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Iced
  
 
| #1 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:42pm (EST)
edited October 20, 2009 at 4:07pm (EST) |
Mine: Ate My Balls
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Candle_Jack
| | #2 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:45pm (EST) |
Googling Space Ghost in '98 |
Chad
 
| | #3 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:46pm (EST) |
searching lycos for "hot naked teens" and then frantically trying to figure out how to erase all history once I was done. |
DrizzDrizzDrizz
 
| | #4 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:47pm (EST) |
trying to get into a "chat room"...i didn't care what it was, I just wanted to be in a room with other people talking, real-time. It fascinated me, the concept. I didn't think I'd get it to work! And then I found a chat room...made sure it wasn't full of robots...was satisfied, and left.
Smile Now Cry Later |
DrizzDrizzDrizz
| | #5 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:48pm (EST) |
Candle_Jack wrote:
> Googling Space Ghost in '98
I highly doubt you were googling in '98!
Smile Now Cry Later |
Chad
| | #6 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:49pm (EST) |
that was the next thing i did. but it was in attempts to cyber, which one of my friends told me about. but no girls were cybering. so i pretended to be a girl and started cybering with guys and then would go "HAHA IM A GUY!!!!!" and that constituted epic pwnage then. |
Organization_XIII
| | #7 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:50pm (EST) |
porn
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Iced
| | #8 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:50pm (EST) |
I used Geocities chats all the time. I agree, I just wanted to chat. It was so awesome.
I remember almost being scammed on Geocities chat too, by a guy named Scott Johnson (I can't believe I remember that name). I wanted to become a moderator of some of the chats (he claimed he was one), and I'm pretty sure he almost got money out of me. I was so green.
He did however get me into using ICQ.
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Iced
| | #9 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:51pm (EST) |
DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
> Candle_Jack wrote:
>> Googling Space Ghost in '98
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> I highly doubt you were googling in '98!
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No, back then you likely would have been Webcrawling.
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DrizzDrizzDrizz
| | #10 posted October 20, 2009 at 3:56pm (EST) |
I remember Talkcity. I would use an IRC client to chat on it, and I really wanted to be a moderator because it seemed like a kick-ass job (they were getting paid!) at the time. I also remember making a web page using Talkcity, as well....ahh, memories
Smile Now Cry Later |
emoryarts
| #11 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:01pm (EST)
edited October 20, 2009 at 4:03pm (EST) |
First Online Game: Interstate '76 ...don't hate, I'd still be playing this if I knew people were online for it.
First Website: Crow's Nest ... can't believe that crap is still online, I never even finished it. God, it's probably atleast 15 years old. What a sight, to see my first website creation and now seeing what I do for freelancing. Pre-Yahoo Geocities was always awesome... so sad that Yahoo is finally closing down Geocities later this month 
First Chat Client: ICQ ... wow, I can't believe it's still being used!
First Porn: Lycos Images, baby ... wasn't much gaming after that discovery.
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Patiencepage
| | #12 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:05pm (EST) |
DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
> trying to get into a "chat room"...i didn't care what it was, I just
> wanted to be in a room with other people talking, real-time. It fascinated
> me, the concept. I didn't think I'd get it to work! And then I found
> a chat room...made sure it wasn't full of robots...was satisfied,
> and left.
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This. And I used ICQ for a while. Then, in middle school, we'd get 10 or so kids in and MSN chat and think it was so awesome that we could talk that way.
Oh, and Napster. I was one of the first kids in school to download stuff, and I made some money from selling burned CD's of Britney Spears and N'sync. No shame!
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andrewp
 
