THe INternet, Remember the first time using it?

[Tatsujin]

Two questions ... and a half:

1. The first time you ever used the Internet. When did you use it and what did you think of it?
Back in middle school. I didn't really give a crap about it since I was so deep into Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics (yes, I shaved 3 years of my life playing nothing and doing nothing but those two games). This was back in 1997 to late of 1999 early 2000.

2. The time of YOUR era in which you became addicted (if you did) to the Internet? What got you addicted to it?
In 2000, I got my very first computer which I never asked for. I was working happily and playing Play Station I and II games. I gave all my checks to my mother for whatever she needed. I needed nothing. Then, she decided to purchase me a computer with all the money I gave to her and so I got my very first computer. Then ... trouble happened ... It was an e-Machines with Windows ME operation system. I won't say how fucking stupid the machine and operating systems were (ridiculously stupid, bad). My uncle got it for me. And so I started doing a lot of terrible things with the computer. I deleted shit from it to make more space (Whomever seen NHK and when the main character deleted stuff from his computer to make more space for Ero pictures, I did the same thing!). I used Napster. Then I got to know AOL and started going on chat rooms and did the A/S/L bullshit and then I came across SiM DBZ (Simulation DBZ Text Fighting) and I still remember how it all went in SiM AOL rooms. I had to go on AOL at night so no one knows I'm on the Internet using the phone line. Our bills went so high because of me. A year later I got my first high speed cable from AOL (crap of course but was godly back then). Then a lot of things happened, internet dating to music to PhotoShop to building websites and until March of 2004, I wondered around Winamp Internet Stations or whatever and got caught by anime ... I remember the stations name and no I won't mention it for privacy matters (the forum is still running and I still post on there, there are only about 15 active members). The very first name I saw was a long time ago around 1998 or 99 and it was called Ghost in the Shell (movie from 1996 I believe). The first anime I saw that got me into Anime and got me seriously addicted to the Internet was Scrapped Princess in March 2004 and it was listed on Winamp to watch. It was hosted by some guy that ran the forum I mentioned earlier. I don't know if he is still hosting stuff like that on Winamp. But that's my whole story about getting addicted.

Oh, by the way. The picture I posted up there is what I really did when I first got into AOL chat rooms and I used to "sneak at night" to log on THE INTERNET! MWAHAHHAHAAH-couGhs-

[r-18]

it was  a bbs  site  run  by a local collage....back in the day before forums  and  all  like ...1987 ...ish..

and my net thing did not get started  till  recently cause we moved to the wilderness  and had jack  for connection till a fiber optic cable was run through  ..oregon decided all schools must have the webz....how else would the kiddies get their porn..

[phufham]

lol i have no idea to both those questions.

[Makar]

I started using the internet about 4 or 6 years ago some year in Jr High School. About that time I was an online Nintendo Gamer (Nintendo Wifi Connection seemed amazing back then). I usually went to forums or sites that revolved around Nintendo and then starting going to other forums/sites relating to general technology and started making my own sites and stuff.

[Soryon]

I don't remember when exactly I first used the internet, but it was likely around 1993 with AOL.
During middle school and high school I spent a lot of time using it to send IMs back and forth with friends and searching for new music/artists. That was one of the best things about the internet for me back then. I finally had an easy way to find music that wasn't the same old bullshit that is always on the radio.

I never use AOL any more but I do still have 2 aol.com email addresses. (that rarely if ever get used either.)

[tomoya-kun]

I used it to watch porn when I was 8

[TMRNetShark]

First time using the internet?

I was like 5 years old and I remember my dad dialing up the connection to get connected to it. He told me this is going to be the technology that will forever change the way we do things in the world... turned out he was right.

When I got addicted to the internet?

When I discovered this god awful place.... which I've come to love... and admire... Regardless, I love this place and youtube and... Top Gear.com? Yeah, those are the only websites I'm really on.

[Xenoran]

I don't remember when exactly I first used the internet, but it was likely around 1993 with AOL.
During middle school and high school I spent a lot of time using it to send IMs back and forth with friends and searching for new music/artists. That was one of the best things about the internet for me back then. I finally had an easy way to find music that wasn't the same old bullshit that is always on the radio.

I never use AOL any more but I do still have 2 aol.com email addresses. (that rarely if ever get used either.)

Same  my first time was with AOL not that i would ever use taht .... a rock and chissel is faster than AOL lol .... i think one of the first things i looked up was porn .... or hentai ..... im not sure but it was somewhere within the first month .....

