Describe your fist time using internet
>1999
>go to local call shop
>adsl internet $6/hour
>yahoo.com because I didn't remember how to write google
>search "pictures of evangelion"
>save pics to floppy
>epic hentai site appear
>save pics to floppy
>fap at home
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youtube.com
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twitter.com
>1999/2000 (can't remember)
>6/7 years old
>family uses AOL
>log into AOL for the first time
>go into chat
>"what does sup mean"
>"what does asl mean"
>spam random RP shit and pokemon shit in chat
>discover methodus toolz, pokemon battlers, and other AOL "progs", get an interest in programming
>get into online gaming a few months later with pirated copies of Turok 2 and South Park the Game, along with Quake 2
>spend a ton of time browsing web 1.0 sites, webrings, abandonware sites, fansites etc
it was a simpler time, a better time
I miss chatrooms, modern IRC just isn't the same
online gaming sure as fuck isn't the same either
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Cant remember exactly but now that you mention it, my first times using the internet i remember that it felt like an amazing gift to me. I could use it 1h a week at the library as a kid, mainly looking up websites I saw around that seemed interesting like a cartoons official website or silly games.
>sometime around 1996 or 1997
>at uncle's house
>he shows me how to connect to internets and how to get to a search engine
>magellan search engine of choice
>search for rugrats websites
>listen to rugrats wav files all day for weeks
>eventually listen to simpsons wavs
look at disney porn
also around this time I was at his house a lot and he let me use the computer whenever I wanted. Eventually I was playing with all his CDs and found Quake.
>tfw I will never forget the first time I gibbed an ogre
>nightmares and shit
AOL was the shit back then
Pokemon fansites were getting big
Ricing your Win98 with awful WindowBlinds themes, mom didn't care
56k modem speeeeeeeeeeed
>Ricing your Win98 with awful WindowBlinds themes, mom didn't care
iktf
I remember ricing my WIn98 desktop to look like XP before it came out
>56k modem speeeeeeeeeeed
shitty telephone wiring to my house only allowed for 28.8k
Vice City cheats I think.
Holy fuck that looks comfy.
>Be at dad's workplace in 1996.
>Network admin at SUNY
>Not much of anything back then and I didn't know what I was doing.
>Just found some pages full of cheesy jokes but it was cool
>Go back to BOCES and say
>"Anybody who's anybody has surfed the information superhighway" or something cringy and autistic but fuck you I was 10
>Still cringy and autistic
>The guy that bought the evga 960 from best buy and has that old filthy looney tunes mousepad
>got the internet for the first time
>searched for comics
>found her
Degeneracy ever since
>school
>7th grade
>we were taught how to use search engines
>Google existed
>was a good feel, don't know anymore what we searched for
>the years later we discovered how to find naked woman when tipping in "hör mal wer da hämmert", the German name for the series "Home Improvement"
Was a good time. Sometimes I'm asking if seeing the thousands and millions of images from EVERYthing imaginable and a lot more and reading these partial disturbing things on imageboards etc was good to give me a bigger watch to the world or if it let me becoming this isolated lonely NEET lurking on imageboards all day.
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Fathers silicon graphics workstation, dunno when. Watched videos of jellyfish and crashed it
sabrina a cute though
wait, wrong sabrina
mid 2000s. I looked up a lego forum and made a post that was literally nothing but a long long string of smileys
I thought it made sense to post that and that it was good, at the time.
Thats the first time I REMEMBER, anyway.
>1994
>had been using BBSes since 1992
>Dad has had internet access at work since the 80s, used to bring home print outs of game cheats from newsgroups, stuff like that
>He signs up for Demon dialup access
>Amazingly they actually supply software for the Amiga, TCP/IP, email, news etc
>Get online
>Had no idea where to start
>Try some sites from listings in Internet magazine
>Eventually manage to get onto an Amiga FTP site and download AMosaic
>Try some websites
>Everything is excruciatingly slow because using a 2400bps modem
>AMosaic crashes all the time
And that's the first time I used the internet. About a year later we got a 28.8k modem, I found some newsgroups, someone made some decent Amiga browsers, and I figured out where to get porn.
Not my first, but an early memory that somewhat lead me to this horrid website today.
