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bengamblin · 05-13-2007

The first time I went online was in school back in 1997 or 1998. Yahoo chatrooms were the cool thing to be using, and there was little actual web surfing other than around Yahoo's pages.

I have no idea what the speed was, but it can't have been great.

My first experience with computers was a lot earlier though, using a ZX81 at around 1990/1991 before upgrading to a Commodore 64 and an IBM XT 8088. We finally got a computer capable of running Windows 3.1 in 1995/1996.

I can't tell you the amount of times I broke that machine whilst learning DOS and Windows, and playing around with config files

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bengamblin Commentator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Essex, England, UK Posts: 32	Re: What was your first online experience? The first time I went online was in school back in 1997 or 1998. Yahoo chatrooms were the cool thing to be using, and there was little actual web surfing other than around Yahoo's pages. I have no idea what the speed was, but it can't have been great. My first experience with computers was a lot earlier though, using a ZX81 at around 1990/1991 before upgrading to a Commodore 64 and an IBM XT 8088. We finally got a computer capable of running Windows 3.1 in 1995/1996. I can't tell you the amount of times I broke that machine whilst learning DOS and Windows, and playing around with config files