Your first memories of the Internet

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my first memories of the internet is that I cant use the intnet while someone is on the phone and I only mostly went to the kid sites and also I cant stand the connection sound that gets to the intenet

Going in chat rooms on AoL...

This, of course!
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I used to love the agitated beep-beeps my 56 modem used to make, .

telnet - , , - I had a friend from America staying over for a few days and he needed to access his uni's server in the US and just "logged on" via telnet, I'll never forget this feeling - the world is connected!
The fact that I was able to retrieve information from all corners of the world and chatted to people from Chile to Saudi Arabia did not bring home the fact of "connectedness" as much as this short login into a personal account halfway across the globe.

Night feeding my son I spent hours with him in my lap on +fravia's website searchlores.org.
I only understood about 0.5% of it, but it is one of my most enjoyable and memorable internet experience to date.

i remember back in 1994 when myself and a neighborhood friend believed that the internet was another way to call someone's landline phone. so we tried to dial my friend's house phone number and the call ended up at the local police station where a dispatcher answered and we freaked out a bit screaming for a few seconds quickly hanging up. sure enough in less than 10 minutes a police cruiser came hauling ass down our hill and into our cul-de-sac. my friend ran home in the meantime and when i answered the door, the cop had his gun pulled out at me. i nearly crapped my pants. the cop went around back and met my dad who was painting and asked him the standard questions. my dad didnt know what the hell was going on and i being the 12 year old kid didnt know what to do or say so i just let the cop talk to my dad. afterwards, my dad was pissed at me and actually for the only time ever got physically aggressive with me. and that pissed me off so i stayed at my friend's house and didnt talk to him for a few days.

- the chatrooms and spending hours online in the chatrooms
- when prodigy internet service was still around and was actually more popular than aol
- when you only went on for your email and read the news
- when prodigy was bought out by another company and AOL was the leader of internet service in the late 90s.
- going to playboy.com for the first time
- the sh***y graphics, fonts, and hyperlinks usually in one color i.e blue.
- and how much has changed in the last 10 years.

AO-Hell, & the obnoxious noisy modem we had to use to connect to it. The modem of course meant no one to call out or call in because the phone line was busy. When I first joined, we only had so many minutes to use, & it didn't take long before the time was all used up. Go over, & the cost sky rocketed. Luckily it went unlimited within a few months after we signed up. I'd never go back to AOL now. But at the time, it was great fun. I felt like a kid in a candy store.

My first memory of the Internet was back in 1986, when I tried to convince the professors at Michigan State University's Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy departments that not only could real-time audio and video be transmitted over the Internet, but that the technology would be commercially viable and very profitable.

"No," they said. "The only use for the Internet will be between corporations, universities, and the military in a file-sharing network."

Oh, ye of little vision...

I remember not having it, or not even knowing what exactly it was. The first time I actually used the internet wasn't until around 2006 or 2007. Unfortunately, up until recently, my family has always been quite a long way behind the technology of the day.

One of my first internet experiences was I getting flamed on a USENET group in the late 80s or early 90s. That kind of put me off trying to interact with others on the net for a while.

I first started using the internet when I was 12. I remember using AOL, chatting with older men (that was before groups like Perverted Justice gave sleazebags like them something to worry about), and visiting websites about my special interests at the time, which were Balto and Hamtaro.

Back in the 70s. Exchanging e-mail on DARPNET which is the military forerunner of Internet.

ruveyn

I did not like being on computers I thought they were for geeks. My brother then told me you can download free porn then showed me how to do it and I have been hooked ever since. I remember my first message board I ended pissing someone off so he stalked me on the site attacking me on every post. The moderator told me to change my user name.

Aside from sending e-mail to and from my dad using Compuserve (and then later Prodigy and AOL), my first experience using the web was through Prodigy at 2400bps (Keyword "Web") in 1995. The Prodigy software had a built in web browser and it was quite slow (because back then, the Internet was "very busy", and the tubes were much smaller). I remember looking up sites about the game Doom.

Well, I first got online with a 1200 baud internal modem (woo hoo... to various phone numbers. You could download gif files, lightbulb jokes from Compuserve, and that was about it... The actual 'internet' stuff started showing up at work about '96 or so, but I still remember watching line after line of a picture scroll across the screen, as it was being shown...

I was online on BBSs in the mid 80s (starting at 300bps) up into the 90s. I had a friend from a local BBS that would talk about the internet but I didn't really get what it meant. I thought it was like a big BBS.

At college around 1993/4 I stumbled on Gopher in the computer lab. I remember being amazed at getting stuff in Spanish from Spain and telling my Spanish teacher about it. Then I found Mosaic and that just blew me away. Been on ever since.

Michelle

Getting on a BBS via dial-up modem (direct connection) on a friend's computer.

I was so upset that mom and dad wouldn't let me get a separate phone line and modem for my Apple ][.

It wasn't until 1995 that I got a chance to go online with PCs.