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When was the first time you used the Internet?

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1999 when i was in 6th grade. Didn't know WTF I was doing. First time I used it was to use weather.com for a weather project on Sacramento, CA. Had to ask the librarian to come and show me how to use it, it was an old ass MAC.

Originally posted by: Train
Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
I first used it in late 1994, when I was temping at MCI in Walnut Creek CA. The first thing my boss and I did was look for nudity, and found some nudist website. It didn't look great with the 16-color VGA my shitty old computer could display!
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I think its safe to say EVERY male looked for nudity as the first thing they did online.
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Very first thing I searched for as soon as my cable internet was hooked up in 2001 along with my new PC was "thong pictures" or "thong models" one of those, or along those lines :laugh: :thumbsup:
 
Started w/ BBS probably in the 6th grade then did prodigy etc. I remember a period when my family was using Netzero, I'd have to find a place to dock the stupid thing while I was playing starcraft so that i wouldn't keep clikcing it
 
1995 or 1996. I was 13 or 14 at the time. I tried to get Tandy PC-Link when I was younger, but couldn't talk my dad into it.
 
1999 I was 30 :^D

My stepson got WebTV, and I was thoroughly amazed. I used that for a few years before I got a computer with net access. I got my first computer in 84, then another one around 90, but I got out of computers for awhile.
 
I don't remember the date but I remember just going to AOL chatrooms all day and how huge the phonebill was. Boy my mom was mad.
 
I was on local BBSes in the early 90s, and a few of them got email gateways to the Internet around 1994 or so. I remember thinking "Email? Who needs that when I've got FidoNet!" Didn't get on the Internet proper until my Freshman year in college in 1995. Man, it was fast though... going from 28.8 to a 1.5mbit line blew my mind. 😀
 
1998, I was 41 YO, bought a nearly new Compaq Deskpro, P1, 166 Mhz., 32 MB RAM, 33.6 modem, lived way out in the country, so connection rates were very slow! Finally got DSL about 3 years ago, then moved to town 3 months later.
Never been on dial-up since.
 
Probably about 1989-90. I was in college.

I really got into it in about 1992 when I was in law school.

I have e-mails saved going back to early 1995.

MotionMan
 
I seem to recall Gopher when I was 12 or so.
God that SUCKED!

Actually before that my dad took me to work once and showed me some BBS stuff. He was getting help for a service manual on a tank (FMC).
He tried explaining it to me but I didnt understand how that computer could be talking to another computer in another state. I think I was 7 or 8 then.
 
Originally posted by: Loop2kil
1991 - Pentium 60($3500 machine) and paid for AOL by the hour.
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AOL did not hook up to the internet until September 1993, the start date for the endless September...
Oh, and I was there fighting on the front lines, having had a internet hookup from the VAX/VMS account at the university since 1991.
 
Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
Originally posted by: Loop2kil
1991 - Pentium 60($3500 machine) and paid for AOL by the hour.
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AOL did not hook up to the internet until September 1993, the start date for the endless September...
Oh, and I was there fighting on the front lines, having had a internet hookup from the VAX/VMS account at the university since 1991.
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lol... I used to use the internet on my friend's computer. They were on Compuserve? then AOL. You had to pay by the minute and the phone company charged you per minute if it was long distance to the server #. One month my friend racked up like a $400 bill from AOL.
 
about the same time as olds...1983. We went through a backdoor at a Barnett Bank to connect to a UNIX chat system in both France and Germany (QSD/Lutzifur/Altgiers)
 
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