| | #13 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:06pm (EST) |
I was big into paranormal/ghost/UFO stuff when I was younger, so I remember one of the first searches I did on a search engine was for ghosts. I found a website called http://ghosts.org/ (sadly, gone now), it was called Obi Wan's UFO/Paranormal Information Page or something. It had hundreds of stories people sent in of their own ghost encounters. I believe I first started using the internet around 1997-98.
Beans & Potatoes Food Forums |
Iced
| | #14 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:09pm (EST) |
I believe my first online game was Diablo, spawned version. Pretty sure I got the full game for Christmas, and proceeded to use trainer upon trainer with a friend of mine to reign terror over Tristram. There was something so fun about sending a portal out for people to come join us, only to have us slaughter them as soon as they appeared. Yeah it was mean, but it was funny as hell.
The same friend and I also hosted several "1on1on1 noobs only" games in StarCraft, where we would time an attack on the unfortunate third player.
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Iced
| | #15 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:12pm (EST) |
Before Napster came along, I remember using FTP sites to get my music. I was always so excited to find no ratio ones, but I also remember going apecrap when I'd be on a 1:1 ratio FTP and my modem would disconnect after I finished uploading.
Kids today don't realize how good they've got it with these...these "torrent" thingies...
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DrizzDrizzDrizz
| | #16 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:19pm (EST) |
haha, I remember playing Diablo a lot too...awesome game. I'd be an butt-hole frequently as well..."trading" stuff, letting the guy drop stuff then slaying him, collecting people's ears until I ran out of space....good times. I also remember this like online game service, I wanna say it was called mPlayer or something like that...something with an m....and I played Road Rash against people on it, and Blood a few times.
Smile Now Cry Later |
oldskoolandy
 
| | #17 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:40pm (EST) |
For some reason these main things stick out in my head
AOL 2.5 or 3.0 chats (a/s/l anyone?)
http://www.stickdeath.com/
and very vaguely remember my brother using BBS for porn somehow
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millenium_dare
 
| | #18 posted October 20, 2009 at 4:41pm (EST) |
I would frantically look for porn while constantly looking over my shoulder to see if either of my parents were walking into the room where the family computer was. At this point I didn't realize you could have different profiles so our computer had only one account and whenever they would get on to check email, the blank history was a dead giveaway. Of course, the want for more porn overrode the fear of discipline, so I was often banned from using the computer alone.
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karaiya44
| | #19 posted October 20, 2009 at 5:29pm (EST) |
millenium_dare wrote:
> I would frantically look for porn while constantly looking over my
> shoulder to see if either of my parents were walking into the room
> where the family computer was. At this point I didn't realize you
> could have different profiles so our computer had only one account
> and whenever they would get on to check email, the blank history was
> a dead giveaway. Of course, the want for more porn overrode the fear
> of discipline, so I was often banned from using the computer alone.
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This.
I wasn't even allowed to surf the web until I was 14 years old. I also remember the first time my dad let me get on the internet I searched all over the place for everything. I remember clicking link after link and thinking "oh no I think I've gone to far into the internet, how do I get back?" It really was like the world was at my finger tips.
I remember schools having blocks on porn sites and gore gallery. This dog Bessie would show up everytime I tried to access a prohibited site.
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Chad
| | #20 posted October 20, 2009 at 5:42pm (EST) |
fudging bessie. i remember that dog. |
Pyramid_Party
| | #21 posted October 20, 2009 at 5:48pm (EST) |
I remember getting on napster to download music.
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zenon_k
| | #22 posted October 20, 2009 at 5:54pm (EST) |
That AOL dial up tone, seeing boobs for the first time on yahoo picture search, and my first fourm ever, the Cheatlpanet fourms.
^Art Forum^
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| *Stoned = This messege was writeen when I was blazed, so if it makes 0 sense, sorry :] |
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damiencorso
| | #23 posted October 20, 2009 at 7:35pm (EST) |
I remember when it was just Al Gore and some wires. |
Priest_of_Gaming
 
| | #24 posted October 20, 2009 at 7:52pm (EST) |
ICQ, South park pictures, Napster, and some odd Fart soundboard a buddy of mine downloaded lol.
-joseph
Ask Me If You Need Help! Click For Information. |
Iced
| | #25 posted October 20, 2009 at 7:53pm (EST) |
Real Audio/Video.
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tioberto2000
| | #26 posted October 20, 2009 at 8:22pm (EST) |
prodigy |
rayzor6
 
