What's your earliest memory of using the internet?

[Nvetta]

We got online in 1994, but I remember using prodigy and waiting and waiting and waiting to see the picture of Big Country Bryant Reeves and the backboard he shattered during practice of the '95 final four. it must have taken 5 minutes for the picture to download. can't say it was worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZQYF2hNgM

back then we had an internet yellow pages that listed catogorized websites. i wonder if we still have that packed up somewhere.

[dmbbearcat]

My dad sat me on his lap in 1998 so that we could go to Dick's Sporting Goods website. He typed in dicks.com and a large BBC appeared on the screen. First internet experience and first porn internet experience.

[bonzo48280]

4th grade. someone told me about sex.com. I went to it. I later got caught because I dialed into a phone number in Madagascar to see more porn that cost about $400 dollars, and I did it like 4 times. Was never really sure what I was doing, but I still look at porn today.

[justinandimcool]

wwf.com and AIM. year 2000.

[cruscott35]

Remember getting some porn on a bulletin board and playing a game called pimp wars.

[LadyMadonna68]

hahaha pimp wars, what a game

[Jake]

I remember my freshman year in college (1990), and a guy who lived in another dorm was in the reserves. He said he got his training orders via a computer, and showed us his email. I thought he was just pulling our leg(s).




I know the brother of a friend of mine used the $9.99 a minute rate for the internet in 1984... I only remember that because his dad was going to kill him

[aicdmb]

Think i played spades on some site in like 99?

[Nvetta]

i got in a lot of trouble because of those per minute rates. every month you got like 500 minutes free, then maybe a $1 a minute or something.

[swordo84]

Don't remember the year, but we were trying to get to www.tsn.ca and it took FOREVER!

[drop2d]

A friend of mind in middle school (somewhere around 1990) had Prodigy... helped me do a project by looking some shit up.

[whygohome?]

Me and my friend were trying to look up cheats for super Mario 64 in like 99. It took each page about 15 minutes to load

Then there was the this page called nudebritney.com that was all the rage in my middle school

[Nick@Night]

Netscape Navigator in the computer lab in middle school, circa 1994-95. I remember something about going to whitehouse.com leading you to somewhere naughty.

[lockman21]

Printing a picture of NSYNC for a girl I liked

Also, going to boobs.com. I didn't know any better, and that was my first thought to see naked chicks. When my mom came down and saw me (I had to be 11 or 12), I said I thought it would be for "boob tube" to look for TV stuff.

Also, this was on Juno or CompuServe. Not sure which.

[zajDmB1]

Using the search Engine lycos (I think) to get new paint designs for a nascar racing game.

And then looking for tits.

[jaking1185]

Using Compuserve and a 28K modem to access the internet for weather information. Late 80's.

[lockman21]

I used to save porn images to a floppy disk and keep it in my closet.

[SqueeBaBooSquee]

Porn. So much porn.jpg And printing porn.jpg

[K3nTaKa0s]

I remember getting online in the fall of '96 and my computer came with a CD with "Lump" and some other songs on it.

[SqueeBaBooSquee]

Also I remember using AIM and playing a game called Starcraft and disconnecting and dialing up over and over and over. Also playing mass amounts of Counterstrike and Team Fortress.

[lockman21]

Originally Posted by SqueeBaBooSquee

Porn. So much porn.jpg And printing porn.jpg

And to think, now I have an iPad that I use to watch porn.

I used to be happy printing out pictures on a Windows 95 PC...things have changed.

[junior94]

Well not directly using it myself, but I do have a very clear, specific memory of first hearing about it. The end of my junior year of high school in early summer 1993, one of the seniors I was friends with was going to college in Ithica NY in the fall and he was telling us about this new thing called "electronic mail" that we'd be able to write to him thru the computer and he'd be able to see it right away.


I remember buying my first computer (that had internet access), sometime in the winter of 1995/96, I went into Delaware as the PA/DE border was very close to my work and I went to a Best Buy there specifically to avoid the added cost of state income tax. It was a Packard Bell, with a whopping 1gb of hard drive storage (actually less than that after the pre-installed software). But I don't have any specific memories of first going online.


edit: oh though I do remember a bit later on, my older brother had already had a computer for awhile, and at the end of one visit to his & his (now wife)'s apartment, he slipped me a piece of paper and told me to go to "naughtylinx.com"

[SqueeBaBooSquee]

Originally Posted by lockman21

And to think, now I have an iPad that I use to watch porn.

I used to be happy printing out pictures on a Windows 95 PC...things have changed.

Ya, my mom would always be pissed that we ran outta ink so fast and she never knew why lol.

I remember having a folder saved on my computer named "N_rop." I thought I was so slick. One day my dad found it and deleted all my favorite pics.

I remember the Napster days like they were yesterday as well.

[kittensXLI]

Of all people, how is junior the one who's early internet experiences were not related to porn?

[justinandimcool]

^ and me, tbh. I was only 9, didn't even know pr0nz were a thing.

[SqueeBaBooSquee]

Originally Posted by kittensXLI

Of all people, how is junior the one who's early internet experiences were not related to porn?

Did not read. I can't believe you read that. 95% of junior posts are tl;dnr

[lockman21]

Originally Posted by SqueeBaBooSquee

Ya, my mom would always be pissed that we ran outta ink so fast and she never knew why lol.

I remember having a folder saved on my computer named "N_rop." I thought I was so slick. One day my dad found it and deleted all my favorite pics.

I remember the Napster days like they were yesterday as well.

I downloaded so much porn on Napster/Limewire.

[kittensXLI]

Originally Posted by SqueeBaBooSquee

Ya, my mom would always be pissed that we ran outta ink so fast and she never knew why lol.

I remember having a folder saved on my computer named "N_rop." I thought I was so slick. One day my dad found it and deleted all my favorite pics.

I remember the Napster days like they were yesterday as well.

So did you ever recover them?

Originally Posted by SqueeBaBooSquee

Did not read. I can't believe you read that. 95% of junior posts are tl;dnr

This thread topic + a post from him = car crash type of situation. I just couldn't turn away.

[smokew11]

im sure it was something having to do with porn

[jmkratt]

It was like 1990 or something before Prodigy could actually access the internet using IE or Netscape. I used it to trade basketball cards, lol.