When did you start using the internet?

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Jackass master said:
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.
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5 1/4 ones were our friends.....oh how times have changed....my first PC was the Commodore Vic 20
 
Catavenger said:
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.
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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..
 
Francis said:
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..
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I love it when you talk all nerdy. :giggle
 
Catavenger said:
Francis - Remember Microfiche? That's how we kept records. Dos computers were a step up. Gosh I date myself.
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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:
 
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