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ceiling fly said:
My first comptuer was a TRS-80. I miss dambuster.
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My first computer was given to me by my grandfather. One of those tandy deals from radio shack I believe. Monitor and key board attached. It used cassette tapes and a tape player. After that he gave me his Apple ][e, I was cruisin.
 
My first computer was a Hyundai 186 that we got in 1988. It came with Chessmaster and Captain Comic. I used to sit for hours and play Might and Magic (the original), too.
 
my dad got a computer when i was young...in the single digits somewhere. i was taught how to get to jeopardy and wheel of fortune, and i was threatened with my life if i did ANYTHING else. that's where my fear of these monsters began.

my first internet experience i remember was in college, where i hung around with some big time geeks. i discovered email and chats, and had a great time but didn't learn anything. then i married an ubergeek with no patience, and i still don't know anything about the machines, except how to play with you geeks and check my email.
 
Thorn Bird said:
my dad got a computer when i was young...in the single digits somewhere. i was taught how to get to jeopardy and wheel of fortune, and i was threatened with my life if i did ANYTHING else. that's where my fear of these monsters began.

my first internet experience i remember was in college, where i hung around with some big time geeks. i discovered email and chats, and had a great time but didn't learn anything. then i married an ubergeek with no patience, and i still don't know anything about the machines, except how to play with you geeks and check my email.
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I played the jeopardy game on the apple so much that I memorized all the answers to every possible game. People thought I was really smart if they came over and tried to play.
 
A friend of mine when I was a kid was a spoiled rich kid or something. His mom bought him an appleIIe with all the trimmings. We played great shit like ulitma, castle wolfenstien, some dungeon crawler game by Lord British (In simulated 3d!) spyhunter and all kinds of other stuff.It was awesome.

I didnt get my own pc with intarwebs untill it was all well established. Had a 386/w a 14.4 modem. Everything was sooooooo slow.
 
haha, I was scared to death of the Internet when we first got it. My parents told me horror stories about not talking to anyone and kids being kidnapped and molested.... So I pretty much played Solitaire and mindsweep until I figured out the internet wasn't that bad.

I remember walking into the computer room and finding one of my male friends looking at porn. Boy it was fun explaining that web page in the history to my dad :wtf:
 
*Fuxx Burger* said:
haha, I was scared to death of the Internet when we first got it. My parents told me horror stories about not talking to anyone and kids being kidnapped and molested.... So I pretty much played Solitaire and mindsweep until I figured out the internet wasn't that bad.

I remember walking into the computer room and finding one of my male friends looking at porn. Boy it was fun explaining that web page in the history to my dad :wtf:
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My dad has busted me for porn on two accounts. It's never fun to explain how it got there.
 
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 when I was pretty young. I remember typing out code from the back of the manual to make a ball bounce around the screen. Boy was that a deflating payoff to an hour and a half of slamming away at a keyboard.

My first experience with the internet was a phone modem at my friend's house when I was in middle school so that had to be around 1985-86. Ultima was popular as was Choplifter at this point. I could never get into Ultima myself, but I loved flying some sorties.
 
shawndavid said:
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 when I was pretty young. I remember typing out code from the back of the manual to make a ball bounce around the screen. Boy was that a deflating payoff to an hour and a half of slamming away at a keyboard.

My first experience with the internet was a phone modem at my friend's house when I was in middle school so that had to be around 1985-86. Ultima was popular as was Choplifter at this point. I could never get into Ultima myself, but I loved flying some sorties.
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A friend of mine had a 20, I was sooo jealous. Until I got a Commodore 64, then life was tits...
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
Man, 14.4 modems were fast....

Actually my 2400baud modem was blazing fast compared to my old 300 :omy:

My first intarnet experience was probably when I was 7 or 8 in my dad's office on one of their Vaxen, and that was telneting to a .mil address :cool:
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It's all a series of tubes... even with super fast 15mbps our tubes still get clogged and we have problems getting our email :iono:
 
Candy said:
It's all a series of tubes... even with super fast 15mbps our tubes still get clogged and we have problems getting our email :iono:
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My first experience with the internet was a shell account. Pine for email and tin for usenet. Ohhhhh yeahhhh.
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
My first email was through Fidonet, since I was primarily a BBS hound

TW2002 :drool:
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Man, I used to love TW2002. Naturally it was available as one of the door games on the board I ran. It's still available and has, as near as I can tell, a pretty active community built around it.

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I'd forgotten about fidonet. I used a lot of boards that were part of wwivnet though.
 
My first programming experience was when I was somewhere around 6, 7, 8, years old... and by programming I mean making a bunch of batch files and using the 'echo' and 'prompt' commands.

I don't think I got on the intarweb until a few years later, but fuck when my friend showed me ICQ I thought it was the collest thing ever. I would search for random people, talk to them, and then trade my contact list with them to get more people.
 
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