Before the Web???
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Part of the reason I've held off getting fibre is waiting to see what happens on the wireless front!All over a period of roughly 20 or so years (and think also of the technology leap in general during that time). It's exciting to think what might be waiting on us in another 20 years from now
J
ChrisUnionNJ
We Will Never Forget..
Here's the Google search on telnet bbsing it's still alive..
https://www.google.com/search?q=tel...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
And here's a site with Commodore 64 bbs's I did try some of them
I think there was 8 still going..
http://cbbsoutpost.servebbs.com/
https://www.google.com/search?q=tel...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
And here's a site with Commodore 64 bbs's I did try some of them
I think there was 8 still going..
http://cbbsoutpost.servebbs.com/
Amiga-Digital has his BBS running again on his A3000, but I don't think it's up all the time.
Hi John,
Yes, the memories. In Jan-84 my first computer was a Vic-20, but that lasted only one day before I realized it wasn't compatible with my friends C-64's. I had 4 64's before I found one that didn't break down! From then on, I was hooked!
Next I got a 1541, and a Commodore modem in May of that year. I immediately found a local bbs called "CUTE", (I don't remember what CUTE stood for, but it wasn't referencing pretty girls). I then joined a Commodore users group, most had a C-64, some had Pet's.
In 1988, I was on a local "chat" bbs, when I started dating women I met there. After dating several, I met my future wife. After 1 year we got married. Long story short, we had two girls, (now 14 and 16) and we are divorced after 15 years. She is remarried to a guy she met on the www, and I have been dating a woman for four years now that I met the same way.
I also owned a B-128, (maxed-out to 256), with 8050 dual disk drive, and I've had the following Amiga's;
500, 1000, 2000, 3000T.
I don't know about you "across the pond", but the Commodore club I was in was turned into a "trading games" club, with many for, and many against.
Yes, the memories. In Jan-84 my first computer was a Vic-20, but that lasted only one day before I realized it wasn't compatible with my friends C-64's. I had 4 64's before I found one that didn't break down! From then on, I was hooked!
Next I got a 1541, and a Commodore modem in May of that year. I immediately found a local bbs called "CUTE", (I don't remember what CUTE stood for, but it wasn't referencing pretty girls). I then joined a Commodore users group, most had a C-64, some had Pet's.
In 1988, I was on a local "chat" bbs, when I started dating women I met there. After dating several, I met my future wife. After 1 year we got married. Long story short, we had two girls, (now 14 and 16) and we are divorced after 15 years. She is remarried to a guy she met on the www, and I have been dating a woman for four years now that I met the same way.
I also owned a B-128, (maxed-out to 256), with 8050 dual disk drive, and I've had the following Amiga's;
500, 1000, 2000, 3000T.
I don't know about you "across the pond", but the Commodore club I was in was turned into a "trading games" club, with many for, and many against.
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edd_jedi
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My first online experience was in 1997 when we got our first 'family' PC. My brothers and I were all in secondary school, so my parents finally agreed that it made sense. Funnily enough, I remember that we all went to buy it in Comet, and there was a Commodore PC right next to the Compaq that we ended up buying. My main computer was still my A1200, so I was keen for them to get the Commodore PC, even though I knew nothing about Windows PCs.
Anyway we went with the Compaq, it had Windows 95, a CD player (wow!) and a modem. We signed up to AOL, and my first memory of using the internet is going in MSN chat rooms and having arguments with people (being a teenager, what else would you want to do!?)
I don't think I start using the web 'seriously' until about 1999 when I went to college. And by seriously, I mean downloading music.
Anyway we went with the Compaq, it had Windows 95, a CD player (wow!) and a modem. We signed up to AOL, and my first memory of using the internet is going in MSN chat rooms and having arguments with people (being a teenager, what else would you want to do!?)
I don't think I start using the web 'seriously' until about 1999 when I went to college. And by seriously, I mean downloading music.
protek
"Takai desu ne." -"Jinsei da."
My first PC was an Amstrad PC1512, which came equipped with a 1200 baud modem. That was in 1989. I think I tried connecting a classmate's PC once. Didn't use it that many times since dial-up cost the same as calling a regular phone call. No happy hours back then. I had a some kind of modem until 2001, when I got a mobile phone with GPRS packet radio and fixed rate mobile data. Needless to say that it was unstable and dead slow back then.
