My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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Just me..........my Amiga 1200, iBrowse (and later AWeb and Voyager) and a 33.6k modem paying monthly AND by the minute. Demon, or U-Net or someone. It probably took me about a week to try and watch porn (and that was just loading the site), only to discover most movie formats used for the ten second teasers wouldn't work on my old Commodore. Animated GIFs at 1fps that took 10 minutes to download for the win.
Must've been a good 15, 16 years ago now.
First concrete memory? The blood curdling scream from my mother when the £300 phone bill turned up and she briefly considered killing her only child.
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