This is my 25th year in Liverpool, which means it has been a quarter of century since I discovered that a thing called the Internet existed. The Open Day at John Moores included a demo of this thing called Mosaic, on something they called the world wide web.
I wanted to go to Uni in Liverpool regardless, that little demo and the size of the labs had me signed up. About six months later, I sent my first email internationally (not that crossing boundaries is something technically requiring any different).
We take it all for granted now, and we’re going to see a lot more change in our lifetimes.
I used email in 1987. Was not called email, but thats what it was for sure.
Think I found the net around ten years after that. Being able to find out stuff / info / gossip about footy, immediately, was pretty amazing, I thought
Would be 1994 when I went to uni. We were encouraged to chat on line to other pepple at unis abroad. I remember being given an email address and there were lots of new computer rooms. There was some internal messaging system. I found an old print off of one of my friend’s responses a while ago. It was probably in 1997 that I encourage my parents to get the internet at home so I could do my dissertation. Ah that dial up sound eh?
January 1972. Working on a Digitising Table that had a Ferranti Freescan processor and half inch tape deck to record the capture data. I’m pleased to say the equipment still exists…it’s in The Science Museum in London.
OK I know it wasn’t the Internet…internal emails around 1993.
Started using email when I went to Uni in 1987, over the joint academic network, or janet.
Didn’t use t’internet until me pa got a 386 in 1994 and we installed Compuserve. The first thing that impressed me were the real time weather maps, although the refresh rate over dial-up was a bit slow.
Well I could tell you the story of our house getting internet back in 1997. My dad was trying out some search engine and decided to search for something that was in the media a lot at the time… The Spice Girls.