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Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 22nd at 9:28pm 2005

Perhaps I am an overly sentimental guy, but I still remember the first file I have ever downloaded from the internet. I kept it on my HDD as I upgrade from one computer to the next.

I'll upload it up when I get home, but it's a very small desktop fun utility call Neko. It opens up a window and this cute little cat chases around your mouse pointer. It's not much, but it was my first. I'll always love it and treasure it.

Before anyone pukes from being overwhelm by me being excessively maudlin, I'll stop.

Do you remember your first download? Better yet, do you still have the file?




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 22nd at 9:32pm 2005

I can't remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday, let alone my first file download!




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Posted by rs6 on Tue Nov 22nd at 9:58pm 2005

about 100 mb on dial up. It was the counter strike 1.5 patch whihc is when i got into HL. It took a day and half a night to dl.



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Posted by ishbog on Tue Nov 22nd at 9:58pm 2005

heh, i have no idea. i started on teh internet so long ago... on a 33mhz HP desktop! we upgraded to 133mhz and got WINDOWS 95!!! omgomg so cooolll...


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Posted by wil5on on Tue Nov 22nd at 10:57pm 2005

I can't remember, but I imagine it was QBasic-related (thats what I was into at the time).


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Posted by rs6 on Wed Nov 23rd at 1:57am 2005

You could probaly say your first download was the first webpage you ever visted if you want to get all technical, or you could even say the first packet you recieved while your first modem was did its "handshake" thing for the first time with your ISP.



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Posted by G4MER on Wed Nov 23rd at 1:59am 2005

Sword of Fargoal on my Commodore 64, on a 300 baud modem.. took 2 days.




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Posted by Madedog on Wed Nov 23rd at 2:08am 2005

Lol, sorry, cannot remember :P Too long ago.


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Posted by French Toast on Wed Nov 23rd at 3:43am 2005

Probably waiting in line to get the 1.0.0.3 patch for HL1.




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Posted by satchmo on Wed Nov 23rd at 6:03am 2005

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You could probaly say your first download was the first webpage you ever visted

<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Mine was before the days of the web. When the internet was used mainly with emails and FTP. I used Lynx or something like that as a text browser before Netscape came out.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Nov 23rd at 6:41am 2005

Right. World wide web didn't exist until 1995.

I have no idea what was the first thing I downloaded ... an ip address from my ISP probably.


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Posted by SuperCobra on Wed Nov 23rd at 6:44am 2005

I think it was that game called "powerslide" and i think i went to sex.com once right in front of my dad. woops



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Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Nov 23rd at 7:27am 2005

I think my first real "Web" experiences were with Quake shareware and downloading Blackthorne. Although I know I used internet stuff before that, nothing really sticks out. Those and the original C&C.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Nov 24th at 9:13am 2005

MY first download was the first version of Netscape navigator for windows 95. I'm not that old, my dad just always had computers and stuff.


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Posted by Gaara on Thu Nov 24th at 9:54am 2005

Duke Nukem 3D Shareware (well wasn't really 3d just 2d FPS).


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Posted by Mephs on Thu Nov 24th at 5:30pm 2005

I can't remember my EXACT first download, but one of the first was the anarchist cookbook. Followed shortly after PDF scans of the CIA's MKULTRA project papers, which have, all but a few select pieces mentioned in court, dissapeared of the face of the net. You can't get the good stuff post 9/11 now....




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Posted by SpoolE on Thu Nov 24th at 5:36pm 2005

Mine was the demo of Quake 1 <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by pepper on Thu Nov 24th at 8:11pm 2005

Definately a aircraft for Flightsimulator 98/2000. Back in those days i gto up as early as possible so i could download as fast as possible because i was on 56k.


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Posted by SpoolE on Fri Nov 25th at 6:16pm 2005

Is that a 56kb/s or 56k/s ?



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Posted by satchmo on Sat Nov 26th at 3:45pm 2005

Finally, as I promised, I have uploaded my first internet download for all of you who are curious.

It's a very small file, but it's very cute.

[EDIT] For some reason, I cannot get a direct link to an EXE file. So I changed the URL above to a site instead.



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