First computer edition

First computer edition.

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Migrate here, added the title in the name field by accident like a fucking newfag.

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I started on the internet about 1996.

It was slow, primitive and forget about trying to play vidya online with a shitty 28l-56k modem.

But it was an escape. It was just white guys who had knowledge in computers. There were no women, no shit skins just white people.

Sadly we have made it too easy for the dumbest amongst us to access it and in alot of ways they have ruined it.

One of the best games of the entire 90's.

highschool computers were radioshack trs-80. monochrome monitors. software was floppy discs and cassette tapes. no internet back then :(

People got into long and involved multi-paragraph debates about all sorts of obscure subjects.

Web pages were a lot more like books with lots of text and not much else.

It really was higher quality. Even today my favorite websites are solidly web 1.0

Mine were all Apple IIe's
We freaked when a couple monochromes were replaced with color.
Slowly they got networked to an ancient Mac. The mouse was out of this world.

>Web 1.0
This, simple is better.
I fucking hate complex sites, if my no script breaks the site, its not worth reading anyway.

My first computer, which I still have in my wardrobe

Not politics

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My nigga.

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Early days were quiet. Not because there wasn't alot of people online but because the internet was literally just Europeans and American men talking about shit.

Still have my first computer which wasn't able to connect to the internet when we got it in 1995. Still have the old thing which works as well as it did when I first got it. I play asteroids and other games on 8inch floppy discs, and print texts with it.

Never forget the first time I heard about BBSes. Got me into computer piracy. Discovered Internet in college. All text-based. Got on web through Winsock under Windows 3.11 and Netscape.

Kids.

i had a commodore plus4

I'm 33, let me go over some fond memories.

AOL was $13 an hour to use and we existed almost purely on trials, I remember my username was UAXXXXX and I just added an X when my trial ran out.

Cybering with 32 other people in the official Star Wars Role Play board, I played a furry before furries got nasty.

EverQuest was possibly the most interesting game I've ever played.

Child pornography was literally everywhere in chat rooms, AOL didn't police them at all.

Rhy'Din roleplay chats, fuck man, I spent so much time playing in Resident Evil roleplay chats and Rhy'Din.

CompuServ blew my mind when I got it, didn't need a huge program to run, just a little window. I played Counter-Strike on my sister's imac Compaq ripoff with the purple transparent front at about 2 FPS.

My mom had a net nanny but it was shitty and so easy to get porn, I remember the smell of semen on the fourth fap in the first hour after getting up, oh my god, masturbating to a button to a porn site haha

We used bulletin boards to pirate software, you would save huge dumps of raw gibberish data and compile it into a single file exe, that's how I got quake and Doom and shit, old school before P2P or XDCC.

I didn't understand how PCs worked so when my Windows got corrupt, I would cry because I couldn't log in and I had nightmares of getting viruses.

AOL had kickers that would send a rich text message with so many color codes that it would freeze a person's entire computer, I remember they were all themed and I had one of South Park and people thought you were an internet bad ass when people who argued with got punted / kicked from chats.

It was 100% pure white people, literally no arguments about race or religion.

16K of memory. Cassette deck for storage. 300 baud modem. No lowercase letters. Comfy.

Thank you

That was the first computer I actually used, in a high school math class in 1983

Remember CompuServe's stupid email addresses?
######,###@compuserve.com

In NZ? Due to using PAL instead of NTSC you would have had less color output. Kind of weird.

Bro all the CoCo's had lowercase. Notice that key labeled shift?

Maybe you are thinking of a TRS-80 Model I without the lower case kit installed?

I do. Shit I remember Geocities and having like a little webpage dedicated to wrestling that would fucking annihilate people. All the GIFs of slams and spinning frogs and fire and a little counter..

I cannot get over how pure the net was back then, now it's got so many fucking women on it. I would say that back then, it was so laid back because it was all men who did PC shit so you could go on there and talk about your interests and no one shit on you. I remember the month that women showed up and would start going into chat rooms, the white knighting was off the charts and this was early so anyone who said they were female were like gushed over.

Fuck I want to go back.

Ρε μαλάkα, what are you doing in potatonigger clay?

IBM PS/1 (Piece of Shit #1) for me.

I recall the monitor being monochrome (black and white)

those were the days

>It was 100% pure white people, literally no arguments about race or religion.

Good times.

Depends on what you consider lowercase. On the Coco 1 and 2, lowercase was just the uppercase characters with reverse video. It wasn't until the Coco 3 that you got true lowercase characters. BTW, the Coco plays a part in the book 'Ready Player One' but apparently Spielberg cut it from the movie for artistic reasons.

One of the best early 90s games. Right up there with Civ 2.

Wow, here is mine the old commodore 64

Great memories man. I am 38 and I remember selling those imac ripoffs at Circuit City in 1999

That's an Amiga 1000

>A/S/L
Using the chatroom was ten cents a minute.

