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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 707
Location: North Texas, USA
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 Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:19 pm
Post subject: Internet in the past. |
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| Ok thets refresh our memories and try to remember back when the internet was fresh and you got connected for the first time and tell me your experiences. |
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emmzee
Site Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 1905
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:30 pm
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Hmmm ... dial-up, it was either 9600 or 14.4 modem at that time. First time I connected it was through the company Internex ... apparently it was quite the company as you can read at that link  I never had any major problems when I was with them, but it sounds like they kinda ... yea you can read the link there. (Also, my dad was a member of CRS, who apparently according to that link was the first BBS to offer 'net access in the Toronto area.)
Annnnnnyywaaaaays ... after I downloaded Netscape for Windows 3.11 ... the first website I loaded was www.nuke.com which at the time was Electronic Gaming Monthly's website (now it seems to point to GameSpot). |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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I remember it like it was 1 and 1/2 weeks ago  . I had my dial up kickig along at a painfull speed. Was with a company called Acay. Who I think have since become Tel Pacigic, who I think have also now changed...... um yeah hrmm first memories. Napster, ohh yeah. |
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Wally
i r teh pwnage
Joined: 01 May 2003
Posts: 3734
Location: Australia, earth, Milky way
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:14 am
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When the net first came to me i didnt know how to do anything 
I think it was at a science place called ScienceWorks and i tried to search for Asterix didnt let me  |
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The_Sinister_Mastermind
Overlord
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 2757
Location: NSW, Australia, Down Under Verse
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:30 am
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| WEll the net had already been around for awhile before I started using it so I already had a general idea of how to use it and all that. |
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GameMaster.EXE
Way too much free time
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 707
Location: North Texas, USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:14 am
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| When I first got on the internet, I was happy to get a speed of 300 baud, now considered slow and crappy today. |
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jmmijo
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 16 Oct 2002
Posts: 225
Location: PDX
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:02 am
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For me it was back in my C64 days with the infamouse Taihaiho 300 baud pulse dial-up modem. It worked great and was painfully slow but really most of my connections were made long distance to BBS's across the country
Oh the days of ColorBBS and the like with support for ANSI color graphics  |
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