The Interwha?

ozpass

We all know that the network called "the World Wide Web" developed out of the 1960's ARPAnet, but when was your first experience of it?

I first dabbled in connecting to 'da web' in 1993 with Mosaic on my Macintosh LC. I used it in earnest from 1995 onwards when I went to University. Mosaic was still top dog amongst browsers for the SGI, Sun and other Unix systems on offer, but Netscape Navigator was becoming de rigeur for the 486's around campus.

"Have you checked out this Internet thingy?"

"The Interwha'?"

daveirl

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monument

Around 1995, at school. started using it at home late 96 early 97.

billy the squid

First used it in 1995 when was in college.

didnt bother much with it until I had a landline installed so wint out and baught a modem

po0k

after a few abortive attempts covertly dialing up in schools and the like, got on tinet at a mates house for a bit. Did nothing.
Myself and a mate got one of those IOL trial packs and immediately wnet looking for porn (we were noobs - couldn't find anything worthwhile with Yahoo).

leeroybrown

About 95'ish at school.

I was one of the only people who knew anything about computers (and how to Alt-Tab when a teacher walked past) and hence I was laboured with finding Porn for the rest of the lads

Victor

Sent an e-mail about 1995, using a DOS interface. Was aware of the lads using lists as far back as 1992/93.

phoenix2181

first used the internet (not the www) in 92 at cugi (commadore users group of Ireland) checked out some info at MIT in the states, we had to dial into a isp in the uk to do it can't remember which one

sceptre

Same as Oz - around 93 in college (first some FTP progs, later Mosaic when it arrived - went through pretty much the whole web when it came out - there were less than 1000 sites at the time:D) - didn't know what the internet was when I was getting stuff via FTP, only made the connection later:rolleyes:

I'm waiting for the real dinosaurs to come along (there must be a few posting here) to tell us about using something really user-unfriendly in the 80s

DiscoStu

I'm waiting for the real dinosaurs to come along (there must be a few posting here) to tell us about using something really user-unfriendly in the 80s

LOL i can see them now.
I invented usenet, it was some time in the 70s, you see back in those day we didnt have any of this metaphore driven computer interfaces. we used sandpaper coated keyboards and little green monitors that spat so much radiation out it caused my facial hair to mutate into this huge beard. we also had none of that new fangled adsl or cable stuff either, all packets had to be hand delivered. anyway thats how i ended the vietnam war and invented usenet.


back to me. i messed around with some bbs stuff in the early 90s. first real experience of the intarwab was some time in 95 it was looking for moves for fx fighter(remember that was supposed to come out on the snes) on a mates computer.

Stephen

I first got online sometime in 1996, and eventually got a modem for the ol' 486 in 1997 i think (Every other bugger had a pentium at the time)

Firefox

Messed about with BBS stuff about 88,89 period. There were quite a few in the UK and it cost a fortune in bills!! Myself and a mate wanted to set one up at the time useing a piece of software called Wildcat BBS useing an XT PC. (Running at a blistering speed of 8MHz!!). Didnt start useing the Net Proper until I started to work back in 96 and got it at home about about 97.

Kali

probably some BBS stuff on a 14.4k modem around 93, I remember checking out some of the VGA Planets ones in the UK in a friends house.

Talliesin

There was a kid at school that had a super-fast 1200/75 modem (1200bps down , 75bps up). It was one of the really cool ones that connected straight into the phone socket instead of having to be physically connected to a phone's handset.

At least they didn't have pop-ups and Flash intro's back then.