Your first Internet memories

[theundeadhero]

It was back about 1997. We had a new computer, dial-up, and a 32.2 modem. Hi-speed, man! The very first thing I did was look for information on Shadowrun because I really liked playing that tabletop RPG at the time.

[Spatvark]

Napster, back in ye olden days when they were the cutting edge of piracy. I used to hang out in the Punk and Metal chatrooms, whilst downloading away on my 28.8k.

[Burtsplurt]

I think it was 1998, at college. We were in a computer room, so we decided to try out a chatroom. I think there were five of us sat next to each other, pointlessly chatting away on the internet instead of talking. It was pretty cool, somehow. Maybe it was just the opportunity to create stupid names (mine has stuck since then).

I think our family first got the internet in 1999. It was rubbish dial-up Freeserve. You only had to pay for the cost of the calls - a revelation! The speed, however, was not a revelation. I think I used it mainly for Yahoo! chat. I thought the rest of the internet was pretty rubbish (it still is).

[Jojee]

Omgosh, Yahoo! chat. xD

I was like 11 year old, I got to know quite a lot of regulars in those chat rooms lol. Old men tried to get me to be their "girlfriend" xD I didn't fall for it >_> Even an eleven year old should know better if someone goes "Wanna be my girlfriend? How old are you? Yeah, I'm 11 too " But yeah, those were interesting times... xD

After Yahoo chat, FFWA ^^

Edit: Ooo even before that, I posted in the FFWA guestbook I think ^^ And someone emailed me saying they liked my email and we had many a emails back and forth :3 His name was Bryan or something. ._. My email address was tifalockheart99 at yahoo, haha. :3

[Martyr]

I dunno. I used it first in ym family for research and such.

When my dad got onto AOL chatrooms, my sister started playing slingo like a fiend, and eventually I, too, learned that the net could be fun. Eventually I was multitasking by researching american history, looking up dinosaurs (Nobody knows anything about the Dravidosaurus), and RP chatting in AA AOL chatrooms.

Dial up was so slow, yo.

[blackmage_nuke]

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Yea I didnt get what was so special about the internet at the time
I actually have no memory of my first time on the (connected) internet

[evaile=bmage was here]What a shame...[/evaile]

[Rantz]

I think I was 8 the first time I used Internet. I was 8 about 11 years ago, so that must've been around 95/96, with a 14.4kb/s modem, I remember connecting through an application called "Trumpet Winsock" or something, which looked like notepad.

I'm not sure what I started out doing, I think I explored a lot before I actively engaged into it. When I thought I knew my way around enough, I started visiting Funplanet, playing their games and chatting (always wishing I was a little older so I didn't have to lie about my age to get Lisa13 and lovecatz14 to chat with me). I loved it there, it's the first site I clearly remember, except maybe Hotmail.

[LunarWeaver]

AOL and Yahoo chatrooms, Napster, and then playing the first Diablo a lot make up most of my early internet days. Before Mr. Rantzien entered my life, it's all mostly an uninteresting internet blur though.

[Shlup]

I remember going into AOL chatrooms and not having any idea what was going on.

I remember finding the Cartoon Network AOL community and being all excited.

Later, and my earliest fond memory of the interenet, I found the opening sequence to Sailormoon SuperS, watched it, and was like "OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER SAILOR MOON IN JAPAN IS SO COOL OMG *CALLS ASHLEY* OMG!"

[fuhk-nerr]

I first figured out where i type the address in, then I checked to see if nobody was looking and went to porn. It was glorious.
I was 12.

[Savern Volaco]

The internet Wow I finally got on the internet a great many yeras ago I was er 16 I beilieve and I....*knoks out freind dressed as a ninja* any way wait I was talking, oh yeah I was searching for dictionarys and books and stuff.

[Necronopticous]

Logging onto Prodigy to look up videogame secrets and cheats.

I remember falling for the old "Get Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat 1!" rumor.

[Cankook]

I was 12 and remember waiting for 20 minutes for images to load. What were those said images. Starwars action figures, what a dork.

[Mitch]

Porn. Like, 10 years ago.


It was so much better back then.

[Levian]

My first memories after getting the internet at home involves going on a Norwegian chat site where I met this guy named Too_Cool, typing in a lime font. We ended up getting to know eachother because we were both being obnoxious in the chatroom, all in good fun, though. My nick was Cloud, so we talked a lot about Final Fantasy etc, and he's the one who linked me to this forum actually. I ended up moderating that chat site two years later btw.