How did you come upon the internet?

[CrazyLazy]

Just wondering how everyone here "discovered" the internet and how long you have been actively participating on it. For me it's been around 5 years since I discovered the world of the internet beyond email and research for school. This was mostly as a result of me neffing on a forum of a game I used to play quite a bit. Discuss?

 

[MiniDoom]

high school, 1994 or so.

 

[LikeLinus]

I started using the interweb back in the early 90's. Back when Compuserv, AOL, Prodigy and others were all the rage!

 

[Canai]

AOL / earthlink CD's. I've had steady internet for about 8-ish years or so. Before then it was random spurts of dial-up / direct connect modem play.

 

[MiniDoom]

use to dial into modem banks and download games in the 80's if that count as the interweb...

 

[moshquerade]

all over the keyboard.

that's what he said.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

My dad. When my brothers and I turned IIRC 8 or so, he deemed us "old enough" to surf the internet. And we've been on it ever since.

 

[TallBill]

The internet found me!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

that's what he said.

Tell us more.

 

[Arcadio]

I first used the internet during my first semester in college back in 1997. I didn't use it earlier because my family could not afford a computer.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

When my dad brought home a 1200kb modem, and spent 30 minutes downloading a graphic of the Little Mermaid, I was hooked, hoewever long ago that was.

 

[TheInternet1980]

I HAS INTERNETS

 

[rudeguy]

it came with my first computer

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

In 1975 I played "StarTrek" on a 64 x 64 grid using a teletype tied to a timeshared mainframe which linked to the old ARPANET with the computer geeks at UCLA

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

that's what he said.

Tell us more.

I think her insinuating her snatch is wide enough to fit a keyboard up there is "more" enough...

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
When my dad brought home a 1200kb modem, and spent 30 minutes downloading a graphic of the Little Mermaid, I was hooked, hoewever long ago that was.

On what, the Little Mermaid?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

that's what he said.

Tell us more.

I think her insinuating her snatch is wide enough to fit a keyboard up there is "more" enough...

a keyboard, try a kitchen sink. actually i think the whole hs football team is up there.
big enough for your over active imagination yet?

 

[ch33kym0use]

at school, I think, idk

 

[mattocs]

1994, my aunt had it. I got it myself in 1995 when I got my first computer. I was 10 in 1995.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: moshquerade
all over the keyboard.

that's what he said.

Tell us more.

I think her insinuating her snatch is wide enough to fit a keyboard up there is "more" enough...

a keyboard, try a kitchen sink. actually i think the whole hs football team is up there.
big enough for your over active imagination yet?

no... keep talking

 

[Leros]

We got prodigy. I used to think the walled garden was the internet. I didn't know any better until later.

 

[Psynaut]

Computer at work around 1997, I think. Used it at home to play and research Everquest. It could have been as early as 1996, but I don't remember for sure so I am being conservative.

 

[imported_Imp]

When I started playing multiplayer games with dial-up. I played on the Zone, which was browser based, so that got me going.

 

[ch33kym0use]

saw and used computers, apples and ibm compatible pc's, computer magazines, talked about it with friends, got home desktop computer, maybe that was it

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i was into computers for 4 or 5 years before actually owning one. unable to mooch my friends pc any longer, i built one in 2003, plugged it in, and began internetting like a pro. irc still makes me vomit, tho.