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When I started using the Internet I had to walk uphill through snow to get to a 14.4 baud modem
- I plugged my Mac SE into my dorm's Appletalk network in 1988. We had an awesome graphical e-mail client called Blitzmail. It was so fast th…
- erika answered on 02/05/2009
  
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- When I started using the Internet, shortly after electricity was discovered...
- - The only thing that existed were local bulletin boards, which I dialed into using a 300bps modem from my 8088 clone (with a 30mb hard drive and…
  - DeepPlinker answered on 03/07/2009
    
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- The Early Internet Seemed Empty
- - I was an intern at Adobe during the summers when I was in high school. This started in '90 or so. I had been relegated to a windowless team…
  - ryan answered on 02/05/2009
    
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- Dot Matrix Typed All the Right
- - Oh man. I should start by saying that I have, as long as I remember, had a computer in my household. Some of my earliest memories involve sitti…
  - sarah_be answered on 02/05/2009
    
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- When I started using the Internet
- - Let's get this timeline straight: First, I used a manual typewriter in high school. Second, I used an electric typewriter with carbon…
  - mulloyrr answered on 08/17/2010
    
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- Dial-Up Noises...
- - I'm a 90's kid so... I've been using the Internet for as long as I can remember. Dial-up was the main thing in my household at the …
  - jennyturtle answered on 03/30/2009
    
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- Coming of age in the Internet age
- - I think one of the first Internet experiences I had was using Prodigy at my friend Scott's house in about 1992. It was slow, clunky and I d…
  - gshellen answered on 02/13/2009
    
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- When I started using the World Wide Web, the Internet as we know it today didn't really exist
- - It was fall of 1994 when I got my first email address and nobody understood what the hell I was talking about or why I'd need such a thing-…
  - paola answered on 02/13/2009
    
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- When I started using the Internet
- - It started in the early 90's. It began when I found out about BBS's and email. There was a lot of fun online games in those days and a…
  - paulthe answered on 02/07/2009
    
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- When I started using the Internet
- - I first heard about this crazy internet thing in High School. (1993ish?) And I did everything in my power to try to reach it. Mostly, I just …
  - popezypgx answered on 02/06/2009
    
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- Internet Baby Steps, and Eve Astrid Andersson
- - I didn't own a computer in college, so my freshman year I hunkered in the labs for hours messing around on IRC and reading personal website…
  - Maggie answered on 02/05/2009
    
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- 'Twas not so long ago I started using the Internet
- - Our first family computer was purchased in 1998. It was a Gateway that was chilling on my mom's desk until last year. From this information…
  - larbage answered on 02/05/2009
    
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