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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EMAIL ON A SPECTRUM ?!Back when programs like 'live & kicking' started asking for people to email in, we looked into what this 'email 'could be.... turns out it was electronic mail, WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?!
Anyway, we decided to 'hack' into our school's 'records' (like they'd even have any sort of online connection back then!) with my mate's Spectrum by typing "HACK SCHOOL X, RETURN, RUN HACK". We sat there for a few seconds before my mate panicked and pulled the plug out of the wall turning the whole lot off, before we ran outside and hid in the field for the rest of the afternoon in case the police came around.
It would be about 10 more years before i had anything that contained a modem, let alone being able to connect to the internet.
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Victor Meldrew, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 13:57,
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Utter fantasybecause you can't type "HACK SCHOOL X, RETURN, RUN HACK" on a spectrum - it had a symbolic keyboard, which strangely didn't include the symbol HACK
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But it did actually have a modemalbeit not one that you could plug straight into the telephone network.
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:55,
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