September 10, 200520 yr comment_3398860 Since 1995...if ya meant how long have I had internet access. Today? Since 8 AM (with periods of closing the IE window and opening again).
September 10, 200520 yr comment_3399412 July 5, 2000. I only remember the date because it was the day after the Fourth of July. Man, I've come a long way since the dial-up modem, mid-90s computers, and folding chair.
September 10, 200520 yr comment_3400050 Shit, I don't even know. I remember the first time I ever got on-line, but I don't remember the date. I was at the Indiana State University campus library with two of my friends, Ricky & Andy. I didn't even know to type www before going to a site. Heh.
September 10, 200520 yr comment_3400373 Fall of 1995, when we had bought our first computer - a 100 Mhz, with a whole gig of hard drive space.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3401369 I'm not sure. 1997-ish maybe. The first place I used to go frequently was the FF7 message board on AOL (this was before most forums like that went to absolute shit, by the way)
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3401808 Would've been just after we moved to St. Albert, which was like when I was twelve, so like 94-95. Back when Geocities was a good place to host a site, and the chat rooms were a blast to be in. Well, before all the crap went down and they became the crap fest they are now.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3402433 I first got online about 1994 or so, with my 486 Packard Bell. My first net connection was text-only via a local ISP. I used a shell account as my main net source, with a text browser and Telix for IRC. It's funny, the IRC channel I first hung out in (and I still idle in) just had its 10th anniversary this year. They accidentally invented L33T HAX0R SPEEK too, so sorry about that.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3402513 Ah, so you are partly to blame for the whole damn leet speak. I knew there was something fishy about you. Now I know what it is.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3403989 Starting regularly having access around 1996 or so. Starting posting with a lot of you around mid-2001.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3405504 Depends on how you define "Online". If it goes back pre-Internet to the online services like PRODIGY, GEnie, AOL (pre-Internet version), CompuServe, etc., then I've been online since about 1990. (My family had been on many Bulletin Board Systems for long before that, but those were mainly local and I'm not counting them.) If it goes back to true Internet, then it goes back to about 1994, when I was briefly on AOL before we got a true Internet-only service. I've been on the wrestling sites since late 2000 / early 2001 and just started posting around the time of Wrestlemania X-7.
September 11, 200520 yr comment_3406277 Ah, so you are partly to blame for the whole damn leet speak. I knew there was something fishy about you. Now I know what it is. What happened was that at the time, AOL was starting to emerge as a haven for n00bs and stupid people. Some of the guys in the IRC channel I was in wrote a script for an IRC bot that we named AOL_MAN who spoke using badly misspelled words and symbol letters much like the HAX0R SPEEK we see now. One of the people in the channel was a little kid who wrote scripts for IRC clients, and after he got kicked out for some long forgotten assholery, he stole the AOL_MAN script and put it into the next version of his IRC client that was becoming popular. It was funny, I'd go in channels and see people using this kid's script (he denied stealing anything from us) and some of the lines his script would produced would reference the people from my channel who made it since the original AOL_MAN would refer to people in our channel by name. When IRC started to wane and online journals and forums became the preferred method of online discussion, I started seeing more and more of our AOL-SPEAK become widespread internet vernacular. For example, I can't say 100% we came up with it, but we were the first place I saw to use "pr0n" in its hax0r context.
September 12, 200520 yr comment_3407746 1994, I think. First got involved with message boards around 2000. Those six years between them were happier days.
October 3, 200520 yr comment_3581531 1997, a week or two after Wrestlemania XIII. The first memory that I can recall is winding up in the AOL Grandstand - Pro Wrestling message board....and who else posted there but ol' MikeInSC.
October 3, 200520 yr comment_3581803 I used to post at the AOL Grandstand back then too. I remember MikeinSC, cactusbix, and that Mike Johnson before they became (in)famous IWC personalities. Meanie and Stevie Richards had their own folders too, and since it was around the time Stevie had his major neck surgery he hung out and posted a lot. It was cool chatting with someone actually in the business, and since he really couldn't do much other than post while his neck was healing it was a neat view behind the curtain for a neophyte smark like me. Lou Thesz had a folder too, which was neat that someone like him would take the time to talk to a bunch of AOLers, but he was so old school most of his comments were "*Current Star* is decent but he wouldn't have lasted in my day". He was more accepting of the latest product than most old timers, but he would still make it seem like wrestling was a 100% shoot when he performed.
October 3, 200520 yr comment_3583717 1999, at home. 1994, playing around with school/library computers. I have no idea how I survived with 28.8k dial-up.
October 3, 200520 yr comment_3584188 1999, at home. 1994, playing around with school/library computers. I have no idea how I survived with 28.8k dial-up. Shit, I used to be online with an old 2400 baud modem... Ever try to download 6 megs worth of files at that speed? It ain't fun.
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