What was your FIRST internet "WTF"

[lillypaddle]

and approximate year it occurred. Mine: 1993, ran outside and shouted to the guy who was mowing my yard, "some man just sent me a picture of his dick! Isn't that cool????"

If it's any consolation, that doesn't impress me anymore.

Well, maybe a little.

[rocktivity]

1. Way, way back before USENET self-destructed

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I posted my first comment in a rock music group, and my first response was from someone who mentioned that he lived in Ireland. I was so flabbergasted by the idea I was talking to someone from the other side of the world without phone charges, I PM-ed him an e-mail asking, "Are you REALLY from Ireland?"

The international-ness of the Internet is what I still haven't gotten over. It still blows me away that can communicate with people in far-off, exotic, foreign locales such as Slovakia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Belgium, and Montana!


rocktivity

[lillypaddle]

2. Damn

You were so normal. I'm disappointed.

[rug]

3. You're welcome.

[nolabear]

4. First trolling experience on Prodigy.

I couldn't believe that roving gangs of people from one board would swoop in and disrupt another board. I was SOOOOOO naive.

Or perhaps when I got TS'd from a BB for using the word "bitch". It was a dog breeding board.

[Bucky]

5. Don't recall exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was something on Geocities.

[turtlerescue1]

6. When you had 20 minutes maybe. Optimally you had 20 minutes.

It was a little tv screen with a keyboard, UNIX???. My WTF was the first time I heard the sounds of dialup dialing up.

It was through something called Associated Block Clubs of America, and it connected you to Delphi Forums. Never flew very far.

When? I think dirt had just been invented the year before.

[femmocrat]

27. I used to go to Delphi Forums too.

There were some nice chat rooms there, long time ago. I went back a few years later and it seemed to have gone way downhill.

[JesterCS]

7. meatspin.com was my first WTF

[Odin2005]

8. 1999, Legend of Zelda fan-fic.

When a 12yo boy thinks you need to get a life, you are messed up.

[TheMightyFavog]

24. 1998. Somehow ran into an erotic A-Team fanfic...

I then found out the hard way what slash is.

[Bertha Venation]

25. "When a 12yo boy thinks you need to get a life, you are messed up."

[Odin2005]

28. Glad you laughed.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Sex groups on usenet.

It was like getting Penthouse forum for free and that was something back in the days of the early steam-powered Web.

[loli phabay]

10. private message sent ;)

[lillypaddle]

35. didn't get a pm

did I misunderstand?

[loli phabay]

36. oops was playing off your op and the pic you were sent

[lillypaddle]

38. LOL

that pic has long since bitten the dust!

[loli phabay]

40. well trust me go look up goatse lol

You can thank me later lol

[lillypaddle]

41. I'm not quite that desperate

yet!

on edit: typo

[loli phabay]

11. Furries first time in my life i dont understand something.

[csziggy]

12. Finding the Library of Macau on the Interlibrary loan system circa 1983

That we accessed through the Florida State Library catalog system with our Apple ][ (no +, no E). We never figured out how to get there again but it was really cool looking at what books they had in their catalog!

[OriginalGeek]

13. even though I've been on-line since the 80s

I'm pretty sure tub girl was my first "Holy SHIT what the fuck was that?"


I did not thank the fellow who sent it to me.

[fizzgig]

14. goatse

edit: don't google if you don't know what it is. just don't.

[turtlerescue1]

29. I don't know what that is

- BUT you know NOW I have to google it...in just a few seconds.

[turtlerescue1]

30. Okay

WHY would someone even do that, worse what ever made him think of doing that????


Where was I in 2001 to have missed that one? Minnesota.



You're were right.

[fizzgig]

31. i hope to gods you didn't

please, please don't. you can't unsee things.

[loli phabay]

37. lol cant believe i have not seen that before

[pokerfan]

15. Scrotum self-repair

Saw it for the first time on USENET circa 1992. A true urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/scrotum.asp

[loli phabay]

16. rofl, the internet is really just one big playpen for epic fails, puke inducing stuff and porn

gotta love it,

[pokerfan]

17. "The left testis had been avulsed and was missing."

"I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification."

[loli phabay]

18. rofl, as ive said before its amazing what humans will do to each other or themselves for fun

personally i am open to everything apart from the furries i just dont get that but the furry porn is funny as hell.

[Duer 157099]

19. Mine predated any GUI web browser

it was back when the intertubes were text based, and I noticed someone with the username "Log Lady" and found that really hilarious at the time.

[grasswire]

20. the first time I saw chat appear on my screen......

...I was blown away. I was initiated via AOL's ACLU chat room, called the Free Speech Zone, which was uncensored. I learned an awful lot there.

[HopeHoops]

21. This goes back a bit, but pre-html, I used gopher primarily and was shocked by what's out there.

Frankly, in many ways, gopher was far easier to run searches on than Google currently is. Part of that was because there was only a small fraction of what's currently available and almost all of it was academic, humor, or porn. It takes a lot of creativity to narrow down a search now, especially when what you are looking for is a common term.

Still, I was seriously shocked by the academic material I could access from my computer room. A lot of those sites are still out there. One of my favorite (not sure this particular one was back then, but it's been around a long time) is News and Newspapers Online... http://library.uncg.edu/news/ - best launching point I know of for domestic and world news.

[harmonicon]

22. I guess it takes a fair bit to impress or phase me, but...

whatever you do, don't google "kids in sandbox."

[loli phabay]

39. rofl i see your clever plan now you are free as uou passed it to me

[harmonicon]

42. A friend of mine referred to this sort of thing as "real life Videodrome."

I told you NOT to google it.

[lovemydog]

23. 1992

prodigy

met a super cool woman in nyc with shared interests

slept together on second date

both said 'hey, this internet thing is interesting'

neither of us anticipated the volume of dangerous freaks who'd soon join the net

[zeemike]

26. Well my first discussion board was a place called The Globe.

Where I first encountered the right wing nuts.
But before that it was a thing called ICQ in which I encountered people from all over the world...I talked to people from Russia Australia, Finland and all over the place....that blew me away to think I had that kind of experience....

[hunter]

32. Seeing slash my girlfriend wrote plagiarized... again, and again, and again.

She typed it on a manual typewriter and photocopied it for her friends...

Seeing bad multi-generation photocopies years later was interesting. Seeing multiple people claiming her writing as their own on usenet was

And it's still out there. Now people who weren't even born when it was written claim it.

I've been on the internet since 1979. I've seen a lot.

[IcyPeas]

33. the "cup holder" aka cd drive opening itself up

[TrogL]

34. tudelft.nl had a daily download of porn

One new picture per day.