What is your earliest Internet memory?

clay · 03-19-2016, 07:31 AM

2000...my very first Internet experience!

MSN Chat Rooms..the W4W ones....my brother showed me these on his computer. I was hooked...met my previous partner online there......we were both internet/chatroom virgins...lol

homoe · 04-05-2016, 08:07 PM

That LOUD & IRRITATING sound of 'dial up'

storyspinner70 · 04-05-2016, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by homoe

That LOUD & IRRITATING sound of 'dial up'

AOL for the win!!!! Not. Lord god that long long connect. And the anger when someone forgot and picked up the phone before it connected or pitched a fit when you were on it and they just HAD to make a call.

I had a computer long before I had internet. Thinking back makes me nostalgic. lol...Tiny amber screen. Floppy. Dos. My parents bought it for me to write my poetry and novels and school papers on. Oh, and so I could print them out on that loud ass printer. It was so awesome then.

dreadgeek · 04-07-2016, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by storyspinner70

AOL for the win!!!! Not. Lord god that long long connect. And the anger when someone forgot and picked up the phone before it connected or pitched a fit when you were on it and they just HAD to make a call.

I had a computer long before I had internet. Thinking back makes me nostalgic. lol...Tiny amber screen. Floppy. Dos. My parents bought it for me to write my poetry and novels and school papers on. Oh, and so I could print them out on that loud ass printer. It was so awesome then.

I'm very proud to say that I've *never* had an AOL account! Never.

Cheers
AJ

Greyson · 04-08-2016, 12:24 AM

My earliest memories of the Internet are the late 90's at Gay.com in the Butch-Femme room. I laughed my butt off. There were some very funny people there. I was an internet virgin. Then one day I scrolled down to the Leather Room. I walked in and there was no turning back. From there I found the "Dash" site in 98 and from there to here.

girl_dee · 05-12-2016, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Greyson

My earliest memories of the Internet are the late 90's at Gay.com in the Butch-Femme room. I laughed my butt off. There were some very funny people there. I was an internet virgin. Then one day I scrolled down to the Leather Room. I walked in and there was no turning back. From there I found the "Dash" site in 98 and from there to here.

Me too! I was in the "older lesbians" room even though i was technically too young. ... heh

Wr sure had some laughs......

~ocean · 05-12-2016, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by girl_dee

Me too! I was in the "older lesbians" room even though i was technically too young. ... heh

Wr sure had some laughs......

I was there too Dee lol and yes we had many many laughs back then ~ also here and in the dash as well..** sings ** memoriesssss

dreadgeek · 04-07-2016, 01:54 PM

Using a 1200 baud coupler modem (the kind where you literally put the handset into the modem!) for a local BBS. (That will give you an idea how long ago *that* was!)

My first embarrassing Internet moment was when I had my first real PC (486 DX/16Mhz processor, 128mb hard drive, 8megs of ram) and I fell for an early iteration of "there is a new and dangerous virus that will delete all your files!" email which I then posted somewhere in the USENET hierarchy.

I've had some form of online access for 30 years now.

Cheers
AJ

PlatinumPearl · 09-16-2017, 07:50 AM

AIM - AOL Messenger and ICQ.

A friend in college introduced me to the internet and chat rooms we use to meet up in the school computer lab and check out ICQ chat rooms it was all so fascinating to me.

I don't recall how but I use to get the AOL disks in the mail for free dial-up internet for set number of hours and always managed to go over. After going over I had to wait for a new disk to be mailed out which got frustrating at times until one day I called AOL to complain and an AOL Rep told me tips to save on the time used on the net to read and respond to emails.

I still recall using pillows to muffle out the sound of connecting to the internet in the wee hours of the morning not wanting to wake up family members lol. Good times!

Femmewench · 09-16-2017, 08:42 AM

I joined AOL and found OnQ right away. The OnQ chat rooms had moderators. I'd slip into a room hoping just to observe and every damn time someone would say hello to me. I just wanted to hide until I felt I knew what was going on!

I met my best friend and many others there.

03-19-2016, 07:31 AM	#1
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04-05-2016, 08:07 PM	#2
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PlatinumPearl Member How Do You Identify?: Femme, Human Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Canada Posts: 1,150 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 2,419 Times in 890 Posts Rep Power: 21474846	AIM - AOL Messenger and ICQ. A friend in college introduced me to the internet and chat rooms we use to meet up in the school computer lab and check out ICQ chat rooms it was all so fascinating to me. I don't recall how but I use to get the AOL disks in the mail for free dial-up internet for set number of hours and always managed to go over. After going over I had to wait for a new disk to be mailed out which got frustrating at times until one day I called AOL to complain and an AOL Rep told me tips to save on the time used on the net to read and respond to emails. I still recall using pillows to muffle out the sound of connecting to the internet in the wee hours of the morning not wanting to wake up family members lol. Good times!