FabGuys.com forum: Early days on the internet.

By *hyna Hutch OP Man
3 weeks ago

valleys

Are you old enough to remember?

I do remember my first trolling and abuse on a forum. I was quite shocked and mildly upset. Haha.... So naive.

I also remember getting Rick rolled and thought my laptop was fucked. 😖

Closer to home, I remember this very forum when there was only a handful of people on it, as it was 'hidden' in the small print.

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By *essa_MTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Red Rose County

I remember back in 1989. Writing a program to control a 12,000 baud modem connected to a C64. In those days the internet was for accessing bulletin boards.

A couple of years later when showing the wife how easy it was to hack another pc. She had read an article about hacking. In less than 60 seconds I had access to a PC in a New Jersey bank and printed off the emergency contact numbers including the direct numbers for the local FBI office and the sheriff.

In those days everything was on default settings. If only that was the case today. 😂😂😂

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By *tar33Man
3 weeks ago

North London (outer)

I can remember before Google, when the internet was far less commercial and you could find all sorts of interesting information. I used to use a search engine called Copernicus that would aggregate searches from search engines.

At the time, I think my ISP was dial-up with Freeserve.

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By (user no longer on site)
3 weeks ago

I was on freeserve looking at the bulletin boards, checking out the men in panties forums. 9.6k modem making those kerching-ching-ching-gerzunk noises.

How things have changed in such a short time. I wonder if those databases are still around somewhere - I'd love to retrieve some of my pics from back then.

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By *urphys LawMan
3 weeks ago

Galway

My first search engine was 'Ask Jeeves'

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By *dstefiMan
3 weeks ago

Solihull

My early formative internet experiences were the Viking Kittens video (which still makes me LOL to this day, Joel Veitch was an authentic genius), and Goregasm, which was a weird hellhole of extreme anal sex and nasty death pics. Car crash viewing for sure.

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
3 weeks ago

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"My first search engine was 'Ask Jeeves'

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
3 weeks ago

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I remember looking at a PC to use as a word processor, this was when you could rent them (early 90's). Was told that if we paid a little bit more, we could have one with Internet access.

Then followed a heated discussion between me and hubby about why would we want the Internet, we'd never use it.

Oh how times have changed. Lol

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By *leepflowerMan
3 weeks ago

Leek

This forum harks back to the days of dial-up with its 20th century levels of functionality.

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By *owzerMan
3 weeks ago

Chester.....

I can remember using Microsoft Comic Chat.

You had your own avatar and then when you were talking in the chat rooms, the conversation would appear as a comic strip.

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By *damb00Man
3 weeks ago

Leicestershire

Remember using MSN Messenger to talk to my school friends

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
3 weeks ago

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"Remember using MSN Messenger to talk to my school friends"

Anyone remember ICQ?

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By *lexieMan
3 weeks ago

Just north of Southampton

"I was on freeserve looking at the bulletin boards, checking out the men in panties forums. 9.6k modem making those kerching-ching-ching-gerzunk noises.

How things have changed in such a short time. I wonder if those databases are still around somewhere - I'd love to retrieve some of my pics from back then.

i will check my cassette based data base from back then... I'm sure to have saved them!

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By *tar33Man
3 weeks ago

North London (outer)

"Remember using MSN Messenger to talk to my school friends

Anyone remember ICQ?"

Vaguely, it was an acronym for 'I seek you'.

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By *ndreaNWCDTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Paphos

Demon internet, 9600 baud modem, infoseek and netscape navigator as search engines, hardly anything on the web, spent my life on the alt newsgroups…. 10 mins to download a single jpg. CuSeeMe just about worked for video conferencing..

It was the start of a new world…!!!

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By *opeye_DoyleMan
3 weeks ago

Crawley

Buffering is the word that springs to mind

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By *andomguy321Man
3 weeks ago

reading

Communicating with random strangers in the late 90's on ICQ

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By *evanianMan
3 weeks ago

Flintshire

MSN Chat was a great platform until it fell victim to the actions of a certain element, sadly leading to its eventual closure.

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By *andomguy321Man
3 weeks ago

reading

Early days of the internet were like the Wild West-

The Good, The Bad, and The Very Ugly

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By *ornybisubslutMan
3 weeks ago

Coventry

It really was the Wild West but I loved the forums. MSN messenger was fabulous.

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By *andomguy321Man
3 weeks ago

reading

"It really was the Wild West but I loved the forums. MSN messenger was fabulous. "

The forums back then were something else.

Not places for anyone with an overly sensitive disposition ... or the easily offended.

Like a lot of things that are now just part of day-to-day life, ... Today's version of the internet kind of represents Order, born out of Chaos.

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By *hyna Hutch OP Man
3 weeks ago

valleys

Good thing, bad thing?

Fuck it ... It got us all laid.

... Good thing.

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By *awihMan
3 weeks ago

Aldershot

And prior to the WWW there were some dialup bulletin boards.

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By *obbertMan
3 weeks ago

In a world of my own

Remember the days of ‘dial up’ when the telephone cable trailed all the way from the socket in the lounge all the way I the stairs to my bedroom, no one could phone you or dial out, and everything was less commercial and tracked you!

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By *ridayguyMan
3 weeks ago

Cheshire

You were lucky, I remember the days when we lived in a cardboard box by the M6 and had to get up 2 hours before we went to bed..

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By *omyorksMan
3 weeks ago

Nr York

"It really was the Wild West but I loved the forums. MSN messenger was fabulous. "

Yes MSN and webcams were great.

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By *hyna Hutch OP Man
3 weeks ago

valleys

"You were lucky, I remember the days when we lived in a cardboard box by the M6 and had to get up 2 hours before we went to bed..

