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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 12-10-2010 at 07:35:
10 years ago. That's when I first became an anime fan, which was after I had seen Gundam Wing. And that was September that year. I had also discovered great songs and music groups I had never heard of before then.
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Posted by Springie on 12-10-2010 at 09:50:
Ten years ago, I had a baby in my arms and wasn't even thinking about getting on the internet! Years later, I thought that I must've imagined "G-Force" (BOTP) and innocently did a search on my new computer...
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Posted by littlewolf on 12-10-2010 at 11:22:
10 years ago I was living in a little opal mining town in New South Wales, chefing at the local hotel and moving dirt, looking for black on red opal
no traffic lights, no stop signs, no locking doors in the house or car, fluctuating population, 42 different nationalites living respectively together,several times a year the town would get flooded in (we had a air strip for air drops and emergencies) 5 hours to any form of major town and 9 hours drive to my family in Queensland (just up the road) and everyone knew everyone else business- a wonderful town full of interesting people
a small black and white TV that only got the ABC and only turned on on friday night for "Good News Week" before heading to the local pubs (all walking distance)
no video player, no DVD player, no computer
and we didn't miss it
life was simple - definetely happy memories
But if I had not moved back to Queensland..... I would not be on this forum now...life has such interesting twist and turns
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Posted by nuni on 12-10-2010 at 11:42:
It's fascinating what everyone was up to 10 years ago. So much can change - kids grow up so quickly, computers/internet have become so much a part of everyday life.
Ten years ago, I had just gotten married. BoTP was only a distant memory for me. We lived in a tiny studio apartment and were just starting out. Hard times, but fun times.
Posted by Berg Katse on 12-10-2010 at 16:58:
Well, I went off and searched for Imi. Found her husband (what a LONG memory I have!), who is now her ex-husband, and her daughter contacted me on Facebook. Maybe we'll be able to catch up with her after all!
Hehe, no one can hide from me. There is another reason why I'm head of Galactor, not just because of the pretty face. 
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Posted by gatchgirl on 12-10-2010 at 20:06:
Katse, tell her I said hi, not that she'd remember me. 
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Posted by clouddancer on 13-10-2010 at 00:34:
10 years ago?
Lets see .... I think I was finally getting into teaching. After 8 years of working in the herb department at a Garden Centre I finally got my foot in the door at the school board and began supply teaching. Two years after that I got my first full time teaching position.
In some ways I am surprised how many people say they were online and connected to the internet. It shows me once again how new I am to all this technology, considering it was not until about 6 years ago, when I moved into my first home and got highspeed internet, that I first began navigating the web.
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Posted by Berg Katse on 13-10-2010 at 02:28:
I'm considered an Internet veteran. The second I had a service provider, I was online. That was back in 1994/1995. And the Internet was awful compared to now (oh the terrible programming, the terrible graphics, the terrible load speeds!). So I hit the information superhighway when the tar was still tacky.
Ironically, I was a student then, and I'm still a student. Find me in a century, I'll probably still be a student, a LAN cable connected to my brain, my heart beating to the rotten soundtrack of Internet porn (because at 130 years of age, that'll probably be all the action I'll be able to get!) 
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Posted by Pufles65 on 13-10-2010 at 03:25:
Wow 10 yrs ago I was about to pop with my 2nd girl. Life was good in Florida with my oldest, my husband and a new kitten. She had crawled under my husband's car after a night of rain storms and let my know rather loudly that she was there. We took her in that afternoon and to this day she still hates thunderstorms. My marriage was good back then and we had been in our new home almost 2 years. I was hooked on Buffy and X-Files which were both beginning to wind down. Ever now and then I thought of GM and BotP's whenever I ran across my Bird Scramble's. 
My Ex is the only reason I ever even knew what a cell phone or internet was. He was the techie in our family. It wouldn't be until 3 yrs after that that I even got on the computer for more than just checking emails. We didn't have much money but times were easier before 911 in the military. 
Amazing how our whole world has changed in those 10 years.
Posted by lborgia88 on 13-10-2010 at 05:17:
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Brings back memories... Around 1995/96 I had computer with a pre-Windows OS and a program called "Lynx" that was a text-only browser. Needless to say, I didn't do much on the internet except send email and use the university's online library catalogue. By 1998, though, I had a computer with Windows 95 and Netscape for a browser. Still only a dial-up modem. High-speed, via DSL, came in 2001.
