Been 14 years since I first had the internet

[Ako Si Jamie]

Time flies. 1999.

Dial-up too. Good job you no longer have to watch the time nowadays when online. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[stevewool]

indeed time has flown but funny since buying my first computer for over £700, its one thing that has come down and has got even better

[grahamw48]

I think 1997 for me. :)

I doubled my RAM from 16mb to 32mb though, to speed things up, and later luxuriated in a 2Gig hard drive after upgrading the original 1.2 Gig one. :biggrin:

As for downloading pictures....


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[Ako Si Jamie]

My first PC cost about £650-£700 too, that was around 1997. I think I've had 3 PC's and one laptop in all so far.

[grahamw48]

I've had this PC since 2003. :icon_lol:

Never owned a laptop.

I bought a lovely Toshiba laptop for my boy's birthday though...and a car. :cwm25:

[Slip]

My first pc was free of charge. Luckily for me I had a job in a warehouse that sold computer parts. A very nice lady made one for me. It's long gone and I have several pc's since. But long live the internet.

[Ako Si Jamie]

Yup. The internet is a wonderful invention. It's just a pity that no marks like Kerry Katona et al are more of a household name than it's creator Tim Berners-Lee. :icon_rolleyes:

[Jamesey]

It was 1994 for me, when I was a student.

Our engineering department prided themselves on being at the forefront of IT, so we had our own computer room and they gave us e-mail addresses and internet access.

I remember that we used a browser called "Mosaic" and that most of the websites around were all about nerdy academic type stuff. It's come a long way in 19 years!

[Ako Si Jamie]

It was 1994 for me, when I was a student.

Our engineering department prided themselves on being at the forefront of IT, so we had our own computer room and they gave us e-mail addresses and internet access.

I remember that we used a browser called "Mosaic" and that most of the websites around were all about nerdy academic type stuff. No porn then? :biggrin:

[Dedworth]

I think I was c 1994/ 1995 with a company called Vossnet, then Lineone, followed by Blueyonder, PlusNet and about 4 years ago o2.

Best provider by far has been o2 with Lineone in 2nd place

[Jamesey]

I think there was some porn, even way back then! :xxgrinning--00xx3::hubbahubba:

But our computer room was open plan and CCTV monitired, so we couldn't really go looking for it. :thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

[jonnijon]

My browser used to be Netscape. But they lost thier way.

[grahamw48]

I think I was c 1994/ 1995 with a company called Vossnet, then Lineone, followed by Blueyonder, PlusNet and about 4 years ago o2.

Best provider by far has been o2 with Lineone in 2nd place

I've been happy plugged into my Virgin for the past 5 years. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[joebloggs]

your all newbies :biggrin:
i use to have a raire cpm blackbox back in the early 80's :yikes:
ibm at 286/10mhz :biggrin:
oh a sinclair zx81 built from a kit, and i'm not that :olddude: :icon_lol:

use to use BBS b4 the internet took off

worked in IT all my life :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Arthur Little]

I've been happy "plugged into my Virgin" for the past 5 years. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:cwm25: ... reads like a real "contradiction in terms", Graham!

[Trefor]

Ah the good old days. I was working for Adobe back in 1997. I spent my days trying to convince OEM customers that 'electronic paper' was the future using Postscript (printer language) for the screen. PDF as you now know it.

I still cringe when people say 'PDF it for me' or 'PDF format'. Grammar matters.

[Arthur Little]

Time flies. 1999.

Dial-up too. Good job you no longer have to watch the time nowadays when online. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:yeahthat:'s certainly the way it was as "recently" as 2005 when I "inherited" mine from my daughter & son-in-law. At the time, I'd joined an Online Dating site ... the one on which I eventually met my wife, Myrna as it so happens. Although, by then, my family had put me on the right track by signing me up for an all inclusive package with the former 'net provider, 'Tiscali'.

[joebloggs]

Ah the good old days. I was working for Adobe back in 1997. I spent my days trying to convince OEM customers that 'electronic paper' was the future using Postscript (printer language) for the screen. PDF as you now know it.
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printed stuff is what's keeping me in a job today :biggrin:, thou more and more is stored in pdf's

[Arthur Little]

Grammar matters.

Does to me too ... I'd been beginning to think I was being "old fashioned", :biggrin: but perhaps it's just simply the way MY generation was taught. And, to be honest, I deplore the modern trend :icon_rolleyes: ... which seems to have all but blatantly disregarded
the need for proper punctuation.

[imagine]

cant remember how many years ago i first got online, i got the bug seeing a friend on his computor cant remember its specs, but think it was before windows 98,

then i bought my first computer compaq presario, running on widows 98 and on dial up, found quite a few free to use dial up providers so did ok for about a year this way, learnt a lot from this as things improved taking me up to when i got broadband, i managed to keep this running right up untill windows vista came out, and security updates were stopped for windows 98, then i bought my 1st lap top a sony on vista, which i still run as a second computer:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[imagine]

Does to me too ... I'd been beginning to think I was being "old fashioned", :biggrin: but perhaps it's just simply the way MY generation was taught. And, to be honest, I deplore the modern trend :icon_rolleyes: ... which seems to have all but blatantly disregarded
the need for proper punctuation.

the only grammar these days modern grammar is ef ing, its too commonly used

[grahamw48]

I agree mate. Ignorant :censored: :censored:s. :NoNo:

[imagine]

the only grammar these days modern grammar is ef ing, its too commonly used

infact the contents of the english test in all fairness should be scrapped and replaced with,,,

F,,,, F you,,,,, F off ,,,,, EFing ell ,,,,, which would just about sum up modern english today :biggrin:

[Dedworth]

All English tests need to be replaced with those in Slavic languages that's all you hear nowadays except for the odd burst of Romanian "Beeg Eeeshu sur"

[les_taxi]

Eee I remember going on Tinternet for first time and watching a page load up in about a minute:yikes:

[sheriel]

Well IMAGINE,thats one thing we all know,how mannerly the young generation in the Philippines are,and generally well mannered the people are,it doesnt cost nothing to be polite, :xxgrinning--00xx3: :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Ako Si Jamie]

:yeahthat:'s certainly the way it was as "recently" as 2005 when I "inherited" mine from my daughter & son-in-law. At the time, I'd joined an Online Dating site ... the one on which I eventually met my wife, Myrna as it so happens. Although, by then, my family had put me on the right track by signing me up for an all inclusive package with the former 'net provider, 'Tiscali'.2005 was around the time I first started dating online. Did you go straight to an Asian dating site Arthur or did you meet your mahal on a UK site?

[grahamw48]

2005 ? Seems I stumbled upon a certain 'Filipino UK' site then. :Erm:

[Ako Si Jamie]

2005 ? Seems I stumbled upon a certain 'Filipino UK' site then. :Erm:You'll soon be due a testimonial! :biggrin:

[grahamw48]

I wer only a young lad then. :cwm3:

[imagine]

Well IMAGINE,thats one thing we all know,how mannerly the young generation in the Philippines are,and generally well mannered the people are,it doesnt cost nothing to be polite, :xxgrinning--00xx3: :xxgrinning--00xx3:

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