Your first Internet memories

[Xander]

What are your memories of the first times you ever got to use the internet (keep it clean please! ;)), and what did you first use it for?

I remember the first time I ever used it was at my brother's house, and I'd found this ad for a chat room in some teen girly magazine. TeenChat it was called actually XD I really wanted to go on and the first time I chatted on there, just saying hi, and asl, I thought it was AMAZING. I didn't want to leave.

Then when I got the net myself, I had dial up, and I had to save up to use it, so I'd save pennies in a bottle, then when I had like 60p I'd go on the net for an hour. ^_^ I was really into Dawsons Creek when I got my own internet, so I'd go on the site and download songs, intros and wallpapers and stuff. All that real media player stuff. Weird how much I appreciated it cos I didn't get much time on it but...same with everything in life I guess!

[Avarice-ness]

Omg, this was a long time ago. I think when I was about 12 (back in 1997, my dad had gotten AOL and I used to chat in the Nick-o-lo-deon AOL chat and since I was younger my screen name was smily (suppose to be smile-y) because I didn't know how to spell. xD And then when I was 14 I went over to this iSafe chat in which I was made a JrChatMod because you had to be atleast 18 to be a Mod and actually get to do the banning and such. I just got to tell people to be nice to each other and what not.
Then at 15 I went over to MSN chats before they were subscripts, then they became subscripts, so I went to msngroups, then I bought a subscript and then they stopped msn chat. u u;

Creepy thing is, The chat I go to now, other than #eoff has like... 4 people that I knew from when I was 15. It's a small internet world after all.

[Timerk]

Looking up the official Oasis website .

We had dial up as well, so getting on the internet used to be a major investment of time, plus my parents we always picking up the phone when I was on .

It was a fun time, though.

[Raebus]

Oh man, such a while ago! but I think my first experience with the internet was when I accidentally clicked onto a nude site, and stayed their for half an hour before hurryingly clicking off. Good times!

[Little Blue]

We first got it (AOL Dial up) when I was about 13 or 14. I only ever used to look up stuff on startrek.com and rarely gamefaq's and even more rarely stuff for school .

[Chloe.]

I think the first time I came on the internet, I was looking for a cool Pokemon website.

[Yamaneko]

Going to Simpsons' fan sites and downloading audio clips; back in 1995-6 on my 28kbps.

[Reles]

I was the opposite of Reno is my Man and hated the pokemon trend and first came online to discuss my distaste for it. I went into a pokemon chatroom xD and started insulting it, then I ended up making friends. I'm not really sure how that happened, but a lot of people were my age so I got along great. And then I met this guy that I really liked and we dated online or something. Then my friend Allison came and he was like, she's a lot prettier, I'm going to date her instead. And that was kind of it. I was an interesting 10 year old.

[Owen Macwere]

I first had internet when I was 17, stupid times, I mainly used it to get as much FF pics and songs as I could. XD
I first had a dail up modem that was costing just a little of my wages, then got another dial up modem which was costing about 1$ pare hour. Now, I have a 24 hours wireless internet which cost 50$ pare month, alot better.

[Breine]

Our internet was very, very, VERY slow when we first got it, but I remember finding a cool picture of Squall that I used as a background. I also remember looking at some disney websites.

[Pike]

I can't remember. I'm assuming it was in 1997 or so. (would have made me about 14 or 15.) I remember my first IM convo, it was on ICQ and I chatted with my cousin for a bit. And I got my first Hotmail account in 1997, I believe.

In 1998 I started frequenting Redwall roleplaying InsideTheWeb message boards and trolling *cough* I mean, uh, roleplaying on them. I also had an old Geocities page, I believe it was OMG BETS DRAGON BALL Z SITE EVAR BUT UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!11 or something. *shudders*

And once I looked up how to get all the heart pieces and skulltulas in Zelda: OoT.

That's really all I can remember. My internet usage was very sporadic until about recently. I missed out on most of the Intarweb between about 1999 and 2004 or so.

[Rye]

Um... I must have been about 10. I used to go on Neopets and a The Sims forum, I used to love it. xD

[black orb]

>>> I think i was looking for hentai and anime stuff, that was way back in 1998/97..

[Jowy]

AOL Final Fantasy VIII chat. Good times those were.

[escobert]

We got AOL back in the day and I played loads of starcraft.
and I ran a black market pokemon card scheme. It rocked.