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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There was an advert recently...... that showed the major IT developments over the last thrity years or so (no idea what it was an advert for, so that was money well spent by the company involved). When they got to the "e-mail" bit, one of the blokes in the advert says "but what's it for?"
That's exactly how I felt when I first got on the net. Yes there was porn, yes there were shit metal band fan sites, yes you could email people or go on IRC but I really couldn't see any practical application for computers being able to talk to each other.
I also remember having a discussion about games over the 'net in about 1995 and everyone agreeing that no-one would play proper games on the internet and would certainly never, ever pay a subscription to play them.
Shows how wrong you can be, really.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 10:37, Reply)
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