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hunter

(38,263 posts)
12. I first signed onto the internet in the later 'seventies.
Mon May 20, 2019, 09:44 PM
May 2019

Been here since under several identities.

I was in the lab when the second Berkeley Software Distribution ( 2BSD ) was installed. I was so excited by vi that I wrote a bad science fiction novel. I found a bug in Pascal. (I still have my silver Pascal User Manual and Report, 2nd edition...)

I also know who wrote some of the earlier slash posted on the internet because I was there when they wrote it. It amuses me when others claim it.

Then usenet grew large, although by today's internet standards it was microscopically small.

I wrote some astonishingly embarrassing things in my teens and early twenties which are probably still out there. (Did not expect that!) I don't go looking for it. But hell, I've written plenty of embarrassing things here on DU as well.


I used to talk to the online computer generated psychologist Eliza. I also applegrove May 2019 #1
Reading rec.humor, probably in 1981 unblock May 2019 #2
In 1985, I was removing some files... jberryhill May 2019 #28
Haha! Well, better than typing rm by accident.... unblock May 2019 #29
Netscape Navigator, MySpace, Yahoo, Alta Vista brush May 2019 #3
Early to nineties. NETSCAPE!!! elfin May 2019 #4
I like your words.."Nevertheless, mind blown...and thinking of all the informational possibilities" Stuart G May 2019 #6
More than "most", BUT in my innocence I never even thought elfin May 2019 #37
I programmed the first website of our state's Democratic Party HQ DonaldsRump May 2019 #5
Back in 1994 during the 94-95 baseball strike. Eugene May 2019 #7
Through AOL, you could get ftp files. I wanted to see what internet had on Haitian language. emmaverybo May 2019 #8
Spam deleted by MIR Team SAIKILITY May 2019 #40
There were eleven thousand web pages when I first signed on. byronius May 2019 #9
Could I ask what year that was?? Stuart G May 2019 #10
Way early nineties. Early '92? byronius May 2019 #15
Several different things from the late 60s and early 70s unc70 May 2019 #11
I first signed onto the internet in the later 'seventies. hunter May 2019 #12
Around 1998 I bought a WebTv unit (at WalMart for 50 bucks) abqtommy May 2019 #13
What a great question. enough May 2019 #14
I call that brain overload!:) True Blue American May 2019 #27
Mid-1980s, slow modems, Tymnet. highplainsdem May 2019 #16
Bake in the day, it was music to my ears Brother Buzz May 2019 #17
I was going to do this.... Historic NY May 2019 #32
I graduated from Zork on a Commodore64 Backseat Driver May 2019 #18
I can't remember the year: maybe '92 or '93.? I used a text only browser called Lynx at DEC. CentralMass May 2019 #19
Lynx is still alive and well... hunter May 2019 #24
+1 CentralMass May 2019 #33
1995. Turin_C3PO May 2019 #20
1997 Icky's Teahouse Eugene OR happyaccident May 2019 #21
late 80's. 912gdm May 2019 #22
'98 or '99 ProudLib72 May 2019 #23
Absolutely no idea what year it was, but got on Compuserve... TreasonousBastard May 2019 #25
Took my first lessons True Blue American May 2019 #26
sure... 1978 lapfog_1 May 2019 #30
I was in California. It was a time of wonders. hunter May 2019 #35
Put you at Duke and you could be my husband. nolabear May 2019 #43
Early 90s, using Gopher (before http protocol). nt woodsprite May 2019 #31
Bitnet ccjlld May 2019 #34
YAY - Free internet for three years! Totally Tunsie May 2019 #36
"Computer bulletin boards". Aristus May 2019 #38
Netscape Communicator with the free website designer! mudpuddle May 2019 #39
About 1982-83 I got a modem for my Apple ][ ( my first computer) csziggy May 2019 #41
Prodigy I guess. Though we were on the Duke U system. nolabear May 2019 #42
Archie, Pine, and Finger rennaisance man May 2019 #44
I had all but forgotten about Archie... tonedevil May 2019 #46
There were the Bulletin Board Systems... tonedevil May 2019 #45
WebTV JonLP24 May 2019 #47
c1993 madamesilverspurs May 2019 #48
I stumbled across my mom's chat room... backtoblue May 2019 #49
I got into BBSs in about 1988 or 89. Codeine May 2019 #50
Free AOL cd's. SHRED May 2019 #51
Wardialing for BBS's C_U_L8R May 2019 #52
Had my first Internet connection in 1992. Yes, in Baltimore. Then we had black & white text with... JoeOtterbein May 2019 #53
I worked in the finance industry and was friends with the tech guy who made sure our trades could kimbutgar May 2019 #54
AOL. CompuServe, Prodigy, Netscape. We bought our first computer in '95, an IBM Aptiva lunamagica May 2019 #55
About 1994 The Figment May 2019 #56
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