What year did you first discover the internet?

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I first discovered it in 1996 back when my mom would often take me to work. She would let me go on some of her employees' computers and use their internet. Anyway, we didn't get internet at our house until 1998. So like the title says, what year did you first discover the internet?

99

I have known about it for as long as i can remember so i am guessing i discovered it sometime before 1994.... i only started using it in 95 or 96 and it is only in the past year that i have gotten really into using it (thanx to WP).

Not till 2003. I have been totally addicted since :/

1997, incidentally the year I discovered internet porn. Then, in August of 97, my brother went to college and took his computer with him. I had to to wait til the following spring to get my fix again.

I got introduced to it when I was 11. My school got it for the very first time and letters got sent home to the kids' parents and they had to sign the paper giving their child permission to use the internet but everytime we had to use it, we had to get out internet pass and put it on top of the monitor. I went to the Disney site all the time and I would always go to the 101 Dalmatians website and play games there and movie clips because I was obsessed with the movie. Then in 1997, my dad got America Online and I go to websites on London. That was obsession too thanks to the movie. But sadly he cancelled it in September because I was abusing it. I was going into chat rooms and I discovered infantilsm and it confused me so I was continctly talking about diapers and people wearing them in school and I would also go on it when I wasn't supposed to. Dad had a business he ran and we only had one phone line, so I had to stay off it for certain days becase clients could be calling him but no I snuck the internet. But a year later my Dad got it back when we moved to Montana but this time it was Internet Exploror. I would sometimes go to the websites I wasn't supposed to go to but I didn't start up again until I was almost 15. I wasn't caught until I was 17 so the computers was taking away from me for 3 weeks in our home. Now I use Modzilla while my family still uses Internet Exploror. I downloaded netscape and Firefox on my Dad's laptop because I got sick and tried of IE freezing on there. I did the same on my computer too but IE doesn't freeze on here anymore but I still use Mozilla. I only use IE for when I want to listen to radio stations on yahoo.

I've discovered the Internet in 1997, as well. It was the December of 1997 and a family friend had hooked us up to Sprint Canada. I've spent hours searching for images of Austin Powers. I've also done some research on Autistic Spectrum Disorders and of course, London. I've been addicted to the Internet for nearly nine years. It scares me when I think that I've been getting High by going on the Internet for that long. The fun had started out with Austin Powers, than it came in the form of Cockneys, and than I became a very nosey person and I was sneaking around Parent Soup for a while, reading boards on Autism, AS and Toilet Teaching-(Why? I'll never know.) Than my current obsession with Half-Cab Buses, such as Routemasters has enabled me to get my Mind out of the Toilet Teaching infested Gutter. It's too bad that there are people who can't see how much my current Obsession has cleaned up my Mind.

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It was either Fall 93 or spring 94 at college and it was e-mail sent on a VM system.
Later an HPUX unix account and Pine mail program. There was lynx and mosaic webrowser. I used a program called slipknott (I think was its name) it allowed you to
use your shell access on a unix system and your windows PC and netscape to surf the
web. Altavista was the search engine then. late 95 I installed Linux and used mainly
to connect to the net till about a year ago in which I made the downgrade to Windows
XP.

I was on the CompuServe on-line service in the 1980s. I transitioned from that service to a "normal" Internet service some time in the early 1990s. I don't remember the exact year, but I remember it wasn't flooded with insipid advertising like it is now.

What was the internet like in the 1980's? Did people have it in their homes back then too or did they had to go to some computer place to do it?

In 1997 I'd look up Joely Richardson, London, 101 Dalmtians, and I remember looking up the word "diapers" because I was bored one day so I typed it in and that's how I discovered people wearing them for fun, people pretending to be babies and dressing up like them.

I don't know what the Internet was like in the 1980s (did it even exist yet?), but CompuServe was an on-line service that charged something like $20 an hour for a connection with a 1200 baud telephone modem from home. They had e-mail, discussion forums, simple games, realtime chat, a few research databases, and not much else that I can remember.

In high school (1990-1994) i remember seeing commercials on tv about prodigy and all the things you could use it for and It sound pretty amazing. In the summer of 1996 I spend a couple months with my grandparents in Connecticut and during the evening while preparing dinner we would listen to the news on public radio and that was the first time i heard mention of www.com. I was staying with them while doing remedial school work for college and my tutor, Mr. Kitchens, gave me a copy of his resume when we first met. he had an email address, he was the first person i ever met with one.

my earliest was i think around 1995 i was in elementry school and my dad was teaching my grandfather how to use the internet on a old pentium 2 tandy computer he had aol at the time (the version that charged by hour1.0-4.0) and had a special phone modem were you manually had to dial the phone and hang it up on this thing connected to computer. i had never used it back then just to turn on and off the computer and play hangman.(if anyone here remembers hangman) my first official use of the internet i think was in middle school the teacher i think taught typing and she once taught us how to use the internet. the web browser was netscape and it was S L O W! first sites were grolier??spelling(its some info library like an encyclopedia but online) my first private use was in 1999 about 4 months after my grandmother died when i moved in with my dad when i was about 14 he set up a screenname on aol for me in young teen catergory. as i got older and he realized im not some person going to be sucked into the jaws of a pervert he took off parental controls.

I was going on BBS systems as early as '92. I think that I first got internet access in '94 through my sister's super computing challenge account. I still remember using the text-based program Lynx for web browsing.

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I was "afeared" of techmology<----(Ali G)I had a web tv in 2000...didnt get my own laptop until this spring!! !!!I was wrong about it producing a virus that would implant leeches into my brain and suck out all my "thinking"....but I dont read as much as I use to(and thats all your fault...blasted WP)