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IntenseMagic

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Happy Internet Day!!
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The first electronic message was sent over a network on this day in 1969! The World Wide Web was created 20 years later.

Do you remember getting internet for the first time?
Are you old enough to remember dial-up?

I distinctly remember when I first got dial-up internet and when I first went to cable internet. I got my first computer and dial-up sometime in the mid-90's. I think about how far we've come sometimes when I'm downloading things. I had a friend send me a song in the days of dial-up and it took well over a day to download lol. I just wonder how things will advance from here.
 
I definitely remember dialup. I also remember setting up DSL for the first time. I was so excited.

I got my first computer long before that. It was a Commodore Vic 20. Then I moved to the Apple IIc.
 
Dial up was our first internet connection, and we got it just before TJ was born.
 
I don't remember the details of getting the internet, but I was close to my 22nd birthday in late 1993 when we got Prodigy, which I think was my family's first use of Internet. That was also the year we replaced the Apple IIe we'd had for nearly a decade!!! with a PC. (Seems incredible now, though I had my first iMac for nearly a decade too.) I loved the ability to email but Prodigy didn't interest me greatly. I was busy studying to become a teacher. However, in a few more months, I discovered the personal ads and that's where I met my husband in June 1994. So, yeah, I have long considered the Internet to be an awesome thing, even if I wasn't immediately impressed.

And yes, I can clearly recall the sound of the dial up modem.
 
I honestly don't remember the dates, but I do remember dial up and AOL's "you've got mail!" message. I can remember when I first started digi scrapping in 2007/2008 that it would take quite a while to download and upload things. I think it's from having to wait so much that I really, really, really enjoying high speed internet. I always choose the fastest speed available for residential use. It's probably overkill, but it's one of my monthly splurges so I can enjoy designing and doing all the business side as well as create layouts.
 
It's crazy how far technology has come. I can't imagine how many more advances I'll see in my lifetime.
 
Yep, I had dial-up to use AOL in the early 90's. Then in 1996 my local telephone company offered dial-up internet (I still have the paperwork). I ditched AOL a couple years later. At one time I even had a 2nd phone line that was just for the internet (phone lines were really cheap with them in those days). A couple years later the phone/cable company started with cable internet. I signed up for cable as soon as it was available in my neighborhood. I'm still with the same company although I ditched the 2nd phone line when I got cable internet and the main phone line about 15 years ago.

The one thing I will say about AOL is that I met some nice people in some of their chat rooms. I met a few gals on a CM message board that are still friends to this day but we all moved to another forum that evolved into our Scrapshare forum that we played on for many years... even having a forum cruise in 2010!

And in 1997 I flew to LA to spend a weekend with a girl I met on a forum for the soap opera "As The World Turns". Spent a day a Disneyland with 4 other members of the AOL ATWT board and a luncheon the next day with several others. I knew none of them before going but several of them are still friends to this day. And, in 2002 a group of us met up in NYC for a benefit for St Jude's that was put on by one of the stars of ATWT. We got to meet a lot of soap stars from all soaps that night!
 
Because there was no local AOL number, I never used it. Instead, I used local dial-up. Back then I was really active on Dalnet (an IRC network). In fact, that is where I met David.
 
Oh my gosh! Yes! I remember dial-up and that awful noise it made when it was connecting. Lol. We had something called "Penny Net" We paid a penny for every minute we were connected and I remember when I'd first connect and it would have to download one jillion spam emails. When I was in college 1992-1996 we had "vax" machines that were a black screen with green dot-matrix fonts and I could email my Dad who had a similar system at home. He was always a computer geek, so that was pretty cool. Back then it was long distance to call home, so he preferred I just emailed instead.

I am so thankful for fast internet now! :agree
 
Good old dial up ... we had Erols (became Starpower, now RCN) in the beginning and paid by the minute. At the office we dialed up using our fax phone line. My computer was the only one with access. I had run a phone cord up the wall, above the ceiling tiles, then back done to the wall plug. In order to dial up, I had to unplug the fax machine and plug the cord from my computer in.

Eventually we got DSL here at the office and at home. Nowadays I have Verizon FiOS at home and we have Cox cable at the office (FiOS isn't available). I love being connected 100% of the time and no telltale dial up tone, lol!!!

I still have a landline b/c it's cheaper to keep it than ditch it and my DD doesn't have a cell phone. Unfortunately it's a FiOS phone which is only good for 8 hours or so if we lose electricity ... I didn't realize when I went to FiOS that I'd lose my traditional landline.
 
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