Does any one REMEMBER...

[Alithis]

Does any one Remember the very early days of the internet .. irc chat .. microsoft comic chat etc

and the absolute thrill of text chatting with a human being on the other side of the planet from another country - it was utterly new

and it took between 1 and 4 minutes to log onto the internet through a squawking modem and enjoy the blistering speed of 4 kb/s

 

[Lamb]

OH!!!! I DO I DO!!

I was on IRC all the time 20 years ago! LOL I even joined a Fantasy Basketball League on IRC and made a lot of friends that way.

I hated that modem sound. Dreadful.

 

[tango]

Does any one Remember the very early days of the internet .. irc chat .. microsoft comic chat etc

and the absolute thrill of text chatting with a human being on the other side of the planet from another country - it was utterly new

and it took between 1 and 4 minutes to log onto the internet through a squawking modem and enjoy the blistering speed of 4 kb/s

4kb/s? Wow, you had a speedy modem.

I remember one day my dad took the back off our telephone (the kind with a rotary dial), attached a modem to the phone with crocodile clips on cables trailed across the room, so I could log on to a bulletin board. Text based, naturally. Our modem was one of the best available at the time, it could run at 1.2kb/s in both directions. Most of the other modems were either 300/300 (300 bytes/sec) or 1200/75 (i.e. 1200bytes/sec down, 75 bytes/sec up).

That was back in the days when the graphics of the original Tron movie left my friends and I open-mouthed in amazement.

 

[Jesus Saves]

I remember when we were able to get email and then go online.

 

[Ruth]

I wasn't on the internet in the earliest days but I do recall the loud modem with dial up internet. It's funny how I take it for granted now. Yes, it was and is fun.

 

[Alithis]

OH!!!! I DO I DO!!

I was on IRC all the time 20 years ago! LOL I even joined a Fantasy Basketball League on IRC and made a lot of friends that way.

I hated that modem sound. Dreadful.

haha so guess you wont be downloading it as a ring tone

 

[MS140ukn]

i remember my 'myspace" days. i used to use YIM a lot. "yahoo instant messenger" back then i was on dial up. so ancient! but at least then the internet monthly charges were very affordable

 

[MarkFL]

I remember getting my first modem...1200 baud, and logging onto bulletin boards before the internet. Got a lot of neat shareware programs that way. Most people hated it, but I grew to love the sound of the dial-up modem...it signaled lots of fun was about to be had.

Anyone remember the thrill of getting your autoexec.bat and config.sys files just perfect, or using edlin and degug? Creating your first .COM file and then moving up to the big leagues and creating your first .EXE file? Playing with GW-BASIC, and then moving up to a BASIC compiler, then to C and then to MASM? Do you miss knowing what every single file on your hard drive did? Now, instead of hundreds of files, we have hundreds of thousands, and good luck understanding what most of them do...LOL!

I also miss the early days of the internet when there were very few online who weren't tech savvy and who didn't care deeply about quality content. The facebook/twitter generation were still twinkles in their mothers' eyes, and weren't polluting the internet with their selfies and continual drivel about every aspect of their mundane existence yet. Do I sound old?

I miss the sense of community I felt when I joined my first forum about 15 years ago...people honestly cared about one another, met up with one another to help with projects like installing a new set of long tube headers. When someone became ill, cards (real cards) were sent through the mail to cheer the person up.

Yes, I miss those days.

 

[Lamb]

haha so guess you wont be downloading it as a ring tone

Haha NO!! I hope to never hear that sound again in my life! So frustrating when the modem wouldn't connect on the other end and you had to keep trying.

 

[Lamb]

I miss the sense of community I felt when I joined my first forum about 15 years ago...people honestly cared about one another, met up with one another to help with projects like installing a new set of long tube headers. When someone became ill, cards (real cards) were sent through the mail to cheer the person up.

20 years ago I belonged to a dial up community ran by the local newspaper called CaluNET. It started off as a beta test group for the first 200 people to sign up. I'm STILL friends with a lot of those people because we had such an awesome time on the site. When it closed we appealed to the newspaper to keep it going but they declined. We wanted to buy the name but they refused it as well.

Here on Christianity Haven some of them have signed up (I'm STILL working on getting the others) and are posting I hope more come here because they were all prolific posters. I've never seen them so shy before. I miss all of them and the fun times we had online and at the many get togethers.

 

[psalms 91]

I pray that you will be successful

 

[Alithis]

20 years ago I belonged to a dial up community ran by the local newspaper called CaluNET. It started off as a beta test group for the first 200 people to sign up. I'm STILL friends with a lot of those people because we had such an awesome time on the site. When it closed we appealed to the newspaper to keep it going but they declined. We wanted to buy the name but they refused it as well.

Here on Christianity Haven some of them have signed up (I'm STILL working on getting the others) and are posting I hope more come here because they were all prolific posters. I've never seen them so shy before. I miss all of them and the fun times we had online and at the many get togethers.

perhaps to regain that sense of community we need a project which gives a common goal

 

[Lamb]

perhaps to regain that sense of community we need a project which gives a common goal

Do you have any suggestions on a project?

 

[Alithis]

Do you have any suggestions on a project?

aaaghh no im a church attendee ... i want to be advised not involved .. hahahha

 

[Brighten04]

Does any one Remember the very early days of the internet .. irc chat .. microsoft comic chat etc

and the absolute thrill of text chatting with a human being on the other side of the planet from another country - it was utterly new

and it took between 1 and 4 minutes to log onto the internet through a squawking modem and enjoy the blistering speed of 4 kb/s

Oh yes. Them were the good ole days. lol. Dial up AOL, 1999. It was my younger son's senior year of high school and I bought him a top of the line Compaq computer with all of 1.5 GB of memory. LOL.

 

[Alithis]

any one recall microsoft comic chat

 

[NewCreation435]

I remember seeing the little www logo on America online and wondering if I would ever use it. Seems like a very long time ago but it was around 1995

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[Alithis]

yea i think it was around 91-92 i first logged in - so long ago now .. a friend had left his new compaq pc with me with its huge 1/4 of a gig hard drive lol or something ..

i had to move my commodore 64 off the desk haha

 

[dogs4thewin]

I only remember dial-up very early days no 1991 model here.

 

[tango]

yea i think it was around 91-92 i first logged in - so long ago now .. a friend had left his new compaq pc with me with its huge 1/4 of a gig hard drive lol or something ..

i had to move my commodore 64 off the desk haha

1/4 gig?

I remember having a hard drive that was 11MB. It was about the size of a minitower PC case of today. The funny thing was that I had no idea what to do with that much space.

I remember when my parents bought the first PC I ever saw. It had a 40MB hard drive, but MS-DOS of the day couldn't cope with a partition bigger than 32MB. So instead of splitting it into 32/8 it was split 20/20 so that both partitions would be equally useful. It was pretty advanced for its time, it had CGA graphics (which, IIRC, offered white, yellow, cyan and magenta as the four available colors) and ran at 12.5MHz. Many of the games for the original XTs wouldn't run on it because it was so fast. Many other games were very hard to play because you could only use one keypress at a time, so on the day's equivalent of Need For Speed you could keep the gas on or you could steer but not both. Braking into a corner was particularly tricky because you had to alternate the brake and the steering, with predictable results.

I recently sold a bunch of Apple II gear to a collector. I was sad to see it go but it had sat in my shed for 15 years so I figured it was time.