do you remember your first internet session?

[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...

[alenppc]

Sometime in 1996/97 at my school in Italy, IIRC... browsing Aminet with loads of CrossDos formatted disks :-D

In 1998 I bought a 33.6k modem for my A1200 and a yearly subscription to an ISP, it cost me a fortune both the subscription and the phone bills, but I think it was well worth it.

Web was soo nice back then... No js, flash, css crap... Pages loaded faster with the 33.6k than they do today on broadband. Sad, really.
Not to mention that you could browse any website with the good old Voyager NG 2.95...

 

[DamageX]

AOL version 2.x on a 386SX with 2400bps modem. Remember the dreaded "adding artwork" message? That's when I'd go in the other room and play Megaman for a bit. I messed around on Prodigy a little before that but I'm not sure if you could access the internet through Prodigy at that time.

[McVenco]

Depending on what is to be understood by "internet session", I'd have a few possibilities.

Early 90s I've been active a bit on some Usenet groups, on comp.sys.amiga.____ amongst others. My first true E-mail adress (venco@foxhunt.xs4all.nl) was via a Dutch BBS, around 1993/1994 I believe. My first steps on the WWW must have been around mid-1995, when I went to college and they had a lot of PC's connected to the Internet.

I can't really remember if I first saw the WWW at uni or on my Amiga though.

[mr_a500]

My first internet session was also the first time I ever used Windows. It was 1995 at university, using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Netscape (IE didn't yet exist).

One of the first things I did was do a search for places to order Amiga software (I hadn't used my Amiga 500 since late 1991 because of lack of software). I ordered Beast 3 - my first online purchase (but sent a cheque - nobody used credit cards online).

One of the second things I did was check out the porn I'd been hearing so much about. I remember clicking on a button to see a picture and waiting as it displayed verrrrrry slowly, drawing line by line. I'd be sitting there saying "hurry up, damn it", but by the time it got to the girl's neck, somebody would walk by and I'd have to quickly close the window. Either that, or there would be a communication error at the most unfortunate moment. I never did see much.

[danamania]

October 8th, 1989 - my university's Open Day. First thing I used was... IRC!

Dana

[Plus4]

I was at work in Norwich. I worked for an estate agent and they decided to get the internet in 1996...  We looked at serious stuff for about 10 minues then the P*rno!

Disgracefull - I then bought a Dreamcast and surfed the net from home at about 56k in '98....

A penny a minute and it was nice and easy!  It seems strange there is nothing like this now - it was almost plug and play (into your TV) internet browsing, very cheap.

[spirantho]

Reckon I started in 1993 in Cambridge University where my brother was. Must've been a few years before I got my own connection. I remember using Mosaic, I think it was - may have been Netscape 2? - and thinking that the Aminet was amazing and that there were really cool websites devoted to Frontier: Elite II which I was playing at the time.

Rush onto 1995 for my first connection - my trusty A1200 with a rather expensive Blizzard 1230-II @50MHz and a whopping 4MB of FastRAM. £200 bought me a PCMCIA ethernet card which I could connect to the (Aberystwyth) university network. Of course I had a heck of a job persuading the sysadmin (who on occasion still calls me Amigaman when I bump into him) that it wasn't going to nuke the network like Macintoshes did at the time, and nor was it about to slow down the entire network like Doom did. I had to cart my 1200 all the way down to Computer Services where he connected me up to a packet-sniffing laptop to make sure it was all working fine - except it wasn't because that particular ethernet card didn't have a MAC address so it did nothing. When I eventually figured out it needed a MAC address I told the sysadmin who was rather shocked because he thought MAC addresses were unique to each adapter in the world! Still he connected it up and it all worked fine in nicely compliant fashion.

That 1200 lasted half a year before I upgraded to my A4000 with another expensive network card and a very expensive CV64 and a bit more RAM (no prizes for guessing where my student loan went).

Ah, the good old days. Kinda! Setting up AmiTCP was sooo much fun.

Incidentally, the 1200 is now my Dad's occasionally used Amiga, the Blizzard is in my gaming A1200 and my 4000 is still working fine but with PPCs and stuff in it.

[Nickman]

I think it was around Aug-96. (Beginning of highschool)
In an early netscape version.

I visited www.amiga.de thought it was way cool.

[redrumloa]

Well i was doing the BBS thing as early as ~1985. After taking a few years away from computers altogether, my first internet experience would have been on Win95 with an early Netscape Navigator. What did I spend my first night on the internet doing? Searching the THOUSANDS of colorful and informative Commodore 8bit sites :-D Stayed up all night, literally.

[The_Editor]

About 1997.

I always wondered how people knew all the hot topics in the Magazines before the new issues were on sale !!

[mgerics]

@Karlos:
    Clever!

[Amiduffer]

About '95ish, GEnie setup some means of getting on the internet through their network, so, you could get a text version of the internet. It was kind of lame, so I didn't bother with it much, but at least you could get on with a plain 9600 modem and unexpanded Amiga.

[Craven1200]

somewhere in 95/96 with a borrowed worldaccess account from a friend using a pc with 14,4 dial up...

[Tenacious]

Al Gore was still VP.  

There were many good BBSs around town for playing TradeWars and file sharing.  Used Ncomm.

Anyway, I heard about a local private ISP for $25 a year (they lasted about 6 mounths) and decided to take a chance.  I ordered Aweb and Miami from Software Hut I think. I couldn't believe how easy it was to set-up.

I think it was running on my A500, A570 with SCSI-TV, I still have this, my first computer.

[AmigaMance]

 My first internet session was when i managed to go online with my Amiga 1200 and start visiting websites. I couldn't believe that i was actually doing it.