do you remember your first internet session?

[fx]

I went with a friend (Hi Legerdemain!) to his brothers work, where they had Sun machines running Mosaic (I guess? Or could it have been Netscape?).

Anyhow, I remember us mostly using the "What's cool" button (in whatever browser it now was we were using) to find websites, and surfing lots of Calvin and Hobbes websites. Those where the times.

[Fransexy_]

Mine was also at university on a win 3.11 machine and the first site i browse was also Aminet.

[spookyx]

mine was in 87 using a z100 dumb terminal.  we also connected with a tandy 1000 via modem.  no web then,  just the raw  "internet"  we had shell accounts at dozens of places,  this was before the morris worm,  everything changed after that.

[whabang]

8th grade, on a Win 3.1 computer with a 9600 baud modem. Netscape was the big thing back then.

[Homer]

Hmm, was definately my trusty A1200T in one of its earlier configurations. Would have been 14.4 modem (what a palaver sorting out initialisation strings !), and dial up. Somewhere around 96 I guess :-)   Termite tcp ring a bell ? Worth it all in the long run  :crazy:

[neuroflip]

And this was my FiRST (or second) time with my loved amiga 1200

amigaOS3.9 + genesis + iBrowse (demo version)

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

(it does few months)

[Amiduffer]

Logging onto the old GEnie system back in the 90's with my A500, and later A2000, which I bought off the GEnie online fleamarket.

Airwarrior on an unexcelerated A2000 at 9600 baud was a ton of fun. Gemstone was a also a good way to waste huge amounts of time.

Does anyone still know if they still run the old airwarrior program online

[mendark]

@neuroflip: thanks alot, brings back a lot of good memories!

I guess at school or in the local internetcafe. Around 96/97. Downloaded all the new things from aminet, as long as they fitted on my DD disks.

Waited for one more year when cable internet became available. To be sure I first tried in at a friends place, but he lost all the details for his internet account and he blamed it on my Amiga that it didn't work. After a week, I saved all my courage to order a internet connection myself, still being a bit in doubt if it would work on my Amiga. But it was unbelievable, I had it running with Miami within 30 min! I was stunned :-o WWW here i come!

Aaah, good times

[Linchpin]

1998 i guess... on a PeeSee... kinda sad really my Miggy never really got online... mom didnt like the idea!

[oldman3000]

Q-link, I think in 1985 with C64 and 300 baud.  Sometimes there was more than 10 people on line.  I use to get a book on what software was online, to download.  I use to get mad because the people with the 1200 baud (real fast modems) would kick me offline.  When Q-link went off, they sent me a letter to tell me if you pay $100.00, they would give me a life time membership, they were some other PC company I think American, but they became AOL.  I used the bbs a lot for the Amiga.  I use to go on one called Dark Horse which would get software many weeks or months before it would become public, one of the best ones was called X-It.  

Mike
San Diego
A3000T/040/52megs/IV24/Spectrum/PAR/4 HD/ect...

[amigagr]

end of 2000 with my a1200. i bought a modem and an account on an isp and i log on to the security server of the company (HOL) with aweb just to validate the registration of the account. i didn't know anything about internet at the time and at some point i phone them to ask some info. they've been socked when i said them that i log on with an amiga (without ssl or something similar as far as i remember)on theyr security server :lol:  :crazy:  :lol:
after that i visit amiga.com for the first time  :-)

[neuroflip]

mendark wrote:

@neuroflip: thanks alot, brings back a lot of good memories!

It has been a nostalgia attack!
Many years without an Amiga  :roll:  :crazy:


Later my father bought a PC (sorry, but my father had his own reasons lol), and a 9600 modem and then...

I remember playing great sessions of MUD (Medina for spanish users)  :evil:
and iRC,
and counting the connect time because it wasn't cheap  :angry:

mmm I think that my english is bad (and babelfish don't help a lot)  :-D

[InTheSand]

First Internet session? Late 1991 or early 1992 whilst at college - before there was any WWW!

Was using Kermit on a DOS-only HD-less 8086-based PC, first had to connect to the local VAX then use a program called "PDSoft" that would connect to the lancs.pdsoft (later HENSA) public domain software directory to retrieve files.

Then had to transfer those via Kermit directly to a 5.25" floppy, then had to find a PC with both 3.5" and 5.25" drives to make the transfer... Those were the days!

Got my first full net access whilst working in 1994/1995 and remember those first versions of Mosaic very well (and all the hassle of DOS-based packet network drivers, installing Win32s into Windows 3.1, and all the other fun and games).

Does anyone else remember when Yahoo! used to be on akebono.stanford.edu, and when searching for files meant sending off email requests to archie servers??!

My net access at home came in 1996 when I got my A1200 online with Demon Internet. Haven't looked back since, though it's a shame the Amiga browsers are still stuck in 1996!  :-)

 - Ali

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Hm, my first was with some command line text browser (probably lynx, but I'm not sure) on a 386 pc with a 14k4 modem, it was 1990 or something I think. Downloaded some juvenile office humour picture from some finnish bbs or something like that. (I was like 10yo back then so I don't know it exactly anymore).

[neuroflip]

InTheSand wrote:

Then had to transfer those via Kermit directly to a 5.25" floppy, then had to find a PC with both 3.5" and 5.25" drives to make the transfer... Those were the days!

i used kermit to transfer the downloaded aminet files from VAX/VMS system (vt terminals), to 3.5"... and then NComm and a serial null modem to transfer to a500 with 512Kb ram expansion...

great great

[yogisumo]

Early 90's with an A2000/GVP22mhz/14.4modem with a SLIP/Text/console account. Used AmiTCP. Eventually found AMosaic(Crashamundo version).  

Was very interesting and much better than Fido or using Datapac network with a 2400 baud modem to dial into compuserve...