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Wow flashbacks of extension reels from the phone socket to my PC and then rows over the phoneline being tied up the whole time.

"What if someone's trying to ring me?" was the usual cry.

I was 13 and and I looked up naked women on Lycos

allthedoyles wrote: »

i remember a unison set top box in about 1994 . was able to view some webpages

haha yea I had one of these too!! how imaginative are we Irish.. 'lets get a product, downsize it, call some bits free, make it cheaper' - lollity

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yeah it was in school on some shítey connection. We were allowed go online on our computers class every once in a while. I went straight to google.com, spent about 5 seconds staring at the screen and I just couldn't understand how google was so popular. If I had searched for something I may have figured it out.

Yea i alwas used Yahoo prior to google and when I went onto it i was like.... eeeehh okaay so thsi is the might google?! lollity

Was in school playing some stupid game.

Then I went home, did the ERRR ERE RER E RE RE RRRRRRR thing (you know dial up sounds) and spent more time playing that stupid game.

Then I realised what else there was on the internet :eek:

brummytom wrote: »

Would have been around 1998/99... Can't actually remember what I went on though, but it took hours to load! God bless broadband

What is this 'Broadband' you speak of, in this country we pay the highest prices in Europe for internet that seems to travel over twine cables.

Yahoo chatrooms! My god, the hours spent on there, absolutely amazed that I was able to talk to someone in, like, Australia or anywhere in the world :eek: ..with my mom shouting at me in the background to log off that bloody internet. Then when I wouldn't, she'd just lift up the phone receiver which would automatically disconnect the internet connection.

Oh chatrooms. God I remember those. Was using them from the age of 10 without a care in the world :eek:

"/me is bored"

I didn't have Sky Sports so my first web experiences was looking up the results from WWF Raw. That and looking up how to breed a golden chocobo and getting the Ultimate weapons on FF7. Thems were the days.

I rememebr using a bizarre websearcher called webferret which didn';t tell you what you were clicking; you'd type stuff in and then it'd appear and you'd get a brief description if you hovered the mouse over.

Around the 3 or 4th time I found the internet, (was around 8) I was typing in "Simpsons" and hovered over a site promising "simpsons, simpsons and more simpsons" only to be met by 3 blonde women with massive nude tits.

I was horrified and told my parents. Stuck up little prick I was. Dad ripped the piss outta me for weeks after.

Back in '93 when I started playing MUDs.

It brings me back, I remember when all we had was half a connection made out of hand me down bits and bytes. A connection shared so many times that a simple 10 character response could take 10 seconds. When everything was monochrome and ASCII images were considered impressive. Web pages were unheard of and streaming music or video was but a distant dream. When offering someone your e-mail address was met with a blank stare. Back when children could play on the internet without fear or supervision. 'Twas a simpler time, a time of innocence.

Frank Spencer wrote: »

Wow flashbacks of extension reels from the phone socket to my PC and then rows over the phoneline being tied up the whole time.

"What if someone's trying to ring me?" was the usual cry.

Still the reality for some of us

I had used email from around 1992 and first got on the web in 94 - just as it was starting up really ...

I sort of remember the first website - it was called "the place" or something - quite obscure.
When I figured out you could type in company names followed by .com, I typed in playboy.com and it worked ! This was in the computer lab of the college where I worked but the pictures didn't look very impressive on the crappy 16-colour monitors.

I remember meeting a guy from college and trying to explain to him what the web was and how it worked . He was an ultra-nerdy computer programmer but had no idea and had never used it ....

Back then lots of people thought they could make a career showing others how to search for information on the web but I guess the Google boys killed those dreams...

I downloaded a Bon Jovi track off Napster, looked up some nekkid wimmins and soon realised dial-up wasn't all it was cracked up to be

Our indigo dialup still works.

It was in a net cafe in 96 or 97, cant remember the exact year, I remember mostly looking up movie trailers and info, I remember legging it down to the same place after school the day the trailer for Episode 1 went online, then using nearly all the half hour i paid for waiting for the fecking thing to load, was worth it though pity the movie was shyte but the buildup was amazing