Hey Pandas, How Long Have You Been Online?

Can you tell us how long you have been wandering online in a post that doesn't just tell us an amount of time or give us a date?

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At some point before second grade. Subsequently, I learned my first swear words from A certain infected eye that was in Free Guy.

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Scarlet23

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Closing in on 8 years of being online, 2 of which I have spent on BP

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Horten Ho-229 (she/her)

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I grew up under a pile of rocks. I don't understand most pop culture references. I've had a bp account for a few months but was lurking for a while before that. Bored panda is my main and probably only media source other than streaming services. So if it's not on bp, please assume that I don't know it.

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fair_weather_rose (she/they)

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KETGZ 1 year ago

Fair enough, Fair W Rose :-)

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so far, 8 minutes.

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Cosmologistinterntobe (human)

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KETGZ 1 year ago

Wow, I bet you have the most accurate answer on the list!

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One year. I decided to join BP today, though I have hung around BP for ~9 months

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Danger Bunny (She/Her)

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KETGZ 1 year ago

Welcome out of lurkdom!

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Since I was 9 and started researching torture online for fun 😂 🫣

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Ginger Panda

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Percabeth Forever 1 year ago

Oh I used to do this and I regret it so much

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I was introduced to You Tube by someone showing me the original South Park animation, I think before the first episode aired, but it might have been when I was home for break during that first season. (Oh my god, it's Brian Boitano!)

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KETGZ

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MedusaWasBeautiful 1 year ago

South Park aired in 1997, but the original animation was from 1992. YouTube eould appear 13 years later.

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Let's see...carry the one...divide by the square root of turquoise...about 25 ish years? I'll put it this way, I used to go to the Oracle of Kevin Bacon. You could put in a TV or movie star to get the " degrees of separation" between any two celebrities, not just the one who started it all, Kevin Bacon. From that site grew IMDB.

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Couragetcd

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KETGZ 1 year ago

I had completely forgotten about that game. I wish IMDB could tell me the degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and Zendaya

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I've been online since my PC was a screaming Windows 3.1 with a lightning fast 14.4k modem. I had a whopping 250MB HDD and I was a BAD A*S, Yo!

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And I didn't have AOL; I had Errols, which meant my 14.4kbps modem was in actuality probably like, I dunno, 6.2kbps? LOL

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2points

Hellcaste's Wife

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KETGZ 1 year ago

Oh wow, I remember moving from 3.1 to 95. That was just amazing. Kind of like the change from Mario Brothers to Super Mario Brothers.

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I've been online since 1994, but that was with a Pentium 1 computer.

Before that, it was my Mom's Commodore 64 and a baud modem! She also still had a big dot matrix home printer (with perforated, holed edges and the box with the paper was reamed which means you could tear it along more perforations but it would feed seamlessly into the printer) not to mention the use of floppy disks. I don't mean those hard plastic small ones, I mean the 5 - 7 inch jobbies that really WERE "floppy".

I learned BASIC, COBOL, etc. from my Mom. Learning DOS was another huge one. She was a computer programmer/systems analyst, and saved up a BUNCH of money back in the day to get the Commodore 64. I used it for all kinds of things with her help. Making team banners, compiling data for reports. There also games you could play, using a joystick!

I forget the name of the game now, but it was something along the lines of like, Indian Jones. You were an explorer, and had to navigate up through levels (not different screens, LITERAL levels), etc. It was fun!

Accessing the internet pre-1994 was doable, took ages, but honestly there wasn't a whole heck of a lot there. Even when I got my Pentium in 1994, the internet was still really shallow for information in general. For example, searching for information on the black panther animal didn't really yield anymore results or new information that the books at the library did.

It was definitely a step above the encyclopedias at the time, but it was still nothing to really write home about.

Macs were starting to circulate too, around the mid-90's and these are what my school decided to go with, which threw another learning curve. In middle school, it was PC's and then high school it was Macs, which I had no real experience with, even though the Commodore was Apple. The technology just changed SOOOO fast, and it's still like that today.

Website based chatrooms used to be the norm, and there was TONS of them. Hacking used to be so much easier, too. Before there was Skype, there was a program called POWWOW which let you connect up to 6 people into a video/chat/phone call. It ran slow as s**t, people couldn't talk over one another, but it worked great for us at the time. We loved it.

Usenet, Gopher, Angelfire, Geocities, IRC... I remember seeing Java, Javascript, CSS, etc. all come into being and learning about them and playing around with them. It was just a fun time for learning.

My folks, and the folks of my friends who had computers, never really cared overly much what we were doing online. We had free rein and we definitely took full advantage of it.

I miss those days...

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jolie laide

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KETGZ 1 year ago

I had a commodore 64 but couldn't do much besides play a couple of games on it and process words. I have some fond memories of staying up all night chatting with various people about all kinds of random things in gaming and other chat rooms. Learning if you typed java it would spell out as coffee and loop would come out as loopd as "protections" against hacking...Good times!

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My parents are really strict but I got a lot of social medias this summer and I started watching YouTube in sixth grade. Before that I wasn’t allowed to even watch tv

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One Happy Doggo

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KETGZ 1 year ago

That seems kinda crazy to me as someone who was a kid when there wasn't internet and the highest tech around was playing Oregon Trail on the good ol' Macintosh computers. At least with TV parents can see a schedule of the options and block ratings? I think you had a lot more options on You Tube than most of us growing up with TV had. I'm just glad that you are a happy doggo :-)

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#12

I got Instagram when I was eight which was a horrible idea on my parents part, so that's six years if my math is mathing correctly (I no longer have Instagram, I'm making significantly better decisions). I was probably using Google before that, but I can't really pin down any exact date

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crowspectre (he/they)

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KETGZ 1 year ago

I'm glad you are making better online choices than your parents. Just think, in a decade or so, you can point and laugh at them saying Haha, you thought Instagram was a good idea for a kid, and you can all laugh about it together. :-)

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#13

Let's see: 1989 was 35 years ago....goodness, I'm old. Using my roommate's Tandy 1000 (w/ an amazing 8088 processor running at a whopping 20 MHz) and a 2400 baud modem got me on to local BBS's in Atlanta as wells as Prodigy - one of the precursors to the internet...

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