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Offline amiga92570

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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #59 from previous page: July 09, 2010, 01:18:21 AM »
I miss Quantum Link, those were the days.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #60 on: July 09, 2010, 04:30:08 AM »
Wow.. many memories came to my mind with this post..

Yeah, i am BBSs Users days too... in the 80s

I used Commodore 64/128 and Amiga 1000, 500, later A1200, For Conections

But when i started in Internet, i started in Text Mode, you know terminal mode, i conected too to some Universitys and use PINE, hehehe.. The Firsts things i do in Internet was IRC Chat (that way i met my ex-wife!)..Yeah, in thats days i was many hours, Bill expensive telephone services, i am not sleep by many days.. But one day 95/96 a friend of mine, installed a Miami, Ibrowse, AWEB, and other things, amd magic Starts.. Before this i browse the web in Text mode, you can do in thats times, using www. in text mode!.. Yeah! I can doed that with my Commdore 64/128 too!!!

Then when i started in Graphics mode in 96, i remember used Yahoo.com, Altavista.com, and searched, somethings about Amiga, Commodore, Music, Musicians Webs, VW webs - Pics, Honda Dax Webs and pics, Drums sets, Drummers, and more about music.
I'm one of those people that are indexed that knew Internet with Amiga, in thats times when I spoke about Internet  automatically related with Amiga.

And now.. i am writing this post from my A1200!!!!

Yeah Still Alive!
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #61 on: July 09, 2010, 04:37:07 AM »
I was forget.. Great link this http://web.archive.org/web/19961228070903/http://www.amiga.org/

Its history piece!
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #62 on: July 09, 2010, 04:47:01 AM »
I actually accessed an FTP site trying to download some Amiga shareware games.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #63 on: July 09, 2010, 05:55:51 AM »
I disabled the silly menu provided my shell account and changed my default mail program to Elm. Then I sorted out how to access Usenet, used Gopher to access a Cure fan site, and then used Telnet to order some stuff from cdnow and cdjapan. When I finally got a PPP account (my shell provider stopped giving out SLIP accounts, and I had to switch providers for PPP), I did pretty much the same stuff. Prior to 1996 or so, I only used HTTP to access technology vendor sites.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #64 on: July 09, 2010, 07:55:57 AM »
The Internet I prefer to say the first time I was on-line. I signed up for Genie 1990. Played cards and found it easier to find what I was looking for than with the present Internet. I had a 2400 baud modem and an Amiga 500.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #65 on: July 09, 2010, 08:49:49 AM »
Irc
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #66 on: July 09, 2010, 09:48:45 AM »
Quote from: djrikki;568760

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


AmiCrawler? Which then became AmiSpider.
http://web.archive.org/web/19961220182308/www.amicrawler.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19970125184907/www.amiga.org/news/amispider.html

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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #67 on: July 09, 2010, 10:28:52 AM »
'93 mostly Gopher & various Muds.

When I first saw www I didn't get it being so used to using terminals.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #68 on: July 09, 2010, 01:32:51 PM »
I remember being excited about going to Amiga web sites like Amiga Web Directory etc...
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2010, 01:39:18 PM »
Looking for rated GIFs ;-) and simple amiga programs. A500 with terminal and external floppy drive only.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #70 on: July 09, 2010, 03:34:50 PM »
Quote from: koaftder;568910
I still use pine.



That's it!!! I haven't seen that screen since around 1997 :-)
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #71 on: July 09, 2010, 03:54:39 PM »
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I was forget.. Great link this http://web.archive.org/web/19961228070903/http://www.amiga.org/

Its history piece!


Bloody pOS. I remember looking at screenshots of that never-to-exist OS back in the day.

I used Pine to my university back in 1996, Altavista, various Amiga sites (although I used the university PCs). I'd get gifs and jpegs on the low-colour PCs, put them onto 720KB floppies, and view them on my A1200 in HAM8 :-p

I also remember playing on a few MUDs.
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #72 on: July 09, 2010, 04:54:52 PM »
I started on irc. The MTV Europe program Most Wanted (hosted by Ray Cokes) had an on screen chat room.
 
a500 + 2400 baud modem + amitcp = awesome
 
The modem & isp account was borrowed from work, all I had to do was pay the long distance phone bill....
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #73 on: July 19, 2010, 05:08:35 PM »
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I started on irc. The MTV Europe program Most Wanted (hosted by Ray Cokes) had an on screen chat room.
 
a500 + 2400 baud modem + amitcp = awesome
 
The modem & isp account was borrowed from work, all I had to do was pay the long distance phone bill....

Gotta love telnet and the ability to still visit boards today!
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Re: First time on the net, what did you do?
« Reply #74 on: July 20, 2010, 05:51:10 PM »
I downloaded Amiga software and some pr0n :D
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