first ever net connection

[Head Wreck]

noticed some talk of phone cradles.

my first modem was on an amstrad PPC. (early attempt at a laptop) but i've only been on the net since 1998, an 8 bit per second connection (collage computers running through so many things before connecting to the collage/uni national backbone).

whats thier first connection and when?

and more importantly.

if anyone had an online nick they can remember share

my first online nick was planetdude, but it got popular and trying to register planetdude on ezboard to find it was taken prompted my current

[gothicmom]

I don't know anything about what type of connection we had but I do remember my first surfing session.

We were in the computer lab at the private university Bishop was attending at the time. We were all over Dark Side of the Net . We looked at Clive Barker, the bong Depeche Mode site and tons of pictures. I think we were looking around for about and hour then the connection went poo-poo from downloading so many picture files!

[The_Dark]

I used to log into a local bbs and use it as a gateway to michweb... had an account on Grand Rapids free net for email... I used a 300buad modem.. woohoo the speed...

[Guest Game of Chance]

The chat rooms on Prodigy...I can't for the life of me remember my SN

[soothsayer]

These stories are like, about ancient stuff.

[pomba gira]

... that's 'cos we's ole folks up in here!

Hm, 1996 or '97, the standard 14k dialup thru my Wayne State student account. Spent a lot ov time on Cafe los Negros, Riot Grrl, & Bust boards back then. Actually got my first 'puter in '95, (w/lawsuit $$ from when I got hit by a Spartan Cab van going 50 mph in a 25 zone) but promptly pawned it & didn't get it out for almost a year. Doing that again quickly became unimaginable!