all you had to do back then was make a fake website and host it on your campus server. that way it wasn't a federal offense and all you had to do was fool your parents instead of the school's computer system.

If you need dial-up Internet access, there are two options you may wish to consider.

1. Buy a farking cable modem

2. See Option 1.

Bondith: If you need dial-up Internet access, there are two options you may wish to consider.

1. Buy a farking cable modem

2. See Option 1.


Some people don't have cable internet service. We used to live in the middle of the woods nowhere and my parents just got broadband available in 2008!

And even then, they just put a humongous antenna on top of the water tower. If it's windy or something, the internet may go out.

70045,156

300 baud was actually pretty good speed. You could read it in real time as it was received.

We didn't need no stinkin' data buffers! And we liked it that way...

I was never on Compuserve, just had AOL and eWorld.

/probably the only person here who was on eWorld.

were there ever any pieces of software that displayed text as it was recieved/typed? letter by letter style

I remember ICQ doing this but I haven't used that in at least ten years. the feature was awful because of course when you jokingly type "yeah who cares" as a little joke to yourself before deleting and sending a real response, it doesn't work if they see it.

atouk: 70045,156

300 baud was actually pretty good speed. You could read it in real time as it was received.

We didn't need no stinkin' data buffers! And we liked it that way...

I remember even in the later days of compuserve we'd log in at 300 baud just cause it was cheaper than the blazingly fast 9600. Based on our local phone lines, 9600 wasn't that much better.

Wow. I just did a Google search on my old CI$ e-mail and found some posts from WAAAAAYYYYY beyond Pearl to a listserv I used to subscribe to.

Mrs. Unobtanium went with Mindspring and I dumped my CI$ account when we went from dial-up to DSL. Plus my employer finally get with the 20th century and we all go internet e-mail addresses. Which led to EVERYONE at work forwarding all the original hoaxes we had been seeing for many years on CI$. :-(

I made some good friends on Compuserve and have actually knowingly met them in person.

And back in the days, we didn't call them trolls, we called them ad hominem attacks.

/G,D&R.
//My God, I feel old now.

Oh, yeah. TAPCIS actually made CompuServe affordable.

One of my Apple II and Mac sysops jobs was looking at user uploaded EGA-colored porn to make sure it met the standards.

I also got to deal with people like David Sternlight if anyone remembers him from back then. Who said no flame wars then? They did't call him Sterno for nothing. Actually met him at a MacWorld and in person he was pretty likable.

76216,3306

Damn, I made some good friends in some of the forums there.

72760,600

I have no idea what my number was, but I had one up until 10 years or so ago.

I'm trying to remember the pron path in compuserve...I was entirely too young to have great porn access and man it was great. My old man's friend was like, yo...kid...wanna see some titties. "yes please"


I bet there are some 3.5"s lying around with the results of that endeavor. Good times.

I lost my patience with them when they couldn't even get account numbers a standard TCP/IP email address.

77021.1131

AOL, CompuServe, GEnie, eWorld, in that order.

74224,1647

300 Baud Atari 800XL

I still remember the feeling when I made that first connection and knew that my computer was actually talking to other computers!

I supported Compuserve years ago. That was quite interesting, especially when you consider Compuserve marketed toward the more intelligent class of citizen...

That's what they told me in the interview that it was marketed towards the business person, and the investor, etc.

Boy were they wrong. But the company that I worked for at the time did outsourced support. It was all fine and dandy, until AOL bought them out. I had a free account, so I couldn't complain.

But I went to broadband as soon as it was available in my area.

If you had one of these, you were old school:

US Videotel (new window)

I still remember the old b&w ASCII texts.

bingethinker: AOL, CompuServe, GEnie, eWorld, in that order.

whoa, so I'm not the only person on Fark who used to be on eWorld? Awesome!

CompuServe was my first service.
Then Delphi.
Then AOL.
Then Erol's (my first pure ISP).
Then Earthlink.
Then Cox (my first broadband ISP).
Comcast, Charter, etc.

CompuServe served the purpose for me back in the late 80's. I had no idea they were still around.

I wonder if the atari 8bit game I wrote and uploaded to compuserve back in the 80s is still there....

Could you play the original Neverwinter Nights on Compuserve? I could have sworn I bought several Dragon Magazines for several free hours.

Has a sad. No more wife-hunting.

Third Marriage -- Marta Maranda Fitzgerald:
Marta was a married aerobics instructor from Titusville, Florida, who Rush met on the Internet via Compuserve in 1990. According to the PalmBeachPost.com Marta was "married three times and had a son and daughter before hooking up with Rush."

71033.38

Just for grins, I looked up my old Compuserve account. Still there, just bought by AOL. I can't access it for some reason- I can log in, but can't download my email.