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

[bondboy]

1994, age 15, BBS

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: 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

I remember those too. On Windows 3.1. Good times. 😀

Edit: The program was Trumpet Winsock

 

[DrPizza]

Age: 19
1985

Someone from RIT started sending messages to my computer connected at Alfred University to a VAX 11/780.

 

[saltedeggman]

1995 age 11

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: 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

I remember those too. On Windows 3.1. Good times. 😀

Edit: The program was Trumpet Winsock

woops.....it's been a while as you can tell 😉

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: 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

I made some nice cash in high school selling floppy disks filled with jpeg porn 😉

it's funny to think that fairly reputable free hosting sites like geocities used to allow posting porn (maybe not "allow," but there was a lot of it out there and I don't remember many attempts to really crack down on it until 1997-ish).

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: 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

I made some nice cash in high school selling floppy disks filled with jpeg porn 😉

it's funny to think that fairly reputable free hosting sites like geocities used to allow posting porn (maybe not "allow," but there was a lot of it out there and I don't remember many attempts to really crack down on it until 1997-ish).

wow! is all i can really say!

 

[monk3y]

I was in 10th grade of high school and it was my first time in the US. I was 16 😀 Mainly just used the internet for porn hehe.

 

[Zolty]

1997 IE 5.0 on an P 166 w/MMX I uhhh yahoo'd

 

[radioouman]

1994. Email through a local freenet

 

[0roo0roo]

bbs.. warcraft multiplayer!! setup/ping nightmare😛

nothing like someone picking up the phone and ruining your match

 

[Zenmervolt]

End of 1993. I was 12. AOL on a 14,400 RPI Modem.

ZV

 

[FeuerFrei]

I think it was 1995 when I first got on the 'net.
Whatever year it was my university computer lab first connected.
I was 19!
Used the laser printer to print black and white pics of models for my wall.

I didn't have home net access until May 1996.

 

[Landroval]

1987

 

[thirdlegstump]

2 weeks ago

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

It was the summer of 1995, and I was 24.

 

[digitalsm]

1994, 12 years old.

 

[jai6638]

1995, 5 years old ... used to browse www.cartoonnetwork.com

 

[Martin]

1997 on a blazing 33.6kbps modem. What did I do...chathouse I think...I remember there was a "hacker's room" and was amazed by those people. Only later did I learn that the site didn't check for html tags lol 😀

 

[blodhi74]

1996
21 years old
Yahoo
IIRC

 

[Caminetto]

About 1995 I dropped the old Compuserve service and signed up with a local ISP (spent too many years at approx. $12 an hour with an old 2400 baud modem downloading my drivers etc.).
Was 50.

 

[clamum]

I first got a computer for Christmas during 5th grade, so that was 1992-1993. I'd say it was within a year until I was on the Internet (AOL first then later a local ISP).

 

Around 1990, using university shells and slip/ppp accounts through a local bbs.
I was about 10.

 

[Evadman]

Dominant Illusions was live sometime in 1990 I think.

 

[Shame]

1989, age 19.