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Offline Just One More

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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #45 on: November 14, 2008, 07:37:36 PM »
I saw the hat, I saw him looking out, I'd convinced myself that it was Thomas Telford



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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #46 on: November 14, 2008, 07:40:06 PM »
Quote from: TG on November 14, 2008, 07:35:52 PM
Who is it?

My statue you mean?
Sir John Betjeman at St Pancras Station
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #47 on: November 14, 2008, 07:44:19 PM »
My first go on the internet, 1997. We were being taken over by a company that said they would be very I.T focussed. (The first of many lies for the following 11 years). Eager to be ahead of the game I purchased a new PC and joined AOL. I can still remember the missus panicking and saying "turn it off, turn it off", when it said I had carried out an illegal operation, she was convinced the authorities would come banging on the door

First website I visited, BBC news, it was my homepage then, it still is now.
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #48 on: November 14, 2008, 07:45:38 PM »
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #49 on: November 14, 2008, 07:54:11 PM »
Thank You. My mind is at rest.
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #50 on: November 15, 2008, 07:31:00 AM »
Anyhooo....

Who remembers acoustic couplers? A bendy thing with a microphone on one end and a speaker on the other... You fitted it onto your telephone or your telephone into it and then dialed the other computer...



It connected to your computer by RS-232 and you could get about 300baud if you were lucky and had a crackle free line.

I guess that was my first experience on the t'internet although it wasn't called that then... you could log-on to company computers and download files and 'chat' to people on other sites but it never really worked...  noooo:

It was a 'textual' interface of course, flashing cursor and all that stuff... hit send, wait for a reply... No mouse of GUI back then...

Happy days...

PS One of LL's first jobs was selling acoustic couplers...
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #51 on: November 15, 2008, 03:53:05 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on November 14, 2008, 07:54:11 PM
My mind is at rest.

No change there then.  ;)
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #52 on: November 15, 2008, 03:59:05 PM »
Quote from: Barman on November 15, 2008, 07:31:00 AM
Anyhooo....

Who remembers acoustic couplers? A bendy thing with a microphone on one end and a speaker on the other... You fitted it onto your telephone or your telephone into it and then dialed the other computer...



It connected to your computer by RS-232 and you could get about 300baud if you were lucky and had a crackle free line.

I guess that was my first experience on the t'internet although it wasn't called that then... you could log-on to company computers and download files and 'chat' to people on other sites but it never really worked...  noooo:

It was a 'textual' interface of course, flashing cursor and all that stuff... hit send, wait for a reply... No mouse of GUI back then...

Happy days...

PS One of LL's first jobs was selling acoustic couplers...


I remember seeing one in the film 'Brainstorm' and being well impressed.
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #53 on: November 15, 2008, 04:29:59 PM »
The first "Computer" I owned



I prolly put Alan Sugar where he is today.
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #54 on: November 15, 2008, 04:35:56 PM »
My first:


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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #55 on: November 15, 2008, 05:15:11 PM »
Is Mrs TG still using it?
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #56 on: November 15, 2008, 08:42:26 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on November 15, 2008, 04:29:59 PM
I prolly put Alan Sugar where he is today.

On my assassination list?
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Re: My first go on the internet...
« Reply #57 on: November 16, 2008, 05:59:25 AM »
My first...




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