Had one left over from Palestinian Action 
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Only 4 for me 
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Only 4 for me too 
I used computers a bit at uni and with Ford, but when I worked in audit from 1994 to 1997 we used hand written audit papers.
Starting work at the bank in 1997 everything was on computers, but we didn’t have access to the internet for browsing at our desks until 2000 and you had to have a business case for that.
They were so paranoid about IT security that we had a standalone PC that wasn’t connected to the internet for any research we needed to do, or we had to use a Bloomberg terminal.
I don’t think we had a PC and internet at home until 2003
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I’m similar - the first time I ever used the internet was on starting uni in 1997 and although we’d had a PC at home for several years before that we didn’t go online there until 1999.
I was still even on dial-up until 2006 when I got broadband for the first time with my mobile phone package.
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The MySpace one is very much for the “newbie” internet user…
I am 9 I think.
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I kid you not !
ONE !
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I vaguely remember having a friends reunited account but not sure I went on much.
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I think I got onto the Internet around '94. I seem to remember talking the PC from the breakfast bar and put it in the garage for our wedding (to tidy the place up for visitors) which was '94. I was attending London to Brighton Mini runs in '95 and that was arranged through the internet so '94 fits.
I used to spend far too much time on an email exchange group, I forget the name of the system but you’d send an email to the server and it’d forward it on to all members and visa versa. Then we’d chat on ICQ in the evening. It was good fun, went to lots of meet-ups and met plenty of interesting people. It fizzled out in the early 00’s but luckily TT 1.0 arrived in '03 and filled the void.
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Mailing groups were quite big in the mid-90’s, I was on the Boro FC group, still know a few people IRL. It was actually ran by an ex-pat living in Hong Kong.
For a few years there was a tournament called worldnet of similar clubs around the country, which we won a few times, we were significantly more successful that the actual club 
it also fizzled out as forums like this started appearing.
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Even though I’m not an ITnerd, I can tick 8 of those boxes but that’s probably because I’ve been around since the early days of t’interweb and through our business needed to keep up to speed with what changes were happening. So we had a website and e-mail systems from early days - Mrs FB used to do some HTML markup and CSS stuff but I left her to that and didn’t interfere - I did the hardware and connections stuff. So I learnt a lot about IT (not software) as someone had to.
FFS - we even had a fax when they 1st appeared to speed up getting CVs to clients until e-mail took over.
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The 19th century! You really are old!
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Only 12 for me, where are the real useful bits of old tech?
Things uucp, usenet, gopher, archie, telnet, sendmail, QIC tapes…
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5 for me.
1996 and my first teaching practice school, I was given the school tour and showed ‘the computer that’s connected to the internet’ , squirreled away in the library office. I think only about three people were allowed to use it.
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Still use telnet occaisionally.
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FTP is still good for its original use, yeeting files at each other with little to fuck all control, RBAC, limiting or encryption, i.e. its not robust or secure but if just want to send a bunch of files to another computer and to hell with any security it works
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What actually is FTP here ?
File Transfer Protocol.
You have a file on your PC, your mate wants it, you send it, FTP makes it so
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Easy 16 for me. My Dad and dads of pretty much all my classmates at school all worked at Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern, so nearly all had early PCs such as Commodore Pet at home, and then all the popular successors. School Young Scientists club got lectures from all the boffins who had actually invented or were at the forefront of Radar, LCDs, Thermal Vision, Gallium Arsenide ICs etc.Then I went out to HK in 86 when all the IBM 8086 clones were coming out, and later started working for Motorola in 93 (MOT.COM) who had big fingers in the pies of most emerging digital protocols and were aggresively trying to develop and exploit them for both hardware and data purposes. A lot of chips were being built specifically to meet ideas being dreamt up in brainstorming meetings, culminating in the development and launch of the Iridium satelllite network, which went a long way to bankrupting the company. Every new development team spawned a second team 3 months on working on doubling or tripling the capacity and speed of the first idea with crazy amounts of money being thrown around. From prototype to GSM to 2.5G to 3G to 4G all happened in an amazingly short timeframe executed by a fairly small number of key figures with lots of people tinkering around the edges. Then it all just seemed to flutter off to the Far East and I lost touch. Have worked in a lot of other tech since, but they just seem to be minor exploits and tweeks of existing tech rather than true development at pace.
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