I was probably about 6 or 7. A whole Internet open to my disposal and all I did was go on the cbbc website. I was astonished once when some weird pakistani website with pictures of some sort of rodent on the homepage appeared in my address bar history. Now things like that are pretty commonplace in my address bar history.
[QUOTE="GmasterRED"]You must be 50 years old. That's like saying "how did you discover breathing?" It's been around for as long as I can remember.clyde46
You young'ens. I remember a time without the internet, where we played outside! Unless you were one of the cool kids with an NES.
I was 18 I think and a person I had recently made friends with had an Atari 800 and he introduced me to world of online BBS sites. At that time they were pretty much just minimal social boards in which you were actually dialing the owners personal computer. A little while later my father purchased an Atari 1200XL at our house so I could finally game and dial out to sites from my own house.
I believe it wasss innn 2000 or 2001 when I was first introduced to the Internet really. And around 2002 when we got our own internet at home and when I began using it.
I was like 8 and my family bought dial up. It was slow as dirt, and I really just tried to look up games, it wasn't until napster that I really became an avid user.
My buddy was a computer nerd as a kid. I remember the pre-internet. We could go to web-page type things, but each page was a number you called from the modem. Then AOL came out and the gateway to porn was open.
[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="GmasterRED"]You must be 50 years old. That's like saying "how did you discover breathing?" It's been around for as long as I can remember.scorch-62
You young'ens. I remember a time without the internet, where we played outside! Unless you were one of the cool kids with an NES. Eww, nobody I knew had a NES. It was Sege Mega Drives or nothing.
[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="scorch-62"][QUOTE="clyde46"] You young'ens. I remember a time without the internet, where we played outside! Unless you were one of the cool kids with an NES. Eww, nobody I knew had a NES. It was Sege Mega Drives or nothing. We had one before I was even born. We went NES to Internet to PlayStation. =P
A few weeks before I left school the computers in the school library were hooked up. I remember looking at the BBC website, and some guy's personal website who collected coca cola memorabilia. This would have been around april/may 1994. I remember it had Netscape as the browser.
The following year I bought a PC with an internal 28.8 modem and signed up with AOL dial-up. Most of the time it didn't work, and when it did it was frustratingly slow.
I used to screw around with AOL 3.0 back in '95'96 when I was 9-10, but I didn't really do anything with it until around '98 when I used to do chats with my friends.
I don't even remember. I remember when we got internet though. The ISP we got gave us the netscape browser and I'm assuming the speed was either 28K or 56K. This was back around 1997 or 1998 I believe. Possibly 1996.
For the record, if you never got to listen a dial-up modem connecting to the internet or used a Netscape browser then you have never truly experienced the internet.
Uhh...My first conscious memory of using the internet was when I was trying to find a Spice Girls song because all of the girls in my class liked it but I didn't know what it was. I was 5, so the year was 1996.
The year 1985. My college dorm roomate showed me what a BBS was. Then CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along about 1990-1995. I was a very early AOL member. I remember when Steve Case had to apologize to all the original members when the servers couldn't handle the huge influx of new users and AOL kept crashing out. Fun times....
I've been using it since I was three or four. I'd explore the eBays with my mom, and sometimes by myself. Soon after, I'd search things to learn stuff about them, like "Gophers", "Egypt", and "Ghost".
Had used it at family friends houses earlier, but my family didn't get it for a few years after. But I remember trying to get on it when my friend was spending the night when I was maybe 12 or so. Was back in the mid 90s, and we had a free trial AOL cd of course. There was no phone line in my computer room, and we only had a relatively short phone wire. So I set the pc in the hall, and ran the wire to a jack in the living room. We tried to connect but found out you needed a damn credit card, and then my mom woke up and yelled at us lol. So no looking at nudie pics of Pam Anderson that night :(.
I was at a flat in Midtown Manhattan. A group of people who I hadn't met before were sitting on a large red couch in the middle of the flat.There were lithographs everywhere, it was unreal. Anyway, I introduced myself to them and I noticed they were aroundwhat I now know is acomputer. I was hesitant to check it out myself as it was very foreign to me. One girl named Holly was urging me to check it out. I thought she was pretty and was tempted.I noticed she plucked her eyebrows and she told me that she came from Miami and hitchiked her way across the USA. So I decided to check this internet thing out and as I proceeded to grab the mouse a guy they called Little Joe never once gave it away. He told me that everyone has to pay and pay. Words where exchanged and we end up pushing eachother. Hearing the noise a girl named Candy came out from the back room. She told us not to lose our heads. So we calmed down and he let me use the internet. It was incredible.It was like I entered a new world. The overwheling possibilities made me hot and bothered.We all started making out and speeding away. I felt like James Dean for the day. After all the excitement of internet use andpromiscuity we all crashed. Valium would of helped that bash.
That's the day I took a walk on the wild side. And the colored girls say doo do doo do doo...
I discovereing it in an Archeology site, they were busy unearthing the bones of a T-rex when they noticed it had a computer with wireless network connection in it's little hands.
hmm.. i vaguely remember being able to dial into our public library and search their catalog. it wasn't web based i think it was telnet. then i remember we got prodigy which was it's own network and again not the www but did have bulletin board access and ) eventually live chat which were the greatest things ever. so many nights spent just being ---holes ( typical 8th graders ) to people online
I was in my young age of around 11 or 12, I used to watch a program he in the UK that was about video games called Cybernet back in 1996 or 1997. They had a segment about really kool websites. I thought the Internet was awesome and I really wanted to use it and discover what it was all about.
About 10 years now, Dell computer advertisement on the Sunday papers. seen it again and again, drooled, bought the Dell PC, got hooked since.... but I was an adult already.xD
My mother was a magazine editor and I remember her getting an external modem for her Apple Macintosh LC475 back in '94 - '95ish to send and receive articles.
Then in 97 we got a PC with (yep!) a free AOL disc - I think it was probably 4.0 from what I can recall. I remember those call-up noises vividly - Pssschh, prrchhh, verrrrrrrr, neerroing nerroing psssh, pbrrrrrrrrrrrr! It's quite difficult to type though aha.
I was about 10 or 11. I spent my fair amount of time in the AOL chatrooms, and I also spent a lot of time playing on a Discworld MUD game.
I was always afraid to go onto the internet, like my mom would yell at me if I went on when I was younger, so one day when I was about 7 I wanted to play some games on cartoonnetwork.com and my mom showed me the internet, I was shocked.
The first time I ever surfed the internet was the world of BBS's on Prodigy back in 86 on my brother's computer and that was also my first foray into PC gaming, 3d Tetris in vector graphics form.
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