First time online was a friends amiga, JR comm and a 2400 modem, that would of been around 1992, Around 1995 iirc I got a 28.8 pace modem, And used to call my mates board called Area 51, and a few others, Think I was on digital candy at one point, then Freeserve came out... and my phone bills became even bigger 
I used to go on local BBS's using my Maestro 2400 modem. Eventually that was upgraded to a 28.8k where I ran my own BBS using Max's BBS software. I got my own phone line so I wouldn't drive my parents insane lol. That would have been in the very early nineties.
I remember my brother and I used to connect to BBSs with our ZX Spectrum, it had the modem which you had to place the handset on top of, after that we moved to the States and got an A500 in '87 then got the bug for calling BBSs around the country, especially those connected to Fidonet, continued calling BBSs for while until around '97 when we got Internet at home. Tried to do that with my A1200 until got a Mac. I do miss the black screen with the ANSI graphics.
Yup, but compared to the speed these days, I wouldn't want to go back, I'd be yawning all the time and then get bored and disconnect.
I bought a modem very late in the day, in 1997, a Commodore 1670 1200bps modem. I first tried to connect Q-Link after getting the documentation bundled with the modem (I'd bought from some American crowd, SSI I think they were called) only to find that Q-Link had been gone for two years... was very disappointed! I then started to connect to British BBS' way back in the day with my C64, then my C128 when I read somewhere that the latter's frame buffer was 9K as opposed to the C64's measly 2.5K (plus, 80-column versus 40). Still, watching the screen draw in line by line... I remember dialling into Midnight Express (board of PD outfit Megatronix) and being insulted by Amiga and PC owners for connecting with such an old machine. Gits 
After I messed around with that for a while I stopped dead when I realised the massive phone bills I'd rung up... oops! I then started browsing the Internet, still on my C128 and 1670, using NovaTerm 9.6 I believe. It was slow as hell and obviously I could see only text, but it was still amazing. That same year I got a pc, a piece of **** AST with a Pentium 133 and 16MB ram. I started to browse the 'net for real, and loved every second of it. It was a temperamental ***** of a pc, though, and the sound card would often fail - and since the modem was connected to the sound card, it often cut out. It also never let me play Jedi Knight online too, for some reason, which was my biggest motivation to get the pc.
Two years later I got a new pc for my 21st, a Compaq with 450MHz K6-II processor and 64MB of ram, though I still didn't have a proper internet connection (I was allowed to use my cousin's account from time to time). Like others in this thread, I used to call my friend up just as people had gone to bed and have modem to modem sessions in X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. Trying to keep quiet, hoping nobody woke up hours later when we rang each other because something had gone wrong. Sometime later I finally got my own connection, and that's when the Internet really came into it's own for me - the white phone cable was to be found trailing out of my room and up the hall every night from then on for years.
I couldn't live without the 'net now, I'm completely glued to it. I go to work and stare at two monitors all day, and browse the 'net in between busy periods moments when there's nothing to do, then come home and immediately flip open my laptop to check up on things. Completely addicted
After I messed around with that for a while I stopped dead when I realised the massive phone bills I'd rung up... oops! I then started browsing the Internet, still on my C128 and 1670, using NovaTerm 9.6 I believe. It was slow as hell and obviously I could see only text, but it was still amazing. That same year I got a pc, a piece of **** AST with a Pentium 133 and 16MB ram. I started to browse the 'net for real, and loved every second of it. It was a temperamental ***** of a pc, though, and the sound card would often fail - and since the modem was connected to the sound card, it often cut out. It also never let me play Jedi Knight online too, for some reason, which was my biggest motivation to get the pc.
Two years later I got a new pc for my 21st, a Compaq with 450MHz K6-II processor and 64MB of ram, though I still didn't have a proper internet connection (I was allowed to use my cousin's account from time to time). Like others in this thread, I used to call my friend up just as people had gone to bed and have modem to modem sessions in X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. Trying to keep quiet, hoping nobody woke up hours later when we rang each other because something had gone wrong. Sometime later I finally got my own connection, and that's when the Internet really came into it's own for me - the white phone cable was to be found trailing out of my room and up the hall every night from then on for years.
I couldn't live without the 'net now, I'm completely glued to it. I go to work and stare at two monitors all day, and browse the 'net in between busy periods moments when there's nothing to do, then come home and immediately flip open my laptop to check up on things. Completely addicted