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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

We first logged onto the internet in about 1997 with AOL dial up, Didn't have a clue what we was doing, but I do remember the £125 phone bill for first month. .

What are your first memories of the internet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aol chat rooms !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Freeserve

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

looking at lots of porn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

AOL dial up. That horrid noise it made. And my Mum shouting she needed to use the phone

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

The dial up sound when you picked the landline phone up. Or my dad shouting to get off the internet as he wanted use the phone! Was 1997. Never forget that!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

MSN chat! And larger than usual phone bills...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bulletin board services using a 300 baud acoustic coupled modem, progressing to CompuServe on a 14.4k US Robotics.

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By *itten-xxxWoman
over a year ago

North West

I used to love the Aol chat rooms and I met one of my best friends on there many years ago

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

Yahoo..... "asl?"

God how I miss those opening messages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

With aol.....The first thing I searched for was porn.....Then received a £250 phone bill and saw NOT so much as a naked breast

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a set top box from asda that connected to the tv...took around 3 minutes to load a web page

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Aol chat rooms !"

+1 we met a lot of ppl through aol chat all those yrs ago

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By *urreyfun2008Man
over a year ago

East Grinstead

Chatrooms at poly way back in 1987 and then when jpeg image format first appeared in 90/91

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alta Vista

Ask Jeeves

Hot Bot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bulletin board services using a 300 baud acoustic coupled modem "

That's how I started, it was in about 1987!

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By *onkers 76Man
over a year ago

pontypool

Tesco dial up and yahoo chat rooms cam2cam lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh yes, I remember dial up. You waited ages for a text message to download. Mind you, we were lucky to live in plastic bag in gutter, me and family of 6 with father down the cheese mine.

I loved the beeps from the modem though.

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By *itten-xxxWoman
over a year ago

North West


"Aol chat rooms !

+1 we met a lot of ppl through aol chat all those yrs ago"

Snap it made me into the naughty girl I am today lol

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Oh yes, I remember dial up. You waited ages for a text message to download. Mind you, we were lucky to live in plastic bag in gutter, me and family of 6 with father down the cheese mine.

I loved the beeps from the modem though."

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Yahoo chat rooms....met a few people off them

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

BT dial-up was 1p per minute.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Tinternet at work one Sunday afternoon when I looked up a splendidly proportioned lass called Wendy Whoppers. The lad sat next to me showed me how to delete cookies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!"

Are Hanson still gigging ?

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By *ScotsmanMan
over a year ago

ayrshire

I dont even understand it. . First it was computers that did fuck all then one mornin someone says there is titinternet. BANG!

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By *ervertsCouple
over a year ago

halesowen

Telewest (now Virgin) dial up, can't remember what I first looked for but it's a very strong possibility it would have been porn. I remember using Yahoo chat rooms a lot, the old cam chat rooms were great.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

My memories of the early internet:

RRRRRRRRRRRR

beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep....

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR

etc. for about 5 mins before a message comes up telling you the connection has been 'lost' so you'll have to start all over again

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By *ScotsmanMan
over a year ago

ayrshire

Where is tit Tinternet?

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"My memories of the early internet:

RRRRRRRRRRRR

beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep....

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR

etc. for about 5 mins before a message comes up telling you the connection has been 'lost' so you'll have to start all over again "

Ping you got mail

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Aol chat rooms !"

Same for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Netscape Navigator

ICQ Messenger

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Windows for Workgroups

Happy Days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

AOL chat rooms. I learned very quickly that some people on the internet are nutters.

It amazes me that some people still think you can trust everyone on the internet!

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

Dial-Up was so Slow.. took half a minute for a picture to load..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

AOL

Dial Up

Cables everywhere

Not being able to use the phone

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol


"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!

Are Hanson still gigging ? "

You can go off people, you know!

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

surf time 2001 cost about 30.00 a month with a pentium 3 computer

first thing searching for downloading films and music

swinger sites as was a couple then escort connectx where you emailed other swingers for free

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ICQ. MIRC. Fuckmywife chatrooms. Carol Cox porn site. Yahoo chat. MSN chat. Met quite a few people off them. But my first memory was the noise of the dial-up modem and picures taking a minute to load

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yahoo messenger, I had a cam2cam relationship with a married woman in Michigan for five years. I'd like to think the good people of GCHQ enjoyed watching me wankin' away.

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"AOL

Dial Up

Cables everywhere

Not being able to use the phone"

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By *ngieandMrManCouple
over a year ago

hereford

Before the Internet, exchanging data between computers directly 1-2-1, even as an engineer it seemed little magical.

Couldn't wait to get connected to the Internet but it started with only a few connect points in the bigger cities. Excitement increased when a location popped in Birmingham but that was still a national call rate from outside of Birmingham. But then AOL offered service at a local call rate but make no mistake, that was still expensive at the time. And so too was the monthly subscription with only 3 hours allowed online per month (or something like that). Worse still, there was bugger all content on the Internet at that time and AOL doing their damn best to monopolise the whole thing.

Once again the 'magic' even as an engineer, it still seems amazing as to how much its changed/progressed in such a very short time. From a few kilo baud to tens of megs! To be lucky to stay connected to a very slow AOL chatroom, being VERY lucky to find a picture of a bit of totty to almost live streaming of full HD sound/video and high resolution images of ANYTHING you might, or might not of imagined...

All taken for granted you youngsters today, you don't know your born! Back in the day we used to have to make our own fun like knocking on doors and running away, or chasing a cat up a tree...

