I remember using the www at high school, you had to load up trumpet winsock, as windows didn't support tcp natively. This would be about '94 or '95 I believe. It was sort of cool, but at the time I was more into writing games in assembly so I don't think it grabbed me then.
The thing that really blew my mind was in University I got into talkers - chatrooms you visit by telnetting into them. Think the one I used to haunt was "The village". I was just amazed at how cool that was and trying to figure out how the hell it all worked and how you could write a server. I wanted to have my own chatroom. For me that was so much more useful and clever than what at the time were pretty static websites.
Hey. I'm at Drupal Camp Chicago right now, we're all using Mibbit to follow the conference via IRC. Thanks for a useful product. http://drupalcampchicago.com/irc
The thing that really blew my mind was in University I got into talkers - chatrooms you visit by telnetting into them. Think the one I used to haunt was "The village". I was just amazed at how cool that was and trying to figure out how the hell it all worked and how you could write a server. I wanted to have my own chatroom. For me that was so much more useful and clever than what at the time were pretty static websites.
Now years later I sort of do with Mibbit ;)