for years and find great pleasure in reading new things.

Have a great day!

Quote:

Originally posted by Evil Chris
Remember when...

You could register domains with internic, and not have to pay for them for the first three months?

YNOT was the only webmaster board around?

You accessed the information superhighway with a SLIP connection on a 14.4 modem?

add your own...

Gruntled · 08-04-2004, 10:41 AM

Reminds me of the fated christmas morning that I completed programming a spankin' fresh platform game in BASIC, then opened gifts from the family to find IT:

The Hayes 2400 baud modem.

Damn. I was big shit on the block with that bad boy. Hitting the BBS's (which, oddly enough, my favorite was run from an apartment by a guy who would many years later become a manager of mine) and playing "door" games, downloading the max daily KB, waiting until midnight to get the rest of the file.

The kids in the neighborhood just didn't get the need for speed. Their argument was, "why would you need to connect to anyone else at a higher speed? Nobody can type at more than 300 baud."

Then Archie was available by dialing up to the local University.

>sigh<

Phoenix · 08-04-2004, 10:51 AM

oh how i wish i had explored more back in 94 and forward

Magnus3x · 08-04-2004, 11:06 AM

Remember when double anal was'nt used in mainstream media and in news articles??

modF · 08-04-2004, 11:14 AM

How about arguments about which bbs was better because it ran either Clarke's PCBoard, WWIV, Spitfire or some other's I just can't remember.

TradeWars?

1200 baud, the phone bill (eek).

valvet · 08-04-2004, 11:32 AM

Can't say that I do, not that old

- I only remember my dear 28.8 modem which I actually still use. At winter time when it gets cold, I plugin the modem and use it to have my feet on! It gets pretty hot when its been on for a while.

Odie · 08-04-2004, 11:51 AM

I remember having the slowest dial up ever..couldn't look at anything b/c it took forever to load....

and having to type run...lol

Evil Chris · 08-04-2004, 11:56 AM

I can't believe the amount of time I wasted on our local BBS here in Montreal. I think they had around 40 lines to it. But I met a lot of good friends that I still see to this day.

Sarah_MaxCash · 08-04-2004, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Evil Chris
I can't believe the amount of time I wasted on our local BBS here in Montreal. I think they had around 40 lines to it. But I met a lot of good friends that I still see to this day.

me too...a BBS used to be a real community back then. I still know people off and online that I only ever met because of a BBS bearly 15 years ago.

McAttack · 08-05-2004, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Evil Chris
I can't believe the amount of time I wasted on our local BBS here in Montreal. I think they had around 40 lines to it. But I met a lot of good friends that I still see to this day.

Ha! I found a sheet of paper with about 20 BBS numbers the other day and was laughing so hard at that!

40 lines... there were only a couple of large ones... Hmmm which could it be....

I used to run Cheap Thrills BBS on a 286, a 10MB hard drive and a 14.4 modem.

or was it a 2400?

I remember renegade being better than Telegard BBS.

I remember paying $150 for the first domain I ever registered.

I remember watching TV shows that had cards for heroes cause they can save the world, not humans.