What is your earliest Internet memory?

Queenie · 06-25-2014, 10:31 AM

My earliest memory of the Internet was when I was 14 and my father got our first family computer. I remember using it for school reports and looking recipes for cookies. I do kinda miss the sound of dial up tho.

EnderD_503 · 06-25-2014, 03:03 PM

We got the internet when I was about 12 years old I think (around '97 maybe). Some of the earliest things I remember is setting up my first hotmail account, discovering teen and music chatrooms and then later trolling MSN chatrooms. The latter were often Latter Day Saints/Born Again ones where I would spout off random Slayer lyrics as everyone hurried to reform me...yep I was that barely pubescent douchebag

Thankfully the novelty (but not my love for Slayer) wore off fast and to this day don't know why I was so amused by it in my proto-internet days lol

deathbypoem · 06-25-2014, 03:52 PM

hmm.. Chatting on napster! lmao and ICQ! hahaha.. wow. yeah. old times.

imperfect_cupcake · 01-06-2015, 02:11 AM

I was about 26 and went to Uni (be in 96-ish). I went online and used Dogpile to look up something and then moved on the linked journal data bases for research.

The first social thing I ever did on line was look at match.com. Met my first long term gf that way. Then I found a blog (weren't called blogs back then. it was just sort of a profile web page) of a femme writing about being with a stone butch and all of a sudden the world hit me. I followed her links to the butchfemme dash site. That was in 99. my first chat room was there. I never did IRC or AOL. No point.

snowbrdr303 · 01-06-2015, 05:30 AM

BBS services accessible via telnet and what not. Early/mid 90s....My friends and I would stay up late trying to find various BBSs with games (entirely text based, don't fool yourself). Or building our own and connecting to one another's computer. All the while trying to muffle the sounds of the obnoxious dial-up modems from our parents. Thank god for broadband.

Then after that came Prodigy (remember Prodigy? Yeah exactly) and AOL.

I still mess around with computers all day. :/

Cailin · 01-06-2015, 07:48 AM

I remember downloading on windows 95.. midi files... When things were only byte, and kilo byte size (not this mega bytes we have now).

But i will always remember infinity chat. Some of my best friends came from there. I met my friend marcie almost 20 years ago, and we still talk all the time.

Daniela · 01-06-2015, 09:13 AM

oh wow, talk about dating yourself. lol

I used to read alt.gothic between 1995-1997 (I was about 21 at the time and yes, I was a goth

). Holy shit, times have changed since then. I remember waiting to download pictures people would post...and it would sometimes take about 10 fucking minutes before you were able to see some grainy crap photo that wasn't worth it anyway.

DapperButch · 01-06-2015, 03:28 PM

I remember Prodigy. My girlfriend at the time was living with her ex-boyfriend's family (don't ask), and they had a computer with Prodigy. I didn't really understand it all but remember the bulletin boards. This was the early-mid 1990's.

Soon (maybe 1995?) I got a computer and was on AOL personals and their gay/lesbian message boards. I remember when aol personals changed over to match.com and I remember the aol message boards fading out. I also did the aol gay chats. Until about 5 years ago I was still friends with a woman from Utah from the aol boards. AOL is still my email and I am still a member.

By 1997/98? (whatever year it started), I was on butch-femme.com so that satisfied my loss of the aol boards.

I can still hear the dial up sound too, in my head. I remember getting "booted off" if you didn't disable your call waiting. Or just getting booted off for no reason. It was very frustrating if you were in the middle of a conversation! Everything was slow.

If it wasn't for the internet us lesbian/gays/queers would still only have the bars to find each other!

06-25-2014, 03:52 PM	#3
deathbypoem Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Poetically versed to breathe only truth and bleed certainty Preferred Pronoun?: Kane Relationship Status: Married to Chefnaction Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Finally, home Posts: 1,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,900 Thanked 4,733 Times in 1,583 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	hmm.. Chatting on napster! lmao and ICQ! hahaha.. wow. yeah. old times. __________________ I need your grace To remind me To find my own Last edited by deathbypoem; 06-25-2014 at 03:54 PM. Reason: had to add an additional note.

