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My first experiance: Why should I ever use this thing?

After few month: Pay-money: 150 CZk (every day)

Where can I buy that Tshirt? It is simply amazing!

At my grandparents house and AOL dial up, I still know the sound effect of the dial up logging in and that then we could not use the land line for phone calls. It was on a Windows 3.1 machine (we learned why not to close the program manager), then on Windows 95 was easier to use than 3.1. I remember the use of keywords for AOL. It was only one computer in the house that had Internet access. Back then we all thought 56kb/s was fast (now I read about Norway and 200mb/s to the homes, here max offed by any that I know of is 12 mb/s) I remember when waiting for things to load on dial up the thing to do was to open solitaire or minesweeper. The size of the hard drives were measured in megabytes (I think the Windows 3.1 one had 15 or 20 mb of space and the Windows 95 had 40 mb). Floppy disk are how things were transfers from computers, and how my grandfather saved his work. I watched my grandparents do many things on the Internet and as a kid wondered where all this stuff that was showing up on this screen came from.

Right now at home we have a Adsl @ 120 kb/s (the adsl modem is 10 years old)

First time using WiFi, I thought wow I don't need a wire to get onto the Internet any more (until I learned about the limit of the range).

I have also used the Internet with Opera Unite to stream my music library across campus during a final, thought all I need is a pair of headphones

My first computer is a Mac that came with Mac OS 7.0 w/ a 400mb hard drive

My first experience of the Internet was in Marshall Island when my dad got dial up Internet (a few kb per second). Coupled with a slow Toshiba PC with 256 MB and an Intel Celeron PC running at 1 gHz, the experience was painful!

To make matters worse, we had to pay for the Internet for every megabyte used!

Also, at that time my dad handled the security of the PC and he is quite experienced. As a result, he uninstalled Norton AntiVirus 2002 and did not install any AVs as a substitute. As a result, the PC was severely infected and frequently crashed and glitched!

My first "real" experience with the Internet was at Memphis at my cousin sister's house. I was amazed I hung out at the Internet the whole day. My cousin sister taught me website designing as well using raw HTML (HTML code). I know how to code website using raw HTML code and all my blog posts are written in raw HTML instead of bbcode.

Right now, I am using Sky Broadband with a speed of only 2 mb / sec. Because of the speed, high def videos frequently "buffer." But at least my PC is not infected

My first encounter with the Internet was when my dad signed up with AOL in 2005. Yes. 2005.

I've never had my own computer back then. So one of my relatives gave us their own. A 200mhz Compaq Presario with 48MB of RAM.

My BlackBerry is faster than that!

There wasn't high-speed available at the time. (Later on in the years, mobile broadband became available.)

Being only 12, I decided to tinker around the world of the Interwebz.

Suddenly, an idea pops up in my head!

LET'S SEARCH FOR FREE SOFTWARE.


I got excited about new programs, even when I didn't know jack about computers back then. (Funny thing was, I knew how to install Windows 95 and 98 via floppy, but when it came to knowing which program was rogue or legit...I was clueless.)
I ended up downloading software that automatically included a hidden price after a few days of using it. Guess which bill it showed up on? ...AOL.
I'm not sure how much it was, but my dad said it was a $200-400 bill he received in the mail. Oops.



Never again! Guess those pretty cursors and programs touted to optimize my system weren't free.
Now I know, being 18 and know my way around a computer and such. I'll only buy a program if it's from a trust-worthy source.

My Internet access today? I live in the same area. But I have mobile broadband instead of dial-up.



Average speeds range from 500 kb/s to 2.2 mb/s.

I'm not complaining. I'm grateful that I don't have to wait 10 MINUTES for a website to load.

