rad Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I set up my first email account... which I still have!
unixman_again Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 You beat me by a year on email - I still have an email account from 2000 and I use it daily.
Jamman960 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I was in year 9 in 99, the school had just finished moving over from suites of Acorns to PC's running NT4 if I remember correctly. Started my first IT job in 2004 doing installs and support in schools all over the place 1
mrbios Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I'd have been in year 8, at the very school i now work at....in year 7 we had a classroom of acorns and that was it, but i think by year 8 or 9 we had 2 IT rooms full of RM desktops with 15" crts sat on top and windows 98. By the time the school started using XP i was in year 10 or 11 and me and one friend knew the netop password, were sending netsend messages over the network and generally causing quite a big of havoc. Not to mention the old shoddy Dell PCs we had in one IT room towards year 10 or 11 that had padlocks on the back that did nothing....you just had to push a little harder and the side would pop off the case giving everyone a free ram upgrade to take home...
difinity Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I had been shown the internet in '98 so in March '99 i bought my first PC.
SpuffMonkey Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 I was 40 - had a cracking party - last wild party we had at our house. Managing an IT team and data collation team running mixed network of Novell (with Groupwise etc), Lotus Smartsuite (remember that anyone??) and Ingres running on Unix. I think the cabling was still the old coax with BNC connectors...
tmcd35 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I think the cabling was still the old coax with BNC connectors... They had those when I was at college. They had some RM win 3.11 machines. "Someone" (I name no names) would "accidentally" disconnect the BNC from the back of their machine - bang, the whole network goes down, computers stop working, whoops
unixman_again Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Ah coax cabling, when you could diagnose a network problem with a multimeter.
gmonks Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I was 40 - had a cracking party - last wild party we had at our house. Managing an IT team and data collation team running mixed network of Novell (with Groupwise etc), Lotus Smartsuite (remember that anyone??) and Ingres running on Unix. I think the cabling was still the old coax with BNC connectors... Had Lotus Smartsuite at home.
BKGarry Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Yes for Lotus Smartsuite we got it with an IBM Aptiva at home (got that in 1997 and can still remember the key specs) oh the lovely launcher program with those drawers :-)
Davit2005 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Was a toolmaker, Hadn't even thought about a job in IT
E_G_R2 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Remember moving from a private school to a state school in 2002 to find them using Lotus Smartsuite because they got it for free off the front of a PC magazine
abillybob Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 @davyboi Crystal Rainforest was the best thing since sliced bread when I was in primary school, I remember us getting our first suite of PCs in the library and I think that was pretty much all IT consisted of In primary school![ATTACH]29362[/ATTACH] Errrr no. This was all the rave back then
Quackers Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Remember moving from a private school to a state school in 2002 to find them using Lotus Smartsuite because they got it for free off the front of a PC magazine Our Bursar was still using that until 2 years ago when he retired. Only machine in the whole school that had it on and he got it from a magazine in the late 90s.
SteveBentley Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 They had those when I was at college. They had some RM win 3.11 machines. "Someone" (I name no names) would "accidentally" disconnect the BNC from the back of their machine - bang, the whole network goes down, computers stop working, whoops Ahh I miss those days, when you could add extra network connections to a room with just a bit of coax and a T piece.
witch Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Both my schools still use Crystal Rain Forest and they love it!
Bezwick Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Urgh worst year of my life, in the spring of that year I got made redundant from a small IT company, my wife left me and my home go repossessed a couple of months later. I tried to move to London and my mate emptied my bank account and disappeared, by September I was asking for spare change in the street. Took me nearly 3 years to get back on my feet. Still, I learnt a lot from the experience and made me really appreciate family, friends and the welfare state, would probably not have survived it, if it happened today.
haldarulon Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 I was not in education I had my own computer games shop in 99 "blinking heck that was 15 years ago!" Those were the days! I was the don at counter strike! I played it non stop for about two years nearly 8 hours a day...only stopping to serve customers and order the staff about.
Foresthippy Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 February 1999, I was just about to start as a field engineer for RM.
SpuffMonkey Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Our Bursar was still using that until 2 years ago when he retired. Only machine in the whole school that had it on and he got it from a magazine in the late 90s. Hah! I think I've got the disk somewhere - still got Approach installed for some old databases I can't be bothered to redo
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