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When did you first discover the internet and what did you use it for?

I thought I was being clever with the 1p a minute option till the £450 phone bill arrived!
Auto reconnector when the dialup connection dropped after two hours...
 
Yeah our first bill was hundreds of quid, my mum wasn't too impressed as I don't think she knew how much it cost. We were limited to when we could go online after that. I used to sneak on when people went out but I had to be careful because if someone came in and you disconnected the phone made a 'ping' or beep sound so I'd get busted.
 
First thing I remember was reading about Star Wars on fansites using my dad's computer during a brief period of childhood obsession with the original trilogy. Would have been somewhere between 96 - 98. By 98 I was an obsessed gamer courtesy of Diablo and Baldurs Gate, and was spending quite a bit of time reading about games online. Yes I was a geeky child :|
 
I was a computer programmer throughout the 1980s for a big distribution company. Processors took up whole rooms, we programmed with punched cards and files were stored reels of tape. We'd progressed to monitors and big heavy disks by the time I left. They went wrong a lot I'd get called into work in the middle of the night or lorries in depots up and down the county didn't go out in the morning.

In the early 90s I had a Amstrad word processor at home which was cutting edge technology. Prior to that all our business paperwork was typed on a crappy old typewriter with carbon paper and tippex.

I got the internet in the late 90s with a dial up modem. My other half used to go mad cos the phone was engaged all day and we didn't have mobiles then. I think our first PC cost £2000 and had a 8GB hard drive. My next one was 80GB.

I used it to research drugs, talk to random strangers on ICQ including two distant relatives in Thailand and Canada (I have an unusual surname so just did a search) and was instrumental in the big police raid that temporarily shut down Cream in Liverpool cos at the time everyone talked openly about drugs on their forum.

I joined BL in 2000. I also used the forums at clubber.co.uk and 4clubbers.net, both now defunct, and met up with people from all over the country. I still see quite a lot of them 12 years on and I've been to few weddings of people who met on the forums. The young clubbers are all married with kids now.
 
Valkyrie said:
I was a computer programmer throughout the 1980s for a big distribution company. Processors took up whole rooms, we programmed with punched cards and files were stored reels of tape. We'd progressed to monitors and big heavy disks by the time I left. They went wrong a lot I'd get called into work in the middle of the night or lorries in depots up and down the county didn't go out in the morning.

In the early 90s I had a Amstrad word processor at home which was cutting edge technology. Prior to that all our business paperwork was typed on a crappy old typewriter with carbon paper and tippex.

I got the internet in the late 90s with a dial up modem. My other half used to go mad cos the phone was engaged all day and we didn't have mobiles then. I think our first PC cost £2000 and had a 8GB hard drive. My next one was 80GB.

I used it to research drugs, talk to random strangers on ICQ including two distant relatives in Thailand and Canada (I have an unusual surname so just did a search) and was instrumental in the big police raid that temporarily shut down Cream in Liverpool cos at the time everyone talked openly about drugs on their forum.

I joined BL in 2000. I also used the forums at clubber.co.uk and 4clubbers.net, both now defunct, and met up with people from all over the country. I still see quite a lot of them 12 years on and I've been to few weddings of people who met on the forums. The young clubbers are all married with kids now.
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Good read so far.

I started around the mid-to-late nineties, with regular access from about '95 / '96 onwards. It enabled me to get in touch with a lot of self-harming middle class teenage girls and underground indie hipsters.

It was just before the mp3 explosion, so the biggest draw for me at the time was tape trading. I got a hissy, nth generation copy of Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian sent to me before it was reissued and it was still ultra-rare and expensive.

I sort of fell out of the habit of heavy internet use for the whole of my early twenties as I developed the impression that it was full to the brim with sociopaths and losers, an impression that was more than confirmed when I got involved in Bluelight.
 
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I got a hissy, nth generation copy of Tigermilk by Belle & Sebastian sent to me before it was reissued and it was still ultra-rare and expensive.
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You embarrassed you had a B&S CD sent to you or something? Great band.

was instrumental in the big police raid that temporarily shut down Cream in Liverpool cos at the time everyone talked openly about drugs on their forum.
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You were instrumental, how so?
 
Sam is embarrassed because Belle & Sebastian aren't either totally unheard of outside a wee team of greasy skinny jean wearers or universally thought of as shite, so he has to be a bit cagey about admitting to liking them or he might ruin his image.

