The Internet or "on-line?" First time on any sort of system was around 1990 or 1991 when I was introduced to the wonderful world of BBSes. My dad and I found some where you could download games. Some would even send you a paper catalog of the games they hosted, complete with file sizes and short descriptions. We would pore over those catalogs, trying to determine, from that very short description, whether the hour it would take to download a 1 MB game was worth the time the phone line would be tied up.
I was at a summer program, hosted by a university, in '95 and a friend I had met there would go to the library and use their computers to telnet to a shell account he had and check his email. That was my introduction to the Internet. When I got home from that program, I called some ISP and requested a similar shell account. Then came the wonders of graphical email, the gopher protocol, and surfing the web with Mosaic.
My Snapzu origin story: a member of one of the recent waves. Wish I had found it earlier, though :)
Hey, when I find something interesting, I give it my all.
Actually, the fact that the community has been so welcoming and engaging has encouraged me to be more active. I mean, I used to be able to browse reddit for hours, but I never really commented or got involved, for the most part. That has changed here, I would like to think for the better. :)
Totally agree about the community! I've been here a week and I recognize so many frequent users! Never got that on reddit. Snapzu really makes me want to contribute! They have a well-functioning community going on here and I'm glad to be a part of it! :)
The Internet or "on-line?" First time on any sort of system was around 1990 or 1991 when I was introduced to the wonderful world of BBSes. My dad and I found some where you could download games. Some would even send you a paper catalog of the games they hosted, complete with file sizes and short descriptions. We would pore over those catalogs, trying to determine, from that very short description, whether the hour it would take to download a 1 MB game was worth the time the phone line would be tied up.
I was at a summer program, hosted by a university, in '95 and a friend I had met there would go to the library and use their computers to telnet to a shell account he had and check his email. That was my introduction to the Internet. When I got home from that program, I called some ISP and requested a similar shell account. Then came the wonders of graphical email, the gopher protocol, and surfing the web with Mosaic.
My Snapzu origin story: a member of one of the recent waves. Wish I had found it earlier, though :)
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