This... and I think Command & Conquer!
I was 7 years old in '95, so just killing time.
What were you doing online in '95?
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This... and I think Command & Conquer!
I was 7 years old in '95, so just killing time.
same as all you, AOL and IRC chat rooms, warez (porn and games mostly). I even set up my own xdcc or whatever server, I was like the only one of my classmates to have ADSL when it first came out (was like a mile from the nearest center/access point or whatever?).
anyways, a/s/l
anyways, a/s/l
fuck
i'm getting old. watching this i cant fucking believe how far we've already come. gotta say i'm a strong believer that the net is one of mankinds greatest inventions and cant wait to see what its like in another 15, 20, 30 years.
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i'm getting old. watching this i cant fucking believe how far we've already come. gotta say i'm a strong believer that the net is one of mankinds greatest inventions and cant wait to see what its like in another 15, 20, 30 years.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIc7xmSb2E"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkhY3IH5-3s&feature=related"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXQv6N1sPE&feature=related"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
I was 11 years old in 1995. I don't remember exactly what I was doing, but I was on Promenade and then AOL surfing chatrooms and playing MUDs (that is what those text based games were called, right?).
Around this time I remember getting my first CD burner and saving up to $200 to upgrade my IBM PS/2 from 4MB to 8MB RAM. I am now on my iPhone 4 which has like 512MB and is only a few times larger than that RAM module.
Also, thinking how awesome the US Robotics 56.6k upgrade was over my 14.4k or 28.8k. Although this might have been a little post-1995.
Some other random memories:
Prodigy
Chuck Yeagers Air Combat on 3.25" floppies that I pirated from my friend.
Accidentally deleting my autoexec.bat and freaking out when my computer wouldn't boot into DOS/Direct Access.
My upgrade from DOS to Windows 3.1, and then the subsequent Windows upgrades
Around this time I remember getting my first CD burner and saving up to $200 to upgrade my IBM PS/2 from 4MB to 8MB RAM. I am now on my iPhone 4 which has like 512MB and is only a few times larger than that RAM module.
Also, thinking how awesome the US Robotics 56.6k upgrade was over my 14.4k or 28.8k. Although this might have been a little post-1995.
Some other random memories:
Prodigy
Chuck Yeagers Air Combat on 3.25" floppies that I pirated from my friend.
Accidentally deleting my autoexec.bat and freaking out when my computer wouldn't boot into DOS/Direct Access.
My upgrade from DOS to Windows 3.1, and then the subsequent Windows upgrades
1995 INTERNET CRED FAIL: (No Google yet - Yahoo was directory still, and searches were generally handled poorly by Excite and Webcrawler... long live Lycos!)
Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-sep-1997
Expiration Date: 14-sep-2011
1995 INTERNET CRED FAIL: (Technically, GeoCities did start in 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, but it was limited to city areas and unless you were one of the first few thousand - which I doubt - you're off by a few years).
Domain Name: GEOCITIES.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-dec-1995
Expiration Date: 14-dec-2012
Not trying to shit on your thread, but if you're trying to build some Internet cred or whatever you're doing it wrong.
No one gives a shit about "Man I wish I was doing this back then" because first, there was no market for this (like CPA on Facebook), second the people that made money off early Internet ventures spent more time working their asses off and developing a long standing history with the early Internet that they were able to adapt over time and maintain... e.g., Ebay, Amazon (Bezos worked his ass off to build Amazon), ICQ...
The other successes for marketing have gone through a series of refinement, each making a better attempt at social interaction through the Internet combined with advertising: Geocities / Homestead, which became MySpace (in all honesty ThemeStream did it better earlier), which became Facebook (in spirit).
A better thread was "WTF were you doin' in '95 - man, remember those days with Delphi chat link through IRC, remember downloading BBS lists through Compuserve? Remember paying $400 for a 40MB MFM hard drive?"
... and yeah, that was cool.
Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-sep-1997
Expiration Date: 14-sep-2011
1995 INTERNET CRED FAIL: (Technically, GeoCities did start in 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, but it was limited to city areas and unless you were one of the first few thousand - which I doubt - you're off by a few years).
Domain Name: GEOCITIES.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Updated Date: 18-nov-2008
Creation Date: 15-dec-1995
Expiration Date: 14-dec-2012
Not trying to shit on your thread, but if you're trying to build some Internet cred or whatever you're doing it wrong.
No one gives a shit about "Man I wish I was doing this back then" because first, there was no market for this (like CPA on Facebook), second the people that made money off early Internet ventures spent more time working their asses off and developing a long standing history with the early Internet that they were able to adapt over time and maintain... e.g., Ebay, Amazon (Bezos worked his ass off to build Amazon), ICQ...
The other successes for marketing have gone through a series of refinement, each making a better attempt at social interaction through the Internet combined with advertising: Geocities / Homestead, which became MySpace (in all honesty ThemeStream did it better earlier), which became Facebook (in spirit).
A better thread was "WTF were you doin' in '95 - man, remember those days with Delphi chat link through IRC, remember downloading BBS lists through Compuserve? Remember paying $400 for a 40MB MFM hard drive?"
... and yeah, that was cool.
i think i started later
i remember:
ICQ
XOOM
NAPSTER
FRONTPAGE
IIS 4.0 and 5.0 unicode exploit (defacing half the interwebz)
Back Orifice
astalavista.box.sk
pamela and tommy sex tape
worms 2.0 multiplayer
i remember:
ICQ
XOOM
NAPSTER
FRONTPAGE
IIS 4.0 and 5.0 unicode exploit (defacing half the interwebz)
Back Orifice
astalavista.box.sk
pamela and tommy sex tape
worms 2.0 multiplayer
Was playin' on "The Zone"... anybody remember Microsoft Game Zone? You could "spy" on others playing and would ultimately cause their game to crash...
Something I used to find hilarious, finding an AOL chat user with an 'I' in their name and creating a similar alias on my account using a lowercase L, the alias font made them look identical. Copy their chat type styling and use a prog to repeat everything they say and/or type garbage alienating everyone in the room haha.
In hindsight, there are so many things I could've done better had I just opened my mind up a bit. Quake took up nearly all of my online time for years, people phoning the house started asking if the home line was a business line as it was constantly engaged, oops
In hindsight, there are so many things I could've done better had I just opened my mind up a bit. Quake took up nearly all of my online time for years, people phoning the house started asking if the home line was a business line as it was constantly engaged, oops
Started on Prodigy, but moved to AOL, where my internet crime career began. Phishing, spamming (AOL was so easy to spam, no wonder it's #1), etc. I had fake Ecard and other sites set up, and would get passwords of kids at school who I hated and would fuck with their lives.
Also, lol @ Kani. I had a few HOST and OH's to my name. Also had a few 3char screen names. My favorite was JSN.
I like to think I am a more mature person these days
Also, lol @ Kani. I had a few HOST and OH's to my name. Also had a few 3char screen names. My favorite was JSN.
I like to think I am a more mature person these days