How long have you been on the Internet?

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roguejuror

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I've been on since 1999. My first internet machine was this Chinese set top box that you plugged on the tv with the yellow white red cables. It was bulky like a VCR. I can't remember the name. It had a keyboard and you used to scroll with with the arrow keys. It had some special keys like address bar key, back, forward and such.

First site I went to ever was the Popular Mechanics website.

I imagine some people are nearing 20 years on the Internet.
 
1997 or 1998

I remember talking with Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath on some early live chat forum

At least I thought it was him

Perhaps it was a sexual predator
 
First year of college - late 1996.

Colba.net, A+ dial-up ISP, must-have out.
 
My first chat was on AOL, some music-related chatroom. Guys were talking about Rush like they were gods. I typed, in all caps:

ALEX LIFESON PLAYS LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER

Someone promptly replied

MATTY SOUNDS LIKE A GUITARIST WITH NO TALENT

Joe Rain LOL'ed at that.

Buried.

:sbrjohn:
 
1995
on a 486 pc with 4 MB RAM
iDirect - dialup 14.4k modem.
Windows 95

That 486 cost 10X as much as my current HP Pavilion Quad core Laptop with 4GB RAM
 
My ex got me on it - as she got me going on personal computers in general.

Prolly '93-94ish.

I remember laughing our heads off about some live chats. Don't ask me the topic. Just remember the hysterics.

Couldn't tell you any details about the hardware or software.
 
96ish. I recall using windows 95 and AOL chat rooms.

a/s/l :usa:
 
Blitty
a/s/l :usa:
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:lmao: right

About the same time for me. Remember the year a little, seeing the net at my buddies house and being like holy fok this is going to change the world.
 
My friend built me a PC in 1996.

"You've got mail!"

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
The Encarta encyclopedia and Oregon Trail was the bomb yo!
 
Printing out dog programs and porn in the library, mid 90's
 
1993 when I first went to college. They had email and internet back then. It was called Netscape I think. That was before Internet Explorer.
 
I remember Netscape. Maybe it was more like 94 when I first used it..
 
Blitty how old were you in 1994?
 
I went on the Internet before 1996, but our first at-home Internet access came then. We convinced our Mom that it was worth spending $20 a month to block her phone line all day.
 
Yes I was speaking of at home internet as well.

The stuff in high school didn't really count in my book.
 
That was my first computer:

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100 MB hard drive
4MB of RAM
2400 bps modem

That was top of the line back then. Cost me $2000!
 
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