Your First Time

Your First Time

Re: Your First Time Posted by satchmo on Tue Nov 22nd 2005 at 9:28pm
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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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Re: Your First Time Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 22nd 2005 at 9:32pm
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I can't remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday, let alone my first file download!
Re: Your First Time Posted by rs6 on Tue Nov 22nd 2005 at 9:58pm
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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.
Re: Your First Time Posted by ishbog on Tue Nov 22nd 2005 at 9:58pm
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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...
www.nysteo.com

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Re: Your First Time Posted by wil5on on Tue Nov 22nd 2005 at 10:57pm
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I can't remember, but I imagine it was QBasic-related (thats what I was into at the time).
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Re: Your First Time Posted by rs6 on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 1:57am
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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.
Re: Your First Time Posted by G4MER on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 1:59am
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Sword of Fargoal on my Commodore 64, on a 300 baud modem.. took 2 days.
Re: Your First Time Posted by Madedog on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 2:08am
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Lol, sorry, cannot remember :razz: Too long ago.
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Re: Your First Time Posted by French Toast on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 3:43am
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Probably waiting in line to get the 1.0.0.3 patch for HL1.
Re: Your First Time Posted by satchmo on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 6:03am
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You could probaly say your first download was the first webpage you ever visted
:smile: 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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Re: Your First Time Posted by Crono on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 6:41am
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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.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Your First Time Posted by SuperCobra on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 6:44am
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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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Re: Your First Time Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Nov 23rd 2005 at 7:27am
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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.
Re: Your First Time Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Nov 24th 2005 at 9:13am
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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.
I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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Re: Your First Time Posted by Gaara on Thu Nov 24th 2005 at 9:54am
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Duke Nukem 3D Shareware (well wasn't really 3d just 2d FPS).
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Re: Your First Time Posted by Mephs on Thu Nov 24th 2005 at 5:30pm
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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....
Re: Your First Time Posted by SpoolE on Thu Nov 24th 2005 at 5:36pm
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Mine was the demo of Quake 1 :biggrin:
I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.
Re: Your First Time Posted by pepper on Thu Nov 24th 2005 at 8:11pm
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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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Re: Your First Time Posted by SpoolE on Fri Nov 25th 2005 at 6:16pm
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Is that a 56kb/s or 56k/s ?
I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.
Re: Your First Time Posted by satchmo on Sat Nov 26th 2005 at 3:45pm
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Finally, as I promised, I have uploaded http://a%20href=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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Re: Your First Time Posted by Joe-Bob on Sun Nov 27th 2005 at 3:23am
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Duke Nukem 3D Shareware (well wasn't really 3d just 2d FPS).
That was my first download that I can remember, but I know for a fact that I had downloaded some games before that.

Scarily enough, Neko the Cat was one of the first games I remember playing on my OS/2 PC. That must have been ages ago...
Re: Your First Time Posted by G.Ballblue on Sun Nov 27th 2005 at 5:06am
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Meh, probably the 1.1.1.0 patch for old WON HL/CS.
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Re: Your First Time Posted by Belgarion on Mon Nov 28th 2005 at 7:15am
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Putting aside the old BBS days, I think it was the Quake demo. My older
brother was in college at the time, and was given a dial-up account
(back when 14.4 was like... WOOOOOAAA), so he let us use it. I was told
we had limitted use of the net and was quite worried someone would
break down the door of our house when they found out I left my computer
downloading something on the internet for an hour. ^_^
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