The time I first explore the Internet when I was just a kid, about 7-year-old.
Even though I really didn't know what it is..
The year was 1997, and I used my uncle's office computer which operated the Windows 95.
What I saw was that a window can display some text and pictures, and when my uncle typed in some letters, the entire window changed.(Today we know that it is Web Site URL). It was amazing to me..It was a miracle.
My uncle displayed a lot of web sites to me, though I didn't know these web sites ware, I really like them.
In that years, I can just use the 56K modem to surf the Internet. It was a good memory~.

my first experience :
http://my.opera.com/decodedthought/blog/2012/03/22/first-internet-experience

My Very 1st Comp Was A Mac Color Classic 2 With A 19500 Baud Modem Surfin On The BBS & MY GOD THE WAIT TIME WAS SLLLLOOOOOWWWW But Worth It

one question when is the last date for submissions ?

here i go,d first time my friend tell me link 2 download opera mini,i made it on my mobile 1st time,and after installing it i have a great experience,new tabs,sequence of downloads,every thing i made it.
So my 1st time experience wth web epic is operamini ever.<3

İnternete girmek deyince aklıma sadece büyük '' e '' gelirdi.Büyük '' e '' ye tıklar ve epeyce bekleyip internete bağlanırdım.Bu bekleyişler sinirlerimi bozsa da benim için başka alternatif yoktu çünkü bilmiyordum.
Daha sonra internet tarayıcının ne olduğunu ve alternatiflerin de olduğunu öğrendim .Google sayesinde ilk karşıma çıkan tarayıcı Firefox oldu.Büyük e 'den sonra Firefox hız bakımından bana ilaç gibi gelmişti.Üstelik eklentileri sayesinde daha çok ilgimi çekmişti ve benim için bir oyuncak gibiydi.Fakat zamanla eklentileri yükledikçe, internette zaman geçirdikçe Firefox ta bir kaplumbağaya dönüştü.Bu yüzden tekrar bir arayışa girdim ve karşıma OPERA çıktı.
Çok hızlıydı.İstediğim her şey içinde vardı.Özellikle speed dial çok hoşuma gitmişti.Güzel görünüyordu. Ama asıl güzellik bu değil di.Asıl güzelliği şuydu : Aylarca düşük bir sistemde,düşük bir internet bağlantısında yoğun bir şekilde kullanmama rağmen hızında kesinlikle bir düşüş yaşamamıştım.Bu inanılmazdı. Ve o günden sonra onlarca tarayıcıyı bilgisayarıma kurup denedim ama OPERA hep sabit kaldı.
Ve o günden sonra yeni sistemlerime ilk kurduğum program hep OPERA oldu...

Thank you OPERA !!!

it is fine and fast

Waiting about 2 minutes per Pamela Anderson picture.

Not sure if you could call it Internet in these days ...
But my experience with "online" started with the C64 and an acoustic coupler (dataphon) with hardly up to 300 baud to some private BBS. Later there was the german BTX system using a Btx-Modem with 1200/75 Baud for Online Banking and some text pages and for sure newsgroups (even binary ones).
Back then I was working for DEC on VMS and Ultrix systems. DEC already had a worldwide network and we had fun with Kermit. This all was not really what we call Internet today. In my next company (a bank) I got my hands on the very first http daemon source code released by the CERN institute. We compiled it on an IBM AIX 3.2 system and had our first own little Intranet with some plain HTML pages and Mosaic browser and already some ksh based CGI. From there on the public internet started to grow fast. I got an up to 33kbit/s modem and used a PC with Netscape. Then the German Telekom started the digital ISDN phone network. It allowed speeds up to 64Kbit/s and one could even bundle two channels for up to 128Kbit/s but it was still expensive and billed per minute and bytes. After that came ADSL and speeds up to 2048Kbit/s and, yeeees, flat rates!. The Internet was on the loose, nothing could stop it. Network speeds went up, mobile phones got smarter and web 2.0 was going to explode.
Today I am using Opera and have a 16Mbit/s DSL line and Blackberry. VDSL and Cable with 50MBit/s is around the corner but I figured that i don't need it.
The boundaries between local and online (cloud) are fluid now, being mobile and always connected is normal, and it feels as if it has always been like this - even so I still remember the times "before" home computers and when a simple phone call cost money and you had to go into the corridor for that to pick up an ugly gray wired phone with a dial.

