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deathbringer
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I remember my cousin having it before me. They had the default "favourites" that came with IE 4 (it probably was then). One of them was called "The G Spot" (no doubt some sort of tech news site), my cousin once clicked on it then shat himself and closed the browser, as he was convinced it would be porn and his parents would find out.
Anyway we went to the Total Anniahlation website to download packs of tiles for the map editor (which took ages), or else the MST3K website to, erm, just look at it over and over.

Later we got the internet ourselves in 1999. One of the very first things me and my brother did was look for "Tifa Naked", because we'd read in a magazine that "internet perverts" had made "naked pics of the FF7 girls!". Of course we didn't know the word "hentai" (and when I found out about it later it kept spelling it "henkai") then. And pages with decidedly non-naked pictures took ages to load.
We also become convinced that the internet would be "full of Americans". This spoof SAS book we had said that "Vietnam" is something you should never say to Americans, so we hopped on the first chatroom we saw and just started writing "Viet nam, Vietnam, Vieeetnaaam!". We got totally ignored until I typed out the whole joke from the book, at which point somebody said "Actually we're all British in here". I then said "The Boer War", because I knew fuck all about History, and got kicked.
I also started downloading various "anarchist cookbook" files about making bombs, me and my friends only made a few small flares, though. I later found an e-zine from this Scottish group called SWAT, I immediately started making my own magazine called FAT Magazine, which was 99% stupid filler with my absurdly idealistic left-wing ravings, and a few bomb-making instructions that I just stole from other files.

12-16-11 19:21 #

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Mr. Chris
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Quasar said:
my friend 'FoxMajik' (yes, he was one of the original furries >_> )

I know that guy from back then. (I became a furry in late 1996)

Also my early experiences was on Prodigy, Compuserve and AOL. On Compuserve I used to go into the teen chat room when I was 12, seeing what kind of nonsense was going on and when I had AOL later on, I used it for some warez when I found out the chat rooms and mass-mailers/forwarders, atop playing Quakeworld over it with an anti-idle program in the background. I was still able to play even with a 300-400 ping.

12-16-11 19:56 #

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Danarchy
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Heh, oddly enough, I have a Korn-Internet story as well. A freind of mine back in high school actually ran a Korn fan website back in the day (in like 99-2000) called The Korn Kontingency (yes, it was named after the Total Annihilation expansion). The site actually had a decent sized user base, and I used to chat with them a bunch (over ICQ, my first IM program).

Maes said:

Heh, you wish. Most browsers back then didn't quite have the principle of "asynchronous downloads" or "multithreading" quite right, and a page often simply froze into a blank/grey limbo until a sizeable portion of it was downloaded. Of course, don't even speak about being able to scroll or type into forms while it was still loading.

Yeah, true enough. Bathroom breaks and snack runs were also frequent activities to do while waiting for a page to load. I actually had a decent internet connection most of the time, though. I mean, relative to what was going on at the time. My 56k regularly maxed out on speed. My dad was really good at finding free ISPs, which for some reason usually had really good connections. I guess most people were out there PAYING for AOL and it's fucking failure of a service. I remember we deleted that from our computer before our 24 hour free trial was even over.

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Xeros612
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Grain of Salt said:
Weirdly, one of my first memories of the internet is the website set up for Unreal 2 when it was newly announced. It was pretty representative of the finished product in that all I could think about it was "...how exactly is this related to Unreal?"

Uhhhh.... Skaarj! And.... Unreal engine 2! And... That's probably it.

12-17-11 04:15 #

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Dr. Durr
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When I was 5. I remember using it to look up WWF pictures.

12-17-11 13:13 #

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Coopersville
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The Internet brought about the discovery that video games had cheat codes. I'd search nintendo.com for codes on whatever game I rented that week.

Mplayer was a cool place to play Rainbow Six. When Mplayer was gone, GameSpy Arcade was had a nice Jedi Knight community.

I didn't believe in search engines for a while, so I just found websites by taking the names of things I like and adding various combinations of words to them. Doom... World?

Nutscape is my shield.

12-17-11 19:24 #

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valkiriforce
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I was amazed at Google and searched for Axelay.

Got my mom to order it from eBay.

Fell for one of those "Punch the Monkey!" ads to win 20$ (of which I didn't because my dad was explaining to me about what those ads are trying to do).

Looked for video game music only to find midi versions online.

That's pretty much what I remember from the early days of using the internet. This was sometime in 1997, which was also the same year I first played shareware Doom.

12-17-11 19:43 #

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I only used the dial-up at home for school research and once to go on Pokemon.com like in 98. I would go the library every morning in middle school around 2003 to go on Roller Coaster Database. Later in high school I'd go on the library computers to go on Zelda Universe and post comments on the news stories. I couldn't post on the forum because I didn't have an e-mail address to verify my account.

