What year did you first use "the internet"?

Got my first computer in 1999... And I haven't seen the light of day ever since...

 

1998 was the first time. Back then I didn't spend more than 1 hour a day online, compared to nowadays where i'm on for at least 5 hours a day. How times have changed

 

it was relatively recently (2003-2004). I wanted to keep up with the other guys so this is how it began.

 

It is hard to believe that such a sweet face as your spends so much time in front of the screen...

 

Mine was in 1997. I began to explore chat rooms then!

 

For me, I was first online in 1996. I remember the good ole' days of receiving tons of the AOL CDs in the mail.....yea, that was a nightmare using AOL. No matter how hard you tried and how loud you yelled they wouldn't cancel the account. They even kept trying to bill an account that had been closed for years....I like the internet much better now that there's wireless, cable, and all kinds of fun things.

 

around 1998-99 i used it first to get a yahoo id and then chatting

 

Probobly back in like 1998 when it was still relatively new. i remember how much simpler it was.

 

'Twas probably 9-10 years ago. I remember been shown to my computer in the cyber-cafe. I had little idea what to do.

The owner clicked on the blue 'e' symbol and went away. I grabbed the mouse and instinctivly clicked on the drop-down menu in the address bar. I knew about email, and yahoo, so clicked on something that must have said "Yahoo! mail". It must have loaded from the cache coz it took only a couple of seconds.

I remember mail.yahoo.com to be greenish and orange [?] back then...

On the login page, I typed in my first name as the username, and "flower" as my password (someone had told me passwords had to be 6 characters long).

After 30 mins during which I patiently waited for the page to load, the owner came up to me and said 30 mins were up.

I paid him 50 rs[1$] and made to leave.

And that, was my first(rather dissapointing) encounter with the internet.

Thankfully its extremely rewarding and enjoyable nowadays

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1998, when I was 16. I started used it mostly for IRC.

 

around 97 i would say anyone remember netzero and juno? those ware the fun days the waiting forever to log in the slow connection and constantly downloading at 2 and 3kb

 

Oh man, probably 1997. ICQ and Geocities and 5 kbs download rates. Good times.

 

I first used it in like 96 and then not for a while. Then we got internet again in 2001.

 

My first time was in 1994 or 1995 Christmas - got a computer from Ashley Dad for a christmas gift. only had 50 rams and 2000 gig bits very slow but still it was fun to learn. Went to college and took some computer programing classes. Since then my 2 brothers, son, and mom started using her computer this year she is almost 70yrs old. Lance my younger brother came over for 5yrs and used my computer. Anyways, its really paying off and I know it will only get better.

 

First was in 1999 { college days } involoved with Chat rooms and discovering what the internet is { Wide Web discovering was Amazing } .

 

last year, I got this cd in the mail AOL?? I think it was called

 

My high school was introduced to the internet in 1996 and I personally started using it two years later as a junior for research papers and my newspaper/journalism projects. It's nothing compared to what it is today!

 

I started back at 2002, and my first isp is AOL dial up which goes around 14kb per sec T_T.
But times have change my internet speed goes up to 6mb/per sec ^_^.

 

First time I used computer in 2002 and that time I only used Yahoo Chat rooms , even spent 4-5 consecutive hours in internet cafes chatting (aka wasting time) and then stopped using it after a year and started back in 2004 till the date. I'm not really that old

I still remember when one of my cousin had 166 - 233 MHz computer with 16 MB Ram and I used to sit with him and always insist on playing games lol. Well good old days (Bad old days when it comes to computers) have gone ^-^

 

I think it was around 1997-98 but it was never for IM stuff.