>Be me
>Early 2000s, I think 2001 or 2002ish
>On my dad's trusty Windows 2000 pc
>7 years old really into Super Mario
>Everyday try and figure out how to play original Super Mario Bros which I really wanted to do
>Come across the term emulators a lot when looking
>Find an emulator site
>Click a link and a pop up comee up
>Flashing banner with an anime girls face and says something likeXXX GAMES PICS HERE
>Curious, dunno what XXX Games could possibly be, sounded cool though
>Click the link
>It loads
>Big picture of Goku fucking Sailormoon
>I get a boner
>Dunno what to think, so I bookmark the picture for later
>Invite some school friends over and show them
>Have strange dreams about that picture for a while after
I remember one of my friends finding the picture hilarious at the time, saying, and I quote "Haha, it looks like she's eating it!". My parents never found out, and they probably should have monitored my internet usage as a kid.
disgusting, Goku and Sailor Moon don't even live in the same universe there's no way they could fug.
Oh, and I forgot to mention IRC. I think that was my next discovery after the disappointment of the world wide web. Come to think of it, my social life pretty much died as soon as I discovered IRC. Amiga magazines have a lot to answer for, they led me astray.
I was surprised as well. Seeing two unrelated cartoons I'd watch in the morning before school, doing such a strange thing, what a mixed bag emotions I was feeling.
>1997
>can barely write
>Ask parents to sign me up for a computer course
>sit with 40 year old tech illiterate people
>find doodie.com
>Internet is awesome
I miss late 90s chatrooms like Yahoo and learning Flash to build epic websites
Good thing you didn't get sucked into the depressing world of talkers and MUDs. Newsgroups were great for discussion back then though, and porn of course.
>1999
>6 years old
>dad figures out how to connect to dial-up
>don't even know about google
>just reading and looking it pictures, but it seems like magic
>dad disconnects internet and says we can't use it because it's too expensive
>cry
>2012
>my parents let me on Internet because I turned 10 then
>Sup Forums is one of the sites my friend told me to check out
>I got on various boards and lurked a lot
>enter Sup Forums and watch a few threads, especially ones a child shouldn't
>some user posted lots of CP and some links
>being a kid, this didn't bother me, in fact I loved it
>download it but the thread dies after a few minutes
>keep going through the links posted in the thread
>eventually "illegal site" notice from ISP
>panic.gif
>close the browser
>copy images to my phone's memory card and hide it
>delete files from PC and turn it off
>didn't empty recycle bin
>mother uses PC some time later, deletes a file accidentally and enters recycle bin to recover it
>blames father for downloading pizza, threatens to call police
>father being a tech expert figures out it was me who downloaded it by the "time deleted"
>I do my best try to explain
>get beaten anyway
>they take every piece of technology I have and inspect them
>father bans Sup Forums and a shit ton of sites on our PC
>I can't even go online for a whole year
>year later I'm allowed to go online because school
>figure out Sup Forums is blocked in the hosts file and I can visit it if I want if I temporarily remove it
>find every single porn site ever made in the hosts file
>thanks dad
>keep browsing normally, but visit those sites on my phone because I'm paranoid
>I still keep the pizza pics and fap to them
>Get WebTV when I'm around 10 or so
>find a site called Tracy's Fart Farm
>it has fart wav files, fart stories, names for different types of farts, etc
>send email to Tracy with a fart story from when I farted in an elevator
>really hope it gets added to the site
>Tracy replies back
>but my mom gets the email before I do (I used mom's email account)
>mom gets mad at me for visiting the fart farm and says I can't go there any more
fuckin underage faggot gtfo
>inb4 underage b&
Kek, I remember that site.
Internet was sure more fun back then. Fuckin normies ruined it.
>born in 97
>first time using the internet was in like 2001 or something as a kiddo
>only remember the service provider dialer that had a cute dog
>don't even remember what i used the computer for at home for anything before 2005, before that i barely knew how to turn the computer on and just used it with my dad
Basically my childhood 2006~ish memories from the internet are flash games and neopets i guess, i don't even remember shit properly
Played Doom 2 with a friend. Ended up killing each other for hours instead of finishing the level.
>whole posts boils down to "i'm literally 14 and have child porn"
that cool brah, i'll be sure to visit you in prison when you turn 18
>1995, my younger self is about 10 y/o
>dad gets AOL on a 56k modem, using a cool 75Mhz Packard Bell
>go into the Marvel Comics area and spend all day reading the animated Spiderman and Wolverine comic books that took ages to load
>discover chat rooms, start playing around
>suddenly get the brilliant idea of insulting everyone and talking real dirty to strangers
>look at me, I'm just the baddest motherfucker in the world
>next day dad checks his email and there's a message from some mod saying we were being lewd in the chat rooms...
