Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
You're partially right. The first time I got "online," I was instant messaging a friend of mine across town. This was back in 1986. The ISP was Quantum Link. Known as Q-Link, the name changed in 1991 to America OnLine.

Here is the menu board for Q-Link:



Beat that, suckas. Lolol. Later, QD.
I was about 9 at that time...and my brother and I would dial up with our 300baud modem into local BBSs. Yes, Bulletin Board Systems. We were using an Atari 800XL, the official home computer of the 1984 Olympics. We would sit up all night long downloading games that fit on one doudle-sided, single density 5.25" floppy disk. 90% of the time, it didn't even work. It was around that time I saw my first internet porn...which was a super lo-res pic of some naked chick. It took around 8 hours to download.

I may not have beat you, but we're definitely tied.