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82_28 » Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:33 pm wrote:Hey for those who still remain here, what are your meatspace stories of how you remember getting "online" for the first time?
CL: You first posted photos in the early days of the Internet. When and how did the site begin, and when did it metamorphose into Digitrix?
Shelley: Yeah, Trey posted them before the Internet was anything like it is now. I don't even think the World Wide Web was around. He posted them to USENET newsgroups, I think.
Trey: The pictures were originally posted to the USENET news groups,
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, etc. We used a cheap handheld black and white scanner that belonged to a friend. I posted them to the newsgroups, two or three at first to see the reaction... The reaction was overwhelming. At the time, the only nekkid pictures on the Internet were loads of copyright infringements involving scanners and people with too much time on their hands. So, I think the reaction was so strong because these were actually photos of a brave, real person. As the responses started to pour in, I think she really started to enjoy it.
Shelley: I met Trey in January of '92 and we took the first set of pictures the next year, Spring of '93. I believe it was May. Trey in the summer of '94 scanned them and posted them to newsgroups and bulletin boards in August. Like I said, the Internet wasn't like it is now with the World Wide Web. Since the pictures were becoming really popular, another A&M student put them in a web page with a student account using an A&M server. This was in the fall semester of '94, called "Sights from Texas A&M." You can still see that page with those pics. We keep them separate to this day! Then in December '94 the school newspaper (The Batallion) printed one of my pictures on the front page. That's when the shit hit the fan!
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82_28 » Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:33 pm wrote:Hey for those who still remain here, what are your meatspace stories of how you remember getting "online" for the first time?
Mine is I subscribed to the Planetary Society's magazine and I can't remember how they put it on the page but I desperately I desperately wanted to access the site (all text back then). My 386 computer with a 24kbps modem was hella underpowered for what we are used to today. However getting even remote text was something of a miracle back then. I couldn't believe I was reading something that wasn't on my computer but on someone else's computer instead but I could access it. It was all windows 3.1. Then I got the first AOL FLOPPY diskette in the mail and everything changed. Computers back then lacked any kind of CD ROM capability at all. AOL made it fairly easy.
And here I am.
MinM » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:31 am wrote:
Never heard of that 'TechNation' Show before. Probably just carried on it's originating NPR Station (KQED).
BTW it seemed that all of these "Tech" Shows had gone the way of Soledad O'Brien on MSNBC, and Stewart Cheifet on PBS...
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