+1 yIt was probably around 2000. My dad was a programmer and by that time I already knew more about computers than most of the teachers at my school.
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Things were different back then. You used to have to write stuff like websites down. I'll never forget writing down youtube. com on a piece of paper, when a kid told me about it on the playground. Was probably 2006 or 2007 and shortly after I found this gem.00 Reply
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+1 yWe got our first family computer around 1995/1996 when I was 16 or 17. We had America Online (AOL) internet service, dial-up, so you couldn’t make or receive phone calls while you were on the internet, which would cause occasional arguments, haha. Around the same time, my high school made an investment in a fancy computer lab, with internet, and pretty much instantly there were issues with us kids (all-boys Catholic school) looking up the very rudimentary pornography sites at school, prompting a public admonishment over the loudspeaker in the afternoon announcements from the school principal😂 Or we would look up gore sites with pictures of dead bodies, etc. Teenage boys, lmfao🤷♂️
The Internet wasn’t really that good for another few years, pretty limited compared to today. But it wowed us back then, so we were all into it, haha. Hard to believe it’s been so long. I remember life without it too. Better times, in a lot of ways.10 Reply
+1 yPretty early on.. my dad was very into the newest technology and so he got it before most other people.. though, I guess I did not use it much myself until it became a tool at school, some time in the late 90s.
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Like... when youtube was born? And even then, with funkin' dial up, trying to watch Super smash bros brawl took lke 6 years to buffer. Man, I love the internet we have rn.
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+1 yA long time. Probably 1995 is my earliest memories of actually doing something online. I used AOL chat with my friends, but we only had one phone line so that made it tough.
Thanks, you made me feel old. =P
Remember what these sound like? 00 Reply1.6K opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic. When i was in grad school in the early 90s. I was majoring in computer science and I had a PC at home and used a 2400 baud modem to connect to the college' mainframe so I could do assignments and communicate with professors using this new technology called e-mail.
00 ReplyI got my first proper ISP connection in 1994 but I had been using various bulletin boards since 1989.
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@Red_Arrow Yeah, I can't remember having my own modem slower than 9,600
+1 y2010 is when I started remembering the internet lol.. before that my siblings would look up the websites for me in like 2006 though
00 Reply1999, because I'm old like that. I went onto the Japanese Pokemon website and used to have dozens of AOL free trial disks.
00 ReplyI think around 2005-2006 when I was in kindergarten. Our teachers would take us to the computer lab & we'd play online learning games.
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+1 yIf you are asking for using internet outside my home then it was 2003 or 2004 in internet cafe.
Home connection? Then I would say 2010 or 201110 Reply
+1 yI ran a BBS in 1986, .. connected to DARPA net (what they first called the Internet)
And the FIRST browser wasn't mosaic by the way..00 ReplyI think the first time I used the Internet was in 1997…. long time ago lol
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m +1 yAround ~1992 with Dialup modem using Mailboxes and the Usenet.
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+1 yWhen it first came out. "You Got Mail!" was part of that introduction.
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+1 yThe 90's... late 90's. Early 2001 I was knee-deep in the internet thanks to the military.
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However, the web as we understand it... 1994, I think. The beginning...00 Reply
+1 yShame on me. Lol But I was just a kid.. and dial-up was all the rage back then.
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+1 yMy first touch with it must have been '93 or '94. Everything was quite primitive still :)
''Seriously'' using internet was only since 2000.01 Reply- +1 y
Your update: there's no shame in NOT ''internetting''. Under ''your rock'' you had a REAL childhood and youth.
+1 yProbably since I was like 1 because the TV was usually on.
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+1 y2004-5 just for games, 2009 for the internet in general
00 ReplyThe earliest time I had a computer more or less to myself was 2004. I had very limited interactions starting around 2002
00 ReplyI started using the internet around 2006-2007. I was only 6 years old then. I was just playing games. These were the years when people started to buy computers.
00 ReplyI used it at school in the late 90's. Didn't use it at home tell middle of 05
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+1 y1995. Very very slow experience. It was 9600 baud or 0.09 Mbps and there was barely anything on the internet at the time.
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+1 y1994.. God I'm old. I started using the web in DOS..
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+1 y1997 where needed a 2nd line just to use aol. You had to have it to surf the web.
20 Reply705 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic. My first computer ran windows 98 if that says anything.
00 Reply389 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic. Somewhere around 2000, I consciously used computers since I was 3 years old and internet not long after.
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Anonymous(36-45)+1 yi don't know was so long ago , 2000's maybe but feel like we had a computer here before that
00 Replyabout 85 with data packs that took forever to download
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+1 yI'd say 2012 or 2013
It was just to watch kid shows and play a few games00 Reply1993 I think. It was so slow, so weird. And you paid by the hour!
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+1 yIt arrived in France in March 2000, when your parents did not even meet lol
00 ReplyI feel old for answering this. When it first came out. What was it, in the 90s?
00 ReplyRight after Al Gore invented it.
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+1 yDon’t remember but I’d say around 2010 - 2012
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+1 yI think back in 2010/2011
00 ReplyFor me it was in 2005.
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m +1 yaround 2009... lol, actively
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+1 yI was 7-8 years old I guess it was 2004.
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+1 yMid-1990s, when AOL dialup was first available.
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+1 yNot sure. at least 2001
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+1 yBefore that.
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+1 yBack in 1997 , still have an aol email
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I knew of it since the early 90s but didn’t use it because computers were very expensive back then for peoples income at the time, before that I had a computer from RadioShack but you would need a phone piece to lay in to talk to other computers because the phone company wouldn’t allow direct connection through their wiring yet
+1 yI was there when it was formed.
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+1 yWhen I was in 10th class
00 ReplyWhen I was 18 and I could work to afford it.
00 ReplyIn the mid to late 1980’s when I was a teenager
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+1 y2007 and never gave up
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+1 yAhh MSN messenger and Yahoooooop days.
00 Reply1995/96
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+1 y1994
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u +1 yMaybe 1998 or 1999?
00 ReplySince 2010.
00 ReplyIn 2005 I think.
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+1 y1995, I believe.
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@Marish01 Aw. You don't have to feel bad. Didn't Armenia get the Internet later than other countries?
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Okay. Well, you don't have to feel bad about that. Maybe it was a blessing because it shielded you from bad things.
+1 yAround 1996
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"shame on you for making me feel like I lived under a rock."
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Ok. I don't know that many precocious 4 or 5 yo
Around 2007-2008
00 Reply2001 I belive.
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+1 y1989
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+1 y1995
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