The first time I used the internet was at high school in 1996 (still on Windows 3.11 though.) In the library there was just one computer that was capable of going on the internet, and when we wanted to use it we had to ask at the desk, and they got out the modem from under the desk came over the plugged it into the computer. We could then dial up. When we had finished the modem had to be returned to the desk. When the computer was connected to the internet there was usually a group of 5 or more people huddling around it waiting for their turn to be in the "driving seat".

I remember in those days discovering that AltaVista was the superior search engine, most websites were hosted by GeoCities and included at least 1 scrolling marquee and background midi music!

Well it took a lot of convincing my wife to let the internet come in the house; she thought it was just junk and not very useful, but finally she agreed. So one day a good friend of mine from across the continent whom I had told my email over the phone previously, sends me an email, cause thats what we were going to do -communicate cheaply over email. So finally his email message came, and it was our first ever email, so it was a historic occasion you could say. But the message was "Welcome to the Internet" with a seemingly innocent link titled something like fantastictimekiller.com, so not knowing any better I clicked cause I clicked everything back then, and it was a porn site...Needless to say my wife wasn't too thrilled. We laugh about it now...

Seriously, where can I get this awesome merch! I'd gladly pay top dollar for some, my feeble attempt at an Opera Next T-Shirt didn't work out all that well (http://twitpic.com/5a2r8n).

As for my first internet experience, it was a 30 day trial in late 1998 on a Dell Dimension 266. It was a few years before I discovered and embraced Opera.
However within 2 years I had started my vocation as a mobile web user/developer.
Back then it was greyscale and WML, all 10 sites that exsisted using that standard.
Fast forward to 2007, I was working on a film set and had gave someone a loan of my phone, so got separation anxiety went round the corner and bought a 3G SE 610i, and so started 3 years of carrying two phones, one for the internet, one for calls. Of course the first thing I did was downloaded Opera Mini

My first internet experience was in a Internet cafè in Fredrikstad back in 1995. It was at a youth club and due to rain we went inside. I was looking for a toilet when someone asked me if I was there for the chat. Two hours later my friends came looking for me and I was stuck in a chatroom using mIRC.

The funny thing is that we actually had internet at home at this point since my dad worked as a developer, but I only used the home computer for games

My first real online gaming came through Diablo 1 and Quake a few months later.

My First Internet Xperience

http://my.opera.com/idjunior/blog/2012/03/22/my-first-internet-xperience

Right, my first internet experience...

Was around 2002-ish, when I was ten years old. Now, before I tell me story I should tell you how my father thought of 'this internet business'.

1) Everyone is out to steal your things
2) Trust no-one
3) Trust no-one
4) Anything that classifies as 'downloading' means your computer will explode in your face.

I shared the computer with my brother. Basically all I did was play flash games, because what else could I do? I remember this flash game where you would protect your castle from stick figures by dragging them up in the air and throwing them on the ground. Back in the days that was amazing. Of course silly stick figures weren't cool anymore after a while, so I devoted at least a million hours into playing this multiplayer game (still flash based, on miniclip) that allowed you to customize this robot-type thing. It was during the time where this 'make a metal robot from some string and toothpicks (MacGyver style), fight other robots'- was popular. Of course, this thing was multiplayer and there were other people involved, so what I did was: Open a tab with the miniclip homepage, open the game, and whenever I heard my dad coming close I would switch the tab and everything would be fine. Whenever he saw me interacting with other people (for me, it was the most natural thing ever), his angryness would explode in my face.

Anyway, don't want to make this a long story. I discovered runescape, did the good ol' 'open homepage of something else'- switch-a-roo and everything was fine. Played the very first rollercoaster tycoon on a windows 95 machine, that was the best thing in the world. Played the very first call of duty when my brother bought it, that was the best thing in the world. Discovered alt-tab and windowed mode so the switch-a-roo special tactics would work and I could play online. So yea, was shooting people in the crotch since I was twelve. Didn't turn out to be a serial killer. Who could've known?

Everything starting from that point up until now, in a nutshell:
Started making maps and mods for the game. Dad started to care less about what I was doing (I would deny everything). Modded the hell out of that game. Brother installed Opera. Didn't understand what it was but it was the best thing ever. Learned some basic scripting in the call of duty game, which I got really good in. Learned how to make my own gametypes, my own maps, my own models, effects, everything.

