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What was your first experience using the Internet? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago by Flamangoman@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

irc chatting ~1988, lynx via a BBS was my first browsing

[–] Flamangoman@leminal.space 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cool! May I ask, what was the vibe like back then?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

very academic. it was largely only nerds/computer geeks that could cobble the hardware together to get online, or were maybe interfacing with the local college. i used kermit to upload my homework.

that said, first porn downloads were from these BBSs which were like little mini local AOLs.. provided 'email', chat and some gaming

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