>get banned from AOL irl, got lucky cause he didnt spank me
good times, they were
>early 2000s
>with my dad
>go to local library to try out the interwebz
>try loading up webpage (can't remember which one)
>couldn't figure out why it's not working
>call over librarian to help
>it wasn't loading because we were putting spaces between the words in the URL
That's my earliest memory of the internet, I must have been about 7-8ish. I literally only remember the librarian showing us that the URL can't have spaces in - I remember nothing else from that day. I wish I knew what site we were trying to get on so I could look at it today.
Before we got a proper computer we had one of those shitty computer-phone things which could access the web. I used to look up yu-gi-oh cards on it all the time.
I also remember the first time I saw porn, I was like 10 and waited until my mum and sister went out so I could go on the family computer in the kitchen. I think I just searched for "sex" and somehow ended up on looking at some bondage pics of women in black latex suits lmao. I came in literally seconds.
Good times.
1987-88 probably, some gateway through college, mostly nntp messaging, some email, some gopher, hard to remember that long ago though
a URL can have a space in it though, that librarian lied to you
>Normies ruined it
It's true. You can blame Apple and social media.
It can? Not that %20 bullshit but an actual space? huh I didn't know that.
>mfw I was here when the Fox report was new
Why can't I leave this fucking site
%20 is a space, most web browsers will encode the space to %20 for you
...
>1999
>2 years old
>Move into new house that has internet
>Fascinated by the sound the modem makes as it dials
>Dad shows me the wonderful world of Yahoo!
That was pretty much it. The first flash I remember seeing was the "Daylight come and we droppa de bomb" after 9/11.
I'm bummed that I ended up formatting the computer's hard drive a few years later.
Does anybody remember MonadNet?
No shit. There's just no where else to go on the net. Reddit is an absolute hellhole that will go the way of Digg and Myspace. This is the only place with a large userbase and little moderation.
We're fortunate the userbase shows some restraint on Sup Forums. Some of the other boards are a mess due to lack of moderation.
Never came across Talkers. I used to play a MUD on one of the BBSes I was a regular on, but by about 1995 I was literally the only one still playing. Probably due to people moving on to the net.
...
Yeah I haven't seen many bullshit gpu wars threads lately. Just crapple meme phone ones
>Probably due to people moving on to the net.
There were a lot of MUD/MOOs you could telnet to in the 90s. Fun experience but cancerous user base for the most part.
'94 or so. All things X-files and MST3k.
>I can still read my cringy usenet posts on google.
Yeah, I think I tried one or two but I didn't get into it. Too much other new stuff to get distracted by.
What if she married CIA?
Her name would be Gillian Gillian lol
Ah, I remember I used to have a little collection of sexy Gillian Anderson pics that I spent hours finding. It's all lost now but I still have one or two from a floppy that I gave to a school friend.
All my usenet posts are still out there too, I'm kind of glad nobody uses it any more because my name is not difficult to find on there.
I was about 4 years old so I don't remember. Internet has just always been there for me it's like asking about my first time watching TV.
>1993
>Didn't even hear about the internet till a magazine article talking about BBSs.
>Stole my brothers work computer
>installed a 14.4
>Even I was surprised I was able to do all this
>Winsock settings...I think? I forget.
>Logged into a local BBS
>met my best friend for 20+ years this way.
>these spoiled cunts now on web 2.0
>I fucking hate every single one of you at the coffee houses.
I remember finding a great site for anime porn, some of the boards were pretty gross though.
Site shortly there after closes down.
Find similar site, not as good, but not dead.
Forget about both.
Year or two later, look for second site for anime porn, find first site is back up.
I had no idea what Sup Forums was, but apparently I was already an old fag. Missed out on all the CrAcky-chan and Snacks stuff. Was here when people used to spam Patrick Duffy on /gif/ and Mexi-Moot.
First time on the internet was the middle school shop teacher(for some reason) was teaching us about the internet in 93-94? Had a Mac with telnet, Gopher, and Mosaic.
I miss the GopherNet. That was the main way around the Internet beside CompuServe or Prodigy or something.
Oh shit, he's got the Turbo button on!!!
that makes it go slower
How do you guys remember this stuff? I was born in 1993, if i had to guess i probably used the internet for the first time around 1999 or 2000 to look on the encyclopaedia, but i couldn't remember the first time i used it.
