BN Critters - May 7th, 2008

[txaggirl91]

oh the hours with AOL - i remember that!

in like 1990 i worked in the computer labs on campus where only the grad students who were running stat programs would go to work on the computers (all i had to do was process their print requests and make sure i had the right kind of paper in the machine).

i was introduced to "relay" (i think that was it's name) - chat room connected to universities all over the world. there were some interesting people on there.

[aeroparrot]

I also had a Atari 2600.

A friend of mine had a computer module made by Texas Instruments that you hooked up to your TV, you could do some basic BASIC programing along with playing some video games.

[docandjeanie]

my first computer was a Commodore 64plus (which I still have- in the box), and I learned basic in the first computer class my high school offered (back in 1981) on TRS-80's. Then I went to college to become a programmer and learned Pascal, Cobal etc....but decided I didn't want to be tied to a desk and gave up after a year....
First internet connection was thru AO-HELL on an old ACER 486....ah, the memories

I also had a Commodore 64... (Which I don't still have!! ) I remember playing Zork and solving it!!

I too had the old commodore 64 plus, had the aol and compuserve account, too.

I also had the original Atari system

Another great one Surf, can't wait to hear the rest of the story

[SchoolGirlHeart]

From the FSOTW in 2002 I had to pay 50 cents a minute for a 28.8K connection.....

[dewyduster]

Yes, I too went to college without the internet. I remember having PC's and word processors and wondering how previous collegians went through school with typewriters

The internet was just starting to gain popularity and there was no ISP in Boone, NC in the early 90's. My roommate had a Prodigy account and we had to dial long distance to Charlotte (at the old 20 cent a minute LD rates) to access dial-up Internet (which was also charged by the hour) to gain access to chat rooms that were text only.
Then, in the late 90's I moved on to selling dial-up, ISDN dial-up (a smokin' 128K in some lucky areas) and bonding 3 ISDN lines for 384K in even more limited areas and eventually partial T-1's, T-1's, DSL and MetroEthernet at 10M and 100M speeds (all in the short span of 7 years) Eventually started selling Sprint Wireless Cards that offered more bandwidth than the ISDN solutions from the past.

With Fiber to the curb in some areas, who knows what the future holds.

Yeah - Prodigy. That brings back memories. I remember finding out that connecting through the DOS version of Prodigy was faster than the Windows 3.1 version. On a 2400 baud modem. I remember what a big deal their "Mosaic" browser was. The World Wide Web with graphics!

[flipflopgirl]

From the FSOTW in 2002 I had to pay 50 cents a minute for a 28.8K connection.....

[JimChunk]

this thread just brought back a lot of memories...all of them bad!

remember when Intellivision was the state of the art video game?

[Glorfindel7]

My first computer was a PB in the late 1980's with NO internet connection. In 1996 I acquired a Compaq with the AOL software built into it. (My previous experience with AOL had me working in a college uninstalling it from lab and teacher PC's

Now I have DSL and a computer at least 100 times faster than my first PC (and I'm not talking about the PB )