While I did not do too much on the internet back in the 90s when I wasIt was calling into BBS's via dialup modems to chat with multinode lines, play online door games, be your own SysOp :)
a kid, in the early 2000s, as a teen, I enjoyed looking for cool stuff
to download. I t could have been anything from utilities to games. It could have been old Win31 or DOS stuff, or Win 9X or compatible stuff.
I used to frequent a site to find all kinds of stuff for my DOS boxes. Around High School I started getting into foruming. So the thread is about what everyones favorite use on the internet back in the day/or
even today.
While I did not do too much on the internet back in the 90s when I was a kid in the early 2000s, as a teen, I enjoyed looking for cool stuff to download. t could have been anything from utilities to games. It could have been old Win31 or DOS stuff, or Win 9X or compatible stuff. I used to frequent a sit to find all kinds of stuff for my DOS boxes. Around High School I started getting into foruming. So the thread is about what everyones favorite use o the internet back in the day/or even today.
- Mr. Cool
I first got onto the Internet back in 1996 when I started working in IT. Back then, there was not that much to do. But I have been on here sincfe the mid 90's and have seen it bloom into the tangled mess of porn and illegal downloads that is it today. And Iam SO GREATFUL for that :)
Yeah, pr0n in 1996 was pretty marginal -- monochrome 3 second animations weren't anything to write home about.
Yeah, pr0n in 1996 was pretty marginal -- monochrome 3 second animations weren't anything to write home about.
Yeah, pr0n in 1996 was pretty marginal -- monochrome 3 second animations weren't anything to write home about.Hehehe.. So true.
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Around High School I started getting into foruming. So the thread is about what everyones favorite use on the internet back in the day/or
even today.
While I did not do too much on the internet back in the 90s when I was a kid, in the early 2000s, as a teen, I enjoyed looking for cool stuff to download. I t could have been anything from utilities to games. It could have been old Win31 or DOS stuff, or Win 9X or compatible stuff. I used to frequent a site to find all kinds of stuff for my DOS boxes. Around High School I started getting into foruming. So the thread is about what everyones favorite use on the internet back in the day/or even today.
Today, my favorite thing to do is make my 1996 IBM running
DOS get on the Internet and do things like stream online radio sations
I can run MS-DOS and GEM (DOS based GUI). I don't think there's a way
to go on the Internet with that machine, but if there's a way, it would
be cool!
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain if MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there are other DOSIf anyone knows of a way to do this,lemme know! Sounds intriguing :-)
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain if MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there are other DOS equivalents (PC-DOS or FreeDOS?) that do.
I was certain that there was a possiblity to have an Internet connection in MS-DOS and it just wasn't easy. I remember having a 486 machine with MS-DOS 6.22 along with a Windows XP machine a few years ago, and I thought for sure that I was able to get the Arachne browser working in the MS-DOS machine.This looks intriguing!
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain if MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there
are other DOS equivalents (PC-DOS or FreeDOS?) that do.
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain if MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there are other DOSIf anyone knows of a way to do this,lemme know! Sounds intriguing :-)
I was certain that there was a possiblity to have an Internet connection in MS-DOS and it just wasn't easy. I remember having a 486 machine with MS-DOS
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain if MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there are other DOS equivalents (PC-DOS or FreeDOS?) that do.
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain ifIf anyone knows of a way to do this,lemme know! Sounds intriguing :-)
MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there
are other DOS
Re: Favorite thing to do back in the day
By: Ralph Smole to Nicholas Boel on Mon Dec 19 2016 02:55 pm
I'm sure others can chime in here to confirm, but as I'm uncertain ifIf anyone knows of a way to do this,lemme know! Sounds intriguing :-)
MS-DOS has drivers available for internet access, I do believe there
are other DOS
What do mean by drivers in MS-DOS?
MS-DOS drivers were .sys files, e.g. ansi.sys, smartdrv.sys, etc. and loaded via your config.sys file.
What do mean by drivers in MS-DOS?
MS-DOS drivers were .sys files, e.g. ansi.sys, smartdrv.sys, etc. and loaded via your config.sys file.
I can confirm, I have a running 8088 with MSDOS 6.22, an Etherlink II (3c503) card, connected with TCP/IP using a packet driver and running ftp, telnet, gopher, http, and irc. If it had more power I could do ssh, but I can't seem to get ssh2dos working on it. You can certainly network DOS to the modern internet, no problem. It's not *easy* but it is not anywhere near impossible.
to a non-web experience. If I could find a Facebook to NNTP/IRC gateway, I'd set. :)
I've wanted to do text-mode for a month, see what it would be like to go back to a non-web experience. If I could find a Facebook to NNTP/IRC gateway, I'd be set. :)
Re: Favorite thing to do back in the day
By: Poindexter Fortran to tfurrows on Thu Dec 29 2016 06:46 am
to a non-web experience. If I could find a Facebook to NNTP/IRC gateway, I'd set. :)
For facebook on the 8088, I have to telnet to a more powerful machine (SSL is required) and use 'elinks'. It works, and facebook through a text browser really isn't bad at all. 'lynx' didn't work for me, but 'elinks' worked perfectly (though, there may have been some odd behavior with the login, I can't recall if it was FB or gmail, both did work though.)
I actually absolutely love using the modern internet through a text-based browser.
For facebook on the 8088, I have to telnet to a more powerful machine (SSL is
required) and use 'elinks'. It works, and facebook through a text browser really isn't bad at all. 'lynx' didn't work for me, but 'elinks' worked perfectly (though, there may have been some odd behavior with the login, I can't recall if it was FB or gmail, both did work though.)
If interested, just search for "1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo" by phreakmonke
Reminds me of a YouTube video that I saw where this guy gotten a really old baud modem that actually required dailing phone number yourself and putting phone handset into the modem. He telneted into a Linux server and got onto Wikipedia using Lynx.Ah yes! The good old acoustic coupler :-)
If interested, just search for "1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo" by phreakmonke I find it interesting that these existed and were fully functioning.
Makes me wish I didn't have a VoIP phone, I'd love to do some actually dialu stuff, but without an actual POTS landline, I'm not sure how easy it would b
Re: Favorite thing to do back in the dayld
By: jagossel to tfurrows on Thu Dec 29 2016 04:25 pm
Reminds me of a YouTube video that I saw where this guy gotten a really o
ngbaud modem that actually required dailing phone number yourself and putti
ophone handset into the modem. He telneted into a Linux server and got ont
nkeWikipedia using Lynx.
If interested, just search for "1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo" by phreakmo
I find it interesting that these existed and were fully functioning.Ah yes! The good old acoustic coupler :-)
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