1st Online Experience?

[Bizup]

1995 at school and the classes were mandatory for everyone. The sites were basic colored text with jpeg pictures that would take minutes to load. Midi sound files were possible but they would take longer than their length to load and sounded like Atari music. We learned HTML, word, excel, the parts of a computer and how to assemble one and practiced typing.

[imitator]

I started off on a C64, though I never had a modem for it. Still have the thing, too. Pretty sure you can still get online with it using some wizardry, might try it someday just for the nostalgia.

In the 90s I’d usually end up at a friend’s house to browse the old net. That phase didn’t last long though… eventually I upgraded to a Compaq running Windows 95 and felt like I’d just jumped into the future. 

I mostly remember using Navigator... cruising the web at a screaming-fast 14.4 to 56 kbps. Absolute lightning.

Anyone remember Microsoft's Gaming Zone... it was a blast!!!

[argentus]

I loved and still miss Boolean logic.   It was so pure and evident.  I learned BASIC and COBOL and much of FORTRAN and discovered that I was frickin' bored.   I was good at wrangling them, but it didn't excite me.  I got a degree in Chemistry, which was a tad more titrating.  

My first internet experiences were in the early 2000s.   I remember Ask.com and AskJeeves.com and AOL.  Where I live, we were on dial-up for a LONG time.  I became a member of a weather site, Wunderground.com.  I loved the sense of community and the togetherness and discussions and free expression and growth.   The Weather Channel bought Wunderground, and deep-sixed the blogs and everything else that was member generated.   Fuckers.  

I eventually migrated to ATS.   DI is now my home.   I have about six super-powers, but my most important is my ability to adapt to anything.  I hope this place always remains, and it grows and we flourish together.   Regardless of the future, my Bride and me will adapt, and my Mother and our two cats.

[TheGoondockSaint]

Some time around maybe 1991, I went online for the first time by calling a local number which connected me to a BBS. I played an online multiplayer text based role playing game called Legend of the Red Dragon. It immediately got me got me hooked on online gaming!

Did anyone else here play LOTRD?

[Maxmars]

Some time around maybe 1991, I went online for the first time by calling a local number which connected me to a BBS. I played an online multiplayer text based role playing game called Legend of the Red Dragon. It immediately got me got me hooked on online gaming!

Did anyone else here play LOTRD?

I remember the title... however I never had a chance to give it try.

I definitely remember it got off to a slow start...
 

The game sold only seven copies in its debut year, but word of mouth drove sales to 30,000 units over the next seven years of release.

from the wiki....

[Wild Bill]

My first computer was a ZX spectrum green screen that I used to play a apache helicopter game on , My first time online was 1999 and wow did I love this little box that could get me books and information that I so badly needed .

A nurd was born that day  .