Do you remember when you first "got the internet" at your house? How old were you? What type of connection was it? Do you still have the original connection, or have you moved on? What did you spend most of your time doing while online?
In the mid 90s when my friends first started getting computers and modems at their houses, the main provider of the day was AOL, as I recall. Dial-up. No one seemed to like AOL messenger, so we all used ICQ. It was a huge deal when one of my friends got their first cable modem, as his computer was always connected, and there were no problems with bitchy sisters picking up the phone and killing the signal.
By the time my parents bothered with the internet, it was well after 2000 (which was weird, seeing as my father had taken some computer courses up at the college about seven years before that, and insisted on getting with the times), and we went straight for broadband. We'd had a computer for many years before that, but it was only ever used for things like playing Paper Boy, and one of the first versions of Word Perfect just for the sake of typing (good old 386 and Windows 3.1). We got a new computer before ever getting a modem. Hm... I remember wasting a lot of time on Paint, as well. Once we got the modem, I spent the bulk of my time in chat rooms (so lame... I hate chat rooms) and on a primitive version of Windows Messenger (and I can still remember the day the emoticons started to move).
Four years ago, along came Biff Slow Toboggan (the name my family has given my laptop) and the wireless router, and here I am.
How about you, Escapists?
In the mid 90s when my friends first started getting computers and modems at their houses, the main provider of the day was AOL, as I recall. Dial-up. No one seemed to like AOL messenger, so we all used ICQ. It was a huge deal when one of my friends got their first cable modem, as his computer was always connected, and there were no problems with bitchy sisters picking up the phone and killing the signal.
By the time my parents bothered with the internet, it was well after 2000 (which was weird, seeing as my father had taken some computer courses up at the college about seven years before that, and insisted on getting with the times), and we went straight for broadband. We'd had a computer for many years before that, but it was only ever used for things like playing Paper Boy, and one of the first versions of Word Perfect just for the sake of typing (good old 386 and Windows 3.1). We got a new computer before ever getting a modem. Hm... I remember wasting a lot of time on Paint, as well. Once we got the modem, I spent the bulk of my time in chat rooms (so lame... I hate chat rooms) and on a primitive version of Windows Messenger (and I can still remember the day the emoticons started to move).
Four years ago, along came Biff Slow Toboggan (the name my family has given my laptop) and the wireless router, and here I am.
How about you, Escapists?