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

My first experience of the internet was with the Sega Dreamcast games console. You could buy a keyboard for it and a cable to connect to the internet. It cost 1p a minute. First thing i did on it was look for porn, lol. Not sure of the exact year but it was sometime in the late 1990's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Porn, MSN chatrooms and video camming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1994. Cannot remember the name of the provider. Very slow internet but happy days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aohell dial up... That shocking noise, aohell chatrooms... can still remember my user name... sarky bint. msn, and website called faceparty, guess the new version would be Fbk.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

We were clueless, dial up, really bad and tediously slow connection. Sat next to a gorgeous lad in a cyber cafe, we were both on chat, he had a female profile, flirting with men - was frustrating!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Excite chat rooms and the;

BEEE BOOOOO TSSSSSS BEEEE TSSSSS ZINNGGGGG WINGGGGGGA WOOOOOO BEEEEE DEE DO DEE DOO DAAAAA

Noise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh an not forgetting IRC also

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

AOL. Nightmare compared with now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For me it was mid 80's horrible dial up and hardly anyone else online

No shops text only based chat

The change and speed from then till now is amazing

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

what about wap chat on your phone?

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Netscapeonline chatrooms, Excite.co.uk personal ads, and working for BT and trying to explain that yes, they really did owe that much on their phone bills for dialling up t'internet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aol & men chat rooms, used to have such a laugh, really miss that side of the internet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

MSN FFS! Lol

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By *dventuroususCouple
over a year ago

sunderland

Aol chatrooms which I met quite a few people from, it was a lot of fun and msn messenger were my 1st memories.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.

P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We first logged onto the internet in about 1997 with AOL dial up, Didn't have a clue what we was doing, but I do remember the £125 phone bill for first month. .

What are your first memories of the internet."
paltalk chat rooms, oh happy days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"what about wap chat on your phone?"

Haha yea, pictures via WAP if you squinted they looked like stuff.

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Probably been said but Im not reading all the posts just incase.

Pressing a button and hearing some electronical noise, then when your connected watching a page load from top to bottom.

Used to take me about an hour and a half to download one mp3 on Napster, its about 30 seconds on BT Infinity

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By *arehamMan
over a year ago

handforth

I got on at 2200 and at 0600 still had to turn it off to get some sleep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Freeserve dial up! Oh the memories, late nights waiting for web pages to load. Emails that took an hour to send. MSN messenger, why?

Those were the days..........

Big upside tho' I met Mrs N via a chat page back in the day.

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Excite chat rooms and the;

BEEE BOOOOO TSSSSSS BEEEE TSSSSS ZINNGGGGG WINGGGGGGA WOOOOOO BEEEEE DEE DO DEE DOO DAAAAA

Noise "

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Freeserve dial up! Oh the memories, late nights waiting for web pages to load. Emails that took an hour to send. MSN messenger, why?

Those were the days..........

Big upside tho' I met Mrs N via a chat page back in the day."

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By *ctaviusStuntMan
over a year ago

plymouth


"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!"

was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I can't remeber when we forst got tinternet but it was mid nineties some time. A friend and I were discussing teh supposed fact that if you put anything in a search engine information would come up and found it incredible "I bet" she said "that if you typed sex with a donkey nothing would come up at all".

I am here to tell you dear reader that even in those days....it did!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can't remeber when we forst got tinternet but it was mid nineties some time. A friend and I were discussing teh supposed fact that if you put anything in a search engine information would come up and found it incredible "I bet" she said "that if you typed sex with a donkey nothing would come up at all".

I am here to tell you dear reader that even in those days....it did! "

So sex with donkeys isn't just a modern phenomena

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

I remember having to buy my first PC from Time on the never-never as it was so friggin expensive and my son would drag me down some back street shack to pay for stuff to make it do things it wasn't designed to do.

He would then invalidate the crappy warranty by dismantling it on the kitchen table to redesign it.

I've still got it somewhere.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol


"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!

was the bass player kim deal by any chance ? "

It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to hate getting a call and then the internet is gone. Had to wait for people to get off the phone before you can sign in.

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

Dial up in 1996. Our provider was Globalnet and cost us £35 a month - plus the cost of the dial up - which, thanks to me and my obsession with chatting online, came to £1000 in our first quarter - boy I was in deep shit over that one! lol.

We moved over to The Sun as a provider some time later which was renamed 'Currant Bun'.

I remember the MSN chat rooms and groups - it was such a thrill back then 'chatting' to people from all around the world. Doesn't seem a big deal now.

Emm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Computer room in my halls at uni. Text only. Lycos search engine. Incredibly slooooooow. 1995 and the first email I sent was to an American band I loved asking when they were touring the UK again. The bass player answered me back personally and it was the greatest thing ever!

was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?

It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon. "

Kim Stone ?

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol


"was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?

It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon.

Kim Stone ? "

Kim Coletta. I loved her band.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.

P"

I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft.

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By *ctaviusStuntMan
over a year ago

plymouth


"was the bass player kim deal by any chance ?

It was indeed a female bassist called Kim - but not Deal. Or Gordon.

Kim Stone ?

Kim Coletta. I loved her band. "

Oh !

It's true then.

You are a nerd

Phwooar !

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By *ctaviusStuntMan
over a year ago

plymouth


"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.

P

I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft. "

What makes you think he wasn't correct ?

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

Dial up with an analogue acoustic modem attached to a compupac 80286 pc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2yrs ago when i got a iphone! i wanted to throw it up against the wall..and im still struggling lol.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"I remember at work circa 1990 people talking about the public sending in their returns via 'electronic mail'. I was amazed at the possibility.

P

I told my BT Manager in the 90s about being able to watch TV on your PC in the future. He thought it was witchcraft.

What makes you think he wasn't correct ?"

Maybe, but I haven't noticed any goat sacrifice apps when I log on to iPlayer.

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