Posted by amethyst on 13-10-2010 at 05:25:
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That wasn't too much before I had my first email account. The only thing that has changed was the ISP. In fact I still remember that first account. It was amethyst@napanet.net; please don't try it, I haven't had that account for over 15 years. In fact I've been on several different ISPs and emails in the intervening time.
Of course, as my husband pointed out, in directly, various levels of sobriety as well. Never a flat out drunk, but enough to wonder if intervention might be necessary, and of course the teetotaler, and everything in between. Funny, after growing up in a household with a mother who was a tetotaler and a father who loved the neighborhood bar and I told my husband, who was one of my father's drinking buddies, that I didn't want that lifestyle. More proof that it is genetic.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 13-10-2010 at 05:42:
I know I turned out like my parents, for whom beer with lunch/wine with dinner/evening cocktail is pretty standard. These days, an evening glass of wine (or two) is certainly the norm.
Posted by Transmute Jun on 13-10-2010 at 14:39:
I was big into BBSs before the internet 'came of age'. Back in the late 80s and early 90s I spent a lot of time on dialup where you had to connect separately with forums like this one. I was even a sysop on a couple!
In the early 90s I was back in school, and that came with an internet account and all of its connectivity. I used Lynx too, LB, but mostly because it was too much of a hassle to boot up Netscape when I was already in Unix. My connection was so slow I had to turn off all images.
Much as I miss the 'intimate' nature of the BBSs, I prefer the way things are now. It's nice to be able to connect with so many fans around the world, and find out information on so many different topics so easily! I am somewhat concerned about lack of privacy, though, especially with young kids posting their entire lives on Facebook.
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 13-10-2010 at 17:08:
I remember the internet back in 1996. Wow, good times! I remember I'd be on it constantly looking at web pages for my favorite video games, movies and cartoons. This thread is taking me back!
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Posted by meridianday on 13-10-2010 at 18:51:
LOL that reminds me how studios were so careful of their copyrighted material back then. Like anyone who put any Simpsons pictures or soundbites up would be threatened by Fox lawyers with legal action, so nothing ever stayed put for long. Fortunatly they have now realised that such things spread fandom not damage it. I have no idea whether Gatchaman and other animes were treated like that in Japan, but they were free game for the english speaking world so there was plenty of stuff to find 
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My B/H was back on the internet back then. I can recall "thinking" about the WWW but not knowing for sure how it all worked, man was I naive.
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Posted by veritas on 11-11-2010 at 11:17:
This is weird as ive been having dreams about my life 10 yrs ago and kicking myself that I didnt stay intouch with people I had such good times with.
**wavey lines***
2000, I was 24, just bought a run down house and was renovating it. I had recently come out of a 5yr relationship and was finding my singles feet. I had enroled on a P/T archaeology course at Nottingham Uni and spent weekends on my knees in mud, it was glorious. I saw DUran Duran for the first time on the pop trash tour and because I had get a PC for Uni decided to get online and see if there were other old/new duranies out there.... There were. We have done tours and gigs allover the world and we still hang out when we can even tho we are all over the country.
Duran fandom online led to Star wars fans on line and again Ive made friends all over... and here I am now.
Ten years ago was the best time of my life and I miss those days so much sometimes... but now I'm married with a baby, its a new chapter....
god thats maudlin!
Posted by Transmute Jun on 11-11-2010 at 15:09:
It's great to see you here, Veritas! We've missed you! How are things going at home? 
(And I can totally relate with the Durannies group. I've been in a couple of those groups myself. )
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Posted by Becky Rock on 11-11-2010 at 17:50:
I got my first computer in 1986 for writing following college graduation. Floppy disks, anyone? I got onto the internet for the first time in 1995 to do research for my graduate thesis. Can't remember the system I used. It might have been Lynx but it seems to me it start with a C.
I really didn't get onto the internet for the fun of it until 2000 while in Germany.
Speaking of nostalgia - I just saw the guy who used to play Eddie Munster is in rehab. I used to love that show. When I was a kid, I wished they were my neighbors.
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Posted by veritas on 11-11-2010 at 19:28:
Good thanks TJ, I am establishing my self as uber geek again
and not just Theo's mum.
Sorry everyone if my post was a downer, hubby says its my age!
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