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How long have you been using the Internet for communication?
Did you use Prodigy? Compuserve? AOL? What years?
What do you think about how all of this online communication started?
What do you think about how all of this online communication started?
voted interesting: jeffhoard, brainovermind, easyeboy, krusheasy, robbrown
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Since Compuserve faded into obscurity. Before that I used Compuserve for years, and GEnie for a while. That would be from the mid-80's. AOL was always for newbies only. I remember one or two of the folks that I communicated with via Compuserve having internet addresses, and they were very long and difficult at that time compared to the Compuserve addresses. 
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I first used the Internet probably in 1995 and the concept and possibilities absolutely blew my mind. My family got the internet for the first time a year later 1996, I was about 15 yrs old at the time... I've been pretty much addicted since.
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okay, thanks! cool. I'm waiting for some oldies ... earlier than my 1988. I remember "gray screens and white text" from some weird connected thing that government offices were using back in about 1988... then Prodigy in 1989... then local bulletin boards... then dialup internet for us 1995 to run our business ... then DSL. What changes!
almost 20 years first in the governement as a text messaging service then as a computer with some weird word text software then microsoft office tools arrived after we had to use wordperfect
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oh wow! about as long as I've used it. great details!
I've been using the Internet for e-mail since 1992 or 1993. I would also chat sometimes, back then.
I started using the internet at home about 1996. I still use things like IRC though so sometimes I still feel like I am in the past.
The first time I communicated from my computer to another computer user outside of my city was in 1986 or 87.
I was in my school's first ever computer course. It was Computer Math. Our teacher came from Texas Instruments, where she had been the lead programmer on many amazing tasks. She would show us some of her old programs and try to see if any of us 5 students (only ones that wanted to take the class back then) would seriously be interested in programming careers.
After we had competed with each other to write the best program which could assign and check parking slots, check badge numbers and ID pictures for pentagon employees, she had a surprise for us.
She hopped on a computer for a few minutes, then told me to sit down and "say something." After a few questions, I finally typed "hello" or something like that. Within a few minutes I was typing away to some stranger in some other city. (never told us who the stranger was)
We did those types of things in her classes and her calculus classes (same room) a few times over the next three years.
In 1988 or 1989 I got Videotel. I played tons of chess games with a few different usernames and was hooked. I would literally have hundreds of games going on at any single moment. Also played some word association game back then as well, but I was never as addicted as I was to the chess games on Videotel. We were able to carry on chats during the games, so those were the first real "online friends" I had.
I ended up trying tons over the years. Prodigy, Compuserve, free AOL for years, NetZero, etc etc. until today.
I'm old. Time to go off and cry in a corner.
I was in my school's first ever computer course. It was Computer Math. Our teacher came from Texas Instruments, where she had been the lead programmer on many amazing tasks. She would show us some of her old programs and try to see if any of us 5 students (only ones that wanted to take the class back then) would seriously be interested in programming careers.
After we had competed with each other to write the best program which could assign and check parking slots, check badge numbers and ID pictures for pentagon employees, she had a surprise for us.
She hopped on a computer for a few minutes, then told me to sit down and "say something." After a few questions, I finally typed "hello" or something like that. Within a few minutes I was typing away to some stranger in some other city. (never told us who the stranger was)
We did those types of things in her classes and her calculus classes (same room) a few times over the next three years.
In 1988 or 1989 I got Videotel. I played tons of chess games with a few different usernames and was hooked. I would literally have hundreds of games going on at any single moment. Also played some word association game back then as well, but I was never as addicted as I was to the chess games on Videotel. We were able to carry on chats during the games, so those were the first real "online friends" I had.
I ended up trying tons over the years. Prodigy, Compuserve, free AOL for years, NetZero, etc etc. until today.
I'm old. Time to go off and cry in a corner.
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Don't feel too bad.
Texas Instruments TI-99 4a with expansion box circa 1982 (Friend of my fathers worked for TI).
Followed by the Compaq Portable a couple years later (from dad's work at the phone company)
I just never bothered to hook them up for communication.
That started in 1990 with the VAX at college.
Texas Instruments TI-99 4a with expansion box circa 1982 (Friend of my fathers worked for TI).
Followed by the Compaq Portable a couple years later (from dad's work at the phone company)
I just never bothered to hook them up for communication.
That started in 1990 with the VAX at college.
I've been on the Internet now for 16 years. I first used the Internet in 1993, and it's come a very long ways since then, as now I'm on a wireless broadband Internet connection, opposed to having to dial up on a 14.4 modem. My family first started out with Prodigy and then we moved to America Online, which was AOL Version 1.0. We signed online through a dial up, and we were able to log into the Internet. I think I first went into AOL Connection Chat rooms and AIM, and that was the first form of communication. We signed up fully for AOL when it first became popular back in the day.
My real opinion is the Internet is not good for society for communication to an extent, as it distances people. Online communication is a way of communicating from a distance, and real communication is better in my opinion. People are more prone to be someone they are not online, which is not a good thing, as people are tempted to be or do things that they otherwise wouldn't. Likewise, people can more easily say things online than they can in real life, as they are in between a computer screen.
