No, just on CIS. Had free online time when in the Filemaker forum.
My last place I worked runs everything from parts orders to service invoices on FM.
What is the first website you remember going to online?
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My last place I worked runs everything from parts orders to service invoices on FM.
Got it confused with with the Cee Bee radios and all the channels(frequencies I assume) they had. Heard that it was nerdy pre-online chatroom.
Ah...a late adopter.
Fair to say CompuServe, Delphi, etc. were the internet, connected computers, but were not the web.
Did y'all know that AOL used to PAY the forum admins based on how much time the public spent in their forums! As an example, I knew a 13 year old who ran the "teen programming" forum there and he made tens of thousands of dollars a year!
This all ended when AOL stopped charging per minute.......since then there was no revenue to share!
I wouldn't call it nerdy. Not much different than what you have right here.
I like the term nerdy. Don't mean it offensively
Just heard it had DnD channels and groups of that sort.
Don Watkins of PC Forums on CompuServe was into the hundreds of thousands, employees, etc it was a nice business for the contracted sysops...very similar to the web forums of today, the direct ancestor.
That's nerdy to a T.
Ah Prodigy. Owned in part by Sears if I remember correctly. Constantly ads running.
I can remember Compuserve as provider for internet access but before that BBS and Packet Radio with gateways to the internet that where the times.
Contraption!? Contraption!? My god, he called my old light saber a "contraption". It's an elegant weapon of a more civilized day.
I remember buying those Compaq portables and bringing them home and being amazed at the Basic Graphics Demonstration included - that drew lines on the screen! Of course, these computers had no graphics otherwise - all text based.....
I used my early Computers for some record keeping (DB) and it was funny watching them choke on even the smallest db's! They used some kind of a sort which worked fine for a couple hundred records, but at 1000 or so it took forever!
$2995 with two 5.25 Drives. A bargain.
I used my early Computers for some record keeping (DB) and it was funny watching them choke on even the smallest db's! They used some kind of a sort which worked fine for a couple hundred records, but at 1000 or so it took forever!
$2995 with two 5.25 Drives. A bargain.
Back when AOL was at 2.0 
. Also had a bunch of "free" webpages (dont remember the website names anymore). This was back in 94/95.
. Also had a bunch of "free" webpages (dont remember the website names anymore). This was back in 94/95.
I visited a very early internet show in Boston and there was a booth with the Yahoo guys and also one with some guys with a new search engine called Excite. Both booths had the original founders in them and were just tables and a banner - no fancy displays...and the guys smelled like they slept on a dorm room floor the night before!
I remember chatting with the Excite guys about what makes their Search Engine better....and, amazingly enough, I actually understood what they were talking about!
I remember chatting with the Excite guys about what makes their Search Engine better....and, amazingly enough, I actually understood what they were talking about!
I think the very first time I used the Internet was like... 1998 or something. Yeah, I was very late to the party, but hey, I was only 10 at the time. Anyway, I think it was some Disney-affiliated site, probably related to one of their movies.
I had AOL dial-up until I finally got broadband in 2005.
I had AOL dial-up until I finally got broadband in 2005.
University of Nebraska @ Omaha in 1988. Dialup. Text menu, Archie and Gopher.
My first "home computer", 1978.
Digital PDP-11
My first "gaming console", 1980
TRS-80 Color Computer
Digital PDP-11
My first "gaming console", 1980
TRS-80 Color Computer