When did you start using the Internet?

[new devil]

Yonkers/bronx.....you involved in any gaa teams?

[gerry]

1996 or there abouts, its come a long way from then and the super dial up speeds we got.

[Puckoon]

98/99 at queens.

[Shamrock Shore]

There from the beginning in, oh, 1993 or so.

I can still remember the sound of my turf driven modem logging on and the 'hand' from Ireland-on-line appearing on the 256 screen. I have a picture somewhere to prove it (full head of black hair and an 'Austin Currie for President' poster on the wall.

The first GAA board was run by Jim Gallagher and supervised by Lyn Brennan. I could tell you some tales on our dealings with Croke Park on this one. I remember one phone call with Nickey Brennan trying to reel us back in after a snotty email from one 'Prionsais O'Tighernaigh' telling all us country webmasters (an earleir guise) to sling our hooks.

I would say that only three survive from the earliest early days. Myself, Hardyarse the Fiddler and yon Fearon chap. Maybe Bud.

With age, comes wisdom.

(For most of us)

[stephenite]

Around 1995

Edit it was actaully around 1994 in uni in Scotand, can't remember the OS but would imagine it was Win 3.1

[Mayo4Sam]

'96  in UCD with an old netsoc account that around 20 lads were using

[Owenmoresider]

Early 2000, when we got a PC that actually worked on the net, the previous one wasn't set up for it. Didn't use it all that much, more really for CM, but eventually started to find such wonderful sites as this one and took it from there. Broadband made a great difference, have it over two years now, having not been able to access it in deepest rural Sligo before then.

I have a picture somewhere to prove it (full head of black hair and an 'Austin Currie for President' poster on the wall.

Well it least it wasn't a "Robinson for President" poster anyway.

[rosnarun]

There from the beginning in, oh, 1993 or so.

I can still remember the sound of my turf driven modem logging on and the 'hand' from Ireland-on-line appearing on the 256 screen. I have a picture somewhere to prove it (full head of black hair and an 'Austin Currie for President' poster on the wall.

The first GAA board was run by Jim Gallagher and supervised by Lyn Brennan. I could tell you some tales on our dealings with Croke Park on this one. I remember one phone call with Nickey Brennan trying to reel us back in after a snotty email from one 'Prionsais O'Tighernaigh' telling all us country webmasters (an earleir guise) to sling our hooks.

I would say that only three survive from the earliest early days. Myself, Hardyarse the Fiddler and yon Fearon chap. Maybe Bud.

With age, comes wisdom.

(For most of us)

shamrock
were you at the congress when nicky brennan tried to bring all the county web page operators on line and make them legit?
then gave us a list of standards and area we'd have to cover. lynn and Jim were both there  dont remember any of the other names though or th what year it ws 1997? maybe


as for the internet 1995 . I was in seattle for the launch og windows 95 and used AOL there. gon online at home later that XMAS with indigo who  used to host the original GAAboard . and had a mayo webpage in Geocities late '96 . i think its still outhere in cyber space deserted somewhere. so is any one finds an article about a young C macdonald playiing for mayo its probably out of date.

[Shamrock Shore]

Ros

Yes - I was there at that. I remember when Indigo officially launched the new site there was no County Longford in the drop down list of counties. Rather there was a new county called 'Shannon'.

Nickey Brennan was v embarrassed at that one.

1997 sounds about right. The only other name I recall from that era was Eddie O'Reilly who ran the Meath site. A great site and a jewel in the crown but he got the hump when the county board muscled in on him so he pulled the plug.