The internet and YOU

So when did you first learn about the internet?

When did you first get the internet at home?

What prompted you to get internet at home?

Was it a bulletin board internet or was it after the start of graphical user interfacing?

When I first got online it was early nineties. There was no such thing as Netscape, IE etc. You dialed in much like a telnet connection and everything was text based.

1. News
2. Games
3. Etc
4. Etc

I think I was 11 or 12 the first time I saw anything graphical on the internet. It was a game where you were a cat roaming the city late at night. You could go into houses etc and in one of the houses you could try to grow sea-monkeys. I never got them to fully develop. I remember downloading all kinds of free ware games like the original Duke Nukem which was a 3rd person side scroller and some other really fun games.

 

bulletin board when i was in high school
internet when i was in college, i used it for research at the library and at my boyfriend's house.
i didn't have internet in my home until i moved to durango with my bff. she showed me how to email. that was in '97.
didn't get it for myself until i moved in with dave.

 

i don't remember exactly...

i'm sure i learned that the internet existed not long after it came out. i started using it in high school my junior year when i was took a typing class in the computer lab.

a year later when i was a senior, my parents decided it was time to upgrade from the old floppy-disk taking, DOS only piece of shit we had been using for the previous ten years. the new computer came internet-ready, so we got signed up then just because we could.

i don't know anything about this bulletin board thing. by the time i ever used the internet, it was the same basic interface that is still used today.

 

i worked nights and was raising younguns so was extremely bored in the wee hours before they woke up for the day. I guess it was late 94 or very early 95 when i went online as it is today..

Used the old apple IIE's in school then worked my way through all the different ones through the years, (DOS, floppy, forum based garbage ).

 

First of all I have no idea what bulletin board internet means..

My parents first got the internet at home in 2001, and it was a modem connection.. horribly slow.. I remember it took like half and hour to load a picture!!

My sis and I each had 1 hour of internet per day.

 

bulletin board is kinda like this, but way more boring. i remember my ex being PSYCHED that he just received a comment from someone in england. haha.

 

I remember the BBSes, they really died when the internet got popular. It was a bit of underground scene with lots of creative people. I used to be part of a group of people who made electronic music and we uploaded our stuff to some BBSes and there they got spreaded all over the world. Pretty fun times and we (our music) were pretty well-known in the underground scene at that time.

 

yeah, my ex used to do stuff like that.

 

1. i was maybe 5 or 6. my dad would put the phone on the modem and tell us all not to pick up the other line or it would mess up what he was doing. he 'downloaded' games for us.. like wheel of fortune and 3-D pacman.. very crappy graphics.

2. does my dad using it when i was 5 or 6 count? if not i was 19.

3. huh?

 

I didn't really bother with the internet until I was 18. My teachers would encourage us to use the internet for research papers and stuff, but I always preferred books. In fact I found this site when I first started goofing off on the internet. Sadly I've been hooked to this crap ever since. Oh and any games that I have played are word games. Go nerdy me. haha

 

actually, the first time i ever really startes looking into fun little boards like this was when dave became hooked on this hunting site he found. then they complained about peta2. so we trolled TERRIBLY met some funny people, and i ended up over here. haven't left since.

 

haha I remember when we started we had like a 4kbps modem. Haha when my dad upgraded to a 7.7kbps we were in awe. When we got a 14.4 modem you would've swore we'd hit the lottery with how excited we were. That, to us, was the most amazing thing in the world. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fast. hahahahahaha

God the internet has come a long way.

 

i miss using the microfiche.

 

i was little little. we had it, but i never got to use it. it was on one of the old green screen computers.

the first time i can remember using the internet myself, was when we had aol 2.0 in school. i was prolly 7 or 8. it's been a series of internet addictions ever since.

 

When I was 8 years old my brother moved back in, and he got it

I used to go on and go into Yahoo chat

..I met a pedo on there once..

And seriously, ten years later thanks to the fucking internet I've seen things no man should ever see

 

I first got on the internet during the Summer of 1998...Someone who worked at the public library has a little introduction class on their computers and I have been logging onto a computer ever since.
But didn't have a computer to use at home until a friend lend me one a few years later.

 

I remember using the internet in grade 7 at school to visit websites, use email, play games on yahoo and such.

But I remember watching Beavis and Butthead stuff at least a year or so before that as my neighbours had a connection. Must have been around 1996 when I first used it. Then I got hooked on ICQ.

 

I first started using the internet when I was nearly 19...I had had it in my home prior to that, I just never really knew much about it.

I started using it for research actually. My husband and I were pregnant with our first baby ( which I lost around 11 weeks ), and I was trying to find out all I could about pregnancy and whatnot because I was absolutely terrified.

 

i dont remember how old i was, but i think i was like 8 or so?

the first internet use i REALLY remember with graphics and such was when we got prodigy.

i used to play a game on there called mad maze or something. it was hard.

i really miss the old terrible screeching noises it used to make when you got online. and then you couldnt use the telephone

course we had computers before we had internet. i remember having computers before we had windows, too, when i was really little.

i initially had to know some basic DOS to use a computer. these days i'm not even sure you can use DOS to run a computer manually anymore.

from DOS we could get to a program that was sort of like windows before we had windows. it was called automenu, and it just listed different programs and files and stuff you could select manually....and we had wordperfect when it was a big blue screen with white letters....

i remember endless hours playing LARN. but moria is the better game, we just didnt know it existed. also we got rampage, and THAT was hella fun.

hmmm...even when we eventually got windows, at first i remember we still turned on the computer and it went to a DOS screen, and you had to type in some command to get windows to launch.

those were the good old days. :cheers2:

nowadays computers scare me, really, they're too complicated to figure out...i remember being able to go in and change parts of that LARN game with just a little basic....now i dont know if you can even use basic anymore.....

oh well. i bet if i ever have kids and try and tell them how computers used to run when i was a child, i'll sound like a crotchety old man, and they wont even be able to envision it...

 

On Tommorows world -
The it creeped into my life via seeing programmes talking about it, and then they would say say: if you want further info, please go to http://www.blah.co.uk
Now ofcourse they just say: www.blah.co.uk

In MY home, about 10 years ago I had it through cable - It was very very very slow.
I think I just joined a few (music) fan sites through seeing their web addresses on the back of CDs. I think I got email updates too (that I never read.)
My current way of using the Internet (forums / research etc) started about 7 years ago when I was unemployed and needed something to do - I was hooked.

Because I could.

 

It was like 1994 for me. We had dial up AOL. I thought it was amazing!

This thread reminded me of Kid:

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Splashing through the sand bar
Talking by the campfire
It's the simple things in life, like when and where
We didn't have no INTERNET
But man I never will forget
The way the moonlight shined upon her hair