How am I doing right now? Doing a bachelors degree in computer science at a big university. Screw you dad, I'm smarter than you.


Oh wow. That didn't turn out to be as funny as I would've wanted it to be...

Here is a van full of puppies.


http://i.imgur.com/lcBTT.jpg -

From what I remember:

"Prrrrrrr kgzzzz pri eeeeeeeeeeeeh tutututututututut krghz"

Oeh, can I download music?


(I love that tee by the way! Opera really should start a e-shop)

Originally posted by paddy2k:

Seriously, where can I get this awesome merch! I'd gladly pay top dollar for some, my feeble attempt at an Opera Next T-Shirt didn't work out all that well (http://twitpic.com/5a2r8n).

As for my first internet experience, it was a 30 day trial in late 1998 on a Dell Dimension 266. It was a few years before I discovered and embraced Opera.
However within 2 years I had started my vocation as a mobile web user/developer.
Back then it was greyscale and WML, all 10 sites that exsisted using that standard.
Fast forward to 2007, I was working on a film set and had gave someone a loan of my phone, so got separation anxiety went round the corner and bought a 3G SE 610i, and so started 3 years of carrying two phones, one for the internet, one for calls. Of course the first thing I did was downloaded Opera Mini

Hey Pat, seen you T-shirt, can you make me one?.. we can talk about it.

I did not know internet at all because I started taking over in 1995 and turkey at the table, very few people were using the computer for her very curious myself so I started working in the telecom professional helpers in the computer was broke, and then I shall continue for five years operay I met opera opera opera or me here, because warned that some people does not make it so the site everyone thank you very much for her opera opera opera t congratulate get people who wish a good day to be upon
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ben interneti 1995 yılında masa üstü alarak başladım hiç de bilmiyordum çünkü türkiye de bilgisayarı çok az insan kullanıyordu ben kendim telekom da çalışıyordum onun için çok meraklıydım böyle başladım çokta bilgisayarı bozdum ve sonra operay la tanıştım operayla beş yıl oldu devam edecegim opera ya çünkü opera beni burda bazı insanlar konusunda uyardı bunu çok site yapmaz onun için opera yı kutluyorum opera herkeze çok teşekkürler opera olan insanlara daha iyi günler olsun dilegimle selam olsun

I'll pray to winner bangladesh cricket team in asia cup final.

my first experience with Opera was in 2006. A friend of mine recommend me the browser. On that time I was using Firefox...Nowadays he is using firefox (I cannot understand why he changed) and I cannot live without Opera!
I am web designer too and I have a rule when I made a site: If it works in Opera it works in any browser.
Thanks!

I'll try to keep our community. Thanks

Originally posted by idjunior:

Originally posted by paddy2k:

Seriously, where can I get this awesome merch! I'd gladly pay top dollar for some, my feeble attempt at an Opera Next T-Shirt didn't work out all that well (http://twitpic.com/5a2r8n" target="_blank">http://twitpic.com/5a2r8n).

As for my first internet experience, it was a 30 day trial in late 1998 on a Dell Dimension 266. It was a few years before I discovered and embraced Opera.
However within 2 years I had started my vocation as a mobile web user/developer.
Back then it was greyscale and WML, all 10 sites that exsisted using that standard.
Fast forward to 2007, I was working on a film set and had gave someone a loan of my phone, so got separation anxiety went round the corner and bought a 3G SE 610i, and so started 3 years of carrying two phones, one for the internet, one for calls. Of course the first thing I did was downloaded Opera Mini

Hey Pat, seen you T-shirt, can you make me one?.. we can talk about it.

It's just the SVG icon for Opera Next's install folder and some Spreadshirt magic

Here's mine: http://my.opera.com/darklink88/blog/2012/03/22/my-first-internet-experience

It was sometime during the 1980's when a friend invited me over to see him operate his new CompuServ connection. CompuServ was a pay-by-the-minute walled garden, and he used to spend over $100USD on that per month. It wasn't really the world wide web, but it gave me an idea of what a networked computer could do.