01-06-2015, 07:48 AM	#6
Cailin Member How Do You Identify?: Female.. and it's pronounced "cah-leen", not cay-lin Preferred Pronoun?: You Relationship Status: In one Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 872 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 979 Thanked 2,630 Times in 739 Posts Rep Power: 15791749	I remember downloading on windows 95.. midi files... When things were only byte, and kilo byte size (not this mega bytes we have now). But i will always remember infinity chat. Some of my best friends came from there. I met my friend marcie almost 20 years ago, and we still talk all the time. __________________ De reir a cheile a thogtar na caisleain

01-06-2015, 03:28 PM	#8
DapperButch Roadster Guy How Do You Identify?: FTM, Stone Butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,745 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26,545 Thanked 26,813 Times in 5,772 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I remember Prodigy. My girlfriend at the time was living with her ex-boyfriend's family (don't ask), and they had a computer with Prodigy. I didn't really understand it all but remember the bulletin boards. This was the early-mid 1990's. Soon (maybe 1995?) I got a computer and was on AOL personals and their gay/lesbian message boards. I remember when aol personals changed over to match.com and I remember the aol message boards fading out. I also did the aol gay chats. Until about 5 years ago I was still friends with a woman from Utah from the aol boards. AOL is still my email and I am still a member. By 1997/98? (whatever year it started), I was on butch-femme.com so that satisfied my loss of the aol boards. I can still hear the dial up sound too, in my head. I remember getting "booted off" if you didn't disable your call waiting. Or just getting booted off for no reason. It was very frustrating if you were in the middle of a conversation! Everything was slow. If it wasn't for the internet us lesbian/gays/queers would still only have the bars to find each other! __________________ -Dapper Are you educated or indoctrinated?

06-25-2014, 10:31 AM	#1
Queenie Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Preferred Pronoun?: Her Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: East Finchley Posts: 752 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 478 Thanked 1,886 Times in 523 Posts Rep Power: 16307164	My earliest memory of the Internet was when I was 14 and my father got our first family computer. I remember using it for school reports and looking recipes for cookies. I do kinda miss the sound of dial up tho.

06-25-2014, 03:03 PM	#2
EnderD_503 Member How Do You Identify?: Queer, trans guy, butch Preferred Pronoun?: Male pronouns Relationship Status: Relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,329 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,090 Thanked 3,878 Times in 1,022 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	We got the internet when I was about 12 years old I think (around '97 maybe). Some of the earliest things I remember is setting up my first hotmail account, discovering teen and music chatrooms and then later trolling MSN chatrooms. The latter were often Latter Day Saints/Born Again ones where I would spout off random Slayer lyrics as everyone hurried to reform me...yep I was that barely pubescent douchebag Thankfully the novelty (but not my love for Slayer) wore off fast and to this day don't know why I was so amused by it in my proto-internet days lol

01-06-2015, 02:11 AM	#4
imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,710 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I was about 26 and went to Uni (be in 96-ish). I went online and used Dogpile to look up something and then moved on the linked journal data bases for research. The first social thing I ever did on line was look at match.com. Met my first long term gf that way. Then I found a blog (weren't called blogs back then. it was just sort of a profile web page) of a femme writing about being with a stone butch and all of a sudden the world hit me. I followed her links to the butchfemme dash site. That was in 99. my first chat room was there. I never did IRC or AOL. No point.

01-06-2015, 05:30 AM	#5
snowbrdr303 Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch/Queer Preferred Pronoun?: Hey buddy Relationship Status: Ecstatic <3 Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: lezzie heights with my <3 Posts: 70 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 174 Thanked 195 Times in 62 Posts Rep Power: 4574886	BBS services accessible via telnet and what not. Early/mid 90s....My friends and I would stay up late trying to find various BBSs with games (entirely text based, don't fool yourself). Or building our own and connecting to one another's computer. All the while trying to muffle the sounds of the obnoxious dial-up modems from our parents. Thank god for broadband. Then after that came Prodigy (remember Prodigy? Yeah exactly) and AOL. I still mess around with computers all day. :/

01-06-2015, 09:13 AM	#7
Daniela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: married Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Jersey City Posts: 2,065 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,382 Thanked 5,240 Times in 1,243 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	oh wow, talk about dating yourself. lol I used to read alt.gothic between 1995-1997 (I was about 21 at the time and yes, I was a goth ). Holy shit, times have changed since then. I remember waiting to download pictures people would post...and it would sometimes take about 10 fucking minutes before you were able to see some grainy crap photo that wasn't worth it anyway.