THe INternet, Remember the first time using it?

[i_am_otep]

20 kbps on a prepaid dial-up was worth bragging already back then...

[halfelite]

oh the old school days of old bbs games likes trade wars, tele arena, LORD

what are those? never herd of them

You might be to young to have every been on a bbs board. Back in the day it was a dial in system then moved to using terminal you could download/upload files, talk to people over private mail or in public multi modem system could host a chat room, play games. Think of it as todays mirc/forums in one with online multi player games.

[Sosseres]

1. The first time you ever used the Internet. When did you use it and what did you think of it?

I can't recall, was too long ago, I think it was back prior to the release of windows 95, but it is hard to recall since it was around the time we switched to that. Most likely I used it to gather facts for something.

2. The time of YOUR era in which you became addicted (if you did) to the Internet? What got you addicted to it?

I became addicted to it due to the browser based games. I used to have like 2 hours a day spent on those, minimum. I even had one where I went up in the middle of the night to launch attacks. I probably got addicted to those around 11 years ago and played them for like 4 years. They are responsible for my English, having several hundred game friends on IM clients led to a lot of chatting.

[vuzedome]

I was only given one instruction by dad, learn to search.

[scotsman]

I can't even remember the first time I used the internet. However I do remember sneaking down in the early hours of the day to browse for porn.  :'( Damn dial up.
What got me hooked was probably the games, Runescape and such...porn!

[SirSkyRider]

1. Oh, I dunno. What I know is that we didn't have any internet at home when I had my first computer back in '98. So I had to go to my father's practice (he's a dentist) and look stuff up there. And when we had internet at home, we still had dial-up and I couldn't use the internet when my mother was online or when somebody called.  In 2003 we got DSL (Broadband) with an amazing speed of 768 kbps and this year we upgraded to 16.000.

2. Phew. Sometime around 2002. It was an extremely bad time for me back then.

[DLTE]

I first started using the internet for game cheat codes ( At that time I bought games now I just torrent em ). And porn of course. I didn't bother with MSN or yahoo messenger etc until much later.

Also I didn't know about search engines when I first started using. So I just searched in the URL for w/e I wanted.

Like if I'm looking for something I just typed www.porn.com or www.battleformiddle earth.com

[Tatsujin]

what anime is this?

[donald1]

what anime is this?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1106

[JoonasTo]

94/95 when we first got modem at home. Ah, the lovely *scree, skraa, scgrooooo* for 20 minutes before connecting. And it was cheaper after 6pm, can you imagine? Cheaper AFTER 6pm.
What did I use it for then? Heck if I'd remember. Probably it was just cool. A little later we played C&C with pals. Some random netting. Downloading music.
The school had broadband then already so there we did most of the actual netting. Like Stickdeath when it came around.

Side note, we got a CD-drive somewhere around 96/97.

Really got to using it in 2000/2001 when we got DSL.
Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Unreal Tournament
StarCraft, yes I spent so much time on it that it deserves it's own line. Three summer vacations practically only Starcraft half of the time.
Random netting.
Downloading music, movies, games.
(Teen)porn.

Maybe I really got addicted would be around 2007 when one of the forums', of which I was a member of , email notification stopped working so I had to check myself if there were any new replies. It became a daily habit.


I've been using Windows messenger, Skype, IRC and other ways to communicate over the net from pretty much the first day they became possible. I was always on the front lines on the users of those(and for filesharing applications too, WINMX(still the best (single)music sharing application to date, too bad it got crushed like so many others, nowadays too little users), Kazaa, DC, etc.), except E-mail, I still don't use E-mail that much. Actually only MSN Messenger is left, IRC for DLing mostly.


Internet has gotten too regulated nowadays, it's boring. Google is the only good search engine and it censors it's results like crazy. Bing is still going through all the material but I doubt it'll be any better. The uncensored engines are never going to get a good database for the searches. So if you want something you have to go hunting for proper IRC channels...

I used it to watch porn when I was 8

How does this even happen? Do you find your dad's, mom's, older siblings stash? And why would you care about women at that age?

I watched porn when I was 5. 
By turning on the TV at night of course!
And around 7 we passed porn mags at school (stolen from older siblings of course, who'd stolen from older siblings, who'd stolen from older siblings, stores or parents). So yeah, it does happen.

[harpy]

1. The first time you ever used the Internet. When did you use it and what did you think of it?

some time back, don't know when exactly. I think it might have been at home or in school 


2. The time of YOUR era in which you became addicted (if you did) to the Internet? What got you addicted to it?

I think it was some kind of forum and chat rooms  hmz, haven't visited any chat places in a long long long time...hmz, maybe as should pick it up? I am unemployed now and what else do these people do?

