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For those who have only just realised there's internets out there, let's take a trip down memory lane. Post pics of your earliest interweb memories - first pics that got emailed, first ones you've seen (no tubgirl please). 
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Mine is a noise. That annoying dial up noise that you used to hear.
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I loved that noise. You could get Google updates monthly back in 1999: 
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Lycos is probably the first search engine I remember, along with altavista: 
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A friend said he had one of these modems on his commodore 64 back in the day when it was basically all text. 
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Interesting
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My first memories had the dialup noise, too. I'd go to the local BBS, which was somebody's computer. Did my first chats there; all text based.
Did anybody else do that?
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 An IBM 370 mainframe from 1980 Used it in college. Moved from that to an IBM 4341. Got to run on a Cray 3 - once. Bat
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Bat, just think: you can buy a terabyte hard drive for a hundred bucks now.
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a 15 meg Wincester HD in 1981 was $15,000.
Remember the old dec readers and keyboards the size of a VW?
Bat
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Batman wrote:a 15 meg Wincester HD in 1981 was $15,000.
Remember the old dec readers and keyboards the size of a VW?
Bat Those things were the size of and built like a tank too. I remember paying $200.00 for 4MB of memory. Had a customer pay $600.0 for 16MB thought that was a good deal too. LOL Back around 1994
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And now the RAM alone is that size. Hey, that sounded sexual. 
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Man I had forgot all about the dancing baby.
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Wow! LMAO!!
"Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none."
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And support today is...
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I wandered for a minute: But, I'm back. First thing I received, I believe is: And the question was: 'How many people does it take to screw in a light blub?'  I still love it. Bat
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You know Jude I was so going to blow that off when I first started it. But the more I listened the funnier it got to me! Thanks!
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Chef, my job is making those services as good as possible, and every time I see that it cracks me up.
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It was funny as hell. I could almost hear the guy thinking "what a dumbass"LOL
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 Got this today from a programming bud. Bat
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Jude, that is a riot, having grown up in the city of Arvada, and knowing about the caliber of many of the fine people in the City Council, particularly the Mayor...What a group of geniuses!
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~~TechTwo wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do...
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Bat, that looks like a disc brake from a Silverado.
Oh, I forgot all about Prodigy, Goddess. Is that even around anymore?
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