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How old were you when your family got internet?

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My parents (both of them) are from the old school - both clueless with anything technical or even digital.
My first internet was thru AOL dial up!
Still remember their signature dial up sound.
 

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Eight or nine, methinks. Back then, the internet was just for Runescape, Runescape forums, and quest guides for Runescape. Young me didn't think anymore of it.
 

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7 or 8 when we got dial up, but we barely used it, cause computer was slow as hell and it was expensive. We got real broadband when I was 11, but not a good computer to use it on properly until I was 12
 

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I don't even remember. When I was little, we had a computer but I hardly used it. I know I did use one a little bit when I was really little, but the earliest I can recall would have been at about 6 or 7, though I didn't personally start using the internet until I got my first email address at 8. We had it, I just didn't have any use for it, and my parents didn't want us playing online games.

So I know we had internet as early as the early 2000s, but i didn't really use it much until 2004 or 2005, when I was around 8 years old.
 

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