When did you start using the internet?

[AUFred]

mid-90's. added computer at home about 96.

 

[Abcinthia]

1999. I was 9 and it was during an ICT lesson.

We went on the school website :24:

 

[Xeno]

I was sixteen when I first started.​

 

[aja675]

2002. I was 6 then.

 

[itsmeJonB]

Earliest I remember was seventh grade, so 1997? 98? I dunno

It wasn't until I was in high school when I used it properly though, you know, for pr0n

 

[darkcgi]

1994/95
got my first REAL computer AST 75MHZ win 3.1
free upgrade to win95 that was fun
liked hated it liked hated it
forever I couldnt figure out why my phone software didint work
no one could here me when i called them from my computer
they got pissed before finally my friend came over and we looked at the connections together
the mic had to be pluged into the modem mic out not the sound card mike out
thats when I started becoming the computer freak we figured out how to dial out and connect two player on doom II
it was awesome
Got my AOL online account
and thought Im going to be charged monthly for my time on it
nope it was per usage
600 dollars later I learned my lesson and that is when I began to join the I hat AOL club... justkidding
I would play doom all night long
looking at it now I think WTF how could I have spent that much time with it
anyway I became obsessed with computers and 3d and it was on
had a 8 mb diamond video card upgrade too lol

 

[porterjack]

Today it was early @ 0530

 

[Darrell]

The week that AOL launched. It was on a Packard Bell 386 my folks bought it at Costco. It cost $2200. :wtf:

 

[Johnfromokc]

The week that AOL launched. It was on a Packard Bell 386 my folks bought it at Costco. It cost $2200. :wtf:

My first was a Packard Bell 486DX in the early 90's as a business expense. Used it for a fax, answering service and to put in the "Call before you dig" permits with Utilities Protection Center, contract bids, invoices etc. UPC sent this lady out to our house to install the software. I thought that was pretty cool, lol. The internet sucked back then but it was great for business tasks.

I think I paid $1,400 with a ink jet printer and 179'ed it on taxes.

 

[Dana]

1996.

 

[Peter Parka]

Used to surf the net round a mate's house sometimes from about 1997. Started using the library for an hour at a time to e-mail the missus before we got married and she was in Australia in about 2001. Got into forums using the computer round my mums house in about 2004, finally got a computer and online at home in 2005.

 

[alice in chains]

i started using it back in 1996 when i was 12...i still remember AOL and that stupid dial up wondering if you were going to get connected becuz of all the traffic

 

[Joe the meek]

Around 2000 when I moved down South. Was in my early 30's back then.

Do they still use libraries at the college/university level now?:24: God, I actually have to think to what the Dewey (sp?) decimal system is.

 

[Kyle B]

Around 2000 when I moved down South. Was in my early 30's back then.

Do they still use libraries at the college/university level now?:24: God, I actually have to think to what the Dewey (sp?) decimal system is.

My college's library is basically just one big computer lab.

On the other hand though, I still use books in the library if I'm looking for something specific for a research paper.

 

[Abcinthia]

I love libraries. Used the college library from time to time when I was doing research for my Psychology A Level. But it was mainly just full of computers and the books it had were old. They didn't always have the information I needed because it didn't have any studies/theories from the last 20+ years.

 

[Zorak]

Do they still use libraries at the college/university level now?:24: God, I actually have to think to what the Dewey (sp?) decimal system is.

In this country, journals and periodicals are computerised by and large now. But generally, books are still the primary reference material for all major uni's. That might change in the future, but not for a while. I think the library at my uni has a collection of about a million books altogether, including loans from other libraries. Such a collection is costly and inefficient though, so I know there are plans to downsize and electronise what they can.

 

[Tuffdisc]

Early nineties, I remember rushing off to internet cafes, trying and miserably failing at understanding html....things have progressed since

 

[MsPoppy]

In 2001

 

[Tuffdisc]

Tbh, this thread's title should be more like "When did you start abusing the internet" :24:

 

[teh_fuzz]

The week that AOL launched. It was on a Packard Bell 386 my folks bought it at Costco. It cost $2200. :wtf:

My brother bought me a Packard Bell PC for good grades in school i think... i must have been 12, 13, 14... First place i ever went to was some chat site: talkcity i think it was called.

I remember when Hotmail was not owned my Microsoft
Netscape was the most awesome browser back then

Napster - oooh the days of Napster! First song I ever d'd in Napster was Tai Mai Shu (google it LOL)
Leaving music to download for hours at a time and finally coming back to it having stopped because my mom used our phone :|