My real opinion is the Internet is not good for society for communication to an extent, as it distances people. Online communication is a way of communicating from a distance, and real communication is better in my opinion. People are more prone to be someone they are not online, which is not a good thing, as people are tempted to be or do things that they otherwise wouldn't. Likewise, people can more easily say things online than they can in real life, as they are in between a computer screen.
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I remember having to learn to type fast because America Online charged by the hour back in 93/94. Those were funny times ... back when you used to go to the store and run errands while a page loaded. LoL.
Was just reading that AOL started as a online service for something called Gameline for the Atari 2600 video game console back in 82/83.
Was just reading that AOL started as a online service for something called Gameline for the Atari 2600 video game console back in 82/83.
I started using AOL, which wasn't really the Internet in 1992, then in my Junior year of college which was 1996 we were connected to the actual Internet. I remember my professors were very skeptical of it and we were not allowed to use it for research!
But back in the 1980's when I worked for Digital Equipment Corporation we had an internal bulletin board system, called "notes files." Although this wasn't really the internet as we know it, it was the first time I communicated regularly electronically with people I had no connection with other than online. So, you can date my usage back to around 1984 or so.
I go back a long way when it come to tech...
I dabbled on the ancestor of the Internet, the ARPANET, back in 1970s.
Through most of the 1980s I was in academic environments, where we had access to the net as it was then - email, usenet, ftp etc. At that time there was no such thing as the Web.
There was a time in the early to mid 90s when I was in a corporate environment with internal email but no internet, and I didn't yet have home net access either. Round about 1994 I got myself a laptop and got on the net, at first via Compuserve. At that point there weren't a lot of people to email with!
From that time up til now it's gone from hardly anyone I know being on email to virtually everyone I know!
Since then I've at least dabbled in most forms of online communication, whether it's Skype or blogging or Twitter.
What do I think of the evolution of all this communication?
We could see the possibilities back in the 1970s. It was exciting that you could chat with someone thousands of miles away, even when it was over a 300bps connection.
I guess what we didn't forsee is how all this easy access to info and communication could result in overload!
I dabbled on the ancestor of the Internet, the ARPANET, back in 1970s.
Through most of the 1980s I was in academic environments, where we had access to the net as it was then - email, usenet, ftp etc. At that time there was no such thing as the Web.
There was a time in the early to mid 90s when I was in a corporate environment with internal email but no internet, and I didn't yet have home net access either. Round about 1994 I got myself a laptop and got on the net, at first via Compuserve. At that point there weren't a lot of people to email with!
From that time up til now it's gone from hardly anyone I know being on email to virtually everyone I know!
Since then I've at least dabbled in most forms of online communication, whether it's Skype or blogging or Twitter.
What do I think of the evolution of all this communication?
We could see the possibilities back in the 1970s. It was exciting that you could chat with someone thousands of miles away, even when it was over a 300bps connection.
I guess what we didn't forsee is how all this easy access to info and communication could result in overload!
voted helpful: dannyjohnson, bunnyphuphu, spoon, brainovermind
I was hoping someone would mention 300 baud. I remember my first 1200bps modem- I couldn't read to keep up with the text when it came in... Then my 2400bps Hayes compatible external came in.. wow...
"Baud"... now that's another word that you don't hear very often. :)
I started with a WebTV back in 1999 then got my computer in 2002.
I have been doing it for about 5 years
In the pasts i used aol dial up it has
changed so much over the years.
In the pasts i used aol dial up it has
changed so much over the years.
Almost ten years. I started with e-mails (hotmail). Then, in one year, I started to use ICQ and other internet communication tools.
I did not use any of those (Prodigy, ... ).
I did not use any of those (Prodigy, ... ).
I took my first computer class in the 70's.
I was known as a "FRID-kid" in the computer classes up at Lawrence Hall of Science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Hall_of_Science
I used the Mac 1 with 1 meg of memory in my first job.
I signed on to AOL as 'bunyphuphu' in 1992.
The rest is history...
I was known as a "FRID-kid" in the computer classes up at Lawrence Hall of Science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Hall_of_Science
I used the Mac 1 with 1 meg of memory in my first job.
I signed on to AOL as 'bunyphuphu' in 1992.
The rest is history...
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I bought my first laptop with broadband connection in January 2005.Before that,I told my self to not buy a computer
I was using a 300 baud modem and chatted with a guy in North Carolina. Amazing. This was '86. Used email the next year at the college where I worked. We had a DEC VAX II as our server. I remember when someone said that they were going to need the fastest modem possible, because she had just started using a brand new program called "Netscape."
One more thing. It strikes me that email is going to be very useful if and when we ever get colonies on the outer area our solar system. There were various discussions in the 60's and 70's about whether a government on Earth could control colonies on other heavenly bodies. Some said that the lag in communications would make that impossible.
One more thing. It strikes me that email is going to be very useful if and when we ever get colonies on the outer area our solar system. There were various discussions in the 60's and 70's about whether a government on Earth could control colonies on other heavenly bodies. Some said that the lag in communications would make that impossible.
Yes. Over 8 years.
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