Long before the Internet....

[Onkel Neal]

It's cool that some of you guys have that old school legacy in your background. I wish I had been more tech involved from the beginning. My best bud bought a TRS-80 in 1979, he worked at Radio Shack. We used to load the programs on it with a cassette player--the volume had to be set just right to work--and after 6 or 7 minutes, we could play Pharoh or Bedlam. I learned a bit of Basic to write a program that worked like a database, if you typed the name of a song, it would tell you the artist and album, etc. Eventually I bought a Timex Sinclair, but most of my computer experience up until DOS was on his TRS-80 and CoCo.

But we didn't get into BBSs until the early '90s. I worked with an old guy who had green teeth and smoked dope like a fiend. He had four or five caseless computers in his living room, his whole house looked like a techie's dream. He ran a BBS and I remember dialing in to it. It had door games of all kinds, and chat, very cool.

A couple years later I logged into this thing they called the World Wide Web and slowly left BBSs behind.

Check out video 2, the one about SysOps, really cool.

Neal

[August]

Originally Posted by Letum

I remember when all this was just fields...

[XabbaRus]

1990 that was when I first dialled into a BBS.

Those were the days. I remember my first nude picture I downloaded was a VGA resolution picture of Miriam D'Abo....

It wasn't till 1994 when I started uni that I had constant access to the web. Those were the days when there were normal people in chatrooms, there wasn't all this myspace nonsense and mainly students and professionals on the net.

[SteamWake]

Another blast from the past

MUD's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

I have to admit I participated in these too

[Platapus]

My first computer was a Radio Shack PC-1. That was in 1980

It had 1.9 kb of memory and I could program in basic.

And I was the big kid on the block

[nikimcbee]

Now that's back when jimbuna only had < 300 posts.

I remember when my dad brought home a 300 baud modem , and you had to wait for the tone, then plug the phone in.

[nikimcbee]

oh and a clarification; it that internet or internetz?

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

oh and a clarification; it that internet or internetz?

The current terminology is; teh inernets

[CaptainHaplo]

I remember the old trash 80's. Heck - one of my companies oldest legacy systems is built on a modified tandy - and we have people that still use them! They hate being told they have to upgrade!

The first dialing on my own pc was to a friend's computer - to play the original Command and Conquer multiplayer! That was what - 95? Everything before that was old token ring networks that were local to themselves only. *For the record - I still have nightmares about IPX/SPX*

Then came dial up to the www. Then high speed. Then it was the FTP&IRC scene. At one point you finally had to make a decision - white or black hat. Nowadays its easier - you can wear em both with good cause and legality.

[rubenandthejets]

OMG!
My first PC was a kit from Dick Smith Electronics. We upgraded the RAM to 32K and then we could play "snake". We used to drool at the TSR80.

I was so happy to play "M1A1 Tank Platoon" in CGA graphics (two 5 1/4 inch drives chugging away) when I upgraded to a super hot new machine.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

The current terminology is; teh inernets

Interwebs... sheese :rotfl:

[sonar732]

Oh the early days of CompuServ and playing Zork.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by sonar732

Oh the early days of CompuServ and playing Zork.

Compuserver.... 8 lines by 40 charecters of text.

File 'librarys' were limited to 4 sections..

Baud rates up to 300bps..

Awsome technology