What even is a GIF? lol
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Martin Alvito
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Late '80s, BBS systems when I was a kid. A few of the larger ones permitted getting out into the wider world. Didn't have anything like CompuServe until a couple years later.
The binman chronicles
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Early 90's I guess with bulletin boards but had heard about it earlier through use of home computers though.
For kids born after the mid 2000's they might not realise that anything other than text based pages used to take minutes to load a page right up until the turn of the century. It was a big deal getting a new modem that had jumped up in speed and you always knew someone who had paid out a fortune to get the latest one making you green with envy!
I still vividly remember when it started to become worth the pain of connecting and waiting for pages to load and for that you have to take into account for most of us with one phone line going online would knock out the use of the phone and seeing that was the hub of the home, people wouldn't be happy with you for it! I used to connect with AoL and use Yahoo as the search engine and I would say I was an early adopter of online shopping when people around me (mostly technical people - programmers and alike) were still very dubious about it all, I was already buying computers and monitors from Jungle.com.
For kids born after the mid 2000's they might not realise that anything other than text based pages used to take minutes to load a page right up until the turn of the century. It was a big deal getting a new modem that had jumped up in speed and you always knew someone who had paid out a fortune to get the latest one making you green with envy!
I still vividly remember when it started to become worth the pain of connecting and waiting for pages to load and for that you have to take into account for most of us with one phone line going online would knock out the use of the phone and seeing that was the hub of the home, people wouldn't be happy with you for it! I used to connect with AoL and use Yahoo as the search engine and I would say I was an early adopter of online shopping when people around me (mostly technical people - programmers and alike) were still very dubious about it all, I was already buying computers and monitors from Jungle.com.
About 2004, had a computer on the knock from Curry's, had the dial up internet
Around the Napster and Limewire era (2000?)
Both my mum and dad's computers got viruses and had to be replaced from me trying to watch the Pam and Tommy vid.
Both my mum and dad's computers got viruses and had to be replaced from me trying to watch the Pam and Tommy vid.
chrismpw
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You'll remember then when the Internet could exist without advertising literally everywhere. Before people were programmed with the phrase "well the ads pay fir it."
gonetomorrow
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I've gone right off it.
lancs blue
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Was it @Goat
Every1 jus thirsty fo aggro on the www.
Kurt.
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WorldWrestlingWeb
Our first computer desk purchased online it came cheap = reason it was a kid desk lol - I remember when you paid as you used the net.. It was expensive ADSL too ....lol
Roughly around Y2K. Working in IT now but old/"experienced" enough to know how good people have it today lol
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