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We got dial-up back in late 1995 just as it started with Springboard Internet, which then became News International's LineOne service in 1997. I'm that old I still have the same e-mail address from way back then
I started with AOL for my internet and an AOL E-Mail address, I've had several E-Mail addresses since.
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
I’ve been with BT for absolute ages now. Not the cheapest but it’s been reliable.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
…and floppy discs?Hah, that's positively modern!
I started with Windows 3.1...
The phones have way more memory and storage space than my first computer!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
…and floppy discs?
Yep!!!
And I remember having to bridge large files over multiple floppies...My first desktop had a *massive* 2.1 Gb hard drive... The laptop I had (486) only had 250 Mb.
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Yep!!!
My first desktop had a *massive* 2.1 Gb hard drive... The laptop I had (486) only had 250 Mb.
250mb was all I had on my first Desktop. brought reconditioned from the local market, even the my document file on my current computer would be too big for my first computer.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
The desktop was bought new. The only thing I still have from that package are the top-of-the-range Altec Lansing PC speakers, which I still get good use out of. It was actually the only desktop I've ever had, I bought a laptop a year later and have had laptops ever since.
My first laptop was bought secondhand from the original Computer Exchange shop on Tottenham Court Road - back in the day when TCR was nothing but shops selling electricals and electronics. Since then, it's been a mix of new and used.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Calling it a day , hello weekend
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Back to Wimbledon now. 🎾
carpiste
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
I built my own computer with Win 3.1 around 1993/4 with a lot of help from my Brother in Law who worked for the NHS as a techy type.
I didn`t have a clue about computers but building one and then.... playing daft games I soon learned.
I didn`t have a clue about computers but building one and then.... playing daft games I soon learned.
carpiste
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
Are you cycling there ?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Right, time for a 
and two chocolate biskits.
Prosaically termed "podwieczorek" in Polish.
Literal-ish translation is just-before-evening
and two chocolate biskits.Prosaically termed "podwieczorek" in Polish.
Literal-ish translation is just-before-evening
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Managed a 50 miler on the road bike in hilly North Wales earlier. Great ride. Lovely lanes, some really bad surfaces, especially some fast A road descents, drivers very good. Only one idiot, a self entitled horse rider.
Country lane, good sight lines. Horse (massive) and rider in middle of road. Didn't look too well controlled to me - all over the place. Eased off (approaching from behind), rider spotted me from 400 plus yards out, then moved to left. I went for right gutter, and slowed down. Just as I'm about to pass, she 'turns' the horse across the road, and sticks her hand out. I'm now emergency braking. She then goes for the right verge, then says 'you should shout so we can hear you' - I said, "You'd already seen me". She then said thanks. FFS I wasn't about to shout as she'd seen me and it the bloody thing looked proper flighty and it was huge. I didn't say anymore. Don't turn a tonne of animal infront of a 9kg bike please - the horse will come off worse. No wonder folk hate horse riders more than us lot.
Other than that silly person, the ride was great. Flipping knackered though. Spine started playing up earlier in the ride, but managed to stretch it out with a 'walk' up a silly 25% gravel short cut I'd mapped in - fool. Walked it in my socks - only 100 yards.
Country lane, good sight lines. Horse (massive) and rider in middle of road. Didn't look too well controlled to me - all over the place. Eased off (approaching from behind), rider spotted me from 400 plus yards out, then moved to left. I went for right gutter, and slowed down. Just as I'm about to pass, she 'turns' the horse across the road, and sticks her hand out. I'm now emergency braking. She then goes for the right verge, then says 'you should shout so we can hear you' - I said, "You'd already seen me". She then said thanks. FFS I wasn't about to shout as she'd seen me and it the bloody thing looked proper flighty and it was huge. I didn't say anymore. Don't turn a tonne of animal infront of a 9kg bike please - the horse will come off worse. No wonder folk hate horse riders more than us lot.
Other than that silly person, the ride was great. Flipping knackered though. Spine started playing up earlier in the ride, but managed to stretch it out with a 'walk' up a silly 25% gravel short cut I'd mapped in - fool. Walked it in my socks - only 100 yards.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
PS this was the biggest road ride I've done since busting my spine over 5 years ago. Managed 30 miles twice recently. Only got back on the road bikes since January.