NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Right well we ain't taking to back to 1979. We're going to take it back to 1984/5 because with 1,000 hosts around then it'll do - but I think it's fair to say very few people were 'online' as such. Apart from which it really f*cks the graph axis up and the designer working on it ain't a happy bunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 I don't remember the FIRST time I was online, but I do remember a friend of mine at the time ('96 ish) racking up a £250 monthly phone bill due to internet charges through Freeserve. I did exactly the same - £640 bill arrived. I claimed it all back off my employers at the time though and they then installed ISDN2 for me. Remote access and browsing at 128k seemed so fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 I did exactly the same - £640 bill arrived. Yeah he didn't pay for it either, but I'm pretty sure you're parents weren't as p1ssed as his were though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Right well after much debate we've taken it back to 1989. Very few people were truly online before then and it fecks the graphs up to accomodate a tiny minority. Not to mention Australians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rottenbend Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) Maybe the question should be "When did you first browse a website". Bulletin boards and corporate networks don't cut it in my opinion. HTTP/HTML didn't arrive until 1991 and even then you had to write your own browser to view it. Unless you ran NeXT and got TBL to send you a copy of WWW I wrote a primitive browser at Uni in 1992 but it was crap, really crap Edited September 14, 2011 by rottenbend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Someone else has emailed us and said: "Are you going to do a 'When was your first time?' website. That'd be cool." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stooH Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 You could just limit it to when was the first time you downloaded pron on your computer? That way you know it's graphic based and 'webby' rather than plain text and you're probably in the right ball park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Nah, we'll steer clear of any of that thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rottenbend Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 You could just limit it to when was the first time you downloaded pron on your computer? That way you know it's graphic based and 'webby' rather than plain text and you're probably in the right ball park. The first computer pron I saw was text-based in that it was a picture made up of text characters which when you printed it out on a line printer and squinted at it from a distance looked a little bit like a woman with no clothes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzbitt Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) I remember seeing the very same hour glass silhouette after printing it out on one of these. And i first browsed the net back in 1997 when i went to Uni. Remember struggling with giddiness of finally being online and my mind went blank as to what to search for! Ended up looking for supercar pictures and found my first car forum SUPERCARS.NET - Comprehensive Specifications, Galleries & Forums since 1996 which is full of prepubescent American school boys now but then it was very good! Edited September 14, 2011 by fizzbitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Am sure my first internet experience was dial up to some BBS to post comments regarding a TV show that came up on the TV tuned into a texttext page, or the subtitle page - wish I could remember more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Post it then. That looks like an Epson MX-80 printer to me. I had one. Maybe it wasn't an 80. Hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 By the way, there are a few more graphs accessible now from the home page ("View more graphs") that break the figures down by country. Not much to report at the moment but it gets out to the StumbleUpon crowd tomorrow and the stats will probably increase dramatically from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzbitt Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 I've posted this on my FB page as well for you. Not that i have that many 'friends' but any help is appreciated im sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Supercars.net was a favourite of mine from Uni. Used to get all my wallpapers from there Rottenbend, you're thinking of ASCII Pr0n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 I've posted this on my FB page as well for you. Not that i have that many 'friends' but any help is appreciated im sure. Absolutely. People should feel free (and encouraged!) to post the link out to as many people as possible! The help is appreciated. Facebook, Twitter RT's, blogs, forums, family, friends, colleagues, pets, strangers you might want to acost in the street, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzbitt Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Supercars.net was a favourite of mine from Uni. Used to get all my wallpapers from there Rottenbend, you're thinking of ASCII Pr0n Correct on both points! Were you active on the forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ttm4son Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Absolutely. People should feel free (and encouraged!) to post the link out to as many people as possible! The help is appreciated.Facebook, Twitter RT's, blogs, forums, family, friends, colleagues, pets, strangers you might want to acost in the street, etc. OK, what's the link I should use so that you can keep track and send me a cheque for the correct amount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stooH Posted September 14, 2011 Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Ok thats weird I just went and looked at the page and theres the name of one of the guys who I work with and is sitting not 10 feet away from me. How do I ask casually if he's surfing whilst working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 OK, what's the link I should use so that you can keep track and send me a cheque for the correct amount? You do it for the sense of personal achievement and satisfaction. Think of it as repaying me for all good sound advice about how crap your football team is. I've probably saved you a fortune by making sure you don't waste your time going to watch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2011 Ok thats weird I just went and looked at the page and theres the name of one of the guys who I work with and is sitting not 10 feet away from me. How do I ask casually if he's surfing whilst working? ...not to mention the fact that we're offering a public service for the enforcement of corporate Acceptable Use Policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 (edited) Right well after much debate we've taken it back to 1989.Very few people were truly online before then and it fecks the graphs up to accomodate a tiny minority. Not to mention Australians. OK. Added something, not sure if it actually submitted though... For those of you old enough to remember - some of the first multimedia content you could watch in a Mosaic browser was from a nut case at Purdue University by the name of George Goble. Brilliant BBQ connoisseur: Edited September 15, 2011 by Rachel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Nope, I don't think we've got your submission Rachel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Even when after hitting submit I get this 10 minutes ago? (22:00 here) Thank-you for sending your first web experence - it will appear shortly. Methinks your code is kaput... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Nah, it's fine...we've got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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