What were you doing online in '95?

how about grabbin software and having to tie up the phone line for 24 hours hoping you didnt get disconnected so you can finish your photoshop 5 download.

shit man, i remember buddies of mine burning me copies of apps and snail mailing them because it was more efficient, haha.

back when cd-burners were $150.00 at a computer fair, and when the thing spun up and read at 52x it sounded like a fucking jet lol...
 
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what about Myst??? Nobody was playing Myst??

First decent game I played on a smoking fast 133mghz Pentium!
 
remember those TV commercials promoting the 56k modems? ahahaha
there was a guy getting a haircut or something while an image was downloading or some crap like that...56ks was the shit...
 
....and when you finally got that 56k, you would have to keep disconnected and reconnecting so you could get that 54.600kbps connection, because who the fuck wants to connect at 38.600 or 48.500 when you got 56k MAN@?#@?#
 
95? I was the clueless girlfriend of 14 who kept kicking my boyfriend offline by calling his house (and calling again when he didn't answer.)

By 97, however, I had a ultra cool Hotmail email account and had a great time messing with men by being one of the few real female on video chat (Nothing naughty, mind you *grins*)
 
KaniGT5 said:
....and when you finally got that 56k, you would have to keep disconnected and reconnecting so you could get that 54.600kbps connection, because who the fuck wants to connect at 38.600 or 48.500 when you got 56k MAN@?#@?#
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I was about to post that! it was actually 53.3k on a good day, never 56k

sad thing is in 10 years we will all be laughing hard at our 50mega/s cable connections and "smartphones"...

and soon after we all get too old and stop caring about techy shit and start paying more attention to our prostates and kids ...
 
what about Webtv??? somebody in here surely used that piece of shit back in the day...

when a new update came it was like a little mini Christmas!
 
Spliffic said:
Lol, don't forget thehun.net and once we started getting some bandwidth it was p-bot.com. Had to wait an entire fucking day to get the next 3 mins of video on a 20 minute movie. FFFFUUUU

Does anybody remember mIRC porn servers where you typed in the likes of "!freeporn" and the bot would message you their listing of crappy porn?
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LOL I totally remember this. I got so many good Apps from those servers though to be honest.... mIRC was the shit back then... The guy who created was Palestinian I think.
 
I got one of the first Pentium 150mhz MMX processors. I was the envy of my small town. I blazed through Myst and Wolf3D like no tomorrow. My 56k modem was so kickass. :D I still spent a lot of my time in DOS because I was more comfortable with it than with Windows. Oh, and I should mention that I was 4 years old. LOL. My mom found out I was playing Wolf3D so she took away my floppies. Little did she know, I had backups. Good times.

EDIT: Oh, and I still have Wolf3D on 3.5" floppies. I know exactly where they're at too. You can still play it on XP. For Vista or 7 you have to use DosBox though.
 
freakin floppy disks! I remember my uncle giving me Windows 95 on 35 floppy disks LOL. It took me a whole afternoon switching from one floppy to the other until I get "boot sector damaged" DOS error message at disk #28 ... I thought I was gonna kill myself LOL
 
wat__ said:
lol I was brn

so many accounts "termed", and then when you got the AIM account that was "icase" awwww sheeeiiit
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Yea tell me about it ... that 3char I had was either termed or stolen :(


Remember the warez lists being sent to your inbox after typing things like "/send list x" in aol chat? Getting those lists was awesome
 
Wasting a LOT of time on a local BBS. But that got me into a local internet service provider years later, where I then became a tech support guy for them during high school.

My dumb ass had FREE co-location on 5 backbones and I never managed to put up a REAL web project. 10 years later, I'm finally a web entrepreneur, but missed so much of the boat. I could easily be a billionaire right now. But no regrets... I'm a happy camper here
 
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95? I was the clueless girlfriend of 14 who kept kicking my boyfriend offline by calling his house (and calling again when he didn't answer.)

By 97, however, I had a ultra cool Hotmail email account and had a great time messing with men by being one of the few real female on video chat (Nothing naughty, mind you *grins*)
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You were probably one of the rare real chicks online at that time lol...

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heh, memories thread

Around that 95, was still messing on "not so local" bbs, calling in during the night, when the price for non local calls was lower and managing to stay on for just about 20 mins until connection breaks due to poor telecommunications and then staying up all night, redialing MANUALLY and sleeping along the way. (the good old connection sound from the modem would wake me up)

I didn't own PC until 97, in 95 I had Commodore Amiga :)) and was playing around better games then PC owners had (that's what I thought about amiga at the time). Getting pics of the BBS was a bitch tho, since the Amiga computers weren't build like that, so even if I downloaded the picture properly, I could'nt really see it (decoding was never in range of full colors, more like 256 colors) :D

Also, commodore 64, prior to 1995, was a total bliss. Loading the game for 1 hour of the 2 tapes, just for the load to fail because the azimut (reading head position) was a bit off :D

I remember I lost my days playing around in OctaMed (tracker) and making tons and tons of music. I still have the HD somewhere laying around (oh, when I got the HD for it, I was happiest person alive).

When I got to PC and internet eventually, it was mostly mIRC and as someone pointed out, being an OP at the time actually meant something. I remember, the virtual meeting of OP's in an Irc channel I was spending life on, where they were deciding should I be an OP or not. Waiting for the results was so exciting and making it to admins group was sooooo important!

I was a fan of AltaVista at the time, since it was streamlined, good looking and actually had good results. That's the time I got into flash sites by accident (there was like 4, 5 of them) and waiting for them to load on a cracked 56k connection was priceless. Not to mention that if the connection drops (and it did, ALOT!) the flash has to be refreshed because for some reason it wouldn't resume the download. Happy times...
 
IDSPISPOPD
IDDQD
IDKFA
(still burned into my brain!)

Finding out how pissed school techs get when you combine looping batch files with net send.

Routing the telephone line to my bedroom whilst everyone is out, then trying to soundproof a 36k modem with a pillow.

Oh and dancing hamsters.
 
Can't say 95 specifically but, the 90's bring back some memories.

Prodigy
Qbasic (gorillas, snake)
wolfenstein
Doom
carding
phreaking
cyber
printing out porn pics of celebs on glossy paper and selling to classmates
e-mail bombing my high school
geocities
angelfire
x386
BBS
solitaire (since in my comp class i was the only person that new about alt+tab to switch apps, people would ask me how i did that lol)

got caught for a few of those up there, unfortunate i was more about being 'bad' as a kid than making money.
 
I, too, spent time on MTV chat, but only at friends houses. I didn't have internet at home, only at school.

I joined a Guns N' Roses email list, which was like a primitive forum. The teacher said all the emails were slowing down his server. Lulz.

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