First time on the net, what did you do?

[the_leander]

So when did Amiga.org become the forums like they are now?

(Did A.org use any forum software before the *previous* forum software? (The one before we moved to this one - XOOPS?))

Before XOOPS it was phpNuke.

Which got nuked by every script kiddie with 5 seconds to spare.

Funnily enough it was thanks to this site that I found out about goatse :lol:

Eventually Wayne got fed up and the result was what has since been called "the great reboot". Which is why a lot of us "oldtimers" have signup dates from mid 2002. Previous to the move, AO allowed for anonymous comments (iirc that did stop with immediate effect with Xoops).

Fun times.

Back to the original question... 1998 or so and it was an internet cafe. The first site I ever used was Yahoo. Before that though I also used (briefly) Moonlight BBS, which was run by John Marchant on an A4000 and I connected to that with an Ericson MC-16 palmtop hooked up to a GSM phone... Interestingly it was cheaper to call it up by mobile phone than the call charges for non local with the rates we were getting at the time.

Damn I feel old now.

[the_leander]

It's a shame Commodore didn't grab this new goose laying golden eggs with both hands and make Amiga a nice out of the box internet solution. But then maybe like the Dreamcast it was just too early for it's time to work.

On the contrary, the Amiga whilst Commodore was alive had a perfectly serviceable suite of tools to go "online".

The trouble was there was only really BBS's available. The internet didn't really feature outside of honking great universities. The World Wide Web really only started to catch on after death of Commodore.