Nero Burning Rom is one of the best names in the industry, also like the user Dynoobtracer.
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Saw here IRC (I used mIRC), ICQ (lost my account attached to an old email I could not retrieve, hotmail btw), but no one said MSN yet!!
Here in Brazil, MSN were fever in 2000’s, and later on, Orkut, my first interaction with social midia and communities.
I remember that before social midias (twitter, facebook, instagram, etc) explodes, the communities forums were the place I visit most. These were very similar to our community here. I used to visit 2 music bands forums, KornBrasil (Korn fan base in Brazil) and TheArmpit (Limp Bizkit fan base in Brazil), to my age, what is more nostalgic than New Metal?
These are all gone now, the monopoly of social midia take the users away. Lucky us, that our community here is meant to people who wants to learn/teach and not only spend (waste) time on internet.
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Don’t know which was more horrible: a modem sound or the ZX Spectrum & the tape recorder…
BTW, a close friend told me some 30 years ago that he knew a guy, that humming and whistling, could negotiate a handshake with a 300 bps modem…
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Wow! It hasn’t been a long time ago, but I started in approximately 2004 or 2005, I remember creating my first and unique @hotmail.com account.
After creating my first email account, I started using the MSN chat app on Windows XP. I think that was the most remote idea I’ve had about starting the WWW.
In the 3 next years, I started to study programming with VB6.0 .NET.
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I first became involved with computers in the mid-1980s when I was a university student, but I remember being introduced to the Internet around 1995. What left an impression on me was a BBS called newsgroup (Usenet). We researched work issues (comp.*) and talked about hobbies (rec.*).
In retrospect, newsgroups may have been the starting point for SNS.
I remember using an OS/2 PC to access newsgroups at the time.
I found a screenshot for os/2. nostalgic.
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I started my journey when I was in High school. At that time, it was not even 2G. It was the DSL era. I still remember my first cell phone with GPRS—opening google.com and wondering what it does by searching for chocolates.
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My journey of Internet started all the way back in 2005. I started using 2G cellphone and found my first ever site that is Wikipedia. First thing I did there was, I searched the term Astronomy (Because it is till date my favourite subject). Later I told my teacher about this and asked him that to write an essay on Hepatitis B. Then finally, I wrote an essay on Nano Technology and helped my teacher to give seminar for his Post Graduation Studies.
It was fun for me that time where I was waiting for 100MB file to download at 10 Kbps whole night -
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Oh wow! I can’t remember the exact year from the 90’s, but I saw the 
INTERNET :scream: for the first time in a public library :open_book:
My dad was taking my sister and me there, to the Gdansk city center, so we could experience the newest technology :smiley:
When there was finally an opportunity to have the Internet at home, this is the sound that will stay with me forever:
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For me it started at University in 1995. The teacher told us, here you go, this is the internet. You have 1 hour and left us in front of computers…
It was on Netscape 1 (I think) and extremely slow! I decided to search for sites about The lord of the rings. In those days, images would load line by line so we had to be extremely patient. :sweat_smile:
I wasn’t impressed at all and thought “what’s the point, this stuff will never catch on”…
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1995. Reminds me of me trying to download some audio files from an FTP server (likely it was ftp.funet.fi) it was just .au file as the MP3 did not exist yet.
Sure images on the web were mostly interlaced versions of GIF files so we had the feeling something is going on :grin:
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This reminds me of the days back in High school where we would use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
We used this right up until it was blocked and we then started to use AIM Express!
those were the days! if you want to reminisce, check out the time machine:Wayback Machine
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Using Windows 95 in 1996 and playing a game called Cyberia!
And later Starcraft and Starcraft Broodwar. Back when “expansions” were full games!
Going to gamefaqs.com as if I were reading the daily paper.
Going to Space Jam
Which is up and running and hasn’t changed at all!
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My first experience was on an Amstrad pc1512 with 512 Ko of Ram and essentially for playing double dragon !
Afterwards, I assembled my first pc at 16 years old with the last available os “win98” and my 1st internet connection 56kb with an AOL offer with 50 free hours !!
Good to back to basics : AOL Instant Messenger like you @ChadTurner , caramail chat, winamp, age of empires and all my divx with all existing decoders. I remember my mum in fury because she wasn’t able to make a call.
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This reminds me of listening to Backstreet Boys. Especially Everybody, and Show me the meaning.
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And my story has started in 1990, when my mother purchased our first personal computer (PC) → IBM x286. Same as first @AntonioSousa 's computer - had 20MB of disk. So the decision was either to install Windows 3.11 with 10 floppy disks or keep running MS-DOS with few games.
The first game I recall was of course prince of persia!
And many many others.. Nevertheless, I already knew computers are my future - I was 4 years old then! Six years later in 1996, I took the first computer and internet training and connected first time to the internet! The first browser was IE 3.0!
I still remember the excitement of searching for anything you can imagine using different search engines like yahoo.com, altavista.com, Infoseek, or MSN. When I write this, I think I have the same excitement using Chat GPT! Do you as well?
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Yes, ChatGPT is a game changer!
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We will see which way it will go 
I think the biggest application of AI like ChatGPT could be in the medical industry:)
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Go Phil
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