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Do you remember your first online service …..and screen name?

My dad had compuserve in the mid 80s , it was all text based but I did read forums and stuff. I don’t think I had a screen name, and used his account, and it was expensive if I recall, he’d get mad if was on too long
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vingtor44 · 61-69, M
In high school, two three digit numbers separated by a comma, believe the first represented the school's account and the second myself as a particular student. Logged you in on an ASR-33 Teletype over a 110 baud acoustically coupled modem to a GE Mark 1 Time Sharing system consisting of a Datanet-30 front end handling all command line interactions and a GE-235 back end to actually run programs. Basic or Algol. Circa 1967.
Yup....
AOL ,
*MYNAME*phoenix

I was in college: Early 2000's :D !!!

Thank you for a lovely walk down memory lane!
FoolishLuna · 56-60, F
No, but I remember having the computer and my ex-husband and I were searching café names for a coffee barI was opening up. And we searched blue rooster all this porn came up and we both freaked .. he was a school teacher and we expected to hear helicopters and police show up at our door !!! He unplugged the computer. 🤣🤣🤣 1993
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@FoolishLuna I remember my mom calling me after she got a computer with windows 95, she said she got a warning that she performed an illegal operation, she was worried. LMAO . Once she found out it was nothing it was a running joke in our family.
FoolishLuna · 56-60, F
@FreeSpirit1 I just can’t believe how things have advanced, and here we are holding computers in our hands.
FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F
@FoolishLuna We went from Dancing baby to this…..[media=https://youtu.be/uFuKQKdZorU]
SpectralMourning · 41-45, M
It was AOL, one of those free 100 hours discs that they'd issue in the suburbs along with Frampton Comes Alive. I think the username was BigBen80.
Lostpoet · M
I think it would be Myspace and my user name was sweetness49. 49 was my jersey number not my age.
Roadsterrider · 56-60, M
My first screen name was Boomer. Dial up internet, getting a phone call would knock me offline. Days to download photos, yep, those were the days.
LaurenRae · 22-25, F
something about justin bieber 😂 justinbxx i think and idk what service we had but it was a big ol computer in the basement, it was definitely the hangout spot for me and alll my friends
pdockal · 56-60, M
Probably AOL .... but id switch to all the free seevices for years till they disappeared
mid 90s
Bepop, (from CowboyBebop, my fave animé at the time)
Degbeme · 70-79, M
It was called Sympatico.
Compuserv, 1989, my Grandfather was a freelance debugger and got ten free hours a month, he gave me a free hour a week, I signed on as NativeOregonian1970, went on DalNet irc #paranormal and #occult channels

 
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