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    Default When did you first start using the internet?

    1994 here, I remember on yahoo chat, you had to manually scroll the window and banner ads didn't exist. Not to mention unregulated fun.



    www.altavista.com was the #1 search engine. (i see that worked out for them...:o)

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    1994 as well, MUDs. Oh, what fun.
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    1993. I was 9 years old.

    Speaking of yahoo chat. I was a booter back in the day. I would message bomb chatters and when they closed the message window their computer would BSOD. I did this for 3 years or so.

    Then P2P became popular and I would spend hours browsing peoples documents folder. It always amazed me at how wide open people left things.

    Then came my discovery of message boards with a local car club I helped start. We grew to 2k members in just a month and almost 20k by the 8 month mark. I must have had 40k post on that site.

    I bounced around from one car forum to another, and eventually wound up here.

    The one thing I do miss about the old internet is how much fun surfing was. You could find a good link exchange and spend hours and days visiting thousands of sites all related to that same topic. We have things like that now (stumbleupon) but nothing like it used to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kayin View Post
    1994 as well, MUDs. Oh, what fun.
    hahahah remember AOL Vs Netscape?

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    Yup. And CompuServe!
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    94? sheesh - I was sneaking into the local university computer labs and using IRC via a terminal prompt a couple years before that. Windows 3.1 on 386's if I remember correctly - it was scary but cool lol. I still remember all the excitement a couple years later when Netscape appeared lol

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    I also remember all the hype when AOL 5.0 came out.

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    hmm, i think i was in grade 6 so that would make me 10 so 1997. when msn 3 or 4 came out i was hooked. i spent 3-4 hours a day on it.
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    I remember in 6th grade a group of us crowding around one of the computers. One of the 8th graders had cracked the password to the net filter and he had pulled up a bikini site. I think the password was something like 1234 or something.

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    I enjoyed making the speech generation software in the library swear.
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