Can't say I've ever liked them right enough, never really listened to them much.
 
I was 7 years old and my dad finally got a 56k modem and I remember hearing the obnoxious dialing tone every time we wanted to use AOL. That or when someone would call it would be a busy signal
 
been online since 1997
started reading about music and stuff and thats about it
also joined forums on stuff i was interested in - music, airplanes, and subsequently drugs
also designed numerous websites, and learned quite a lot online
didnt bother much with school, never studied but managed to do well in exams thankfully - i got most of my education from the internet and thanks to that i have a proper job in the adult world now
dont know what id be doing with my life had i never had an internet connection / computer in my house while growing up
 
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Sam is embarrassed because Belle & Sebastian aren't either totally unheard of outside a wee team of greasy skinny jean wearers or universally thought of as shite, so he has to be a bit cagey about admitting to liking them or he might ruin his image.
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lol

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the 56k dial up tone/noise was fucking excellent, modems these days have no character.

that horrible feeling 2 hours into downloading a rendition of gin and juice in MIDI when your mum picks up the phone and crashes the internet
 
Sam is embarrassed because Belle & Sebastian aren't either totally unheard of outside a wee team of greasy skinny jean wearers or universally thought of as shite, so he has to be a bit cagey about admitting to liking them or he might ruin his image.

Can't say I've ever liked them right enough, never really listened to them much.
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Unheard of outside a wee team of greasy, skinny jean, wearers? Well that's Sam to a tee from what I've heard but it's not true nor are they universally thought of as shite. B&S are famous the world over. Popular in the States, South America, Europe, Asia, Aus...oh and the UK (sort of). They are also a great band.
 
I used to play Red Alert online against my mate. Well back in the day. I had to type his number in, my computer would dial his house & his computer would answer. He would smoke me at it every single time. The only time I was looking like I was going to win my fucking maw picked up the phone & started mashing the buttons like a dick trying to phone some cunt, fucked it up & it disconnected. Raging.


Spade - Read my post again. Properly.
 
First got connected via g/f's whizzkid son who hooked us up via his company for free. This was probably....dunno. 96 or 97. Free stuff lasted a year then we had to go AOL for £5 a month (I think)

First ever thing I looked up was in an internet cafe in central London somewhere....lyrics to Love Spreads (Stone Roses)...."I'm hiding in the trees with the picnic, she's over there"

To this day I don't believe that's the real lyrics.

PS Belle & Sebastian are REALLY shit. Who brought them up?
 
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Ah memories.

I can't remember the year at all, it was ages ago though. I was on 56k, still remember the dial up tone. God how annoying. Also I ran up a huge phone bill for my rents :( hundreds of quid. Didn't realise till it arrived of course and they were very displeased.

Could only dial up after 6pm after that as we had free local rate calls from then onwards and at weekends I believe.

Eventually got ISDN which was twice the speed.

I spent lots of time on IRC. first built in chat applets on websites, then started downloading mIRC clients. Some with lots of cool built in crap. I made a simple website with help from some online guy, with my own chat applet linking to my IRC channel.

Got hooked on various online games, Infantry being one of them. (responsible for running up the phone bill. Brilliant game by the way. Constantly harassed for lagging due to my shite connection though. did actually get broadband eventually in my village)

I still remember being of the age not knowing how to delete web history. Some guy on IRC linked me to warez.com (I think that was the URL) when I asked for 1337 hacking t001z. It was some girl chugging back a fat cock. Ended up going and telling my mum out of fear her discovering it!

she put some "monkey blocker" bullshit parental controls which I disabled after a day.

I have spent way too much time on the internet :/
 
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Ended up going and telling my mum out of fear her discovering it!
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Hahaha!

Because the PC was essentially mine rather than a "family PC" I didn't need to be too para. My dad had his work laptop (& was never there anyway) & my maw wasn't interested at all at that time, although she's never off eBay these days. I got a bit too complacent though & at one point had a folder on the desktop called "Porn" lol. Needless to say my maw decided she needed to use the internet one day, so jumped on my computer & discovered my porn folder (which was just full of pictures due to the dial-up connection. I was only about 12/13, they were more than enough!). Blamed it on my mate, the same mate that I blamed absolutely everything on at that time. He did the same whenever he got caught with anything. His maw thought I was a horrible wee cunt & my maw thought he was a horrible wee cunt haha.

She deleted my porn folder. Or so she thought. She was totally unaware of the recycle bin lol.
 
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