First time on the net, what did you do?

[ElPolloDiabl]

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).

[koaftder]

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).

It was FTP for me and I got to it via a door program on a local BBS that gave members 30 minutes access per day. No web back then.

[squidbass]

I sent an email to a friend at IBM in the US via a Vax terminal at NLP. Think it was 1978. I remember it being quite difficult as email addresses back then were complicated - you had to route it.

[LoadWB]

I believe it was, technically, using GEnie, then a local BBS (Nucleus) with Lynx and Internet access.  My first REAL Internet download was TermiteTCP.

[ElPolloDiabl]

BBS stories are great, but I meant when you called the phone company (or whatever) and signed up for an internet service.

[takemehomegrandma]

Hi, what did you get up to the when you got connected to the internet?

Oh, a bit difficult to remember, it was 15-16 years ago. But I think I visited the Swedish Magazine "Datormagazin" (they specialized solely on Commodore computers back then, C64/C128 and Amiga, they also had a BBS). I had been reading much about Internet in magazine articles, the various protocols and applications, so I tried to explore them myself. I pinged. I fingered. I e-mailed. I FTP'd. I used newsgroups. I made my own first homepage. I also manage to find (through Altavista, I don't think Google even existed back then) some pictures of girls with no clothes on in interesting poses.

In essence; I had been reading so much about the Internet when I connected myself for the first time, that I just had to find out by myself what it was all about, so I think I did everything you could do back then.

WWW wasn't really what it is today, most companies didn't even have a webpage, and many of those few who did presented some logotype and their phone number so you could call them if you had any questions. A different view of security as well. I mean, "ping", "finger", etc. It was a time of innocence.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I had one of those internet directory magazines, naturally I flipped straight to the porn section.
I can't believe you use to be able to surf the web in only 8 Megabytes.

[lsmart]

I dialed my Amiga 3000 into the university network (14400kbit, static IP), which of course was connected to the internet. I had previously found http://elfquest.com/ with the HP-workstations on the campus running Mosaic. I guess I looked at some more of it, downloaded some LaTeX stuff and read some Usenet artices.

Oh, and I had some BBS experience years before, but I understood the question as concerning a TCP/IP, SLIP or PPP internet connection and none of the local BBSs offered this.

[odin]

Must've been in 96 using a 14k4 connected to my 1200 dialing into the Tulip Computers access point (long distance...mum and dad were not happy with the phone bill). Probably headed straight to IRC. #amiganl@ircnet was my hangout for years.

[som99]

BBS was the first thing I used, that was before the public net ^^

[Zac67]

First internet was a terminal only dial-in from university. I used to get Jason Compton's Amiga Report via uucp'ed email. Had to log mail output to file and then decode the file - that was a bit before the WWW became known and before transparent attachment encoding through MIME.
Life is so easy today...

[djrikki]

Gee thats a long time ago.  Well after a few years using my Amiga to access local bbs boards that I racked up enormous phone bills on (!) I purchased Miami and downloaded AMosiac and the later iBrowse.  This was in 1993 on my souped-up A1200.  But as for what I first did... hmm probably create my own home page.

Ps. Wasn't there a search engine back in them days that was maintained solely on the Amigas?  I am sure it was around for many years, it wasn't just searching Amiga sites it searched the whole internet just like Google and Yahoo do.  Can't remember its name. :S

[aggro_mix]

Not sure I remember but I think it was ftp:ing into Aminet. Only had access through uni at that time. There wasn't much www at that time. Then I got stuck in the MUD and never properly finished my studies. And they say drugs are dangerous.... ;-)

[zipper]

Connecting to AltaVista via 33k6 modem and typing Amiga to begin to search sites like this.

[Karlos]

There wasn't really a worldwide web when I first used the internet, just lots of MUDs