It was 1995 when I did international e-mail for the first time. I could hardly believe that I didn't have to pay extra to do this. I felt like I was getting one over on the post office and telephone company.

And that's from me:
http://my.opera.com/bachokocho/blog/2012/03/22/me-myself-and-opera

My first experience

My experience with the Internet, was about 10 years old that I remember, now I have 23 years, it was really thanks to my father took me to Cybercafe who was in the center of the city of Barquisimeto, here in Venezuela, did not know anything Internet and no idea how to access a website, just remember that using the Internet Explorer browser and my first Web page visitarz | Pokemon was carrying a magazine and video games and had a special Pokemon and some links to web pages about the connection, barbarian, was obviously connected by a 56Kbps modem service provider CANTV, which incidentally CANTV headquarters was a few yards away, I think it was one of the first facilities Internet company did, the computer had Windows 98 SE and I think it was an Intel Pentium 1, I remember that Web pages were not very dynamic at all, have they been enabled? What version of HTML will have been programmed these pages? No idea, I was just excited to know this little window to the world and show my dad who was Pikachu, I remember my father bought a 1.40-MB Diskette to save the images found on the Web, such as forgetting their typical sound, I remember seeing a video, I had neither, the form that I have used was Yahoo!, sorry I did not know Opera, was a new world which would know better then over time, what good is worth waiting and so was when I met Opera Mini, but that's another story.

Greetings from Venezuela

Link to my post (Spanish version)
http://my.opera.com/WILMER2000/blog/2012/03/22/mi-primera-experiencia-con-internet

It was 1995 and I was at the University in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). A professor of ours showed me a then strange graphical environment running on a PC (I knew later it was a Debian 0.9x, running a Linux 1.0.x kernel, and the FVWM window manager on X-Window). And he had a software running on that PC, which was called NCSA Mosaic. He told me about (and showed me) the Internet, the Web, and hypertext.

That day changed my life. I started using Linux and worked on our Faculty's web site (one of the first in Sardinia). Two years later I got my degree in Mathematics, but only to become a full-time system administrator soon after

IE5, cartoonnetwork.com and installing millions of updated Shockwave versions, that was internet as I knew it.

My first experience?...mmm..maybe late '90, 98 probably...at my best friend's flat...we tried to download 30 sec video,..it was painful, super slow,demotivating...at least 40 minutes!!...i thought: "Is that internet??"..no future man!.ahahhaa..i can't remember the browser we used...maybe explorer...

I remember trying to open an email account. What's email? Is it sent?

My first experience with Internet was whit the comic chat on Win95. This image says everything.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5325190766_aa602f7bc4.jpg

Originally posted by marcomarongiu:

A professor of ours showed me a then strange graphical environment running on a PC (I knew later it was a Debian 0.9x, running a Linux 1.0.x kernel, and the FVWM window manager on X-Window). And he had a software running on that PC, which was called NCSA Mosaic.

Love it!

My first experience was in a 56K DialUp connection, back in the beginning of the year 2000. It was like the coolest thing I've ever experienced. I was 10 years old, and I still remember the sound of it connecting, the scene and the feeling when it connected and I could access almost anything in the world. Most of my day I spent on that "thing" I didn't understand completely, doing awesome things like painting Pokemons online. Yes, that was one of the amazing things I have experienced.

And, since that day, internet has become a part of my life.

Towards late 90's connecting via my blue motorola modem was a sweet melodic tune to behold.Upon connection it brought me knowledge that was hard to find on books.Browsing with I.E was horrible back then,it was a real system resource hog.Until i got wind of OPERA - the Ad Sponsored [ i still remember the Ad that came on was Copernic ] browser. Really a new concept to begin with.However i downloaded & tried it (Opera 3.6) & there was no turning back ( - i disabled images when browsing, as i was all for the information foremost.It gave me the best browsing experience ever.Thank you OPERA for being so innovative back then & now ever innovating further.Kudos
Here's an archive of the good old Opera page back in 1999 -
http://web.archive.org/web/19991010025744/http://www.opera.com/ [love]

My first Internet browsing experience was in '95, working as a sound engineer for Swedish National Radio. As a government institution we had a 2 Mbit connection so it was fast at the time. I tried Netscape Navigator 1.1 and got hooked instantly. After an hour of surfing I discovered how to view the HTML source. I saved it into a text document and changed it to see what happened. Later that day I had made my first site with lots of <font> and <table> tags. And the rest is history... I fell in love with web design and have never looked back. After a few years I started working as a web designer for Opera Software and I'm still here.