[mgz]

first time using it was probably i think around 94 or 95 at my dads work like a year or 2 later at home. I just remember having our sweet 166mhz processor

[donald1]

its amazing how far technology has come. i remember when a 56K modem was the best thing out there. i dont think they even make computers with a floppy disk drive anymore..... if they do, i dont see them. i never used chat rooms cuz i already knew the most important rule of the internet - there are no girls on the internet. remember that and you will never have to be on that 'to catch a predator' show.

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i have no way to know if this is the original list of the rules of the internet, but all the ones to know seem to be here.

[mgz]

its amazing how far technology has come. i remember when a 56K modem was the best thing out there. i dont think they even make computers with a floppy disk drive anymore..... if they do, i dont see them. i never used chat rooms cuz i already knew the most important rule of the internet - there are no girls on the internet. remember that and you will never have to be on that 'to catch a predator' show.

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i have no way to know if this is the original list of the rules of the internet, but all the ones to know seem to be here.

the real rules of the internet didnt exist until people came up with all those bad cliches and 4chan

[Soulreaper77]

I honestly don't remember when I first starting using the internet. But a possible year range would be '97-'02. I do remember my first game ever and that was Megaracers. I loved it. 
When I became addicted to the internet would be when I was 13. I started watching anime (streamed) and thus I found myself each day for a couple of hours behind the computer watching anime. For the first time I came in contact with a really strange language and I loved it. I already knew about Japan back then (well knew that it existed lol) and I was already determined to go live there because I wanted to be an inventor and I heard from several sides that Japan really invested in technology and thus my mind was set and it has never wavered since.

its amazing how far technology has come. i remember when a 56K modem was the best thing out there. i dont think they even make computers with a floppy disk drive anymore..... if they do, i dont see them. i never used chat rooms cuz i already knew the most important rule of the internet - there are no girls on the internet. remember that and you will never have to be on that 'to catch a predator' show.

(click to show/hide)

i have no way to know if this is the original list of the rules of the internet, but all the ones to know seem to be here.

the real rules of the internet didnt exist until people came up with all those bad cliches and 4chan

The only rules everyone mutually agrees on are 1, 2, 34 and 34.1. And I'm serious about 1 and 2 mess with /b/ and you'll get anally raped.
And rule 56 is something for Havoc lol.

[Meomix]

its amazing how far technology has come. i remember when a 56K modem was the best thing out there. i dont think they even make computers with a floppy disk drive anymore..... if they do, i dont see them. i never used chat rooms cuz i already knew the most important rule of the internet - there are no girls on the internet. remember that and you will never have to be on that 'to catch a predator' show.

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i have no way to know if this is the original list of the rules of the internet, but all the ones to know seem to be here.

Bakabt has carried out rule 8 flawlessy.

Rule 9 *coughanimecoughsukicough*

11. Havoc10k damnit.

12. Hi

33. IRC effect

36. Cat trasher got fired today.

51. You can say that again.

64. Sweet Success.

[Zalis116]

1) First time I used it was sometime in '96 or '97. It was all at school computers, so I didn't do much with it beyond checking out bored, com, my friends' webpages and random nerdy sites that my friends recommended to me. And this was back when not everybody and their cat had a webpage or their own little corner of the Internet. My parents mistrusted the Internet at first, so I don't think we had it at home until '98 or '99. And they were right in their mistrust, as my younger brother got Internet-addicted more quickly and deeply than I ever did.

2) During my freshman year of college. I can even cite the exact date when I first established an online identity: September 30th, 1999, my join date at the now-defunct bolt.com. Considered the first teen social-networking site, bolt was a cesspool of insanity and stupidity with the occasional amazing and insightful comment. Oh, and it also had people who posted erotic stories, taken from old 90s newsgroup postings, in their blogs (or "diaries" as they were called back then). So aside from its forums (once the largest unmoderated forum system on the www), bolt also offered a convenient method of clandestine porn use in university computer labs. I didn't have my own PC until September 2000, so all my academic and non-academic Internet use for the 1999-2000 school year was on public computers.

[pingryanime]

curious, when'd 4chan go up?

[SirSkyRider]

curious, when'd 4chan go up?

Sometime around 2003, I think. m00t's been labeled one of "the hundred most influential people" by Time Magazine in 2008. 

[kurandoinu]

I don't remember exactly when I started using the net. I was in primary school so... 1998-1999 ish. I got addicted around 2001 when I found sailormoon.com and spent 90% of my time chatting to people and reading fanfiction. I still remember the guy who spent hours posting that I was gonna get pregnant from cybersex xD