Mine was on the Yahoo Stocks board a couple of years back. Nothing too exotic. I wanted more info on a high tech company (Novell). It felt a bit weird, though, ‘reading yourself’ after you pressed the SEND button. And realizing that thousands would read what you just wrote, whether it be profound or insignificant.
I don’t remember what it was about, but my first post was probably either to alt.books.james-bond or rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc.
You’re right; it was weird to see myself “in print” that first time. I was so excited. I kept checking back every few minutes to see if anyone had responded to me. I still do that sometimes, to tell the truth.
See? It works!
Don’t remember what, but is was on usenet in '87 or so.
That would have been a list of violent ways to dispatch the Purple One on alt.tv.dinosaur.barney.die.die.die back in 1992.
my first post was on alt.tv.x-files or something like that, damn I was such a loser. Unfortunatly I will probably look back on this sdmb thing and say the same thing
I’ve only been on for two years this Christmas (thanks, mom), and the first thing I did was look for Stephen King stuff.
My first “posting” was to the fan group at http://www.skemers.com – but I didn’t last very long. Those folks were a bit too devoted, and I still had bad memories of Tommyknockers.
But I still remember the feeling that came over me when the MSN Home Page appeared on the screen. A genuine rush. I was in.
My kind of gal!
My first posting onthe internet was here at the Straight Dope. That was a few months ago. I’ve been on the 'net since 1994, so that is kind of pathetic.
I don’t remember my first post, but I do remember the rush I felt when I made the first post that anyone actually responded to, which was on the old SDMB on AOL. I was high for days.
My first posting on a message board was probably on the espnet.sportsone.com BBC message board (baseball challenge, not the big BBC).
It certainly wasn’t here. Heck, I was posting on the TMF site before here.
My first post was in 1982 – on Compuserve, in a forum called Callahan’s saloon. It wasn’t as cool as Spider Robinson’s version, but it was pretty neat for it’s time. Everybody from MPSIMS would feel pretty comfortable there, I’m sure.
I don’t remember what my very first post was, but I do remember continually ‘playing’ George Thoroughgood on the ‘jukebox’. I was a real rowdy…
BTW, I used my brand-new Commodore 64, with it’s 300 bps modem.
Well ok if you count BBS things way back when, I used a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem to log onto a local BBS in Tucson, back in the late 80s, but that wasn’t really the internet.
My first time was on Usenet during the summer of '92. I posted a question on either alt.history or sci.history and inadvertantly started a huge Serb/Croat flame war.
Then I discovered alt.folklore.urban, and the rest is history…
–sublight.
but I guess we can include BBS for discussion’s sake.
BBS: A local poetry/discussion board circa 88.
Internet: Meridian 64(MUD) online newspaper. I wrote an article circa 93.
Mm, bbsing in the late 80s and early- to mid-90s.
That’ll count for me too; I even geeked out and was a sysop from 1991 to 1995, when I left for college and didn’t bother to try to find a bbs scene in Boston.
Nostalgia…
It would have probably been something to do with Fantasy Football, although judging by my lack of success in this year’ SDMB league I don’t think I learned anything.
I was a student in college at the time and our VAX-VMS system was just given access to Usenet News. My first post was to alt.humor and was probably a blonde joke. Many others followed since then.
Late 1995, probably to either alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die or alt.tasteless