Hawt What is your oldest online presence?

also tbf I got my first fambly computer and internet in probably like 1998 and I was in middle school. we had AOL and I used it 50/50 for AIM with my friends from school and doing stupid roleplay chats (heyoooooo Rhydin) for the 1 hour or so a day I was allowed to tie up the phone line. it's funny bc the only people that ever called were bill collectors, and we never answered, but on the off chance there was some emergency, my parents were afraid of tying up the phone line, and even when cell phones started to be a "thing," we still had dial up because I lived in the middle of nowhere with no access to cable, and there was no cell service. I think we finally got DSL in like 2004?
To continue the useless old person cloud-waving, My parents got our first computer in 1987, a 386/33MHz. Had a 120MB hard disk. Big fukn' casino back then.
 
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So apparently you Googlebate yourself regularly, huh?

Last year I was trying to remember the radio station in Johannasburg I did a mix for when I played there and there was still a mention of it so while I was looking round I checked MTV Asia for my interview from when I was in Kuala Lumpur. Neither seem to still be available and I can't remember the name of the radio station again!
 
To continue the useless old person cloud-waving, My parents got our first computer in 1987, a 386/33MHz. Had a 120MB hard disk. Big fukn' casino back then.
we had computers before then, but mostly just for fancy word processors or playing games, not hooked up to the outside world. I should have clarified thats what I meant by fambly computer, I was talking about one that could actually internet or whatever. the older ones might have been technically able to, but probably couldn't have run AOL which was the only way we were on the Internet's at that point. I played a lot of commander keen. and Clyde's adventure.
 
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To continue the useless old person cloud-waving, My parents got our first computer in 1987, a 386/33MHz. Had a 120MB hard disk. Big fukn' casino back then.

1982 or so my office got an Altos 8600 with 8" floppy drive and 40MB hard drive. Cost around £14,000 I seem to recall. MP/M-86 and I wrote our software in MBasic then compiled it.
 
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we had computers before then, but mostly just for fancy word processors or playing games, not hooked up to the outside world. I should have clarified thats what I meant by fambly computer, I was talking about one that could actually internet or whatever. the older ones might have been technically able to, but probably couldn't have run AOL which was the only way we were on the Internet's at that point. I played a lot of commander keen. and Clyde's adventure.
We had Prodigy on the 386, and the 486 66MHz that came after.
 
all ya'll fancy motherfuckers with your color displays, megabytes of memory and shit.

[/shakes cane at cloud]
 
1982 or so my office got an Altos 8600 with 8" floppy drive and 40MB hard drive. Cost around £14,000 I seem to recall. MP/M-86 and I wrote our software in MBasic then compiled it.
the altos gear was half a mainframe kinda. it was multi-user if i remember right.
 
although i dont think i paid for internet until about 2000.

It was either i found open lines by wardialing shit, or used the local universities dial in system .
 
You farts ain't old - my boss used to write code for the military using punch cards.
 
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To continue the useless old person cloud-waving, My parents got our first computer in 1987, a 386/33MHz. Had a 120MB hard disk. Big fukn' casino back then.
My parents got a Mac Plus in 1986ish, so I don't remember not having a computer in the house.
 
im not much older than the rest of you fuckers, but i just started doing shit at age 8 at the local university.

Benefit of professor parents is access to good gear at a young age.
 
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