When Did You First Start Using the Internet?

Back in 1996 or 97 with AOL 3.0. It was a big deal because AOL finally had a "pay one price for unlimited access" plan (which I personally think was one of the biggest factors in the growth of the internet during that year).

I remember when I first surfed the net I was looking for some Beavis and Butthead videos when I stumbled onto some clips on mtv.com. It said the usual "click here to download", so I did, but I was soooooo pissed to discover that these clips didn't just appear on my comp like changing the channel on a TV. I had no idea about internet speeds or downloading or anything like that, so i was very dissapointed when i discovered just how much freaking time it took to download a five minute clip.
 
[quote name='red flare graf']I think it was 1996. I did alot of chatting on Excite.com and looking at pornographic news groups. I didn't use it for near the informative purposes that I do now.

And yeah, it was AOL. I went by Deathlok22

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What?!
You want to tell me that PORN is not informative?!

lol
 
[quote name='wbc1228']What?! You want to tell me that PORN is not informative?! lol[/QUOTE] Of course it is. Watching girls masturbate, taught me what they enjoy. Maybe if more people watched that sort of thing, they'd be better lovers.

troy
 
[quote name='electrictroy']Of course it is. Watching girls masturbate, taught me what they enjoy. Maybe if more people watched that sort of thing, they'd be better lovers. [/QUOTE]
Have you actually had sex with a real girl yet? :roll:
 
Probably used it for the first time at friend's houses in late '97-'98. We went to wrestling and video game sites and all that. After I finished grade school in '99, we got a family computer (my mom figured high school would probably require word processing programs and the internet - and good thing we did finally get a computer). We used Compuserve for the Internet, with a 56k modem I believe, or whatever was common at the time. We would get knocked offline every fucking time the phone rang, and the connection would constantly stall, but I still thought it seemed faster and more reliable than when we would use it at my friend's house. It's really hard to believe we've only had the Internet for not even 6 years, its so useful for everything. I remember spending hours and hours on there, and I guess not much has changed. After what seemed like forever, but was probably only 3 years ago, we upgraded to cable internet. I remember really wanting this because I was intrigued about playing my new PS2 online sometime, after they had hyped up the possibilities of online play so much, and Roadrunner had some kind of nice special where we wouldn't really be paying much more than we already did for internet. Eventually I got it online, and it was pretty cool, but honestly I haven't played online nearly as much as I thought I would have.

It's really amazing how far the Internet has come in such a short amount of time. I used to be ok with getting knocked offline all the time, and pages taking minutes to load. Not I get upset if a page or video clip takes more than a couple seconds to load. I can't believe I used to wait over 20 minutes just to watch short video clips.

Here's a link that a lot of people probably already know, but its kind of interesting to see what your favorite websites looked like years ago. CAG is on there too. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
 
1995 w/ AOL 2.5 and 3.0. AOHell and Fate-X made the internet fun for me. I was one of the first in the neighborhood to get Pacbell DSL as soon as it became available in my area in 1999.
 
[quote name='electrictroy']1988. I used it mainly for posting to rec.arts.startrek about "that new star trek show" (next generation) & debating why Picard wasn't as good as Kirk. ;-)
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We've chewed some of the same rec.arts dirt. I was one of the people in that newsgroup who was outraged at all the Jean-Luc bashing! Nice one, mate. :)
 
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