remember when you first got internet access?

[McKenzie]

and hadn't a scooby about how the net worked? And knew zilch about what JavaScript could do? And had 16 M/bytes of RAM and a really early version of IE? I bloody well remember because I arrived on a site that was pop-up hell within 10 minutes of being online for the first time.

After the first pop had been closed I thought "good riddance you gits". So I clicked the cross thingy at the top r/h side of the main page to close the site. Click Pop! Eh? Click Pop! Click PoP! PoP! Click Click Pop! Pop! Pop! W-T-F? Click Click Click Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Eventually, the status bar was crammed with scores of little IE icons; it was a classic "circle jerk" using the Event Unload handler in JavaScript. There was no way out except clicking banner after banner or disabling JavaScript on the fly. Fat chance of me doing that back then - back then I thought JavaScript was something akin to calligraphy. I ended up switching off the 'puter at the wall outlet because the bastard pop-ups opened waaay faster than I could close them.

When I next logged on my home page had changed...to something smutty...and I had to get a lady friend to reset it...an ActiveX control had hijacked my home page.

I bet this story

[madison2000]

1. I had 2MB of RAM and it took 2 minutes for a page to load

if I was lucky.

[teach1st]

2. And an upgrade to 4MB was more than enough!

I can't even remember the modem speed I used. 1.4 baud??

[madison2000]

12. But remember how much memory cost?

It was a couple hundred bucks to get up to 8MB.

I remember a 320 baud modem in the apple two plus we had at work.

[patdem]

17. Yes, I remember at a auction of a local S&L some geek talked about

his friend had 16MB of RAM and I forget how how many MB (if it was even MB at the time..it WAS excessive for our time anyway) of Hard Drive space..and my thought was...WHY WOULD ANYONE POSSIBLY NEED 16 MB OF RAM...WOW...I was waaaayyy ahead of my time...if I lived in the 16th century!

[RagingInMiami]

3. So I guess it's safe to say that the first site you logged on to was a

porn site. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[McKenzie]

5. as I said, I bet this story chimes!

These days I have Usenet access...

[MidwestMomma]

4. It was so long ago, we had Prodigy. Anyone remember that?

My daughter and I were completely clueless. I remember how excited we were when we found a few message boards.

I'm still pretty clueless but my daughter is completely internet savvy now. I wouldn't have found DU except for her.

And if I remember, there wasn't any unlimited internet providers. We had to monitor our time like crazy.

[Wcross]

14. I had prodigy.......

Found a few message boards- forget about pictures!

[madison2000]

15. Yes, and I used to download tons of games and shit

I remember hearing the news that River Phoenix had died on my "prodigy news" so that must have been 1993 maybe August.

[bowens43]

6. The web was in it's infancy when I first got on the net.

We used Gopher instead.

[lpbk2713]

7. My first venture in to the WWW was so long ago I can't remember.

But I know it was with a 14.4 modem and Netscape 3 dot something. Before that it was frequent visits to one BBS after another. I never did use IE very much. Always stayed with Netscape and now its cousin Mozilla.

[HeyManThatsCool]

8. 1 MB- Prodigy User

& sadly that computer cost me more than my newest computer.


I remember when it was 9600 Baud dial up.

soooo slow.


That computer lasted 1 year.

[northzax]

9. well, sure web sites took forvever to load

almost four years, since html wasn't being used and the 'internet' was email, bbs and ftp clients like Gopher. we didn't need no stinkin pictures on our internet.

[patdem]

10. Had an old Pac Bell 8088 computer...and compuserve w/ Windows 95

took forever to load a page..and there was no google but an array of search engines...to search for a subject. You got to pick and choose which one you liked since they all showed up on the search page. It was really very interesting. You did not miss the speed cause you never experienced the speed. It took two minutes...so it took two minutes. Go get chips and come back and viola...you were on the web. Very fascinating for the time!

[JVS]

11. The first page I visited was the Unofficial Dukes of Hazzard Homepage

[Mojambo]

13. On my Commodore 64

with a 300 baud modem some time in the 80's.

I went to one general BBS and had no idea what to do.

So I unplugged the modem and didn't get back online until 1995. It was a much different internet by then, MUCH different.

[shanti]

16. yep, i was a compuserve member

dang, a LONG time ago!

[latteromden]

18. From the moment I got a computer until now, I've NEVER been an IE user.

And I'm proud of it. :D

I don't even remember the computer, but I know it was in the basement in a dark, dusty room. Nice.