Son, you can fight or surf, an' Charlie don't surf!

[TransAm]

Son, you can fight or surf, an' Charlie don't surf! (Apocalypse Now)

When did you first use the internet? This excludes college/school/company intranet e-mail or messaging...

I reckon we will see some interesting responses from people who work in the IT industry on this one, but other than that I would be surprised to see anyone using the internet before 1995...

When I was a fresher at Uni in 1994 I found myself in a shared house of strangers, one of who was an Amiga superuser on a Media Lab Arts course (Dave Garrity, where are you now?) Anyway, this housemate showed me how to reach BBS on his Amiga.

Other than that, it was July 1997 for me, when I got my first job a week after leaving Uni... I used the 'net in business capacity and a month later (after finding Yahoo, Car sites and 'other resources' :wink: ) I bought a P133 with a superfast 56k modem.

[saadie]

well .. i started using the net in the end of 1997 .... it was really slow .. and in the begenning of 98 i bought my own pc :mrgreen:

and btw the only ppl tht used the internet before 95 were all the millitary ppl who was involved in the program :fadein:

[bultaco_metralla]

:oops: :oops: 2000 :oops: :oops: but its telefonic company fault... we only have 1 mb dsl today.... and its very strange to have it... ive heard that in France you can have 25 mb dsl,... and 100mb in Japan!!

[Fleischmann]

Early 98' I suppose...28.8k modem :twisted: Damn...that hardware fleeeew ;):P

As for first time...probably 95', at my friends place in London.

[|Nuno|]

In 2002 I think. But in my house, I only have it since early 2004...

[Minacious]

I can't remember, but it was mainly text based when I did.

[JiggaStyles09]

i believe it was around early to mid 1998 when my parents first got it. we had just bought a brand new dell computer 300mhz P2 processor and 128 mb of ram, 8.4 gig hard drive lol, it was a monster at the time :lol: i was in 8th grade at the time if i remember correctly. definitly was slow as hell i can remember waiting 2-3 hours to download a 20+ MB file lol.

[crayzayjay]

I think i first got it in 1996. Had an uber-fast 28.8k modem :lol:

[ZfrkS62]

must have been 1997 for me. I started talking to my ex 8 years ago..and she was one of the first people to talk to me..god, that had to have been aol 3.0..or maybe earlier :lol: ah...memories :lol:

[Anonymous]

Well for actually "use" rather than quickly check email etc at home rather than school i'd say 2003 when i went to uni! Cos our internet was so slow at home and somebody always wanted to use the phone before I went to uni i probably spent a hour a week online! **EDIT** But for sure i used it a bit at school before to research stuff, and look at pron :P but to be honest I didn't really get what the internet was about back then or did I :P

[No.1]

Hmmm... i can't remember, but i do know what the first site i visited was. Something to do with "tits"... :P

Actually, we got dial-up about 4years ago 56k, that lasted for 2years until i got BB. Now i'm the proud owner of a 2MB line 8)

[Z3uS]

I think ot was in 1999 when i got internet in my PC

[FoxFour]

About 1992 for me. My late-friend was a PC tech and at the time had a 'super fast' computer at the time; can't remember the specs on it, and a 28k modem-Yeeehaww! Used to go over to his house and check out the 'net. Not like what it is now.

[Daggernite]

I first got the net in 1998 or 1999 and it was on a Pentium2 350mhz. I was the guy who introduced yahoo messenger to everyone since I thought it was amazing :? My first online game was delta force. I rember saying to everyone who passed behind me that the enemies was real people. Them was the days.

[antonioledesma]

mm, don't make me think too much or I'll overheat :?

I believe that my first computer was bought in 1999, my last year in highschool. I had already "surfed" the net in the... 66Mhz pc's from the computer labs, but didn't like that it was all about chating. My first email was something huuuuge, something like this:
ledesmaantonio-panther- and something more with the school's name on it

by those times I'd already seen that the net was more than text.

back with the story... my first internet connection was during 1999, and I filled up the gigantic 1.2 GB HD with a speed of 28kpbs (that was fast!)

[ldin]

not sure of the year, but if AOL 2.0 helps... then yea that was when...then like 99 i believe i got cable modem...and i fell off my seat...because it BLEW BLEW...freakin blew 56k away...and after i got the cable modem it all went downhill from there..got into the 'scene' in like 01, and i got a whole alota info from the people i met on IRC...and the power of google...and got really intrested into computers..02 i built my first pc..and then...jeeze it just wentdownhill from there...

[hemi_fan]

not sure of the year, but if AOL 2.0 helps... then yea that was when...then like 99 i believe i got cable modem...and i fell off my seat...because it BLEW BLEW...freakin blew 56k away...and after i got the cable modem it all went downhill from there..got into the 'scene' in like 01, and i got a whole alota info from the people i met on IRC...and the power of google...and got really intrested into computers..02 i built my first pc..and then...jeeze it just wentdownhill from there...

Son, I dont understand a word you just said.

[hemi_fan]

I got ICQ in gr. 2... 10 years ago. Had 2 people in my list :) Started usin the internet in gr. 2 also... Saw my first naked lady in gr. 2, got caught lookin @ porn for the first time in gr. 2, downloaded my first illegal song in gr. 2 (took 15 hours, damn fuckin 28.8 modem hahaha), now that I look back on it, gr. 2 was probably the best time of my life.

[komotar]

late 98'....I think.

I had an old 486 with a 166mmx processor. That was a beast.

16mb ram and 850 mb of hard disk.

[stradale]

It must have been somewhere around 95 or 96. Me and a friend went to the library where you could pay per 30 minutes. We were very curious about the internet, but found it a bit of a letdown. Of course we didn't know the interesting sites and the speed was crap, so I left with the idea that I saw very little interesting stuff and waited a long time to see it.

Later, at uni, I had better access and surfing became more interesting. However, it wasn't until I got internet access at home just two years ago that things really got entertaining.

[gucom]

in 2001 my parents were good enough to finally get internet...back then i was a total internet n00b...maybe i still am?? :?

[nthfinity]

About 1992 for me. My late-friend was a PC tech and at the time had a 'super fast' computer at the time; can't remember the specs on it, and a 28k modem-Yeeehaww! Used to go over to his house and check out the 'net. Not like what it is now.

are you sure about the 28k thing... im quite sure that wasnt available until sometime around 1995

some of you may remember the collection of computers ranging from 1982-current times in my house. since at least 1986, my dad was using various modems for use of his work; as i remember the computer dialing out/recieving data.

our first internet modem was a something like a 9600 baud modem(ill look for the collection of old modems, and see if i can post a picture) . my first experience with the internet was mostly text based myself, asking questions to astronauts on a nasa site. this was 1993... but i didn't start using html based web until 1996 on a mac-n-crap with 68megs of HDD :P

[Pokiou]

1996 or something i think i cant remember fine but i was small and my uncle took me ot his job at microsoft :D :P spent the whole day on the sucker :D :P