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In fact I don't recall when it was. Something around 2000-2002 I guess.

It was slow dial-up and I was very confused and amazed by internet.

Each time I was allowed to stay there only for short time as my parents were quite strict about time and money spent there. I rememebr when I spent more than hour there in one go. It was first time in week I was there and I still felt like I spent so much time there.
I used to save pages or whole sites to read them later.
I found some program to download sites as whole and I was thrilled about it.
I managed to even carry over some pages about Planescape Torment and about ice hockey. One of ice hockey articles is i.e. about 16 years old canadian wonderkid Sidney Crosby who was just playing here on Junior World Championship. :-)
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StingingVelvet: I think I was 16, so 1996. My mom got dial-up and I remember waiting forever just to see naked girl pictures. She probably should have been policing the computer.

I don't think I used it much until 2005 or so though. I never used forums, never chat, none of that stuff. Around 2005 I got broadband and my social life calmed down and I started putting a lot of time into being online. I kind of hate it, honestly, but it's so addictive. I have made great strides in toning down my online time lately though.
Shit they had that on the internet back than? It would probably suck since (A certain notorious website) was not around and call me a freak but I mostly see cartoon/anime pics and I don't like the ones that are too nasty.
Post edited September 08, 2013 by Elmofongo
Since the 14.4k modem was in existence. Online Duke Nukem, RotT, Blood, Doom of course. Good times.

Oh, and when I upgraded to a 28.8k modem, whoa nelly! All bets were off :).
Post edited September 08, 2013 by teshra
1986, maybe as late as '88, using ftp and usenet. My buddy's dad was a college math prof and his house was my first taste of hardware sprawl - computers and pieces of computers everywhere in the house, some working, some not, many cannabalized to fix or enhance others.

At home I used it for school research. Those were the days when if you could figure out an internet address for a college prof, you could just ask him anything, and chances were they would respond, if nothing else, just for the novelty. In '91 my roommate at college nearly failed his freshman year because of his "internet addiction" to a MUD. It was pretty funny, though, since he had to use the dorm computer lab. Nobody had a pc as a student.

And yet my own knowledge of the tech side of things is pretty rudimentary. I got A+ certified, and maybe I could pass the networking cert with a little cramming, but I can't code my way out of a paper bag. On the upside, I'm bright, a good learner, and I'm not afraid of computers or software or the internet. So, maybe I'll move further in the tech direction. After all, I practically invented the internet...
I was sending email in 1992.

I had my own webpage up before Netscape existed, I think. It was devoid of useful content. A friend of mine had to build a fire safety homepage for doing something stupid in his dorm. We were both using NCSA Mosaic.

Soon, some genius invented the blink tag, and the internet was suddenly awesome.
I also started using the internet in '96. I was demo'ing a free trial for AOL that came with my 28k modem when they just so happened to introduce a gateway to the world wide web as a new feature. You can guess where I ended up spending all of my time. ;) Even back then, AOL's walled garden seemed limited and pointless so at the end of the month I signed up with an ISP instead.
I don't remember. Early to mid 90's. Had a second-hand 9.600 modem. CompuServe. Was a moderator / host on two of their forums [one of them the London Forum .... sitting in Germany with loads of tourist guides answering other people's questions about London despite never having been there at that point .... :D].

None of us were paid, other than getting some software for free.
Post edited September 08, 2013 by Mnemon
I started in the late mid to late 80s on a 1200baud modem connected to my TI-99a and friends (the expansion parts). It was mostly just checking out BBS and what have you but I remember being so excited at the possibilities. My prior to that my father had started me using a computer at age 2 and very basic coding in TI-BASIC at age 3 prior to discovering what a modem was, so it had me just awestruck at being able to connect my computer to others. It wasn't till the early to mid 90s when Bell released their first ISP service (Sympatico) that I was able to connect to the "modern internet".
Early 90's. I remember being on Sierra On Line. Anyone else here on that? It was my first experience with multiplayer, playing Red Baron.
My first internet experience was 1998 in school during computer class at the age of 16. It was forbidden to go online but naturally nobody gave a fuck about that rule. The first site I ever visited was rotten.com because everybody was talking about it. A perfect initiation to the second life, isn't it?
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grimwerk: Soon, some genius invented the blink tag, and the internet was suddenly awesome.
Ah, those were the days, how to forget those websites overflowing animated gifs, scrolling titles, flashing banners, multiple frames nested inside one other... and all at once! I especially liked the blindness-inducing color schemes used back then, there wasn't anything weird in choosing a red font color on a dark green background decorated with little pink spots.
Late 1999, early 2000 on my grandparent's new computer at the time which I now have to convert to a DOS machine.
For me it was in the mid 90's, I was around 12'ish or so.

Back when you'd get those AOL discs in the mail about every other day.

I got a computer and for a while had no internet, then finally convinced my dad and mom to let me try the internet.

I had it off/on for a while, especially when we first got it and didn't realize that if you were not dialing into a local number that the internet would rack up a HUGE phone bill....so I didn't have it too long when I first tried it once my parents saw the huge bill lol!

Then finally I was able to get it a year or so after that and kept it.

I was stuck on a crappy 28.8k connection for a long time, wasn't able to get broadband til like 2002 or so, which was sooooooo bloody fast at the time it wa slike night and day, no more lagging in online games, faster downloads, no more waiting days and days to download things.
1995. Starting playing with HTML in 1996 in my school's computer extracurricular class. Back when Yahoo!, Amazon and Geocities ruled the web.
I believe it was 1997.