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1. Hahah, pretty hilarious. More like 1997 than 1994 though. I still had a university email address in 1994 and no practical use for it. IRC was big and CNBC still referred to the net as the information super-highway. No IM back then. ICQ didn’t arrive til 97. In 94 my girlfriends older sister had a motorola brick and I was still downloading pirate software and UFO conspiracy theories from BBSs. More stuff was on the web besides text and you could get images to load in Netscape Navigator. My internet speed was blazing with my 28.8 baud modem and I had 16 megs of RAM which was about 4 times more than anyone else. Good times.

   Comment by Marc — November 10, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

2. nah thats 1994. I was using aol/prodigy at time, chatting, making my first website, emailing, etc.

   Comment by Chris Beasley — November 11, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

3. Sadly for me in 1994 I was running DOS 1.0 on my dad’s original IBM PC. Lots of BBSing, and a few times I dialed a long distance number for some type of web and/or usenet access. By 1997 I had finally made it up to Windows 3.1.

   Comment by Andrew — November 11, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

4. Andrew – Back in the day I was racking up $300/month dialing BBS before my folks finally broke down and let me get AOL 2.5!! Then I learned how to nifty colored ANSI art! Wahoo!

   The first software I wrote wasn’t for a website it was VB3 AOL ‘proggies’ to advertise XXX sites Good`ol days.

   Comment by ToddW — November 12, 2007 @ 2:03 am

5. That is quite funny, indeed!

   Comment by Ari Shohat — November 21, 2007 @ 12:16 pm

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