In 2007 everyone was hyped about Super Smash Bros Brawl. There was a video on the website but it wouldn't load for my dial up. A friend told me it was on YouTube, but I was like "I don't want to go to a general video site to look at a video game video." I gave in eventually and looked it up there. It took half an hour to load and the quality was terrible.

Later that year I finally got broadband. I immediately loaded that SSBB trailer in all its glory and watched it several times. Then I got a real Zelda Universe account and posted some on their forums.

My brother and sister almost immediately started playing a game they heard about called Runescape. It was alright and I baked some bread and eventually let some guy "trick" me into going into the wilderness with him, after which I tried to befriend him which freaked him out. I told them instead of this game they should play the game everyone plays on the internet, World of Warcraft. I eventually set up an account and was pretty into it for a couple of years after which I got bored. After getting bored I posted nonstop on WoW's Off-Topic forum as Catpack and was pretty well known there for a while.

The other exciting thing for me was getting my game consoles set up. I connected my Wii and downloaded Virtual Console games from my childhood. Star Fox 64 came out before spring break that year. That spring break went by in about 3 hours. Secondly and more excitingly I got my Xbox 360 set up and got on Xbox Live. I played Call of Duty 2 and Marble Blast Ultra and actually talked to random people instead of typing.

The other thing I did on Xbox Live was look at the Arcade. One title that I caught immediately was Doom, a game I had hear about all my life and wanted to play but could never get a hold of. I downloaded the free E1M1 trial and played it over and over before getting some points and buying it. I played through it on ITYTD then UV.

When looking at YouTube videos I came across a video that was like a fake documentary using some 16 player ZDaemon co-op. It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen. I bought Doom 2 off the id site and started playing ZDaemon.

Eventually I ended up here. Shit.

12-17-11 21:55 #

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Dr. Durr
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I don't know if this counts, but I just had my first true "My Brain Full Of Fuck" moment.
I was on this other message board, and they were discussing this woman who was arrested for nuking her friend's cat. Just a few pages in, after serious discussion about the subject, suddenly people started making JOKES about it, and jokes about the dog who had it's head blown off with fireworks in Bosnia.

EDIT: Just read to the last page, somehow the thread is now about frozen mice and effect of sexual abuse on dogs. I am speechless.

Last edited by Dr. Durr on 12-18-11 at 03:29

12-18-11 03:17 #

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I remember seeing photoshopped Spice Girl porn at my friend's house who had AOL.

12-18-11 03:28 #

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Jimi
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I downloaded demo/shareware/freeware games from these uhh.. I think finnish word was "purkki" which would translate into "can" or "jar", but I don't know if they were called that in english.. ok wikipedia says BBS.

Then I also played some Legend of the Red Dragon in one of these "cans". It was pretty fun. I think there were some other games in there too.

12-18-11 04:53 #

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fatal error
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Technician said:
This is making me wish I had saved my lame Doom fan-page from Geocities before it went down. The grammar was abysmal.

If you still remember it's address look it up in the internet archive. (Commonly referred to as the "wayback machine".) If you find it and aren't completely embarrased by it please share it here, I'd like to see it.

My old geocities site is on the wayback machine, however I made it when I was in sixth grade and it is far too crappy for me to ever show it to anyone again. It is also interesting to note that the recently deceased web sites doom2.net and olddoom.com are on the wayback machine as well.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110722.../www.doom2.net/

http://web.archive.org/web/20090202...://olddoom.com/

12-23-11 00:45 #

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High Flyin' Ryan
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Back around '96 and '97 Kellogs had these two characters named Eet and Ern. I would go to that website every day to enter codes and try to get merchandise. I also remember a website called Expages where you could put your own website up (with some of the shittiest templates and features you could ever want). I built so many Expages and then found a site called Maxpages and built a lot of those too.

When 1998 came around I discovered the MSN Gaming Zone and I spent most of my time there. I thought that was one of the greatest experiences for my childhood.

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Clonehunter
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First thing I ever used the internet for I'm pretty sure was Runescape. My first forum was Massassi Temple forums in 2008 or so, first online community outside of RS... I was so fucking stupid it hurts to read any of my early forum posts before mid-2009.

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Radon
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If you're referring to Massassi Temple as in the Jedi Knight community, i'll shit myself. I stumbled around there myself.

The first internet experiences i've had were only looking up cheat codes for video games on either Alta Vista or yahoo, back in the day. Also, was a frequent user on shockwave.com.

Being young my god brother also introduced me to - Stickdeath.com, although I couldnt count that as a "First encounter."

12-26-11 03:22 #

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