Buying a book in 1993 that I’d long wanted from the UK, having to then get off the net and send a fax with my credit card details. I still have the book, which has traveled all the way from Africa to North America to Europe and back to North America again.
Wow, you are way ahead of me, my earliest favourite memory was when the mouse was released. We used to have this DOS computer where you had to type commands all the time (oh autoexec.bat). And then arrived the mouse and windows 3.1, so impressive. Duke Nukem in 3D.
I’m dating myself but my first memory was logging on to the harvard BBS with my class to submit our creative writing back when everything was still dos based.
For the more modern web, I remember chatting on WBS, which was a text based chat, pre java, that auto refreshed for updates. I thought it was so amazing to meet friends from all over into the same things as me!
Some great memories here!
I remember a classmate in elementary school showing me how to make an email account (with hotmail!) and I sent her my first email to test it out. I also remember looking for photos of my favourite boy and girl bands and printing them off. And anxiously waiting for concert tickets to be released on Ticketmaster, refreshing the page 1000x until they went on sale (you had to be quick, not so easy with dial up).
I remember my first web ‘design’ as well. It had a blue background with animated stars. I’m sure there were more animated GIFs in there as well, like the classic email icon and let’s not forget that dreadful scrolling text.
Oh man, my very first internet memory was using it at school in the 5th grade “technology club” to download Seinfeld episode summaries – text only interface at that point. I also remember spending many hours “designing” my first website in HotDog, complete with illegible background patterns and multicolored type. And my first e-mail address was a free one from Juno.
Back in approx. 1996 we upgraded the family computer HD to 540MB. That was an amazing amount of memory at the time. The funniest part is I remember the salesperson talking about the recent release of a 1GB HD model. It was unheard of at the time (and crazy expensive). He made it sound like it was meant for NASA or something haha.
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Comment by N — July 21, 2010 @ 2:02 pm
You’ve got mail on AOL in 1993!
Comment by Greg — July 21, 2010 @ 3:19 pm
Playing ‘Duke Nukem 3D’ multi-player over a modem connection in 1996.
Comment by Callie — July 21, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
Buying a book in 1993 that I’d long wanted from the UK, having to then get off the net and send a fax with my credit card details. I still have the book, which has traveled all the way from Africa to North America to Europe and back to North America again.
Comment by Neha — July 22, 2010 @ 4:59 am
Wow, you are way ahead of me, my earliest favourite memory was when the mouse was released. We used to have this DOS computer where you had to type commands all the time (oh autoexec.bat). And then arrived the mouse and windows 3.1, so impressive. Duke Nukem in 3D.
Comment by Caitlin — July 22, 2010 @ 8:15 am
I’m dating myself but my first memory was logging on to the harvard BBS with my class to submit our creative writing back when everything was still dos based.
For the more modern web, I remember chatting on WBS, which was a text based chat, pre java, that auto refreshed for updates. I thought it was so amazing to meet friends from all over into the same things as me!
/old lady
Comment by Dana — July 22, 2010 @ 8:24 am
i love all these stories. i remember upgrading from the track ball to the mouse, oh man, so much more efficient.
and learning web ‘design’ (using term loosely here) through my first geocities site. i thought it was so rad.
Comment by Steph — July 22, 2010 @ 9:39 am
Some great memories here!
I remember a classmate in elementary school showing me how to make an email account (with hotmail!) and I sent her my first email to test it out. I also remember looking for photos of my favourite boy and girl bands and printing them off. And anxiously waiting for concert tickets to be released on Ticketmaster, refreshing the page 1000x until they went on sale (you had to be quick, not so easy with dial up).
I remember my first web ‘design’ as well. It had a blue background with animated stars. I’m sure there were more animated GIFs in there as well, like the classic email icon and let’s not forget that dreadful scrolling text.
Comment by Kristina — July 22, 2010 @ 9:48 am
talking to Steph about the boys we liked on ICQ!
Comment by Aaron — July 22, 2010 @ 11:00 am
Oh man, my very first internet memory was using it at school in the 5th grade “technology club” to download Seinfeld episode summaries – text only interface at that point. I also remember spending many hours “designing” my first website in HotDog, complete with illegible background patterns and multicolored type. And my first e-mail address was a free one from Juno.
Comment by Greg — July 22, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Back in approx. 1996 we upgraded the family computer HD to 540MB. That was an amazing amount of memory at the time. The funniest part is I remember the salesperson talking about the recent release of a 1GB HD model. It was unheard of at the time (and crazy expensive). He made it sound like it was meant for NASA or something haha.