My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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CompuserveThey had their own sort of browser/portal thing, which wasn't integrated into the WWW. You logged in via, and only got to see what they had on their system, which was all rather dull.
It took me about 4 months to work out that in the background you had a fairly standard internet connection going, so firing up a browser while connected to Compuserve broke free of their limited pages.
Translation - It took me 4 months to find any porn in the Internet.
[edit] This would be around 1994.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 12:35, 2 replies)
Ah CompuserveYou used to have to login with a number (eg [email protected]) and that was also you your email. Their reasoning was that everyone would have a Compuserve number just like a telephone number. Of Course, when ISPs started doing [email protected] then that blew that idea right out of the water.
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:24, closed)
I seem to rememberit took Compuserve an awful lot longer to accept that than it really should have.
"Why can't we have our name @ compuserve.com? Everyone else does it like that"
"It's just better, OK."
(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:11, closed)
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