First online experience?

telling my mom not to answer the phone when it rang so we could connect p2p and play warcraft 2. we got a 2nd phone line eventually.
 
Was Quake 1 for me. Massive ping and kept getting fragged by some dude. That was my first match. I played a fair bit of Quake since then.

Here is my first match of Quake Champions last week.

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K : D 11 : 1
 
i used jump on the bus and go to the computer store. they had hundreds of shareware apps i could copy on floppy.

then eventually got a 300baud and started on the bbs's

played mutants as well and came in first for the championship .. but dont know if it was monthly or what. fun ass game back then.

the internet was slow to develop when we still had to dial in to servers.
 
my experience was similar with the BBS thing in the mid-80s. i remember playing legend of the red dragon (LORD) daily in the early 90s. fucking violet...that bitch. also playing on DWANGO a few years after that. blood LAN games at the local nerd shop. then tribes arrived and my life was over.
 
I missed out on the BBS thing for the most part, having been mesmerized by the weird wild mix of internetworks we had access to at Va Tech in the 80s.
 
I also remember email was sketchy af. I had a small bbs running on my little piddly 486, mostly for files and email. It was part of Throbnet, which was email that was primarily eastern seaboard. Every night at midnight, the bbs would kick everyone off, then accept/send email bundles, sort of like a repeater. If anyone was down, your email could take days or weeks to reach the intended person.

and we had to walk to school. with no shoes, in the snow, uphill both ways
 
JuggerNaught said:
I also remember email was sketchy af. I had a small bbs running on my little piddly 486, mostly for files and email. It was part of Throbnet, which was email that was primarily eastern seaboard. Every night at midnight, the bbs would kick everyone off, then accept/send email bundles, sort of like a repeater. If anyone was down, your email could take days or weeks to reach the intended person.

and we had to walk to school. with no shoes, in the snow, uphill both ways
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are you talking about FidoNet? Wikipedia has no entry for throbnet and I've never heard of it. And it wasn't "email", it was fidonet mail. It also didn't work like what you describe.
 
So, Corporal Shephard, we meet at last. Please, don't think that I've been avoiding you, a great many matters require my attention in these... troubled times. I do hope you understand, and now I require a further indulgence on your part. I cannot close my report until every loose end has been tied up. The biggest embarrassment has been Black Mesa facility, but I think that's finally taken care of itself...

Quite so.

But there is still the lingering matter of witnesses. I admit I have a fascination with those who adapt and survive against all odds. They rather remind me of myself. If for no other reason, I have argued to preserve you for a time.

While I believe a civil servant like yourself understands the importance of... discretion, my employers are not quite so trusting, and rather than continually subject you to the irresistible human temptation of telling all, we have decided to...convey you to somewhere where you can do no possible harm, and where no harm can come to you. I'm sure you can imagine there are worse alternatives.

Spoiler
 
http://www.chathouse.com
A chat website where you kept having to refresh Netscape in order to see the new messages.

Played "Interstate '76" online on 28k modem on USA host from Australia. Totally unplayable teleportation fest, but hey it was online, so novelty outweighed gameplay.

Notable mentiion was Powow chat app by Tribal Voice. Had a whiteboard which one could draw with people as well as voice chat.

Art Bell Show and .rm files.

Hover Race.

:)
 
I did some BBS stuff in the 90s, but my first impressionable online experience was seeing I think either Quake or Quake II on a buddy’s PC in the dorms and having my mind blown that every character in the match had a real person somewhere playing it. A few summers after that a friend showed me tribes. Was an even bigger impression on me.
 
lol. that reminds me. i went to a lan party where we actually brought our pc and crt. we played a bunch of fps and shit then we all tried tribes. 20 people running around playing ctf and all i did was grab flag and ski around laughing at them for the whole match, all they could figure out was walking. only played one map of course.
 
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