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Old 01-03-2018, 11:28 AM #1
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Probably around 1993 when we got it at work. I had a 9" Apple Mac and dialed up on it at home. At Capital we had one of the early websites and i had to go round Ad Agencies to sell them the idea - naturally half of them told me it would not catch on...
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Yeah I remember going on the Eastenders make over game in Primary school
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Earliest memory was waiting for 6pm and free BT internet to kick in dial-up and every two hours would get kicked off...
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My friends had a sleepover when I was like 11 and they all decided to watch porn and while they were like "yeah look at dem titties" I was like "omg I love how she whipped her hair back so glam x"
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Me and a mate sneaking on early in the mo9rning to look up Megadrive cheat codes, probably around 1995 . We had to sneak on because not only was it dial-up, but it was charged by the minute at local rate . The real internetting didn't start until around '99 / 2000 when we finally got "all you can eat" dial-up so could go on for more than 15 minutes at a time, heh. Though I'm sure it was only free at off peak times, so after 6pm on weekdays and then all weekend. I remember waiting impatiently until 6pm to log in... then my mum complaining all night about me tying up the phone line. We eventually got a second phone line put in...
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*prolinged dial up noise*
WELCOME to AOL

*eight consecutive “YOU HAVE EMAIL”s*

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*prolinged dial up noise*
WELCOME to AOL

*eight consecutive “YOU HAVE EMAIL”s*

And then neopets
oooh yes and the yahoo
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I remember going to my friends house and buying habbo coins through his landline then going to my other friends house the same day and used his landline to vote for Makosi to win about 50 times
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I remember going to my friends house and buying habbo coins through his landline then going to my other friends house the same day and used his landline to vote for Makosi to win about 50 times
Not you raising someone else's phone bill through the roof trying to make Makosi the winner of Big Brother 2005.
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Not you raising someone else's phone bill through the roof trying to make Makosi the winner of Big Brother 2005.
To this day I believe I'm the reason why she finished 3rd instead of 4th
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didn't get a connection at home until 2005, my first experience was using the (one) computer at my primary school in, like, 2000, to look at the CITV website

There was another makeover game that wasn't Eastenders, think it just used random celebrities like Paris Hilton. Can't remember what it was called (and also totally didn't use it since it would've been, like, 2006, when I was sixteen...)
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didn't get a connection at home until 2005, my first experience was using the (one) computer at my primary school in, like, 2000, to look at the CITV website

There was another makeover game that wasn't Eastenders, think it just used random celebrities like Paris Hilton. Can't remember what it was called (and also totally didn't use it since it would've been, like, 2006, when I was sixteen...)
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That's the one. I wonder if it's still going.
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The original one was called paperdoll heaven but they changed the name to stardoll afterwards
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We're less than a year apart hen

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