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RE: Where Were You When The Internet Was New?
Using CompuServe.com on my Psion Organiser! Also people giving me patronising looks when I talked about email, and smugly saying "I like to have face-to-face conversations with real people" (in other words, "Shut up, weirdo!")
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I didn't know you could get the net on one of those things! I think CompuServe was my first ISP and I remember being confused by the numbers they used instead of names. They were considered a more "serious" provider than the others.
I was the first person to order anything online in my neighborhood, a book from Amazon. People thought I was nuts to put my personal info online, but I knew it was the future of commerce.
Yes, my Psion had a small modem which did actually work! It was a while before I ordered anything online - though I did book a trip to the Pacific Islands online in 1997. That seemed like a crazy thing to do at the time, though it worked out well in the end.