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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« on: July 03, 2010, 07:21:59 PM »
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;568732
Hi, what did you get up to the when you got connected to the internet?

I went to some Amiga sites including aminet, Yahoo, a couple of university websites and some companies (only intro pages at that time).


I bought my first modem in 95. The main reason was that my gf back at the time did an exchange year in Manchester/UK. Phone calls from GER to UK were rather expensive at that time (IIRC before 1.1.96 it was DEM 1.15/min!) and email was the all new thing! But also that time was the last time I wrote lots of paper based letters (still have them all in a few shoe cartons).
The first things I used a broswer for was amiga related stuff and gaining information about travelling to Bhutan (eventually the planed journey became a trip to India). The very 1st time I used a browser was in a CIP-pool in Manchester in autumn 95. I think it ran some Netscape. I was wondering like "well, so this is the broadly discussed Internet and what now?" But somehow I got excited and got the modem the next day I returned to Germany.
At home I used for the first while a terminal account from the university.