When did you start using the internet?

[Kyle B]

I found this website called waybackmachine, which allows you to look at old websites as far back as the mid- 1990s.

It jogged my memory of when I started to use the internet back in 2000 or so. I mainly used it to go on Nick.com and play games . My parents first got the internet back in '95 and mainly used it to check email and shop online.

So how about you?

 

[Dana]

1996 I believe. I was 16.

 

[Springsteen]

Late 90's I think. Used to look at porn with my mates when my Mum was out. Discovered forums in about 2001.

 

[HottyToddyChick]

Earliest I remember was right around 2000, I was 12/13.

 

[StripedCat]

I started using the internet exactly in August 1998. That was, when I started my apprenticeship where, for the first time of my life, I had permanent access to the internet.
(I've also been one of the first users of Napster. :ninja)

 

[jassilem]

September 1996, It was part of our research material look ups at the time.

I then found a place called bolt....

 

[Kyle B]

I remember I didn't use it that much because the dial up was nice and slow and I'd have to constantly re-connect because it would kick me off too much.

 

[retro]

Well, I originally connected to BBS systems at my friend's house... and then later on the internet. That was back in 1994 I believe, and then my family got dial-up in 1995. We were also one of the few people that didn't end up using AOL when we first got online as well. I also used to play Command & Conquer, and later on, C&C: Red Alert over direct dial-up connections with my friends around that same time-frame.

 

[ganny]

I guess around 97ish. I did a virtual investing game online for my financial investments class in college.

 

[dkwrtw]

In the 90s on my grandma's dial-up connection, was just a little kid, all I used it for back then was

hamsterdance.com
farts.com
and cheat codes LOL

 

[Mystic]

88 or 89 i think it was... when it looked like dos and you had to wait an hour for a reply....lmao!!! was a novelty then. It was in a highschool computer class i was taking. is was 15 or 16 at the time.

 

[FreightTrain]

I first got my own internet in '99 and have been on AOL ever since. I've messed around on the internet since mid-90s in college.

 

[Zatanna]

I don't really remember, but I know I was young when I started. I think I was about 15 or 16.

 

[Tim]

I first got my own internet in '99 and have been on AOL ever since. I've messed around on the internet since mid-90s in college.

So you're the one that's still using AOL? :24:

Why would anyone use AOL today???


Anyway, I have been connected since around '83, long before the world wide web

 

[dkwrtw]

I didn't even know AOL was still around LOL

 

[StripedCat]

OmG, AOL was one of the first bigger internet providers here in Germany. My husband used them and got banned from their services because he denied to pay an invoice which stated that he had been surfing on the Internet for (heads up!) 48 HOURS during ONE DAY. Great, isn't it? *tilt*

 

[Azazel]

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[TGLucario475]

Sometime in 1998, oh boy those where the days of Cartoon Network games....

 

[freakofnature]

:humm: I think it was around 1999/2000 when I started using the internet at the library, mostly for a Calgary Flames forum and eBay. It wasn't until 2004 that I had it at home.

 

[Natasha]

1995, I think. Yeah, that's right...it was my sophomore year of college. I'm still in contact w/ the first EVER online friend I met...even drove up to Tennessee to go to his wedding a few years ago.