when did you start using the internet?

[thecrazyone]

For me, it was back when AOL was on floppy and the version was 1.2. CD was an option to be sent to you via mail other than floppy.


What about you?

[TheGodfather]

When I discovered porn.

[ironchef]

Probably when I was 7, and I'm almost 20 now LOL.

[RandomGuy]

I dont remember the version but it was back when they gave you 8 hours for free (and that was like the craziest shit heard of... OMFG 8 HOURS?!?!?! that'll last months) had it for years, til i discovered net zero (with the add banner) and then had a hack for it to remove the add banner... lolol and used that for a few years... and then net zero went commercial so i got comcast cable modem, we didn't have comcast for long so converted to freakin DSL, then upgraded to DSL ultra, then DSL extreme

[thecrazyone]

. OMFG 8 HOURS?!?!?! that'll last months)

[RandomGuy]

hells yeah old school AOL warez chat groups

type Join FGmm to join fadeXglory mass mail

hasan300zx: FGmm
fadeXglory: hasan300zx has been added

</gets loads of emails with links to mad illegal software, porn, games, etc>


<one week later>

dad: WTF WHY IS THERE PICTURES OF NAKED LADIES IN YOUR INBOX WTF YOU'RE LIKE 8 YEARS OLD
me: must be junk mail?

[TheGodfather]

I think I'm one of the few who still uses AOL.

I know when the internet first came into homes, AOL was it. Internet explorer, at least on my old computers, sucked bad.

Now today even, I use AOL with my DSL connection and I like it alot.

[OneSlow5pt0]

umm,when i was bout 12 and scammbled cinimax wasnt cutting it

now i have hairy palms

[TheGodfather]

umm,when i was bout 12 and scammbled cinimax wasnt cutting it

now i have hairy palms

+ 1

[The Yousef]

back in elementary school.... who remembers Prodigy?

[quickdodge®]

I know when the internet first came into homes, AOL was it.

You're partially right. The first time I got "online," I was instant messaging a friend of mine across town. This was back in 1986. The ISP was Quantum Link. Known as Q-Link, the name changed in 1991 to America OnLine.

Here is the menu board for Q-Link:



Beat that, suckas. Lolol. Later, QD.

[Nemesis]

back in elementary school.... who remembers Prodigy?

I used Prodigy, back in the ole DOS days. I went from Prodigy to AOL, to CompuServe, etc.

[Spectic Tank]

back in elementary school.... who remembers Prodigy?

Same here...I started on prodigy and then went to AOL cause none of my friends used prodigy.

[Jimmy B]

1992

[Ran]

AOL was my first internet experience. D@mn, that was a long time ago.

[Shawna]

1996 ftl

[KAKid240]

We always had to have the internet for what my mom does, so we had the very first version of AOL. It was a sold program, NOT! That was a long long time ago.

[EM1toEVO]

You're partially right. The first time I got "online," I was instant messaging a friend of mine across town. This was back in 1986. The ISP was Quantum Link. Known as Q-Link, the name changed in 1991 to America OnLine.

Here is the menu board for Q-Link:



Beat that, suckas. Lolol. Later, QD.

That IS some old school right there. I remember it but never used it. I was a late bloomer on the web - mid 90's for me.

[tony]

I used Prodigy, back in the ole DOS days. I went from Prodigy to AOL, to CompuServe, etc.

Damn I remember all of that, CompuServe was actually the first service to offer unlimited access with a service called WoW, didn't last long. Buy paying an hourly rate for AOL got expensive.

I'll say around 93, at 13 I couldn't afford AOL so I had to steal accounts.. (Who remembers what punting and TOS'n is?) Also found a glitch in prodigy's software that allowed me to get on free, sadly I grew up and got a life so cannot remember half of the stuff I knew about computers back then.

[Tracy]

LOL. I didn't use the internet until i went to college when I was 23

[IndianStig]

AOL 4.0

[Atlanta_Tide]

back in elementary school.... who remembers Prodigy?

I was on Prodigy when I was 10 or 11, I am 31 now. I also had a Commodore 64 back in the day with a modem, couldn't really do anything with it, but it was cool to have!

[bluuuurr]

juno and aol 2.5 days

[cactusEG]

since i was a young lad

[06SilverBullet]

1992....

Mark

[no control]

for me...aol. i was on the comp constantly back in 6th grade. i used to play cribbage all the time...if i wasn't playing in a cribbage tournament, it was only because my dad was working it...he worked for aol at the time, so we got it free. ^.^

[SpecV_Scott]

You're partially right. The first time I got "online," I was instant messaging a friend of mine across town. This was back in 1986. The ISP was Quantum Link. Known as Q-Link, the name changed in 1991 to America OnLine.

Here is the menu board for Q-Link:



Beat that, suckas. Lolol. Later, QD.

I was about 9 at that time...and my brother and I would dial up with our 300baud modem into local BBSs. Yes, Bulletin Board Systems. We were using an Atari 800XL, the official home computer of the 1984 Olympics. We would sit up all night long downloading games that fit on one doudle-sided, single density 5.25" floppy disk. 90% of the time, it didn't even work. It was around that time I saw my first internet porn...which was a super lo-res pic of some naked chick. It took around 8 hours to download.

I may not have beat you, but we're definitely tied.