When was your first internet experience? Do you remember when it was called the "web" or "web net"? I think my first time on the web was in 1989. It was mostly dial-up to internet bulletin boards. I don't remember there being web address or URL's. You basically dialed directly to another machine (website) on the web. Or, you dialed a directory that would attach you to another site. It's been so long ago I really don't remember how the he11 we did it.

My first IT job was in a data center that had an IBM mainframe. Disk storage consisted of  machines as big as van with hard drives that weighed about 50lbs ea. and where about the size of a microwave oven. The hard drive in your PC today has about 3x the storage the 5000lb IBM had. Terra bite was not even a word then. We had about 50 car batteries as the backup power supply in case of power outages...and they never worked.

Here I sit with a 3lb computer in my lap. And I'm going blind looking at the screen all day.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, it was more like 93-94ish when I first got on the web. At work, not at home. I started at the company in 89 but did not work in IT until 94.

Supposedly one of the earliest - 1992 - webpages around. Anybody go back further???

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

This site started archiving snapshots in 1996....but check out the Internet Wayback Machine to see current urls in their past forms.

http://archive.org/web/web.php

This website is really something even if it's totally useless

www.something.com

Well that sure was something.

BBS's in 1988ish. compuserve early 90's fulltime jun2003 here lol

My first time on the net was looking up cheezetv.com back in 1994. And I sent my first email in 1997. Both accessed from a 486. Thems were the days. Dial up and all.

mid/late 2003 here mosts posts had 56k warning preceding  subject 

I think it was '95, maybe 94 though.  Just hopping on an AOL chat room.

I remember coming home from elementary school in the late 80's and playing Pac-Man on the home P.C.  (Both parents worked for I.B.M.)

My brother got a Commodore 64 when we where kids.. It loaded games from cassette....took foooorever.

At some point I remember I worked on 286's, &  and NEC and Memorex 386's (with a trubo button that took it from 8mb to 16mb speeds).

Sometime around 1980 or so with an Atari 400 computer playing games connected through Compuserve. My how things have changed.

Quote from: makenzie71 on May 10, 2013, 10:45:02 PM
Well that sure was something.

theres something, then the last page of the internet
http://www.endoftheinternet.com/

http://snarg.net/

Earliest here was 1994 - connected using good ol' NCSA mosaic (replaced by netscape navigator).. at that stage we had one gateway in NZ - Waikato University

I assume BBS's don't count?

Quote from: Kiwingenuity on May 12, 2013, 05:17:56 PM
Earliest here was 1994 - connected using good ol' NCSA mosaic (replaced by netscape navigator).. at that stage we had one gateway in NZ - Waikato University

I assume BBS's don't count?

Yea, Netscape was one of the first. I have a collection of old AOL CD's that came in those metal tins. I used to have hundred of them. \
Back then part of my job was to sit for 2 hr. a day placing dummy orders on our internet site. This was before ordering things online was popular. I had to log every time AOL had an error or got disconnected when placing an order on our web-store. It had about a 50% fail rate. Boy, did that ever piss-off the big wigs. They could not understand why these orders would not get processed. If I had a nickle for every time I said it was a problem with AOL I'd be rich. They also could not understand why the time of day effected the speed of the internet. DAMMMIT, I forgot how much they pissed me off every day. They somehow wanted one guy to fix it so they could get a big bonus.
BBS's count. We called them Bulletin Boards...BBS. In fact in my current job we still used dial up to a BBS until about a year or 2 ago. It was a site that ran a program we needed to access. It was so old nobody knew how to "upgrade it" so they just kept it running rather than spend a bunch of $$$ to write a new program. This happens a lot in government.

1994...AOL Online.  The Floppy disk in the mail.  Remember those?

Windows 3.1 running 386 Enhanced Mode!

Quote from: jestercinti on May 13, 2013, 10:51:16 AM
1994...AOL Online.  The Floppy disk in the mail.  Remember those?

Windows 3.1 running 386 Enhanced Mode!

I still have a laptop running Windows 3.1. It has a non-color LCD screen.

lol same here. as well as an 8088 and a sinclair 16

I thought only Sinclair was a gas station?


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Quote from: noworries on May 10, 2013, 09:53:08 PM
Supposedly one of the earliest - 1992 - webpages around. Anybody go back further???

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

i used to find this using the BBS'