What were you doing online in '95?

I ran BBS on Renegade.. Telnet chat rooms, Lynx text browsing through local free dial-up internet.. AOL chat rooms FTW.
 


Roundabout said:
Anybody dare to go back another 10 years to 1985? We had one of the first BBSs up back then, and I actually had designed an online text adventure much like Infocom/Zork where you'd log in and play the game at 300 baud.

We were all chatting back then through D-Dial and other programs before people knew what the Internet was. Too funny.
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I was completely blown away by Back to The Future.. couldn't understand WTF was going on "Wait.. how come MArty can see himself if the parking lot?? Why is he disappearing"

Playing WICKED games like: Star Raiders and Zaxxon (on Tape!) on an Atari 400.. Indiana Jones, Loderunner, The Dark Crystal, etc.. on Apple IIe Clone
 
I'm still amazed that mIRC is still going though... I downloaded it for fun and I noticed that all those channels I used to go to (15 years ago!) are still there and have just as many people chatting in them. Some people just LOVE that shit and won't let go LOL
 
I was flippin' floppys with WinZip and selling burned copies of All Eyes on Me to my middle school classmates. I had an ISDN connection at home so I would be the one to host Quake games for my two friends that played. 250-300 ping for the win! Having to time your mouse click to when you anticipated being in front of a doorway to launch a rocket was half the fun.
Also loved being able to download porn crazy fast (128kps) compared to my friends. Im amazed i didnt throw out my shoulder when I was 12
 
I was listening to this:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiUuL5uTKc"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

And remember seeing this commercial late night through the 90's

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdlb5yv5xo"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
 
LoL, yep I remember 14.4K , I had 8k baud before that.
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I think it was 9.6k but I could be wrong. :) I definitely remember redialing the phone to kick my mom off her connection so I could steal it and being excited when we got a new 14.4 modem.

I was definitely on the AOL chat rooms, MIRC, etc. I still have an email address that has been active since about 94 or 95 on AOL. I actually worked for AOL tech support in 97... what a nightmare.
 
You didn't play Action Quake in 1995. :)

Dude, I spent hours on WWIV boards, playing food fight and space wars or whatever. I spent tons of time on Clockwork Orange BBS in Orange County, CA - but that was more like 1989 or so. On my Apple iic with the kickass 1200 baud modem. I didn't have an IBM compatible, so I was pissed that my friend could play Mechwarrior and I couldn't. I did play Ultima V all the way through though, since they released that for Apple. I finished that, and Bard's Tale, Wasteland and a few other Interplay games.

In 1995, I had my own Dell 133 Pentium with a HUGE 19 inch monitor and was playing Elder Scrolls: Arena and Mechwarrior 2. Mechwarrior 2 rocked so hard.
 
In 95 I was still on some bbses reading shit like TDKEB and drawing ASCII art. If I remember right AOHell was going hard back then as well what a fun program.

"Hello, This is Tim Davis from the AOL Support Department. We have seen some unauthorized access to your account. We will suspend your account if you don't reply with your password for verification." ><> were fun.
 
A friend of mine that I worked with met an "Extremely Wealthy" divorcée on AOL chat. He went from being a 30-something pothead with no usable skills one day -- to meeting and chatting this lady up the next day -- day after that they moved in together -- a week later he was driving a brand new Harley and talking about building his dream house and relaxing for a few years.

Disclaimer: Those of you paying alimony may not enjoy the above "Very True" story.

They're still together 12 years later and he's combined her money, with his "disability" income. The lucky f'in SOB literally retired the day he met that lady (who isn't hard on the eyes btw).
 
IMHopeful said:
A friend of mine that I worked with met an "Extremely Wealthy" divorcée on AOL chat. He went from being a 30-something pothead with no usable skills one day -- to meeting and chatting this lady up the next day -- day after that they moved in together -- a week later he was driving a brand new Harley and talking about building his dream house and relaxing for a few years.

Disclaimer: Those of you paying alimony may not enjoy the above "Very True" story.
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At least it's a girl paying this time.
 
I was 6-7 years old and I knew how to work mIRC to chat on the WWF wrestling channels, trolling #funfactory and a few years later download warez from it. I remember hating ICQ later down the line because it took over my beloved IRC.

This was after 1995, maybe 97-98 but I also remember downloading custom IRC clients, in particular I was a fan of Tupac as a kid and downloaded a "Tupac Outlawz IRC client." It was skinned (badly) with pictures of him and his buddies around the windows and with a touch of a button (scriptz) it would blast out an Ascii such as this and various quotations of the wise man. I remember getting banned from numerous channels spamming shit like this, good times.

……[|..)_____________)#######((_
....../===============..-..___,--".._\
....."-._,__,__[ ..... ]____\.#######/
………………….\…(…).)…).#### O##(
……………………\..\____/,..#######\
……2Pac……….`====”….\#######\
……Thug-Life….…………….\#######\
……Westside.…………………)##O####|
………………………………………)..####__,”
……………………………………….`..–.”.”

I also miss that baddass Dial-Up sound when connecting to the net. I didn't mind dropping out everytime a phonecall came through because the sound was like music to me. :D
 
After learning what I thought was "programming" (html), I graduated to IRC, scripting, DoS & Warez. Then I met a girl that let me touch her in inappropriate ways, and it was all down hill from there...
 
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