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When was the first time you used the Internet?

Arcadio

Arcadio

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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.
 
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.
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that rarely stopped people at my schoool
 
1994... my parents bought my a computer, phone line, and an AOL account as I was entering freshman year of high school.
 
I was about 8 or 9. We had prodigy and I didn't know much beyond the walled garden of prodigy at the beginning.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!



 
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