I guess its because ive basically alwayd had internet, even if i didnt start really using it till around 12 or 13
Poor memory is a sign of low intelligence :(
>doodie.com
Jesus fuck, user. How could I have forgotten?
mods = gods
Oh man, those were the days. Iirc, the very first time we got internet was,
>1995~1996
>5~6 yo
>fucking loved Blues Clues for some reason
>commercial comes on advertising a blues clues game
>internet connection required
>ask parents before going online
>begged parents nonstop for weeks until finally
>we get aol
>play blues clues game
>from then on it was
>askjeeves.com
>poopyjoe.com
>albinoblacksheep.com
>miniclip.com
Fast forward to 2000/2001
On rotten.com and steakandcheese just kekking at literally every image on there, who did this? By that I mean who made those for the sole purpose of further corrupting unsupervised white trash/middle class kids?
> literally first day of school
> type "www.asshole.com"
> porn
> permbanned from internet for a while
felt edgy as fuck when I would get ``first'' on a new steakandcheese post
>Be me
>Poor and never had a computer
>Buy my first smartphone
>Suddenly:
Facebook
Instagram
Snapchat
Tinder
Oh yeah and fallout shelter, I'm such a dork lol
Everyone loved hamsterdance.com
Some people were actually offended by jesusdance.com
Neither one of them exists today in a similar form.
I remember my amazement when whitehouse.com was actually a porn site. Not sure if it still is.
>your first PC is a smart phone
get out normie
>yfw you realize hamsterdance.com is a sped up version of this
youtube.com
Should have blamed it on an older kid lol.
And sending people to shock sites over AIM was the tits
>shock sites over AIM
Don't want to let your warning level get to 100%
tfw people like us the early adopters of tech and internet missed so many chances to become millionaires.
>missed the .com boom
>missed the forums boom
>missed the blogs boom
>missed the social media boom
>missed the phone apps boom
>probably '96 or '97
>get dial up modem at home
>father shows altavista
>'you an search for anything simply by typing here'
>sister yells out 'spice girls!' as it was a big thing back then
>father types and clicks search
>results come up, father clicks first link
>porn
>mfw
>permbanned
>for a while
Pick one.
Top fucking lel. I absolutely forgot about that. The time my group of alt-betas gang warning'd me, good times.
t. A faggot who would literally go on Starcraft just to do 'compstomps' and lose respect from everyone when they could see I was naming my games that.
Kek
Nice dubs, but do you have the .gif with Bailey Jay?
>~95?
>get free dialup with local number from Juno
>read wikipedia 4 hours a day for weeks.
>browsing wikipedia 6 years before it was created
Cool. I used to visit Sup Forums back in 97. Good times.
Hrm, you're right. Was there some kind of proto-wikipedia that I am remembering?
> 1995
> 4th year (secondary school)
> went "on the hop" "truant! truant! they'll say!"
> with 2 other guy to go into town to check out this new internet thing
> first browser Netscape
> Search engine I think was AltaVista
> didn't know what we wanted really we were like the 3 wise men here to see Jesus but not sure why
>1993
>Try www in text browser. Seems stupud
> Try IRC and DCC file transfers
ordered dialup internet immediately
Maybe you had a Britannica CD?
>2000
>my cousin got dial-up
>one of the first in the city
>google.com took 2 minutes to load
>2 hours to download a song
kek
I remember an encarta cd coming with the computer. Maybe that was it.
And it had this endless maze game, but I think it was endless because it kept recycling the questions.
I had an idea to start a site like Wikipedia in the late 90s, but no clue how to actually go about it
what?
this is bait.
No
Don't forget about the cryptocurrencies boom
>Didn't get a computer until the beginning of 2000
>Can't get one before because y2k is going to destroy them all obviously it'd be a terrible investment thanks mom
>look up information about turtles (i don't know)
>look up epic Tornado destruction
>play some fucking slingo
>AOL Teens or whatever it was called
>become an ascended fedoralord
>"a/s/l"
>"@---
Wow, how old are you?
Only Amiga makes it possible
This is essentially the summation of this thread.
>Hmm, can't remember, so here's only the good parts
Nostalgia retroactively fixes failure by hiding it through convenient memory loss and is cancer.
BTW:
Know how much of a vocal, whiny piece of shit you are about "normies ruining the internet"?
The moment you logged on you were the normies of the time ruining it for everyone else in exactly the same way.
There's still a thousand ways to make money online. You're just a neo-luddite living in 2003 and unable to accept anything new.