No reason behind my two questions. Just curiosity. I discovered internet when it became public and I find strange SG still uses board discussions. (Don't get me wrong, i love that)
Same. I was in school and I remember waiting like 5 entire minutes for a picture to display lmao
Still, lots of IRC chats and BBS convos with people all over the world. Fun times.
My brother and I scoured the old geek papers for local BBSes we could call in without getting phone charges. We memorized all the prefixes. So many boring BBSes out there. But we found a few great ones.
So many boring BBSes out there. But we found a few great ones
There were awesome ones. I remember one of the first I spent any time on was a Dungeons & Dragons BBS where people would be play a modified tabletop version. When I say I spent "time" on it, I mean I literally bribed the night security guy at my school so I could stay in the computer room until 4am instead of vacating at 11pm with everyone else XD
Later on I joined the rest of the nerd brigade on the Star Trek and X-files BBS but that was later.
Oh nice! I think our favorites were ones with good door games, like TradeWars. Legend of the Red Dragon... And then there was one local BBS with a 32 phone line chat, for Broderbund games, that no one used. So all the local kids took it over.
Ooh, and MUDs. Then I found ones where you could program you own spaces (MUSE). Such a time sink.
Haha yep the internet was a black hole for real life time right from the start
I remember MUDs and they apparently still exist although i will not check, no I will not. Nope. Not me because I don't have that kind of time anymore.... dammit
No AOL and a other company (can't remember the name) was availabale in germany.
1,80 DM (=0,90€)/h for the phone line and 6 DM (= 3€)/h for the ISP
Let's say i worked nearly only to have internet :-D
It was a bit extreme but i met a lot of nice people and i met them partly in the reallife too.
Mostly traveling to other parts in germany and then ~5 of us meet each other.
And they came later around when i made a birthday party. One from the usa too.
It was a other time, without the faking self presentation, and i am happy that i made this experiences when i were able to.
This friendships were active for many years.
I didn't know AOL started this early in Germany. I thought they had started in 1995 like in France. I used to visit my grandparents over the summer and was very excited to show them the internet in 1994 but no AOL yet.
And they came later around when i made a birthday party. One from the usa too.
Really cool
It was a other time, without the faking self presentation, and i am happy that i made this experiences when i were able to.
Very true. No catfishing, AI BS and people weren't obsessed with looks. Just people with common interests making a connection over the distance.
🙄A long time ago, I joined an internet secret society in name only....
Activity? I didn't do anything... I was just monitoring the human race.
but “majority rule” is often used when considering things, but majority rule made in a “short” amount of time is usually a paved route to hell with good intentions.
The most desirable situation is for both parties to have enough time to consider each other's comments, waiting as leisurely as waiting for a response from a user on the other side of the earth or the other side of Pluto.
SG residents should continue to have time to slow down and think.
I hope we don't get a bunch of power brokers who drag each other down with emotional name-calling, conspiracy theories, and factual inaccuracies, and then do nothing but lament that it's someone else's or another country's fault when the earth gets hit by a meteor.
It reminds me of the huge meteorite explosion in some country.
Oh i love the discussions/forums how it is here on SG. For me its sooo annoying on other platforms where you have to scroll forever only to see the same topics over and over again. I hope it will never change here and would really like if other platforms would get back to this "outdated" format.
You're an internet old timer too! How early was your first browsing? (Just asking for a friend and not at all trying to feel less old here)
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I'd say around 1995, or something like that , I remember using netscape :p
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Same. I was in school and I remember waiting like 5 entire minutes for a picture to display lmao
Still, lots of IRC chats and BBS convos with people all over the world. Fun times.
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Modem dial-up!
Beeeeeep ksshhshhshszzhshzzt beeeeeeiiiiiiiii----
My brother and I scoured the old geek papers for local BBSes we could call in without getting phone charges. We memorized all the prefixes. So many boring BBSes out there. But we found a few great ones.
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Wow you went in hardcore!
There were awesome ones. I remember one of the first I spent any time on was a Dungeons & Dragons BBS where people would be play a modified tabletop version. When I say I spent "time" on it, I mean I literally bribed the night security guy at my school so I could stay in the computer room until 4am instead of vacating at 11pm with everyone else XD
Later on I joined the rest of the nerd brigade on the Star Trek and X-files BBS but that was later.
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Oh nice! I think our favorites were ones with good door games, like TradeWars. Legend of the Red Dragon... And then there was one local BBS with a 32 phone line chat, for Broderbund games, that no one used. So all the local kids took it over.
Ooh, and MUDs. Then I found ones where you could program you own spaces (MUSE). Such a time sink.
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Haha yep the internet was a black hole for real life time right from the start
I remember MUDs and they apparently still exist although i will not check, no I will not. Nope. Not me because I don't have that kind of time anymore.... dammit
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des luls!
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For me it was 1991 or 1992, when i were 15/16.
Long long time ago.
And i learned then all the english words and sentences that weren't teached in the school (so the big majority that i know nowadays).
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1991?? Were you working at CERN in your teens, Masa? ;)
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No AOL and a other company (can't remember the name) was availabale in germany.
1,80 DM (=0,90€)/h for the phone line and 6 DM (= 3€)/h for the ISP
Let's say i worked nearly only to have internet :-D
It was a bit extreme but i met a lot of nice people and i met them partly in the reallife too.
Mostly traveling to other parts in germany and then ~5 of us meet each other.
And they came later around when i made a birthday party. One from the usa too.
It was a other time, without the faking self presentation, and i am happy that i made this experiences when i were able to.
This friendships were active for many years.
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I didn't know AOL started this early in Germany. I thought they had started in 1995 like in France. I used to visit my grandparents over the summer and was very excited to show them the internet in 1994 but no AOL yet.
Really cool
Very true. No catfishing, AI BS and people weren't obsessed with looks. Just people with common interests making a connection over the distance.
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🙄A long time ago, I joined an internet secret society in name only....
Activity? I didn't do anything... I was just monitoring the human race.
but “majority rule” is often used when considering things, but majority rule made in a “short” amount of time is usually a paved route to hell with good intentions.
The most desirable situation is for both parties to have enough time to consider each other's comments, waiting as leisurely as waiting for a response from a user on the other side of the earth or the other side of Pluto.
SG residents should continue to have time to slow down and think.
I hope we don't get a bunch of power brokers who drag each other down with emotional name-calling, conspiracy theories, and factual inaccuracies, and then do nothing but lament that it's someone else's or another country's fault when the earth gets hit by a meteor.
It reminds me of the huge meteorite explosion in some country.
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I'm 100% on the same line as you.
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Remember when you could use text-based browsing? Turning off images so your 14k modem could keep up with loading pages…
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And text ads that weren't taking over whole screens. Good ole days.
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And www sites with internet spiders (crawlers) that you needed to know to use it like nowadays google/duckduckgo etc..
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lol and the long lists of "site index" pages.
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I remember when the fastest consumer modem was less than 14k.
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I had an external 9600 at some, but once most people I knew were getting computers, modems were at 14k by then (and mostly built-in).
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The one I used in the 80's was 300 baud. Get off my lawn you kids!
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Well, congrats on the half century.
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It certainly has been a lot of cake. Thanks :)
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Oh i love the discussions/forums how it is here on SG. For me its sooo annoying on other platforms where you have to scroll forever only to see the same topics over and over again. I hope it will never change here and would really like if other platforms would get back to this "outdated" format.
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