Opera is the best!
Firefox crashes too often.

My very first comment for my first internet experience... How fitting

Back then (Late 90s?) a friend of mine had internet and whenever we (up to 5 including him) gathered at his house we asked his parents if we could surf a little. And then we went to some chat and didn't get paid a lot of attention. Not until we said we were female, 19 years old, had measures of roundabout 93-61-92 (kind of that) and of course were single. We couldn't open the windows for separate chat as fast as the requests came in ^^ That was a hell lot of fun back then (we were around 12-14). We also had internet in school with NetScape Browsers, but I was never that keen on using those PCs. So I was very happy when I finally got internet at home. I used the browser featured by our provider which was based on IE. It was annoying and since then I had Opera then Firefox and now Opera again ^^

ops! I misunderstood!!!
my first internet experience was in Math Olympics around 1996... I was 13 years old and I remember it was also my first chat experience thanks to "latinchat"... impossible to forget. First time chating with people from other countries!!! It was amazing!!!
After that everything changed... I remember my 14.4kbps modem and its funny sound trying to connect... I'm sure that is something I'll can talk with my grandchild! Google didn't even exist and netscape communicator was my favorite browser. Good and thrilling times!!!

My first experience with internet? Hm..

At about 2001/2002, there was an internet cafe in my hometown, in front of my highschool. I've heard about internet, email, and chatting a little bit, from the radio. So I wanted to give it a try.

It was cost about USD 0.5-0.7 per hour, using Redhat Linux (I remember its logo) and Netscape Navigator.

The computer was not very friendly (old Linux) and the internet connection was very slow. I needed to wait for 15-20 minutes just to open a Yahoo! Mail page!

Some months later, I moved to another town. The spread of internet cafe in that town was like walmart nowadays. The cost is also cheap. Then I decided to stay in this town, earning money from internet, till now

when I m looking for the fast browser..
just opera ie the fast browser..
thanks opera...

My first internet experience was in a cyber cafe.
I had an assignment to submit, and I heard from my school mates that the internet had more resources than our school library. So, I grabbed hold of my best friend - who had used this internet thingy before, to help me out. I remember spending an hour searching things on Yahoo and Google, and leaving the cybercafe awestruck with the amount of information the internet had. The web had managed to win me over at first encounter.

My first internet experience is "Money and Opera"!

I come from VietNam and my story happened in 2004, I had a computer was connected internet, but It was only connected a internal internet (vnn1268), so my mom had to pay a little money for that.
At that time, I only had a choice for surf web, that's IE6. My PC was connected internet by Modem 56k and I use IE6, it's very very slow. And then I try to find a better browser and I found OPERA in a tech site. But I could not download it because I used internal Internet. So I decided to connect to internet (vnn1269) to download it, and then I really happy with Opera. But end of month, My mom had to pay a lot of money, so .... .

That's a very interesting internet experience, but Opera is the best choice!

Thanks Opera.

