At what age/year were you introduced to the Internet?

[Hyperblaze]

and what do you remember was the first things you you remember doing?

year: 1994
age: 18

irc chat lines

 

[Nohr]

1994, 15y/o. Remember using Gopher to look up some NASA stuff at school for a project.

 

[Kalvin00]

It was probably 1995-1996..I would've been 6 or so years old..can't remember what we did online then..

 

[meltdown75]

BBSs. 14

circa 1989ish

 

[AreaCode707]

year: 1994
age: 11

CompuServe chat.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
BBSs. 14

circa 1989ish

technically speaking.....BBSs don't count

BBSs aren't quite the same thing. They aren't really interconnected although they sure were fun to connect to

 

[StageLeft]

Internet 1995 at 17. BBSs two years earlier, but they don't count.

 

[eelw]

Since 1990

 

[nycxandy]

1995 @ 12 years old.

 

[ts3433]

1996
Age 5
28.8k external modem on the $4k PowerMac my dad decided to buy for us
I probably did a bit of whatever kid stuff there was on there at the time.

Didn't start using the net extensively till I got a Dreamcast in 2001 (age 10). When I got it, it was the fastest modem in the house.

 

[Colt45]

probably '96 or so?

 

[SynthDude2001]

1994, age 9 or 10

Edit: Loading up the Altavista search page on a 2400 baud modem took forever :laugh:

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Year: ~1991
age: 7
(was connecting to library network)

Year: 1996
Age: 12
(AOL)

 

[xcript]

I was about 15 so probably 1998.

I used to chat on IRC and in local chats on free shell boxes, IM (ICQ), play Subspace/Starcraft, etc.

 

[NewSc2]

1994, age 10 probably? Dialing in with my IBM PS/2 25mhz(?) Intel 386, on Windows 3.0 (upgraded to 3.1 sometime later). I loved that Prodigy maze game, but it never fkkin ended

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
1994, age 9 or 10

Edit: Loading up the Altavista search page on a 2400 baud modem took forever :laugh:

sorry to hear

i remember using a program called winsock trumpet and using netscape 1.0

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: meltdown75
BBSs. 14

circa 1989ish

technically speaking.....BBSs don't count

BBSs aren't quite the same thing. They aren't really interconnected although they sure were fun to connect to

this is true. ok - ~1995.

 

[mugs]

1993, 12? AOL for a few months, switched to a real ISP because AOL was long distance.

BBSes way before that.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Well I was familiar with online/dialup BBSs.. the internet just looked very disorganized, that was my first impression.

 

[So]

Internet 1996 at 12.

 

[DumbGuy]

mid-1996, when I used to live in Colombia. I remember those 14.4 Kbps days, lol. Using lots of ICQ and MS Comic Chat and Internet Explorer 3.0

 

[xSkyDrAx]

1998?

age: 10ish

(some free service)

games and misc. stuff

 

[BullyCanadian]

August 1998, first site I went to was www.wwf.com (wrestling back then) and it was awesome. BUT i was sooo scared of hackers and stuff. I was 12

 

[nageov3t]

1994: age 12-13. first thing I did was surf chatrooms in AOL.

5 minutes later, I found geocities porn

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: loki8481
1994: age 12-13. first thing I did was surf chatrooms in AOL.

5 minutes later, I found geocities porn

weird part is....i first found porn on BBSes....

I remember a 1 meg file I copied to a floppy to show a friend.

it was amazing back then