BowTied Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I was posting on local bulletin boards in the early/mid 90s, but that was direct dial-in. I think my first post on the internet was in 1997. How long have you been posting on the world wide web? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlion Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Until recently, I used the net for info, research, porn, ur uh, I mean learning. It wasn't until last december that I opened a myspace account and got addicted to the net. This is the first forum/group I've joined, on Oct. 30th, I joined another 4x4 group that is based in the NW. All I can say is, I wish I would have used the net for fun and leisure to begin with. To hell with the learning...Kidding. I looked hard and hung out on a lot of sites before I joined up with this one. You guys have provided me with a wealth of info. Thanks for that. I hope I can return the favor someday. Sorry, buzzy and got carried away....again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 (edited) pretty much I hid in the shadows here for a while and then joined and posted here as well as a site for the university and a couple other nissan boards...so whenever I joined this is when... now about 10 years ago i started with the AOL chats and what not b/c I was 15 and we got our 1st computer. Edited November 8, 2008 by unccpathfinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Right around 2000. On line gaming (ww2 flying game was a blast!!, I refuse to do on line gaming anymore as I need no new addictions) and a forum for VW bugs. The internet is definitely intertainment, but I use it more for information than anything else... B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I started about 20 years ago with the dial up BBSs also. First on the internet in 1994 with AOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 hmmm... round 1997... started chatting and creating havoc in YahooChat! Not long after that I started posting on the first forum I joined, which was "total nonsense". Seems that forum has been pulled down, I just went to see when I joined that board, and it's gonezo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vengeful Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I started about 20 years ago with the dial up BBSs also. First on the internet in 1994 with AOL. I think there's something a little off with your math there, Ryan. I started somewhere around 1999-2000-2001.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarsiff Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Ive been here since Al Gore invented the mofo!! hehehe I started out with AOL as well in like umm i wanna say 93 94 ish. I remember the lightning intro before the aol running man LOL 2 years later i was into PC with the irq, irc chats and boards and the like. A/S/L anyone? ...sorry i had to do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Started on BBS's (primarily "The Nameless One BBS") in 92-93 playing online games, while there I worked a free membership by allowing a local line to be installed at my home, which forwarded calls up through a network of similar setups. This expanded the BBS's "local" calling area across around 5 or 6 normally long distance calling area's I first got on the Internet around 93 or 94, but did not really use the it much until a software package for BBS's was released in late 94 or 95 called Wildcat. It's been down hill since then, as I later moved to AOL, then straight free dial up access ...which is still available here... and later I moved to broadband (Satellite then cable)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhardison Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I made my first post in Compuserv for DOS around 1991 and i was in an IBM OS2 user group on a bulletin board called the Nashville Exchange around that time too. But my first really active community was in an old newsgroup called alt.newsrgoups.nissan.maxima or something like that starting around 1995. I remember getting kicked out of a Compuserv group for posting something with the subject line "Beat the New Meat" that had a dirty double meaning when in fact the post was about the Meat Puppets new album that had just been released. God I'm feeling old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I think there's something a little off with your math there, Ryan. No, there is something wrong with your comprehension skills. Direct dial BBSs: 20 years Internet: 14 years My friend's Dad was a complete computer geek so he had all kinds of equipment. It was litterally like War Games with using the actual telephone handset to communicate at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 started i 1999 with a yahoo chat room "trucks & suv's"........ then yahoo messenger in 2000....... then it all went downhill from there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I started in high school...about 1992 on local BBS's. When there was internet, I got on that too. Remember the old dial-up modems? I still have a 14.4k USRobotics modem in my closet. Hehehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I started in high school...about 1992 on local BBS's. When there was internet, I got on that too. Remember the old dial-up modems? I still have a 14.4k USRobotics modem in my closet. Hehehe. I hate to say it, but I think I have you beat on this... I know I have a 56K, 14.4 (might of been soft-upgraded to a 28.8) and I am fairly sure I still have a 2400baud laying around here some place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I hate to say it, but I think I have you beat on this... I know I have a 56K, 14.4 (might of been soft-upgraded to a 28.8) and I am fairly sure I still have a 2400baud laying around here some place My first one was a 2400, then I upgraded to a 9600, and was the envy of all my friends! I was on BBS's around 90 or so and got the interwebs probably around 96 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamzan Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Our first modem was a 14.4 internal with AOL (eww). Then a 28.8 and later 56. Boy did I ever download a lot of tunes on Napster with that old win95 machine! I first started with computer related forums, and then when I received the 93 pathy I started to cruise more nissan related forums. I was the first of all my friends to get high speed as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowTied Posted November 10, 2008 Author Share Posted November 10, 2008 I am fairly sure I still have a 2400baud laying around here some place Ahh yes, I recall the early days... communicating at the speed of blonde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Ahh yes, I recall the early days... communicating at the speed of blonde. Well put! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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