How do you remember your first contact with the Internet?

[Pipebomb]

Was at a friends house. Clicked a link to an Alicia Silverstone picture. It would render line by line and took over an hour to fully load.

[Powerogue]

I'm not sure I remember my first contact with the internet specifically, but as far as a computer in general...



Every day when I got home from school. Ah the good old days of having to manually pause the game, sift through some menus, manually save, and come back. I hear in ages past there was no save feature at all! *Crash of thunder*

[Darsithis]

I'm not sure I remember my first contact with the internet specifically, but as far as a computer in general...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8o1...14F32D6585B064

Every day when I got home from school. Ah the good old days of having to manually pause the game, sift through some menus, manually save, and come back. I hear in ages past there was no save feature at all! *Crash of thunder*

I love Commander Keen, have all of the games. I'm such a retro-gamer fan. I have the old text Zork games, the original gold box D&D 2.0 games, Castles I & II, Ancients, Solar Winds, Castle of the Winds, Hugo's House of Horrors...the list goes on.

Unfortunately I don't have the space for it.
Not even worth selling, the postage would cost more than it's worth being a pretty hefty weight.

How do you not have space for a book?

[Ryme]

I remember convincing my mum to lose our phone for 3 days to download stolen copy of Command and Conquer. It failed at around 65%.

[Cerus]

Was at a friends house. Clicked a link to an Alicia Silverstone picture. It would render line by line and took over an hour to fully load.

Ah - reminds me of the good ole days of online porn. Forget about watching HD videos on your smartphone. Pictures were all ya had and you'd spend hours watching it load. When it finally got to the good stuff you likely already finished a half dozen times. Lmao

[Shakadam]

Our first modem was a 14,4kbps or possibly a 28,8kbps, I can't really remember which one. This would have been back in, ohhh.... 1995-ish? I can't for the life of me remember what I did on the internet at that time though (I was 7 years old in -95) but I started with computers when I was 5 years old. Didn't know any english back then so I don't think I used the internet until a few years later when I started looking up cheat codes for games and stuff like that.

Didn't do any online gaming or download much though. Even though just a few years later we got a fast (for the time) 128kbps ISDN connection, it was routed through my dad's work at a IT company and thus firewalled so online gaming and such (napster etc) didn't work. I don't think I did any online gaming until we got ADSL in the early -00's.

[Rudkobing]

I was looking up nudes of Teri Hatcher.

[Ciddy]

Lol, I remember typing in playstatiom.com and getting porn.

There was a little while there that zelda.com was a porn site. I went there thinking it'd be something about the game.

Picture on the front page was like....3 chicks with gigantic tits out, right in your face. Scared the shit out of me because my mom was standing right behind me (I was maybe 12-13 at the time). Mom was not amused.

OT: late 90s was when I first got online. At first, I just remember thinking it was cool that I could go to places like nintendo.com and use the chat there. My preferred browser at the time:



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That was such a huge thing at the end of the 90's and the start of the 2000's. Everyone was coming up with custom music player animations and skins. I must have had hundreds of different skins for RealPlayer and Winamp.

Hah, yeah, I remember this too. I had all kinds of Winamp themes. I actually continued using Winamp until just a couple of years ago (seems like it got stuck in development hell or something and hasn't really had anything happen in a while). I still have it installed but haven't used it as my default player for a whil enow.

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Also: Playing Classic Starcraft/Brood War and using Roger Wilco (with desktop speakers and a desktop mic) for voice chat. I can't remember the last time I used IRC, but I used it very heavily in the early 2000s and met a lot of my friends who played SC with me. Sadly, I've lost contact with most of them in recent years.

[May90]

My dad had been using Internet since I was 6 y/o or so, but I never really got to use it until I was 9, when I needed to find some information for my school project, and he decided it was a good idea to let me try do it myself. I remember getting lost in an endless loop of hyperlinks.

Ah, dial-up times...

I remember convincing my mum to lose our phone for 3 days to download stolen copy of Command and Conquer. It failed at around 65%.

He-he, spent over a month downloading Spellforce demo every morning. It didn't fail, but I was utterly unimpressed with the game and uninstalled it a couple of hours later. So much waiting, and such a disappointment!

[Rooflesstoofless]

1996 AOL dial-up.

[yetgdhfgh]

Back in 1993 my IT teacher who i thought was awesome showed me how to use the internet but i didnt really use the internet at home until 1995 when i think i used it to look up cheat codes for video games cause i really didnt know what to use the internet for back then and all the porno websites seemed to want CC so that was useless for masturbation fodder.

TBH i never had the internet long when i did get it because my mom was such a technophobe and you know Pr0n also it was tied to the phone line so i had to lose connection every time someone called but when my mom left my dad my dad finally took us into the 21st century and we have never looked back! Though i must admit i do miss those carefree days without flame wars on forums and looking up depressing news and even Porn seems boring to me.

[DrStiglit]

Pretending to be a psychologist in AOL chat rooms.

Oh, and punters.

[Deleted]

Listening to Final Fantasy MIDI Music .
Checking GameFAQ.
Watching Newgrounds.
Kazaa Lite.
Using desktop messenger programs before Social Media was a thing.
Internet Cafe were still a thing.
All Your Base Are Belong To US.

[Packing an i5]

early 2000s looking up cheat codes and guides on gamerevolution for console games. AOL Dial up internet. Windows Xp.

[kail]

Old AOL dialup, realized I could look up almost anything via the search bar. What did decide to look for? Naked Cheerleaders.

[Natrii]

well I was younger, The computer screeched at me for 2 mins and then yelled "you got mail!!" at that time I was not impressed, a few months later it was a staple of my life.

[Celista]

AOL
The sound of dial up
Yahoo being relevant

[mickybrighteyes]

this sound...

[Forgettable]

My first contact with the internet... Hmmm. I don't remember one specific thing because I was 8 years old at the time, but here are the oldest things I remember:

Hotmail
Gunbound
Classic Runescape
Trying to find guides for consolde video games
That awful dial up sound

[breadisfunny]

america online and doing searches on it for school based projects.

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AOL
The sound of dial up
Yahoo being relevant

look up male blood elves i bet.