Comments on: Remember your very first time online?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:06:13 +0000

I went on-line first time on a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. I connected with various BBS’s but also tried a service called Q-Link (I think that’s what it was called, it’s been a long time).

I loved my Commodore. Miss it greatly.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:12:34 +0000

My first was a Vic 20. The Commodore’s earlier version… It was called a 20 because there were 20 characters across the screen. I logged in from my telephone to the university’s site and my friend from class, who was also on the system about 25 miles away, came on my computer and typed something on it. I’ll never forget that feeling.

Chris

By: serfman

serfman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:15:14 +0000

You must remember the Minitel though.

By: Lolly

Lolly — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:05 +0000

Yay Minitel! I used to do the same thing. Mum would tell me off as 3615 was sooooooo expensive

By: Willem

Willem — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:33:23 +0000

You must remember the Minitel though! We were seriously pioneering in France back in the day! i consider that was my first time online – sneaking around in the dead of night (because it cost something like 50p/min or something) at home to connect and chat with random people or play stupid games… Good times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

By: Lolly

Lolly — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:31:31 +0000

We all had Commodores!

By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:34 +0000

I used to play on a friend’s vic 20 then commodor 64. my first machine was an Atari ST 520 – because it could handle both PC and Apple files… way ahead of its time!

I used to run a bulletin board system through my home phone number… until my parents got upset with the fact modems were calling our home all day and tying up the lines!

BBS dialup boards were the precursors to forums… which were really precursors to social media. What is old will eventually become new again… but with fancier names

By: Lolly

Lolly — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:47:08 +0000

Thank you all for your comments! Hope you enjoyed the trip down Memory Lane!

By: Retro Garden

Retro Garden — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:29:12 +0000

I went online first with a Atari ST the same year as you did. It was slow, but surprisingly the HTML interpreter could handle it adequately. You needed a hard disk, as loading the browser off disk took forever!

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:29:43 +0000

I believe first time I was online was 1998. It was on a dial-up connection. My first PC was 386 if I remember correctly. I was reading about people having a flat rate 1 Mbps connection and I was thinking that I would get rich in the matter of months if I had such a connection. Today I’ve got 2 Mbps flat rate DSL connection and it’s cheaper then anything I’ve ever had in past. It costs me € 20 (including the telephone).