Internet-stolgia Friday

Do you have a story bout yer first experience with The Internet?
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I remember around 92-93, I was working in the scary Citicorp building (yes, it really is an alien spaceship), and some cool college-girl I was working with hooked up to this thing where you could go to different universities and look up recipes for stuffed noodles and whatever. She called it the internet and it was so cool that I begged to borrow her password so I could look around. I thought it was the coolest thing to peruse weinerschnitzel recipes on the U of Berlin Library site. A while later, an even cooler friend showed me "Mosaic", which was the same thing, only with PICTURES on it. YIKES! It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen since the introduction of MTV in 1980.

Now kids have email at 5--I feel like such an old fart. But an alpha geeky one though....

Hey Todd!

Well, I suppose I'll share my little memory of the Internet back in the day. My family first got a computer when I was in 4th grade, but not until months of bugging Dad did my sister and I get the Internet when I was in 6th...around 1996-1997. DA DA DUM! We were actually some of the last of our friends to welcome the World Wide Web into our homes and boy, were we excited! We got AOL, which if anyone remembers, hasn't always been as crappy as it is now. The first screenname my dad set me up with was something cheesy like GymnGirl3, and I was SO excited to go to all the chat rooms and message boards. My best friend and I would stay up real late on the weekends and talk to guys online; I even got a "boyfriend" for all of two Internet seconds. But hey, let's keep that on the DL...it's pretty embarrassing.

Eventually, but not soon enough, we got rid of AOL, but not before I got into numerous fights with my dad for the time limit he set for me on that thing. After learning about my late night escapades, he set things so I would automatically get booted off at 10pm and wouldn't be able to sign back on until 6 or so in the morning. Now that I'm older I understand he was just trying to keep the crazy psychos at bay. Thanks, Dad.

And there's my story.
I love your site, Todd!!

Hi Todd

Great subject.

I remember when the internet first “came out”; I was 15 or 16 so just at college. The first series of X Files was just screening over here and so the only thing I could think to search for was “UFOs and aliens”; well, I guess I was a pretty gullible type because I believed the whole deal, about Project Bluebook and Area 51 and the Men in Black and the whole thing. I also remember I could only use the internet at college or the local library so I would spend several sweaty hours a day trying to look at rude ladies without getting caught. Oh, and Christian-baiting in Chatrooms.

Simpler times eh?

Ray

London, UK.

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Hi Todd

My first internet experience was going over to a friends house right after her and her husband got a computer and she was going on about emailing and chatting with people, and I was amazed. I had no computer, but I came over one day and she says "I made you a hotmail account". I started going over and chatting on her computer every day. The very first person I talked to was sitting in a coffee shop in Australia and I couldn't get over how cool this thing was. I live in Michigan and started just going to a site called" Michigan Friends" and made some nice friends there. I wonder whats become of them?? I finally got my own computer and then all my friends complained about never being able to get ahold of me. I got really sick of all the weird people interrupting you with their a/s/l?? Or sometimes just being really perverted. That's not what I was interested in. I just liked talking to the people that were there everyday about themselves and their family. We actually got together in a central location and met face to face which was kinda cool. Man that was a long time ago. Anyway, eventually my boyfriend moved in and I stopped going there. He, for some reason didn't like it. About a year later we sold my computer to his aunt and paid the rent. Then I left him. (that's another story all in itself) I haven't gotten another one since, at home. We have internet at work and as it is after hours here, I go on and check email and always read Odd Todd. But now that I've written this I can't help wondering what's become of Trixie and Randy and all those friends I made way back then when I was first introduced to the internet. I remember that Trixie's email was actually Webmail...that probably doesn't exist anymore or does it? Well, thank's for the trip down memory lane Todd. I enjoyed it.

Julie your "Michigan Friend"

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