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What year did you first use "the internet"?

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  1. MatthewN

    MatthewN Well-Known Member

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    #21
    1998 around the time FreeServe started up. I got a free CD, grabbed a modem and went online. Ran up £180+ bills per month till I got broadband a few years later.
     
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    login Notable Member

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    Around - 96. I discovered that there was porn on the internet :D
     
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    cant remember but i had a acoustic modem, it ruled!
     
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    Im The ONE Peon

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    Somewhere around 1998, I was only 7-8 that time and had dialup connection
    I don't actually remember what I used to surf
     
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  5. flash902007

    flash902007 Banned

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    #25
    I remember first using the internet at school back in 1997. I used it very rarely until we got dial up internet back at home in 1999 at which point, ive been hooked ever since :)
     
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  6. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    The first time I used it was in 2004 but not actively. Full use of internet from end of 2005.
     
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    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    #27
    Probably about 1992 or 93.
     
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    1999, to check my 10th class results.
     
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    Man our country didn't even hear of the internet at those years. :D
     
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    #30
    96-97 I first used public Internet

    97 I bought WebTV. Pretty advanced now that I think about it! I was viewing the Internet on a 28 inch screen with wireless keyboard on the comfort of my couch while most people had no Internet in thier homes.

    I even built my first Geocities page on WebTV! I remember it had a high tech animated monkey on it (lotsa flashy stuff)!

    :D
     
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    First time I believe it was in 1995 or 1996. More regularly around 97 and 98. I was around when AOL had all those connection problems. I was part of the problem.
     
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    #32
    The "interwhat"? Never heard of it.
     
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    That would be 1995. But I had been chatting online through BBS systems for many years prior. Primarily the Affinity BBS in St. Louis.
     
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    It was in 1998.....Google and yahoo are the sites i opened first....Really got excited with a=yahoo messenger chat option :)
     
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    My first email was in 89 or so, and that was sent through someone else. I was like, "what is this imail or amail or whatever?"
     
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    2001 :rolleyes: I created an email ID at yahoo
     
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    I have been online since 1998
     
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    2000.

    I remember watching somebody in school use what I think was the original hotmail, and i thought it looked great and wanted a go myself :p

    How the world has changed :p
     
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    1999 at my fathers office
     
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    It has been about 12 years now I guess. My sister was using IRC for entertainment from her college dorm. I decided to visit her at a chat channel and then I was hooked on the whole chatting thing for af ew years. From there I went to multiplayer games, Warcraft II to be exact, and that really interested me in creating websites and stuff. From there, I got into web development. And now, internet marketing.
     
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