Skeptic Bob
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I thought it would be fun to ask what everyone’s first memories of the internet were. Some indicators of your age at the time might be useful as well.
I was a senior in high school in 1992 when some guy came and spoke to our economics class about something called the World Wide Web. I remember thinking it sounded interesting but didn’t give it any other thought throughout the rest of my time in high school. My freshman year in college I remember seeing students in the “computer lab” always typing away. But it was always the same students. And it didn’t look like they were writing computer code or papers. Someone told me the computers were connected to the internet. Oh yeah, that guy in economics mentioned that.
My sophomore year, 1995, I began hearing about more and more people getting online. I still didn’t understand what the big deal was. In 1996 a couple friends and I moved out of the dorm and into an apartment. One of my roommates signed up for, I think, an AOL account. He told us you could look up porn online. That caught my and my other roommate’s attention. So he logged on and searched up a nude photo of Cindy Crawford. The picture started downloading. This was going to take awhile so we went and fixed ourselves a sandwich. We came back to the computer and the photo was about halfway downloading. But we could see the top half of the photo and it was awesome. So we sat there eating our sandwiches as the photo finished downloading.
I was a senior in high school in 1992 when some guy came and spoke to our economics class about something called the World Wide Web. I remember thinking it sounded interesting but didn’t give it any other thought throughout the rest of my time in high school. My freshman year in college I remember seeing students in the “computer lab” always typing away. But it was always the same students. And it didn’t look like they were writing computer code or papers. Someone told me the computers were connected to the internet. Oh yeah, that guy in economics mentioned that.
My sophomore year, 1995, I began hearing about more and more people getting online. I still didn’t understand what the big deal was. In 1996 a couple friends and I moved out of the dorm and into an apartment. One of my roommates signed up for, I think, an AOL account. He told us you could look up porn online. That caught my and my other roommate’s attention. So he logged on and searched up a nude photo of Cindy Crawford. The picture started downloading. This was going to take awhile so we went and fixed ourselves a sandwich. We came back to the computer and the photo was about halfway downloading. But we could see the top half of the photo and it was awesome. So we sat there eating our sandwiches as the photo finished downloading.