When did you first use the Internet?

[Ambient Nomad]

Uh... At my local library and in my high school's computer lab around 1998, I think? My family didn't have a PC until late 2001.

 

[Misty]

I dunno, I remember using a connection to play Tribes with my father from time to time when I was four or five.

Proper internet use began around like...7 or 8?

 

[InsomniacAttack]

During school in second grade in the computer lab. We went on educational "gaming" sites for like an hour a day and I fell in love. I remember getting in trouble for looking random things up on internet explorer instead of playing the games. That must have been back around 2006, give or take a year.

 

[Feverish]

My first time was when I was 7, in 2007, and I browsed YouTube to listen to crazy frog and played games on the Nickelodeon website

 

[Skunk]

I first used the internet at the library to play Bionicle games when I was five or six, so maybe like 2004 or 2005?

 

[DoomDash]

AOL in like 1995 at peoples houses. Regularly at my friends house in 1997, he had two computers, and blazing fast 28.8k modems. Used to play Starcraft 1 / Diablo 1 on them, **** even before battle.net.

I have forum accounts as early as 2001.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

when I was around 10 in 2007-ish
I started to work around trying to use my brother's computer,earliest things I rememeber doing was looking up cheat codes for games,mostly grand theft auto vice city

 

[the8thark]

The day after Al Gore invented it.

 

[selicyc]

I started using the internet when Napster was a big deal and was a free file sharing service, so around 1996 or 1997. I still remember the email virus hoax about a game called Elf Bowling and how it was going to wipe out the hard drive of every computer it was installed on because it had a virus set to go off Christmas Day.

The dial-up sound occasionally haunts my dreams.

 

[linkypete]

My first time in my memory is when I was 11 and binge watching everything made by Smosh and PeanutButterGamer. I still watch one of those channels to this very day, 6 years later. Y'all can probably guess who it is.

 

[Jamie]

Well over a decade ago. I was on forums and **** in like 2006, I believe we upgraded straight from 95 to ME right around when it came out so we've had internet since before 2000. Mom worked for a telecommunications company. Saw my first porn site when I still thought girls were icky.

 

[Sicarius]

Most likely around the time when AoL was a thing and dial-up was the best thing around. Good times.

 

[HikerLink]

When I was 9 in 1996. Dial-up of course at 28.8 kbps! I remember visiting the Nickelodeon website, going to the Club Nintendo magazine website from Latin America (I'm originally from Chile, but I've been in the US for 2 years now.)

 

[raizelmik]

When I was 9, but my parents were very suspicious of the Internet (with good reason, I suppose) so everything I did was monitored. That was in the early 2000s.

 

[karu]

when I was 9. i was introduced to this online game called cycle and roll. the internet was then opened to me...............................