How & When You 1st Saw the WWW?

[Alphawolf]

Just chillin' with my coffee here and I've been pretty productive last few days. I've found that forcing myself to get up at 7AM and working from like 9AM then taking a break around lunch time for an hour...then working till about 4PMish really is much more efficient for me. What that means is that I can goof off a bit.

So...what is your 'puter history?

I went from a Commodore VIC 20

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...to a Commodore 64

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...but my 1st 'puter was a 486SX33Mhz w/8 MB RAM Packard Bell later upgraded to a 486DX66Mhz w/ 32MB RAM. 420MB HD and 1 MB video.

Started out on Prodigy. Joined a Falcon 3 ladder and that's how I came up with my online nickname - Alphawolf. I was into wolves and had posters, collectibles, etc...

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We used a dedicated BBS system back then as well as Prodigy.

I decided to play around with IBM OS/2 WARP

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In November, 1994, OS/2 Warp 3.0 was released. It was the first PC operating system to have built-in Internet support. At the time, OS/2 critics said that Internet support was just "more geek crap," but today every major operating system ships with built-in Internet support.

Holy crap! It's still around today! http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/

Yep. There we go. Included built-in Internet Support. I had been a member of CompuServe (when it was $9.60/hr!) and Delphi and thought of the Internet as command line FTP stuff up to that point.

I joined IBM Online or whatever they called it late one night.

This was the very first time I saw the World Wide Web.

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I was up ALL night surfing on my 2400 baud modem. WOW. I discovered Mail lists and USENET in addition to all the websites.

A guy I knew from Falcon 3 (playing modem to modem) who was a bit older and much richer started to make HTML pages in HotMetalPro. He and a few others started to try and sell time share's on the Internet. I think they had the domain www.timesharemall.com - and showed it at trade shows. But - the older people didn't "get it".



He was telling me about some WINSOCK shit that he used to get onto the Internet on Windows 3.11

So, I started to use that. Think I got a vid card Hercules 128 2MB and OS/2 didn't support it.

On Win95 I made some information site (off my free Compuserve web space [5MB]) about shit like how to tune your PC and Win95 and do trace routes, etc...

Via an E-mail list I was on for Aikido (a martial art) I met an upstart company [2 Canadian guys] who needed their 1st employee. They lived in Tokyo and taught a different form of Aikido than I did, but they just took a look at my nice little website and hired me.

http://www.emissary.co.jp/arch_conte...tUs/index.html

Sadly, I never got into the web and HTML early on. I leaned more towards Networking and 'other people' did that 'web stuff'.

In 2001 a guy I worked with showed me Dreamweaver and a roll over image map he did. I was like WOW. LOL. That's when I got into web stuff.

Wow. Didn't intend for this much, but as I did some searches it brought back a lot of memories.

You can post a short version of your first WWW experience.

Oh, I recall seeing a lot of government sites...in particular the White House web site.

I first discovered porn on USENET, not on the web. I mean besides those dedicated BBS's in the pre-Internet days!