How long have you been online?

**dogfood** · 08-18-2009, 08:15 PM

about 20 mins

**Fandrew** · 08-18-2009, 08:34 PM

My family had a Commodore 64 in 1992, and My grandfather had one one with a modem about that same time, but We didn't actually get online until about 1996-1997, with AOL.

**scared2mosh** · 08-18-2009, 09:21 PM

we got internet around 1999 according to my parents, but I never used it till about 2002-2003

I still have fond memories of Windows 95, but I remember something before Windows 95 (idk what OS it was other than it was made by windows) and how cool it was to have Windows 95... ever since then my parents have gotten worse with computers and I have gotten better

**DaGeek** · 08-18-2009, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by scared2mosh

we got internet around 1999 according to my parents, but I never used it till about 2002-2003

I still have fond memories of Windows 95, but I remember something before Windows 95 (idk what OS it was other than it was made by windows) and how cool it was to have Windows 95... ever since then my parents have gotten worse with computers and I have gotten better

I hated Windows 95... I do, however, remember having an odd fondness of Windows 98 (odd, considering they're basically the same... And BSODs were more common than campaign promises).

***BillSPrestonEsq*** · 08-19-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by DaGeek

I hated Windows 95... I do, however, remember having an odd fondness of Windows 98 (odd, considering they're basically the same... And BSODs were more common than campaign promises).

98 was way better than 95, which sucked compared to the relative stability of windows 3.11 in my memory. I was doing tech support when '98 came out. BSODS and illegal operations were maddening on 95.

Cam42 · 08-19-2009, 10:20 AM

I am trying to be obnoxious by messing up cgr.

**Gustin** · 08-19-2009, 10:24 AM

Windows 3.1 FTW! I still have an old old old laptop with that on it lying around somewhere.

**DaGeek** · 08-19-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

98 was way better than 95, which sucked compared to the relative stability of windows 3.11 in my memory. I was doing tech support when '98 came out. BSODS and illegal operations were maddening on 95.

I do remember 98 being more stable than 95... But that's not saying too much

. At least 98 was easy to reformat and reinstall, if I remember correctly.

Cam42 · 08-19-2009, 10:37 AM

Another thing about 3.1

Hot dog stand. Before searching for it, I'd try something safer for your eyes. Like a couple of jets of rock salt.

**redbaron** · 08-19-2009, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

98 was way better than 95, which sucked compared to the relative stability of windows 3.11 in my memory. I was doing tech support when '98 came out. BSODS and illegal operations were maddening on 95.

yeah, the only problem with 3.11 was how limiting it was.

I actually switched from primarily OS6 or 7 (can't remember anymore straight to NT4.0 in 1996 and never looked back. before that I had a smattering of experiences with 3.11/NT3.5/9x but mostly in the apple world. Good times.

I've never run a win9x OS on any of my home machines

NT4 -> NT5RC1 -> Win2k -> Whistler -> XP Pro

oh, and then I stopped caring about or enjoying computers so I haven't upgraded my home box since 2003.

**scared2mosh** · 08-19-2009, 01:32 PM

We just upgraded from 98 to XP about 3 years ago

... and my bro just bought a laptop with Vista (and a free upgrade to Windows 7)

tigerfan88 · 08-19-2009, 04:13 PM

I think it was 1996 when I first got on the internet. We used AOL dial-up and a Packard Bell PC at the time. We've since upgraded to Cable.