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Post by MartinT on Jul 15, 2021 18:23:35 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 15, 2021 19:46:37 GMT
I remember it well
The hi-fi forum was where I discovered mains cable deniers for the first time
Trying to work out how to access CIX on one of my old PCs which are not behaving.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 15, 2021 20:31:58 GMT
I still have the Ameol offline reader, but haven't looked for 3-4 years now.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 16, 2021 9:37:38 GMT
Was a great place to be but became less and less of its original
Very useful for me having support for FoxPro from users and developers. That was the only reason I joined
Then I discovered all sorts of other conferences, hifi being one
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2021 10:12:18 GMT
I barely remembered my password and got in, just like that!
Of course, no-one will understand the original telnet text interface. Seems unbelievable now.
Was anyone here a member of the US-based BIX or CompuServe BBS forums?
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 16, 2021 10:27:29 GMT
Only CIX for me.
Had my FoxPro mates to get me going
Twas only because my biggest customer insisted I have email on dial up I went to that in the mid 80s
Stunningly enough it didn't work (!) but they had a big tech support department and sorted me out with whatever it was that was technical and not for a novice.
Took them a while, maybe because they were used to mainframes and BIG kit
Adding CIX a couple of years after was little work to get going
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2021 10:35:41 GMT
I'll never forget the sound of my 56k modem connecting to pick up mail and forum comments.
I could tell just by listening whether it was connecting or not.
56k seemed so fast compared with the early days of 300!
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 16, 2021 10:58:03 GMT
Me too
I dialled in a few times a day for emails from my big customer.
They paid for it all and I found it more and more useful
Then my University and Pharma customers found out I had email and there were loads from them too.
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Post by petea on Jul 16, 2021 12:03:19 GMT
Interesting. I too was on CIX for a short while, but I cannot even remember my user name now as I only used it to communicate with a friend who worked for Sun Microsystems up in Scotland as I'd bought a secondhand 386i from him (I still have it if anyone if interested as well as a SparcStation 10: the latter still works even). I used a 28K modem at first, but mainly for FTP rather than CIX. After I moved house I purchased a sub-domain from Demon and used email proper and not long after of course one could 'surf' the Internet using Mosaic. It was sad when Vodafone finally killed Demon and even though I was using other domains by then I still had my old sub-domain (but of course no more). When I started the company we used a 56K modem, but switched to ISDN for the heady extra speed it gave (one in the UK and one here in Germany to give me remote access).
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2021 13:59:05 GMT
Ah - Mosaic and Netscape.
Before those two, I remember using Lynx, which was a text-only browser.
The first time a journalist gave me a web address (pointing to a review of one of my products - I worked for NEC at the time), I had no idea what on Earth to do with it!
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Post by petea on Jul 16, 2021 15:08:23 GMT
I was trying to recall how one searched for things and I've just remembered WebCrawler! Bugger-me, it still exists! www.webcrawler.com |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 16, 2021 16:00:58 GMT
I remember asking on Cix what do you do with the internet  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 16, 2021 19:13:31 GMT
I used to use AltaVista before Google and now Bing.
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