This is a stupid question, but are these BBS the forerunner to the modern day forums?
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When did you first connect to the internet?
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Not exactly. They were more like the forerunner to graphical online services that got popular in the early 90s such as AOL, Prodigy, and Apple's short lived eWorld. Forums were just one part of the overall BBS functionality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
Oh I see....I should start wikipediaing my questions.......
It's amazing how far the internet has come to be
1995 through MSN, when I was in high school...
My mom paid for the account so her profile was default. After logging in for the first time, I got a bunch of instant messages asking to cyber
My mom paid for the account so her profile was default. After logging in for the first time, I got a bunch of instant messages asking to cyber
Oh, yeah. I remember going from a 1200 baud to a 2400 baud, back about '87, and thinking I was King Shiznit. There were quite a few local BBSs for a C64 user to frequent. Q-Link was also fun (see below)...
Yes, "Compu$pend" really was a drain on the wallet; OTOH, a lot of professional science-fiction writers would frequent the forum. It was really cool chatting with these guys whose books I had read.
Lots of great memories here. Until I got my first Mac, this was where I spent most of my time. Then, to my surprise, when I called up to cancel my Q-Link account... "Y'mean, you have a new service that I can sign into with my Mac??"Used it at work and around libraries and such in 1996 or so. But used BBS services since the 80's a kid, like Quantumlink.
Got my first home connection to the "internet" as *we* know it now around March 1997 with Netcom. Called my buddy up and he freaked out. The next day he was online as well.
What a trip.
Given the limited memory of the C64, GEOS was a work of genius. And the great thing about Q-Link, there were a lot of GEOapps that would could download. It was the next best thing to having a Mac.Oh, and my first ever "operating system." LOVED IT.
I know that I did a lot of school papers and projects GeoWrite, GeoPaint, GeoPublish, etc. There was even a fontpack called GeoFont. I had the entire suite.
I remember running into a few Sci-Fi writers on Fido-Net back in the day. That forum base was poppin back then. I never did quite get my board jacked into Fido, but I logged onto this one local board that was hooked. This was like.. 97/96 when I was on there. Good fun! Even the forum experience on the Internet can't trump the feel of Fidonet or a wide multiple BBS forum.
I remember going.... /g or something to logoff on a lot of BBS systems.. /gbye, /q. LOL. /d DOORRRRR GAMEZ.
I'll tell yah what though, I miss the mean Duke 3d matches I had when me and this kid dialed up to eachother in high school. Dwango was rad too!
I remember going.... /g or something to logoff on a lot of BBS systems.. /gbye, /q. LOL. /d DOORRRRR GAMEZ.
I'll tell yah what though, I miss the mean Duke 3d matches I had when me and this kid dialed up to eachother in high school. Dwango was rad too!
I think it was 1996. My wife was working at a local college and we were able to connect over dial-up through their network. There were no graphics, mostly just discussion groups accessed on an old PC I had built. About two years later I got a "real" ISP and discovered the joys of slow-loading graphics. It amazes me how far the Internet has come in ten years.
1990, when I started college. Met a guy who used BITNET quite a bit, used to chat to people all over the world. I remember being amazed at that notion, was immediately hooked. (Funnily enough, to many of my friends, I'm THEIR "first guy on the internet" )
It's amazing to think that in less than 20 years, the world has changed to the point where kids have "friends" and play with people from all over the world; and think nothing of it. Back then, it was a mind-blowing experience.
Even remember an early small web chat forum, on Digital's website in the early '90s. Back then, it was noteworthy enough to feature in the Washington Post. How quickly we become accustomed to new technologies.
)It's amazing to think that in less than 20 years, the world has changed to the point where kids have "friends" and play with people from all over the world; and think nothing of it. Back then, it was a mind-blowing experience.
Even remember an early small web chat forum, on Digital's website in the early '90s. Back then, it was noteworthy enough to feature in the Washington Post. How quickly we become accustomed to new technologies.
1991... at college. I discovered "FTP Sites" and "Telnet Sites" around the world. Obviously before the web took off.
I want to say 1996. I saw it prior to then through my father, but it wasn't until '96 that my parents deemed it okay for me to have Internet access.
Oh, and my first ever "operating system." LOVED IT.
I know that I did a lot of school papers and projects GeoWrite, GeoPaint, GeoPublish, etc. There was even a fontpack called GeoFont. I had the entire suite.
The first version of AOL that I used (for DOS) used a stripped-down GeOS as a graphical interface. It (the interface) was interesting and reminded me somewhat of the Mac SE/30s I worked on in college, but at the time I had Windows 3.1, which had the paint/write/what-have-ya bells and whistles. I soon switched to CompuServe (because AOL sucked as a service)... "Welcome to WinCIM!".