| | #27 posted October 20, 2009 at 8:23pm (EST) |
looking for Magic the Gathering sites. My best friend at the time was really interested in history and I cut and paste a webpage into Wordperfect and had a whole story about how Ben Franklin has child sex slaves and watched him as he read the printout...good times!
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DanDan
| | #28 posted October 20, 2009 at 9:35pm (EST) |
I did a search for mens penises and never looked back since. |
AlphakirA
(frozen)
| #29 posted October 20, 2009 at 10:18pm (EST)
edited October 20, 2009 at 10:19pm (EST) |
Trying to fit as many midi and/or wav files onto a floppy as I could. Once I found out about MP3s, I was appalled that I couldn't fit even one onto a floppy. "How dare they?!" I thought.
Also, being excited when they released a "new" AOL.
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Miracle_Warrior
| | #30 posted October 20, 2009 at 10:54pm (EST) |
DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
> trying to get into a "chat room"...i didn't care what it was, I just
> wanted to be in a room with other people talking, real-time. It fascinated
> me, the concept. I didn't think I'd get it to work! And then I found
> a chat room...made sure it wasn't full of robots...was satisfied,
> and left.
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This was mine too. Not sure how long ago this was, but just going in to chat rooms and trying to stir up trouble was great. |
ENIX
| | #31 posted October 20, 2009 at 10:59pm (EST) |
I remember when Yahoo! first started...it was pretty crapty. I laughed at it.
My earliest memory was of playing some kind of MUD...I think it was SMAUG (Simulated Medieval Adventure Multi-User Game). Something like http://www.realmsofdespair.com/client/
 
The Dragonlord revealed his true self!
Command? |
NCN
| | #32 posted October 21, 2009 at 12:00am (EST) |
The first night I got my 14.4 baud hooked up to a sweet dial up connection, I (eventually) got ICQ. |
RLeav20717
| | #33 posted October 21, 2009 at 12:39am (EST) |
downloading over 2000 songs on 56.6k dial-up  haha
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ENIX
| | #34 posted October 21, 2009 at 12:51am (EST) |
lol Kazaa?
The Dragonlord revealed his true self!
Command? |
the_great_turd
| | #35 posted October 21, 2009 at 12:57am (EST) |
cheats for Redneck Rampage |
RLeav20717
| | #36 posted October 21, 2009 at 1:34am (EST) |
ENIX wrote:
> lol Kazaa?
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yes...haha..each song was like 25-35 minutes
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Richie
 
| | #37 posted October 21, 2009 at 1:49am (EST) |
Playing Legend of the Red Dragon on dial up BBS's before we got America Online.
After that I remember Lycos chat sessions until 4 am.
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ryanflucas
 
| #38 posted October 21, 2009 at 2:26am (EST)
edited October 21, 2009 at 2:31am (EST) |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExecPC_BBS
I started when I was 8. Then they added txt only Internet, and later dialup Internet. I remember finding a loophole where you could get unlimited downloads on the site by hanging up sooner then logging off since it only counted against your allotment if you logged off. |
Mitsuru
| | #39 posted October 21, 2009 at 2:34am (EST) |
Geocities. Angelfire. Porn. Before it was streaming. Kazaa-lite.
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dustin11
| | #40 posted October 21, 2009 at 3:28am (EST) |
my earliest memory was trying to find information about World War 2 for a project I had to do in 6th grade when the Internet was first being used at my school. None of the teachers knew how to use it so I was at a total loss on what to do. www.ww2.com didn't exactly turn up much results at the time. I remember going on segasages.com before merged with IGN and going onto a chat room for my first time and being totally wow'd at the fact that I could talk to people from all over the country that way. I also remember learning how to clear history and cookies on the home computer so I wouldn't get caught looking at thing my mom didn't want me to see and having my computer crash from using Kazaa and Limewire.
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