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I first had access to the internet in 1995, but it was on someone else's dial up connection and I only went on for a couple minutes, knew nothing about it and found it pretty stupid as the connection was so slow, it was about worthless. Then in 1997 I actually started using it (still slow dial up). I remember in the Spring of '97 buying a book (magazine?) at the book store with a list of websites that were available broken down into categories.....for some reason, I wanna say Shaq was on the cover of this magazine. Not that it had every website in the world listed on it, but was probably a decent % I would think....imagine the size of that magazine today?!
 

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My 1st computer was a Gateway......Hooked up to the phone....Slow as shit.....Those were the days...lol
 

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I use to have web tv in the late 90's early 2000"s. I remember sending this girl a dick pic back in high school when I was 15.. I had to set up the camcorder in my room, tape about 10-20 seconds of my meat, go upstairs to my living room, put the little tape into one of them fake vhs tapes, play it on the vcr , pray nobody walked in while it was on, select a blurred pixelated still image, than send it to her hotmail because we didn't have cell phones yet! What a process
 

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I remember downloading at 3.5kbs and getting excited when it would hit double digits per second.
 

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I use to have web tv in the late 90's early 2000"s. I remember sending this girl a dick pic back in high school when I was 15.. I had to set up the camcorder in my room, tape about 10-20 seconds of my meat, go upstairs to my living room, put the little tape into one of them fake vhs tapes, play it on the vcr , pray nobody walked in while it was on, select a blurred pixelated still image, than send it to her hotmail because we didn't have cell phones yet! What a process
I had WebTV at one point also, forgot all about that!
 

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I use to have web tv in the late 90's early 2000"s. I remember sending this girl a dick pic back in high school when I was 15.. I had to set up the camcorder in my room, tape about 10-20 seconds of my meat, go upstairs to my living room, put the little tape into one of them fake vhs tapes, play it on the vcr , pray nobody walked in while it was on, select a blurred pixelated still image, than send it to her hotmail because we didn't have cell phones yet! What a process

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reminds me of the dik pic episode on Blue Mt St when coach gives the speech. If he had a road game he had to mail his nudes by Wed so they would make it there on time. Then the fax machine came out and revolutionized everything.
 

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reminds me of the dik pic episode on Blue Mt St when coach gives the speech. If he had a road game he had to mail his nudes by Wed so they would make it there on time. Then the fax machine came out and revolutionized everything.
ahhhh the fax machine....remember being in the car with my Dad when he told me about the FAX machine at his work...took me a couple minutes to understand it....
 

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one thing I know it has had an incredible impact on is fantasy sports
 

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I remember that magazine Kingeleven it was great.
if it was the same one, now that I am thinking more, I do not think Shaq was on front cover, but it may have been inside front cover...I think it was a picture of him and something to do w/ cbssportsline.com if memory serves.
 
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When I first used the Internet I had a computer and no cell phone. Now I have a cell phone and no computer.
 

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