When you first got access to the internet, what was your first port of call?

Usually I went straight onto MSN or the old Yahoo chat rooms.

These days, I tend to load up Google News first and then check on my various sites. I'm curious as to what others here did.

One of the first things I did was to sign up to ICQ, as far as daily access is concerned, I went to my emails first, then went to play with my website

ICQ....I remember that program. it's still going to I think. I was never an AOL user but it was huge back at the start as well. For me it has mostly been gaming. Back then though I guess it was ICQ, emails, downloading windows programs and working on computers.

I remember ICQ and MSN, and AOL. I was online before them. LOL

There were no browsers, etc. You had to dial into someone PC where they had their site site up and you incurred long distance phone charges as if you were calling long distance. About maybe 2-3 years later I think AOL and a few others started coming out and provided internet services. From there the world wide web was born with browsers like Netscape, etc.

I used a datasette which was a cable connected to a cassette player (yes, the old long ones) for my first type of saving anything as hd's were not invented yet or not available for home use then. Floppies and drives were around but not in my area just yet.

I remember Netscape. Boy it sure took them a long time to die, lol.

I was pissed off when Netscape died. I thought it was the best browser ever...back then. LOL

Quote from: Skhilled on Feb 01, 2023, 07:18 PMI was pissed off when Netscape died. I thought it was the best browser ever...back then. LOL

Seamonkeys builds on from Netscape I think Firefox as well.

When we first got Internet we had 56k I think only for a year then we moved to cable. While we were on 56k I use to download demos from tucows and play them, I remember downloading age of empires 2 (30MB) it took me a few hours.
When I got a bit older I used ICQ mostly to talk to people I played Quake team fortress with then I moved to IRC.

Yup, I remember.

I used to dl from tucows a lot! LOL I still have the original Quake versions as well as a lot of the other ID software games. You can still DL them from their site although they are no longer free. You can also get a lot of the old games as remakes from gog.com.

Quote from: Skhilled on Feb 02, 2023, 09:13 PMYou can also get a lot of the old games as remakes from gog.com.

Yes that's where I got a few of my games from there and I also use Steam, they've had quite a bit of money off of me in recent years 

I still have Half-life and Counter Strike, and many others on my Steam account from long ago. LOL

Quote from: Skhilled on Feb 02, 2023, 09:13 PMYup, I remember.

I used to dl from tucows a lot! LOL I still have the original Quake versions as well as a lot of the other ID software games. You can still DL them from their site although they are no longer free. You can also get a lot of the old games as remakes from gog.com.

I try to buy most of my games from GOG, I love that they are DRM free and I can download an offline copy.
I have the QUAKE Ultimate version from them I got it on sale for $2.

I first accessed the internet using a Commodore Amiga 128, I think it was in the 90's all I could get was text, and chat "Bulletin Boards" if I remember right.

I used a Dialup modem I think it was 3.5k

I used a TI99/4A and later got the speech synthesizer which worked very well for that time. I LOVED the Munchman Game!!! LOL I later got a Commodore 64 and the went on to PC's.

haha yeah tucows! memories.

While I can recall first of various computers etc I can't actually remember when I first got 'online' aka "internet"  But I do recall IRC being pretty heavily used.

slaps /user with a herring

But speaking of old days on the internet I just found (and threw out)and early instruction book for 'Dreamweaver'. I used to use that to get a bit fancier from self-coded html and after haviogn decided that MD frontpage was shite     

Quote from: LandyVlad on Feb 12, 2023, 08:11 AMI just found (and threw out)and early instruction book for 'Dreamweaver'

I used to use MS frontpage a lot BITD still fire it up now and then if I want a quick web page