My first internet experience was when I was 15 years and I won my first PC, this was in 2005. I don't remember well the PC infos, but it had 40 GB and the RAM memory still was in MB. I remember I was a bit more "chavesmaniac" (Chaves -- in Brazil -- or "El Chavo del Ocho", it's a famous mexican sitcom in Latin America, recently was done a big fest in Mexico to celebrate the 40 years of success with the most part of the cast and others mexican celebs). So I looked for sites of Chaves, download episodes (even with a 56kbps net, at least in that epoch the files were small due the low internet too). But I am otaku (anime fan) and my favorite anime is Captain Tsubasa, a famous soccer anime (Zidane and Nakamura and others soccer players choose that career due the manga). In Brazil had a channel called "TV Manchete", current "Rede TV". For who liked anime and tokusatsu (those japanese live action series), it was a great channel. With it, came the Saint Seiya fever, populating the anime here. And Captain Tsubasa J (one of the Captain Tsubasa series) was broadcasted in the final of live of TV Manchete, before the bankruptcy. So I found national and international sites about anime, downloaded images (the biggest image folder I have in my life is about the anime), mangas, anime, I was so happy. I did part of the biggest Captain Tsubasa site in Brasil for a short period, the Tsubasa Anime Club. My nickname was "Rodrigo", a brazilian character from Hungry Heart Wild Striker, another anime from same Captain Tsubasa author, Yoichi Takahashi. I was a manga translator and I did only the translation of the Captain Tsubasa Road to Cup 2002 first chapter (the anime version was broadcasted here firstly in Cartoon Network and later in Rede TV).

I think in the same epoch I did my Orkut and my MSN, together ICQ ( I have it even today, but I don't use much). I still got the Gold Era final of IRC in Brazil. I use IRC even today but I remember for example, there was many "fights" to see who had the best IRC network, the best script, the called "IRContros" (mixing of IRC with "encontro" = meeting). And I'll say some things I knew and I found recently about the IRC here: in that pre- MSN era, you being a OP or admin of a network or channel, it was sinonimo of status. Depending of your fame inside the channel/network, you took a lot of women xD. It wasn't a "nerd thing" how is considered today. I know some "dirty" stories too, but I reveal it in any future post about IRC here .

In that epoch I did my Computer course. I remember that the course offered a free friday for you practice what you had learnt on classes. But I took advantage of that to download jokes and download things for my diskette from Humortadela (mixing of Humour with Mortadella, a big old brazilian humor, big reference, before the MEME era. Unfortunately it was declared died in 2009. If you go to the site, there is a small joke about that. The Humortadela way to say the things.


In 2009 I had a heart surgery and my present was a new PC when I went home. I needed to pass my files from old pc for new PC. What did I do? Even I all f***ed because the surgery I crossed the night saving my files in CDs and only later I installed some things on my PC, before of sleeping in the morning. But don't worry, like my mad doctor said: "now you don't have nothing. You can do anything: running, playing soccer, dating, f...." LOL.

I loved to play Tibia, Gunbound, Ragnarok, Hattrick and Managerzone (are online soccer managerment games, the second is more famous, has versions for hockey and racing and it had commercial for a brazilian TV), Second Life, Football Manager with the friends, RPG...

Before, I download many musics by Kazaa, after Shareware and Emule.

Later, I learnt a bit of HTML. I think was the epoch I knew the Joomla and I created the Senna 4EVER, a Ayrton Senna site fan, before I had created a blog version.

I found Opera after I went to Baixaki (a brazilian download site) and I searched by browsers. I was a Firefox user. I was more IE hater than today (it bettered after IE9). I found Opera and I fell in love. Even with that big lack of compartibility it had before, I loved it and I'm going on.

I thank the internet because I knew a lot of people in many parts in the world, I did great friendships, some I had the pleasure fo knowing face to face and other ones, unfortunately, I don't have contact anymore. I thank because it helped to grow up myself like people and acquire culture, being usable or unusable, and of course, downloading my favorite show I watched on TV and watch my current fav TV shows by streaming.

I have now a PC with 2 GB of RAM memory, 300 GB of HD, 512 mb of video, no diskette lol, 2 MB of internet speed.

Originally posted by fred:

. After an hour of surfing I discovered how to view the HTML source. I saved it into a text document and changed it to see what happened. Later that day I had made my first site with lots of and

tags. And the rest is history... I fell in love with web design and have never looked back. After a few years I started working as a web designer for Opera Software and I'm still here.

sorry for the off topic discussion but I think Opera was the eye opener for me with regard to playing around with html,css...etc. That's when I fell in love with Opera it was my sensei in a way !