Wee! My First Networked Computer

[nochay]

Hey guys,

I'm writing this on my first networked computer!

Dell Optiplex G1
350 MHZ Pentium II
32 Megabyte ATI Pro Video Capture Card
64 Megs Of Ram
3Com Nic Card

Hooked up to a linksys 4 port router!!!

Now, I need to replace this monitor. Using a monitor for a 486 isn't so good on this 32 megabyte video card!

Well, How about everyone shares their first computer experiences? How about the time you first got onto the internet?

Dane

[Redwolf]

Good for you man! You are on your way!

My experience with my first comp (Compaq Pesario 486/66DX and it's predecessor, the AST):

Day 1: Got AST, learned how to plug in
Day 2: Learned how to install stuff
Day 4: Returned due to bad memory, also learned Ctrl+Alt+Del (Ironic, eh?)
Day4 (cont): Got Compaq
Day 5: Learned some of Control Panel
Day 30: Learned DOS

congrats dude!


my first time was just adding a switch on to my internet paying for an extra ip adress. then i moved over to a linksys router

[nochay]

Cool stories!

My brother and I just kicked some major @$$ in quake II! God, i love networked computers! Wish i could network my 486, but can't find a nic card old enough.

Dane

[LaWrEnCe]

Originally posted by nochay
How about the time you first got onto the internet?

My first Internet experience was with AOL so I'd rather not talk about it ...Still getting counselling

The first time I was on the net nobody was there...
There was no Netscape. You used a gopher. I never found much I was searching for, just usually University sites with files on them.

Ah, the days of BB's!! Before the net, that is!

Dial up and "speak" to the same ppl all the time...

Very different nowadays when you get propositioned by total strangers in IM!

Got my whole house, inlcuding the shed, networked now. Every networked PC has cable net access through my linux router/firewall. A far cry from hogging the phone line with a 14.4k modem.

Cheers
Mick

First used internet in 1997. Subscribed to a bulletin board service for news, downloads,..... on my 486 PC with all of 16MB RAM, windows 95, 28.8K dial up.

Signed up for hotmail and nothing much else.

Huge advances in last 6 years.

[dday]

First time I went on the net was on roommates' Hewlitt Packard back in 1992 on a dial up modem. BORING !!! LOL !! All he ever looked at was stock pricing, and I didn't have a clue where to look or at what! Heck I didn't even know how to turn the darn thing on or off.
But just this weekend I built a knew machine and loaded XP for the first time. I did real good building and booting the machine, but I called a friend to help me partition the hard drive right. But I'm still learning! What the heck.

[gjimene2]

the first time I was on the net I had a hughe phone book with IP's listed on them and that's how we "surfed" but before that it was good old' telnet bbs

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!