sleepy jack

what about the one music banter sends you to activate your account?

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blackTshirt

haha maybe it doesn't count

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jibber

wow I can't even remember the first email I got, it was sometime in the third grade, i remember that much....so that would have been...holy sh*t, 9 years ago

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Lisnaholic

Bumping this because of this : http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...litz-game.html

The OP question is an invitation to remember a time that is hard to imagine if you didn't live through it: the time when email was the first manifestation of the unbelievable technical advance of the internet. I'm probably going to bore on about that shift in society when I get back from work, but I'm hoping other members will describe their relationship to the internet. For you, is it something that's always been there, like running water, or did it come like some bizarre futuristic technology from an episode of Star Trek ?

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rubber soul

For me the first E-mail I would have gotten would have been around 1995 when I first went on the internet via American Online. You'd always hear that annoying voice that said, "You've Got Mail." Of course it(the e-mail) was most likely by some scam artist.

My earliest memories though were hanging out in the newsgroups which I guess were the precursor to forums like these. They weren't as organized and spam was all over the place, but there were still some pretty good discussions going. I actually defended Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney once in a Beatles' newsgroup and someone pretending to be Yoko thanked me. Those were interesting times

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Plankton

After spending a couple of years on BBS's in the early 90's, I found AOL and used that for a while. Not sure what my first email was though. Then, Netzero came along and I was using that ISP as I tried to host a website on a dial-up connection. That was a tough learning experience. Somewhere down the road I started using MS Chat, and was a regular in a chat room called Flirty Girl. After a few exchanges between me and a couple of female chatters, we decided to meet up in Chicago. Holy bad idea. I was nice, and treated the ladies to lunch, then promptly ditched.

Now, I drink to forget.

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Lisnaholic

Those are very interesting insights into how people reacted as the internet suddenly errupted into their lives. These bits especially were amusing:-

^ You're sure it was "someone pretending to be" ?

^ Photos and phone numbers, please! Details, dates and dimensions as well if you remember them.

Right at the beginning, private individuals didn't have email, but the institute I was working in had a dial-up internet link and the librarian there excitedly invited me to send a message to England. She had some kind of directory that had the e-address for a university in England where a friend of mine worked. So the librarian sat me at a computer and I sent a message that went more or less like this: "ooh eerr! You don't know me, but my friend Bill works in your university. Can you tell him "Hi!" from me please?"
Well, the message got through, and to his credit Bill never told me how much embarrassment it cost him.

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Cuthbert

Was 2000 or 2001. Emailing a friend about school.

Still use the account.

It's old enough to drive now.

Plankton

Late 1999 as "Believe" by Cher was blasting in the BG at the Rainforest Cafe... untss untss untss untss

44/64/48 or something like that for both. I'm clueless as to actual sizes, but they were plus sized women. Not my thing, but to each his own. They were nice enough, and we had a pleasant lunch, but I wasn't picking up any of what they were throwing down. I paid the bill, then excused myself and got the hell outa there. Never went back on that chat room either.

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Chiomara

I began using the internet at age 12 (AOL) but I don't believe I actually received any personal emails until a few years later. I think my first email was from this man (who was at least ten years older than me, so, maybe he shouldn't have been emailing a 14 year old?) named Ryan who had seen my hilariously awful little personal webpage (which had a Loreena McKennitt MIDI on autoplay because of course it did) and felt compelled to befriend me afterward. I can't imagine why. I obliged because he shared my interest in UFOs and whatnot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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