When was the first time you used the Internet?

[Arcadio]

I first used the Internet back in 1996 when I started college. I knew something about computers, but back in my country we couldn't afford a computer, much less an internet account.

When I started college, I took an "intro to computers" class and our professor taught us the basic concepts of the Internet. It was amazing and incredibly addictive. I remember using Yahoo! to search for answers to all the questions I could think of....

I spent a large percentage of my Internet time searching for lyrics of songs I knew just to see what the singer was saying... I also searched for tons of cheat codes for video games...

I couldn't search for pictures of females since I was using a computer lab in my college and it was always full.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Arcadio
I couldn't search for pictures of females since I was using a computer lab in my college and it was always full.

that rarely stopped people at my schoool

 

[olds]

1983 when it was called ARPANET.

 

[imported_Champ]

1996...we had to beg my mom to get the internet i was only 5

 

[nonameo]

Probably when I was 8

 

[nageov3t]

1994... my parents bought my a computer, phone line, and an AOL account as I was entering freshman year of high school.

 

[DnetMHZ]

1994 - College

 

[ggnl]

1994. Good ol' AOL.

 

[Leros]

I was about 8 or 9. We had prodigy and I didn't know much beyond the walled garden of prodigy at the beginning.

 

[Loop2kil]

1991 - Pentium 60($3500 machine) and paid for AOL by the hour.

 

[acheron]

1992, could dial up a local freenet with email, IRC, Gopher, etc. They added Lynx later.

Had AOL around that time too, and Prodigy and Compuserve earlier than that, but none of those added real Internet access until 1994 or so.

 

[Anubis]

1992-3 somewhere in there i was 11-12

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

about 1992.

 

[FelixDeCat]

This is my first time on the internet.

 

[LilPima]

1993-ish, I was in 5th grade.

 

[BassBomb]

I think 1995 with dialup.. that would make me 8 at the time.

 

[Blayze]

1995 when I was 15

 

[Descartes]

Around 1992 through some local BBS dial-ups and then in 1993-1994 or so from the first ISP in the area that offered dial-up to a System V box. From there, you had access to Lynx, mail, ftp, etc.

 

[TehMac]

Dial up since 1996. Full Broadband came in 2005.

 

[Feldenak]

I don't remember the year but since I graduated HS in 1992, I know it was before then. I first started poking around online with my C=128 w/ 2400 baud modem and was the envy of my friends...we played a game called Modem Wars.

 

[bobdole369]

The very first time I touched the Interwebz I was 12 or 13 I think. It was in 1992 and I connected via a bulletin board to "gopher.emich.edu". Actually I was logged into a VAX system called Grex.cyberspace.org if they are still around. There was another dialup vax called m-net.arbornet.net? I was on a 1200 baud modem and I was using an XT that I cobbled together from various parts at the cpu show. I had used earlier iterations - FIDOnet which is still around - to communicate before this. If I remember right that was the same summer, or maybe one earlier where my friend stole an original Sound Blaster 8-bit from Radio Shack and we hooked it up to play wolfenstein3d on my aunts 286-12.

I'd been using BBS's - and even Quantum-Link (aka q-link - it was AOL's immediate predecessor) via my commodore 64 (and later my c-128d) and whatnot since 1986 (I was 7). Only had 1200 baud on my commies. You lucky dog you with 2400 baud on a commodore!

 

[jemcam]

1995, I was 32. Also paid for AOL by the hour. I remember one month my AOL bill was about $75 or so.

 

[rh71]

Prodigy, early 90s. 2400baud modem included in box!

 

[finite automaton]

I am taking a wild guess.... '95

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: bobdole369
You lucky dog you with 2400 baud on a commodore!

2400 baud modem and a 1571 floppy drive....I was the shiznit.