When did you first get on the internet?

Aldebaran

We got dial-up at home around 97/98. I would have been 9 or 10, first thing I remember searching for was Pokémon-related stuff. Good times.

I also remember Oceanfree.net being our homepage for years after.

Sarn

Would have first started using it back in '93 but didn't get it at home until '95. I remember giving a friend my e-mail address back in '95 who responded 'What's an e-mail?'

Aldebaran

Aldebaran wrote: »

I also remember Oceanfree.net being our homepage for years after.

My homepage was always about:blank. Still is actually.

Sanjuro

Way back in 1996. In my da's place. Was really interested in technology and what this new 'internet' was, but didn't know what to look up. So I looked up Star Wars stuff.

Ruu_Old

I remember Indigo being one of the 'other' ISPs around but then they got bought out by Eircom.

rainbow kirby

IOL back in late 1997/early 1998 if I remember correctly.

Naikon

Twas funny relying on Yahoo as a primary search mechanism. Google was but a twinkle in the eye at stage. I also remember being blown away by 'Quake'.

Son Of A Vidic

1996.

Thomas828

My first time on the web was in January 1997. I used the computer in the internet cafe in Whiteley's where they charged me £6 an hour. They used Pentium I machines and web pages took ages to download.

Now here I am fourteen years later surfing the net for free on my mobile phone.

sheesh

got my first email address 92/93 in college used a friends internet account to access to get guitar chords for songs off the internet

does nevada.edu mean anything to anyone?

mrsdewinter

Remember being transfixed by the spinning Netscape logo when I first sat down to a college PC in 1996. Had heard loads about this internet stuff, but had no idea where to start. I took ages to painstakingly type in the address of a website built by a friend of my sister's (he was a bit of a rock star because he'd mastered this interwebz thing) and not even knowing to hit 'Return' when I finished.
Remember the hype and the jargon that appeared overnight? 'Surfing the net'?

Run_to_da_hills

First time I got on line was in 1995.

486 DX2 66 PC plus an external US Robotics 14.4 K modem with Ireland on Line.

ringadingding

Back in 94-95 in uk.
Trolling chat rooms or starting every conversation with an Internet ' girl' with " wanna cyber "
Spent first session looking at sick pics and videos, princess di crash, etc etc .

Bill time and we all denying we'd even turned the laptop on.

Based in Europe now and have broadband speeds that blow my mind for 18 a month

shannon_tek

my god everyone used it in the 90's well i'll be of the 2005 era . wasnt till 07 when i fully understood the whole flamin lot. windows 98 pc didnt help when i was growing up. and simply 4yrs later i know how to break the whole lot in one key. sad realization was it was 09 when we finally got it installed at home.

Mackman

I cant remember getting it, i just remember having it, and not too long afterwards my Dad had to get Net-Nanny

SomeFool

Mid 90's Remenber netscape navitator and netscape communicator!

Firefox11

Pdfile wrote: »

anyone remember BBS ??

anyone remember the first on ??

i beta tested that with echo...

and thats all i done, still on the net though. :pac:

I used to mess about with BBS's about 89-90 parity settings were 8-N-1 and about 1300 baud.:)

nkay1985

'97 in my friend's house. AltaVista was the mightiest of all search engines. Probably got on it for 15 minutes at a time in which time we saw fcuk all.

Simpler times!

gubernaculum

early 1995 when i was 11! indigo internet came with this booklet on internet speak and i remember my dad perusing it worriedly thinking he'd have to learn 'net'. needless to say i was a wagon and ran up big dial-up bills sneaking down to chat to randomers all night on ICQ or IRC instead of sleeping. had the old pillow-silencing-sound-of-modem thing down perfectly and can still remember the exact pattern of floorboards you had to avoid to not squeak on my journeys downstairs to log on without my mum waking up and tearing down the stairs to kill me. i was a cool, well adjusted teenager, clearly. ahem.

Naikon

CRT monitors contributed to a reduced amount of time spent in front of the computer for me. Seriously, I still remember having to contend with a bug in Windows 2000/XP(round 2000 onwards) that made it near impossible to set the refresh rate above 60HZ for certain applications. Never had that problem with Linux at least.

Maj Malfunction

1993 - Access on a SUN Sparc machine onto the JANET network in the UK. VT100 terminals and if you had colour ANSI or XTERM clients you were a flash bastard.

Online gaming consisted of playing MuD's - text based multi-user games.

Along came Netscape and the world all of a sudden got a whole lot better!

briany

Hmmm about 1998 for me. Oceanfree dial up CD. That was good for about 1p a minute as I recall at off peak times so a couple of hours browsing would cost you 1.20 in old money. Of course it also meant a couple of hours of the phone being tied up. Not always a bad thing though if you didn't want someone to reach you.

Floppybits

Was 96 for me. Got on with my mr modem 14.4k soft modem, anyone remember them, they were a cross between hardware and software but were cheaper than the rolls royce of modems the US Robitics.

Remember using search engines, Alta vista, webcrawler and lycos and web browsers like Netscape communicator and then moving onto Moziac. Chat rooms were good in those days.

The Sparrow

I think sometime around 1997. Although I've no idea how I knew to use the internet, but it just seems like I naturally did. I remember that pretty much the first thing I searched for when I was alone was "Pamela Anderson Sextape"

But how did I know what a search engine was or even what page to use? I guess it just seemed to all make sense and come naturally. I'm trying to teach my mum to use the internet at the moment and the same cannot be said.

Ah back in the good old days of Ask Jeeves. Was there anything that lovable butler didn't know?

Alter-Ego

1998 or 99. We got an IBM with a whopping 2gb HDD and 16mb of Ram.

We had Indigo, then we switched to Esat/IOL/BT No Limits. First thing I looked up was south park and tomb raider pictures. Only got broadband back home this July so Dial-up isin't really a distant memory.

cailinoBAC

I think we got it on our home computer in 96, but I never used it. Didn’t really know what I’d be using it for, but in any case we were told how super expensive it was (like phone charges, 1 unit for 3 minutes, then for 15 minutes after 6). The first time I think I used it was to look up CAO points in 97. I wanted to see if I’d got my course and I was looking on Aertel but that was moving really slowly, so we went online and found out straight away. Set up my first excite email soon after, which I still checked every now and then, except they changed format and it was impossible to delete the spam quickly, so last time I went back my address didn’t exist any more .

I remember being online and watching the time ticking away, and if it went past 15.00, well, you simply had to stay for another 15 minutes to get your money’s worth!

Maybe it was 97 that we got it, looking back, I can’t see how I would have waited so long to use it, but I think I really just didn’t know what the big deal was.

In college got slightly addicted to yahoo chat for a while.
Had a Eudora email account and used netscape and altavista.

Cook my sock

probably around 98 with dial up.
was funny, I remember my mam shouting up, get off the internet, I've to use the phone!

Paracore

2002

Rick Deckard

buzz-chat.com:) a/s/l?:pac:

pow wow

1997 or 1998. All I remember is dial-up, huge phone bills and when yahoo chat wasn't inhabited by half of Nigeria trying to hide their riches in my bank account.