Comments on: online for nine

by: leblanc

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:01:01 +0000

it was as late as august of 1994, since that’s when i went to college and we had to start using email and the internet to register for classes and get notes, etc. as soon as we got there, but it might have been a little earlier. i just remember a lot of Pine email and TelNet and Netscape, and oh yeah - how it SAVED MY ASS so many times when writing last-minute papers, like the time i filled up a good 10-12 pages of a shakespeare paper with shakespearean-related images i’d pulled from the web. although the paper was a useless piece of shit, the instructor was impressed by my”‘creativity” and “how long it must have took me to find all those images” and i got a 4.0. ha.

college without the internet would have been hell. i really feel for those pre-1993 college people.
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

by: Pamela

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:36:40 +0000

I remember it distinctly, because I bought my first PC (a black Toshiba, a disaster of an instrument), in July of 1996 on credit. I paid over $2,500 for it, and that was on sale. I had that dinosaur, incidentally, until 2 years ago. And yes, it was dialup, an account called Hollygisp because I was into Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Anyway, I went to see Chri Isaak live and had a fabulous time. I believe it was July 5th or so. Just like you, Em, I typed in “Chris Isaak” I think into the Lycos or Excite search engines, and up came this world of information. Also like you, I spent my initial evenings in complete and utter awe, and it was all about pop culture for me. Music (also the Cure, Siouxsie, other long-lost musical passions). Using the internet for serious information probably didn’t occur till I started back at school in 2002).

by: Sara

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:02 +0000

I have no idea when I first used the internet!
Probably pretty early on ’cause my Dad is pretty “hard core” into technology and computers…and Dan for that matter. I can’t imagine not being led to the water pretty early on. Hmmm, I wonder.

by: ben

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:18:08 +0000

Some people could just don’t get along with computers at all, ya know?

That, and I just wanted to say that I *heart* your geocities username. But of course, I would.