That's an Amiga 2000

>what were the early days of the internet like thread number 4
>people keep responding to these threads

In 1974 - 1976 my high school's computer was a teletype to connect to a computer 60 miles away.

Teletype had a paper tape punch / reader so that if the phone line was down you could write programs and load them later.

We hacked the teletype's auto dialer and made free calls - mad hacker skills in 1976!

They were awful. There was a time between classic stuff like C64 and the era in which people began to build their own PC's, around the Voodoo 1 days, where the only shit available was truly abysmal.

aye, but man was it great when those vid cards came. TNT, voodoo1, voodoo2, tnt2Ultra.. oh man.

Commodore 64, due to be the most popular machine, had the 'best' adult games. We were so excited to get a copy of Strip Poker from a friend.

My first real card was an NVidia 3600 GT and it was that or Voodoo 3 ... My friend use to tell me how bad ass Voodoo 3 was going to be and then the company went under. I miss those days...

You had to know IRQ's and everything was serial and comm ports
The dot matrix printers were popular

Close. the 2000 had a full height case

HIGH EXPLOSIVE AMMO THE AYYS
SPACE WAR NOOOOW

Yes my mistake, never owned either but owned an A500+ & an A1200 & even the ill fated Amiga CD32

MY BODY IS PREPARED

Nirvana - Enter Sandman rare cover

I remember being ~14 in some aol chat and some old dude in his 40s was asking me about my pubes and if I jerk off and shit

my dad bought me this to get me interested in cars and i played it alot... good times. I also remember the screeching noise when you turned and burnt the tires lol.

If there was a time when coolface wasn't cancer then it is best to forget it.

dialup was SHIT. imagine downloading 280i preview clip porns at 3kbps after you crammed a towel down against the modem so you could turn it on more silently in the middle of the night. when "finding" music on k-lite or bearshare it was a crapshoot as you might get something with skips that some retard uploaded or random unrelated trash

the massive packard bell 286/12 with 20mb hd

I was on the net in the early BBS (bulletin board system) days. Basically connecting via phone line to a home computer....

We used to download games by being connected over night ..dude had my personal phone number...started to call me in the early AM...I downloaded sim earth from the guy...one morning (no joke) tells me the emus have become intelligent, have taken whores to space to fuck and murder them.....told the guy to never call back...but he kept calling me and getting more and more serial killer..canceled my personal BBS line

There ya go. This is what I began on too.

How many people here used Xfire?

rusty n eddies bbs
all the pirated shit you could think of

I just opened the case and stuck my finger on the speaker.

The Internet was a better place when getting online required a 3500 dollar investment and 200 bucks a month for access.

web 1.0 was the best
silly websites abound, mostly text, easy layouts, no bullshit dynamic loading news, with the stupid triple bar menu buttons

MAHIR, anybody remember that turkish guy? He was a 1.0 meme, that (((sascha baron cohen))) ripped off with borat

Kek, if true.

+++ATH0

I KISS YOU!

Vladimir was a jew, or is that piter?

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poorfags swerve

>implying anything isn't cancer

there was a command for the modem to turn the sound off
i ran a bbs and i had to turn them off or it would be constant screaming

Being on BBSes taught kids to quickly recognize pedophiles as to not get molestered. They were everywhere. There was one guy who I'm sure did nothing but autodial teenage boy's bbses all day long. Meat Man was his name. He was a crippled fag constantly trying to shame boys into meeting up and fucking him because he's just an unloved cripple abloo abloo

This was my first. It was from Radio Shack and you’d have the load the programs using cassette tapes.

Great software to meet gamers, but by then there was ICQ (waning), AIM, MSN, YAHoo messenger

Gamespy?

My dad wouldnt let me browse without his supervision either

Feels like i've been using that yesterday, desu. But it was probably 10+ years ago.

Kali.net here

This wasn't my first. But it was the first one I bought new. It was a Cyrix 6x86 166mhz processor. It ran so hot that it ultimately burned itself out and wouldn't start. It did that on day 1 of college for me, and I didn't get another computer for 4 years. I was completely digitally disconnected for 4 years from 2000 to 2004.

It is relative.

Anyone old enough to have used DWANGO?

I bet you never even killed a cow in 2000 to get 15 str.

Gamespy was one of the best ways to actually get into multiplayer games. I didn't know it had a messenger component.

do your grandkids know you're browsing 4chinz?

1985, IBM 8088. Played a video game that had Spemen in space that robbed your ore.

OUR POWER LEVEL IS. . .

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Parents had parental controls on my brother and I's AOL accounts. Still could get porn from !list in chat rooms and some sites that werent blocked, but eventually we downloaded NetZero and browsed with an ad bar at the bottom. Finally, we installed a keylogger on the computer and found out our dad's password and just changed the parental control settings. They never noticed.

lmao my first digital porn experience was this game

fuck

probably my first downloaded song

from my childhood.

Two 5.25 floppy drives, not one like in this pic. IBM clone.

ahaha

Wait a minute. That's not Harry, der Fensterputzer.