Talk about making her for the first time on the Internet using "Windows 95"

ByKamal Zharif Kamaludin

The driving force behind the current Internet society was the release of Microsoft's "Windows 95"is. Twenty years have passed since the launch in 2015, but it was a teenager of teenagers at the time of releaseArs TechnicaThe writer Sam Machkovech reveals how he himself / herself interacted with "Windows 95" and made her the first time.

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Machkovech seems to have repeatedly moved three times by the age of six due to the work of his father and eventually will go to elementary school in the outskirts of Texas. In this town called Texas, there are no cowboys or horses reminiscent of their name, but instead they are places where wealthy families such as doctors, lawyers, dentists live. Machkovech lived in the outskirts of Texas the fourth best place to spend five years here. This area dominated by wealth and conservative ideas, "It did not suit my personality," Machkovech said.

Machkovech who went to senior high school while feeling "a feeling of mistakes" in this area, because he was just escaping to the world of cartoons and games without making friends, when I was a high school student, "I am hungry for friendship very much That's right. At the time Machkovech's house had typewriters, so I started to use computers at school from there, and the time I had to be lunchy, such as lunch, began to kill time in the computer room , Furthermore it was isolated. In the computer room at that time, studying BASICBoloIt seems he was playing.

In 1996, Machkovech's father purchased a new custom built "Windows 95" computer for home use. Mr. Machkovech who silently scolded this, succeeded in attaching US robotics made modem to the computer without problems by attaching knowledge of computers such as BIOS setting, etc. with trial and error while trial and error. However, in order to connect to the Internet credit card is necessary, and Machkovech who was a student at the time can not desire to hope. Machkovech taught the existence of "Internet service provider (ISP) conducted beta test" from the computer shop in the neighborhood, and with the help of shop clerks, I got acquainted with the Internet environment by dial-up connection brilliantly That's right.

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Then, Machkovech, which made it possible to connect to the Internet using a home computer, jumped into the world of the Internet using Internet Explorer 3.0 (IE 3.0) and used chat software "Comic Chat" bundled in IE 3.0 It will look like. This software is an interface that closely resembles manga, and the user was able to chat in the chat room as a predetermined character. Characters appearing in this software are said to have changed facial expressions each time a user uses a question mark or the like.


In addition, chat provided by AOL which was the main ISP at that time, BBS etc also existed. However, services provided by ISPs can only be used by users using the same ISP,Parental controlIn the end, the Internet Explorer built-in chat function "Comic Chat" which was installed in Windows 95 will become explosive popularity because it was subject to functional limitation by the like. Machkovech said that "Comic Chat" was using the handle name "Sammy".


Through such "Comic Chat", the acquaintance who got to date for the first time was a girl named "Vivian". They met in the Internet world at that time, but there seems to be an exchange also now. However, in the past few years I talked about using Skype in August 2015 when I telephoned a video call for the first time in five years, Vivian said "Skype is around when we were 15 years old I wonder what happened? The current teenagers use video chat to do terrible things, but if these things happened twenty years ago, we are doing exactly the same thing I heard that he may have said.

There seemed to be really various people in the chat room of "Comic Chat" and I was able to meet boys and girls from all over the world such as antisocial metal freaks from Mr. cheerleaders, Mormons, SF women like Canadian women That's right. In the chat room used by Machkovech there are no particularly strict rules and it seems that sometimes users of elders sometimes get angry because they are too free. While talking about in such a chat room, the two people found a plurality of common points, and they exchange pictures of each other and make a phone call using the "whisper" function etc. which exchanges messages individually I will. Machkovech lived in Texas and Vivian in Arkansas and in the southern part of the United States respectively, but the two of those days had a common sense of "they are different from other southern people" It deepened, Machkovech.

And soon they will be deeply friends, but according to Machkovech this kind of relationship was not unusual even in the Internet at the time. However, he said that he might have been sending Skype's chat to Machkovech as "It was a pioneer, Sam," Vivian said, "It may have been considerably faster than the national average." Also, Vivian looked back then and remembered that many curious looks were aimed at by friends who know she is making boyfriends online, and Machkovech himself is a similar experience We have revealed that we did.

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They seemed to have hidden something from their mothers due to telephone charges because they were talking over long distance calls. After that, they met for the first time on the parking of the hotel called "La Quinta" in Oklahoma City on a morning of February, and they seemed to have kissed intensely. At that time, as they lived in remote places, they seemed to have taken their mother to Oklahoma City by car, saying, "We only kiss a strange kiss that is unusual to us in the past In order to do that, we are going to make each other's mother go for long distance travel, "Machkovech said. Also, while looking back at the time, Machkovech said, "Just that, being able to see kisses was not a problem at all, we were blind to love."


However, after about two months have passed since the two people met their faces in the real world, the situation would be dark. Vivian tried to commit suicide without telling Machkovech anything. Besides, Vivian is fortunate not to get cherished, he said that he was hospitalized for one month. However, at this time Machkovech's mother is suffering from depression and alcoholism, Machkovech himself betrayed Vivian to have relationship with other girls. In the end, the relationship between Machkovech and Vivian came to an end, as if that was the trigger, Machkovech's parents divorced and the family environment also seems to have fallen apart.

Machkovech who talked to Vivian with Vivian in August 2015 using Skype for the first time in five years talked about his own adventure happening on the Internet was a bad thing for himself It seems he thought that. However, when I talked directly to Vivian and looking back on the past, I can think that I have experienced a very precious moment. Vivian also seems to believe that his own experience will come in handy for raising children.