Luxury.

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By *retzelfudgeMan
3 weeks ago

Chelmsford

Back in the days when you could store your porn on a floppy disk.

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By *3versMan
3 weeks ago

glasgow

I remember having a 2MP webcam, that I used for taking digital photos, you'd need to be Inspector Clouseau to work out what they were meant to be

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By *arridMan
3 weeks ago

Brighton

There were lots of search engines but when google came along it was just so much faster and more accurate. I had my own webpage on ‘geocities’.

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By *mandaWhenDressedMan
3 weeks ago

around

Yahoo groups got me out to TV friendly clubs. Internet was on a bush TV internet. 1p per minute at weekends 3p weekdays daytime

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By *an in West DurhamMan
3 weeks ago

Crook

I remember using bulletin boards to look for m/f couples and single males to fuck the girlfriend. It was much simpler and also very successful

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
3 weeks ago

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
3 weeks ago

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"Back in the days when you could store your porn on a floppy disk."

When we first got access to the Internet we didn't realise there was a 'right-click-save-as' option to save any pics.

We had a folder full of pics we had printed out.

Lol

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By *ammy57TV/TS
2 weeks ago

Stevenage

Any one else looking at trillions being invested in ai and thinking "dot com".question is , if you had a time machine and could get to an investor in early 2000 before the crash , what would they invest in?

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By *ndsotobedMan
2 weeks ago

Towcester

Modem dialling attempt 5 of 5 . . . Failed

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By *j_cambsMan
2 weeks ago

near Ely, Cambridgeshire

"Remember using MSN Messenger to talk to my school friends

Anyone remember ICQ?"

Sad, I know, but for some reason I can still remember my ICQ number!

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By *oodpeckerMan
2 weeks ago

Falkirk

Old enough (😳) to remember hooking up via a dial up modem, listening to the noise whist connecting and patiently waiting/watching a black and white, low resolution page slowly appearing from the top down… and getting my first Compuserve email address 🥳

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By *andomguy321Man
2 weeks ago

reading

The dreaded Blue Screen on Windows 95

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By *ldmanMan
2 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

"The dreaded Blue Screen on Windows 95"

Oh yes, the dreaded "BSOD".

Wish I had a pound for every one if those I've seen!

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By *lexieMan
2 weeks ago

Just north of Southampton

"The dreaded Blue Screen on Windows 95

Oh yes, the dreaded "BSOD".

Wish I had a pound for every one if those I've seen! "

...and Bill Gates claiming no one will ever need more than 640Mb of memory (or was it 640Kb, can't remember now), but it was never enough! Used to go through torture trying to squeeze more memory out of those shirt boxes back then! 'Out of memory!' D"oh!

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By *amsoonMan
2 weeks ago

stornoway

That happy day when the Zipdrive and CD came along and you could ditch all those floppy discs.

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By *ver45Man
Forum Mod
2 weeks ago

A Town near You!

Discovering what "Clear history" was for 🙄

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By *essa_MTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Red Rose County

"The dreaded Blue Screen on Windows 95

Oh yes, the dreaded "BSOD".

Wish I had a pound for every one if those I've seen!

640k. That was in the days where 1 mb in a pc came on 2 or 4 chips and they had to be matching

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By *hyna Hutch OP Man
2 weeks ago

valleys

When did it kick in for everyone?

35 years ago?

Looking how it is now, in such a relatively short time, I wonder what it will be like in 2060

I read somewhere the next controversial thing, will be micro implants in the body. (I don't mean getting fucked by a small cock).

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By *lexieMan
2 weeks ago

Just north of Southampton

"Discovering what "Clear history" was for 🙄"

Blimey, that's still valid for moi on my footy streaming PC... I leave the 'clear cache' page constantly open, when it goes over 1Gb, i zap it!

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By *lexieMan
2 weeks ago

Just north of Southampton

"When did it kick in for everyone?

35 years ago?

Looking how it is now, in such a relatively short time, I wonder what it will be like in 2060

I read somewhere the next controversial thing, will be micro implants in the body. (I don't mean getting fucked by a small cock). "

My first compu'tor was a BBC model B in 1985... skeleton frame graphics (Aviator, Jumbo) and Prestel! A huge 32Kb of memory

you had to wresle it to the ground every time you used it! My first PC and W95... Oh heaven when I found 'Doom' in 3D... with pixals as big as organ stops!

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By *alerioTV/TS
2 weeks ago

horsham

yes, I had a 5 digit number. Those were the days when you could leave your setting on "I'm happy for people to contact me" and not get spammed and have to deal with complete idiots. Still got one of my closest friends who messaged me there in around 1995

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By *alerioTV/TS
2 weeks ago

horsham

"The dreaded Blue Screen on Windows 95

Oh yes, the dreaded "BSOD".

Wish I had a pound for every one if those I've seen!

he never said any such a thing

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By *aturistnudeMan
2 weeks ago

Hoylake

2400 baud modem and Kermit software

MSDOS 3.1

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By *addy DaddycoolMan
2 weeks ago

Darlington

And who remembers Friends Reunited ?

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By *ezz100Man
2 weeks ago

Bedford

I remember looking at a website each morning to find out what the new websites were the previous day. Usually about 20 a day!! Makes me feel old lol

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By *tokerY2OMan
2 weeks ago

Bournemouth

I remember before Search Engines were a thing and you just had to know the Web address.

You'd click through links until you'd eventually get to a site with some naughty pix that you'd click on to enlarge and watch as minute by minute the picture would load pixel by pixel. Often dissapointing but always thrilling!

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By *onmar01Couple (MM)
2 weeks ago

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"And who remembers Friends Reunited ?"

Yeah the days before facebook

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