[halfelite]

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

[Xenoran]

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

what are those? never herd of them

[saidin1015]

I was seven when I started using aol when i went to my grandparents' house (they had it long before we did) and played bingo of all things. I didn't get addicted to the internet until I discovered anime 2 years ago and finding this site ended all hope of recovery.

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?

[tomoya-kun]

I was seven when I started using aol when i went to my grandparents' house (they had it long before we did) and played bingo of all things. I didn't get addicted to the internet until I discovered anime 2 years ago and finding this site ended all hope of recovery.

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 was googling my pokemon and found out about the massive world of porn and hentai.  I had my own laptop, so I just did stuff in my room. 

[Xenoran]

first time i looked up hentai my mom walks into the room ..... awkward .....

[phufham]

I was seven when I started using aol when i went to my grandparents' house (they had it long before we did) and played bingo of all things. I didn't get addicted to the internet until I discovered anime 2 years ago and finding this site ended all hope of recovery.

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 was googling my pokemon and found out about the massive world of porn and hentai.  I had my own laptop, so I just did stuff in my room. 

lol i like how you worded that last line

[donald1]

lol, no, i dont remember the first time i used the internet. the earliest i remember my family having an internet line, we had to unplug the phone so we wouldnt get kicked off. i dont know if windows 95 even existed back then. we always fought over the computer+internet.... mostly 'who f-ed up the computer now?!!' kinda stuff cuz my sister spent the most time on it doing haruhi knows what and such. i hated it back then. the load times were almost 5 minutes for a page... on a good day. our "computer" looked like a bunch of parts fell on top of each other in the dump. someone brought it home and called it a computer lol. i could not think of one useful thing to do with the internet back then, this was way before anime was as popular as it is. so i just ignored it.

aaaaanyway, im glad it's not like it was back in the day.

[Scudworth]

first time I used the internet was in about 1993 or 94. The school just got it and we couldn't do anything cool with it. I remember my computer room teacher going on about how amazing it is and all that. But all I could see was something with no fun things on it yet and what it had was incredibly slow.

I'm glad it's improved. 

[pingryanime]

My dad's always been That Techy Asian Guy so... xD


Well I was using youtube when I was 6... which was almost a decade ago, so... well I've been around for awhile


Besides I needed the interwebz for fap material at an early stage in life like Tomoya

I didn't REALLY start using the internet until around 5th grade though, started off with runescape and then my internet knowledge just grew exponentially from there.

I think first time I found myself at 4chan was at 11 (oh god the horrors), and stuff like forums started at 12 ish, starting uploading crap to youtube around that age too (hey my old account get's a few hundred thousand views)

Now... now the internet is my life x.x forums, email, youtube, niconico, facebook, communication, homework, education, music, everything is on the web now x.x even books ffs

[donald1]

i didnt really get into until just over a year ago (when i got this laptop). man, i have had to learn a LOT in a very short time.

when my family first got the internet, it was like a great new toy....which wasnt very fun cuz there was nothing you could do with it. other than virus filled porn sites (... well, just about every site was unsafe), i wasnt able to find anything fun to do with it.

[Meomix]

First time using the internet was when i was 7, i really didn't think much of it then, looked more like an endless array of boring white pages than anything else.

I spent most of my time doodling around the desktop and playing schrodinger's cat yes they actually made this game were the cats bed was a box. I spent most of my time playing random board games with Chester the cat, until my parents got me quake and a gaming cd.

My computer had no cd drive so i had to use the other computer in the office.
quake was incredibility annoying, not only was the mobility of my character slow, the ammo packs were scattered in the most annoying places. I didn't even know what my mission was, sometimes i would run into clues but most of the time was just dancing in circles.

My favorite game has got to be math kingdom, the setting was single player rpg, you had to break codes around the room or on objects to move unto the next level.

I got hooked on the internet once online gaming and anime took off around 2004.

[sdedalus83]

I'd experienced email back in '90 when I was a seven year old playing on my dad's work computer, but the first time I really used the web was in '95 when my mom got a Power Macintosh 6100.  It wasn't until '97, when we got a Pentium 233 MMX that I really started using it though.

Addiction followed in '98 when I configured my dad's Quantex 400Mhz P2 monster.  Damned thing had an Hitachi 21" monitor and seemed like a beast at the time.