I just found an old freeserve hometime cd from ye olde internet days when it was 1p a min 97/98. The first week i had the internet i unplugged the lead from the socket because the banners we're still flashing/animating and i didnt want to be charged I remember looking at porn and ending up with a dialer on the desktop that i couldnt get rid of with delete files/history/uninstall and panicing about the old dear seeing it. Also one night i didnt realise the pc speakers we're still on and after landing on a porn site front page "LET'S FUCK" blasted out of the speakers so i hit "Back" a few times on the browser which reloaded the page over & over leading to "LET'S FUCK...LET'S FU...LET'S FUCK" before i dived for the speakers, was like something out of inbetweeners. Cant believe ive had the internet for 15 years though
< Message edited by Designer_Beats -- 4/5/2012 11:20:38 AM >
I was with Freeserve, then Tiscali lol They were awful but it was a bit of a bastard to get dial up in the village, and broadband took eons.
I remember the first song I ever downloaded (illegally too) was Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck. Before that it was just internet at school, just going on porn.com and it being blocked. Looking at the DJ / MC profiles on here in about 1999.
They will think otherwise but I feel a bit sorry for kids now, I quite enjoyed being one of the last of a generation to be raised without the internet in my life. Yes I had a mega drive but still spent most of my time playing football or jumping kids on bikes etc If I wanted to know something properly I had to go to the library or hope I see it on TV.
My first memory of using the internet was at a house party at a mates in about 95/96. A few of us were messing about on his computer when he fired up his dial up connection and said "have a look at this". He then loaded up some porn site and after a bout of us all chuckling and giggling like schoolgirls, he loaded up a picture of a bird bent over and sticking two fingers in her twat. When he finally said "right thats enough for now" he closed down the browser and the picture had been set as his desk top wallpaper. We were all like "what the fuck!" and no matter what we did, the picture wouldn't budge, all i remember is my mate panicking and saying "my dads going to kill me".
1996, Dual ISDN using Netscape Navigator 3.0 if I remember correctly. The internet was so slow back then and it seemed that universities hosted the majority of the web in those days.
< Message edited by 0-AID -- 3/5/2012 12:35:10 PM >
Christ 0-aid, you was well early getting online considering your age. You must have been about 8 or 9 lol
MSN messenger though. Talking to you, Majik and giving Robes MCing advice
I was in primary school at the time, and thankfully my school saw my IT abilities and helped me progress with them. When everyone was else was in the class learning some bullshit, I was in the IT room all on my own rinsing the net.
Edit: MSN man, those were the days lol the Lyrical Lobsta! What happened to him anyway? DO you think he's still buff?
< Message edited by 0-AID -- 3/5/2012 12:40:44 PM >
I was with Freeserve, then Tiscali lol They were awful but it was a bit of a bastard to get dial up in the village, and broadband took eons.
I remember the first song I ever downloaded (illegally too) was Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck. Before that it was just internet at school, just going on porn.com and it being blocked. Looking at the DJ / MC profiles on here in about 1999.
They will think otherwise but I feel a bit sorry for kids now, I quite enjoyed being one of the last of a generation to be raised without the internet in my life. Yes I had a mega drive but still spent most of my time playing football or jumping kids on bikes etc If I wanted to know something properly I had to go to the library or hope I see it on TV.
Round a mates house about 14/15, his dad was showing us it and it took ages to load pages, I remember him saying... if you wiggle the mouse the people on the other end know you're getting frustrated so it speeds up. lol
Then a mate got the internet and we was trying to buy fake IDs from Alta Vista
Round a mates house about 14/15, his dad was showing us it and it took ages to load pages, I remember him saying... if you wiggle the mouse the people on the other end know you're getting frustrated so it speeds up. lol
Then a mate got the internet and we was trying to buy fake IDs from Alta Vista
forgot about that, i was using that up until 2001 rather than that stupid "goooooooogle" page.
Bit later, around the 99-2000 mark: Napster, downloading loads of weird / shit house music. Kenny Ken & Hyper D at Mach 1 blasting out my brothers shit PC speakers.
Soulseek was big on the drum and bass / uk hip hop file sharing scene. The D&B room admin were utter cunts who never let me in, they were so strict with release rules etc
I had a 56k anyway so I dont know why I bothered. Took about half hour to download a 3 minute track. I was pleased if I got 5kbps
When I was about 8 or 9 (95/96) I used to go to my mums work sometimes after school and use it. I used to go on things like a Star Wars website then take a walk to the shop and buy some munch then come back and the page would still only be 20% loaded.
When we got dial up at home I left one of my mates on the PC for about an hour when I came back he had try to go on porn and there were about 100 browsers + pop ups open that just wouldn't close and he had managed to dial up to a premium rate phone number and ran up a bill of £80 - he didn't even see any gash.
I remember going to a friends house as a youth in the mid 90's and him having a pc with a dialup connection and we found some random chat site and just talking to girls asking them if they like sex lol. My first Internet connection at home was with my dreamcast & I had to unplug the house phone to get online. One day my mom went mad because she was trying to phone but was constantly engaged. Also when the phone bill came because we were charged shitloads. How things have changed.
I remember going to a friends house as a youth in the mid 90's and him having a pc with a dialup connection and we found some random chat site and just talking to girls asking them if they like sex lol. My first Internet connection at home was with my dreamcast & I had to unplug the house phone to get online. One day my mom went mad because she was trying to phone but was constantly engaged. Also when the phone bill came because we were charged shitloads. How things have changed.
Cant believe i had a Dreamcast and never went online with it, I used to watch movies on it though.
Back in 95' my dad used to work at IBM, he took me round, sat me down at a desk with yahoo open, and said, "son, you're now surfing the internet". Pretty surreal experience.
Can't remember much when I first got it except that it took ages to load anything, was noisey as fuck starting up and my mum would go crazy if I was on it for more than a couple of minutes cause it blocked the phoneline.
Slightly off topic but one of my earliest pc related memories was back in primary school passing around a 3 1/2" floppy with "Bimbo Girl", a parody of that barbie girl song, on it. We all thought it was hilarious.
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I remember looking at porn and ending up with a dialer on the desktop that i couldnt get rid of with delete files/history/uninstall and panicing about the old dear seeing it. Also one night i didnt realise the pc speakers we're still on and after landing on a porn site front page "LET'S FUCK" blasted out of the speakers so i hit "Back" a few times on the browser which reloaded the page over & over leading to "LET'S FUCK...LET'S FU...LET'S FUCK" before i dived for the speakers, was like something out of inbetweeners. 
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