When did you start using the internet?

[PadawanBrittany]

I think we first got the internet in late 2000, and we had dial-up. The computer was an old Macintosh PowerPC from the mid-90s, and could only handle dial-up internet. Because the computer itself was also old, we couldn't do much on it at once without it freezing up, so if we wanted to use the internet, the browser (Netscape Navigator) was the only thing we could have open at the time. It was in December 2004 that we got a Dell PC, and finally got high speed internet - after that I transitioned to a Dell laptop on Christmas 2007 (a gift from my mother), and a Macbook in March 2010 (which I saved up for myself) after the Dell had crashed for the seventh and final time two months earlier.

 

[36gamer]

Around 2005 when I was nine. I only used it then for kiddy games on nickelodeon, Disney, and other children's sites of the type. I didn't really understand the internet at the time, and only used it with the help of my parents in order for my entertainment. Around the age of 12-13 I started understanding it a lot more fully, and using it avidly for other reasons.

 

[EthanJoushu]

In 2000 when I was 13.

 

[Catavenger]

1998 I think. I know I had a brand new Toshiba laptop running windows 98. It survived my truck wreck in better shape than I did.

 

[Jackass master]

Way back in 91 on company computers. Had an old pc at home that booted in DOS and you had to know DOS to get anywhere.

 

[Catavenger]

Wow I was using company computers in the late 80s early 90s running that green screen DOS. But that was on the company's network not the internet as such.

 

[Dana]

The 90s.. Before Yahoo Chat was Bot central and Hotmasil hadn't been takenover by Microsoft. Anyone remember Altavista? Tripod? Angelfire?

 

[robdawg1]

whats the internet?

 

[Natasha]

The 90s.. Before Yahoo Chat was Bot central and Hotmasil hadn't been takenover by Microsoft. Anyone remember Altavista? Tripod? Angelfire?

I had an Angelfire page, LOL

 

[pjbleek]

me and Fred Flinstone shared a Facebook account in the late 80s......

 

[Jackass master]

I remember the internet before they had porn everywhere. Mostly it was used in our company for file sharing with defense contractors. There was not a lot of sites for much else at first. We were still using magnetic tape for backups. Then they went to CD's. Heck, a lot of our machine tools ran from the big old floppy discs.

 

[pjbleek]

I remember the internet before they had porn everywhere. Mostly it was used in our company for file sharing with defense contractors. There was not a lot of sites for much else at first. We were still using magnetic tape for backups. Then they went to CD's. Heck, a lot of our machine tools ran from the big old floppy discs.

5 1/4 ones were our friends.....oh how times have changed....my first PC was the Commodore Vic 20

 

[Catavenger]

Anyone remember Altavista? Tripod? Angelfire

Sure I remember all of them guess they are still around. I just looked it up Alta Vista was down but is now up in Aug. owned by Yahoo. Tripod is still around. So is Anglefire.

 

[Francis]

I started using the internet the day Al Gore invented it..

 

[Francis]

Wow I was using company computers in the late 80s early 90s running that green screen DOS. But that was on the company's network not the internet as such.

You were probably doing what I was doing and hooking up to BBS boards at 2400 baud modem.. On my IBM 286 Clone I moved up to 9600 baud and finally I had a 14.4 baud.. That was lighting fast.. :24: I remember downloading Netscape and it being a full 11 MB file and it taking all night.. I still have the T-Shirt for giving them money..

 

[Minderella]

You were probably doing what I was doing and hooking up to BBS boards at 2400 baud modem.. On my IBM 286 Clone I moved up to 9600 baud and finally I had a 14.4 baud.. That was lighting fast.. :24: I remember downloading Netscape and it being a full 11 MB file and it taking all night.. I still have the T-Shirt for giving them money..

I love it when you talk all nerdy. :giggle

 

[Catavenger]

Francis - Remember Microfiche? That's how we kept records. Dos computers were a step up. Gosh I date myself.

 

[Jackass master]

OMG! I had forgotten those damn cards and readers. Trying to keep them updated for revision levels was a PITA.

 

[Francis]

Francis - Remember Microfiche? That's how we kept records. Dos computers were a step up. Gosh I date myself.

Oh yah.. In the Government everything went on Microfiche.. It was the way of the future and nothing would replace it.. :mwaha

I still remember Twx and Telex machines.. Was so high tech until the Fax machine came out with thermal paper.. :24:

 

[Dana]

Anyone remember the intranet email client FirstClass?