Reply 20 of 64, by SquallStrife
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We got an "OMG Internet WOW!" floppy disk with our 28.8k modem, which dad bought primarily to fax with.
We signed up with OzEmail, for a bargain $5/hour.
My first uses of it were always supervised, as I would have only been 8 or 9 at the time. I used it for dumb stuff like games cheats and Action Replay codes for the Playstation. Back then I used AltaVista and Webcrawler, the challenge was to find codes for PAL systems, since most sites had codes for NTSC understandably.
Later that year I saw a thing on TV about a HTML editor called "HotDog" (developed by an Australian guy) and I *HAD* to have it. Make my own websites? PHWOAR. So I asked my dad to download it for me. It took him a few goes because of drop-outs, but I remember loving the shit out of that program.
Toward the end of 2001, in the months before ADSL arrived on our street, I used to take advantage of the "TPG 150 FREE HOURS" CDs we got in the mail. The CD contained software to guide you through their sign-up process, but I found that if you simply dialled their number and used the two codes off the back of the flyer as your username and password, you could use the 150 hours as you pleased, obligation free. By this stage I'd discovered "GetRight" so modem drop-outs no longer affected me. It was bliss. I had dozens of these promotional CDs!! My proudest achievement was pirating Alundra 2 for the PSOne, it consumed an entire 150 hour thing, but it was WORTH IT. 😜
Then we got ADSL and the magic disappeared. The Internet had become a boring thing for looking up information. It was an appliance now, like a fridge or a toaster.
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