technology When do you remember first using the internet?

[Reecejackox 413]

1997 for myself .WWF content

[Clawdeen 16,159]

I can’t remember my age but I used it to play neopets 

[Yoshi89 5,293]

1995 I want to say. Honestly don't remember much about it.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,324]

1998. My parents got me a whole computer set-up for Christmas! Dial-up was so slow!

[Dreambiscuit 10,870]

Late ‘90s; maybe 1997ish. I was looking at Star Wars toys on a public computer at a Kinko's store.  

[Misty Shadow 8,092]

I started using it in 2004. Before then, I had only ever used a computer for mostly simple games. The very first site I started using actively was Neopets. 

[Live Spark 163]

Around the the year 2000 if I recall.

[Gun Metal Zebra 2,327]

I am showing my age here, but I first used the internet in the fall of 1996 as a fifth-grader. My class was given basic research assignments to teach us how to use the internet in our media center classes. I used Netscape Navigator to browse the web on a Macintosh LC 475 computer.

[Cash In 22,828]

Would've been around 2008 or 2009. Mostly for looking at game walkthroughs on GameFAQs.

[ExplosionMare 18,350]

I used it was when I was given permission to use the desktops at my preschool.

[J.J 927]

When I was real young, I used to play Neopets A LOT but I also remember being obsessed with Czones on Cartoon Networks website and RPing in MSN groups, the internet used to be great before it become a cesspool of "convenience".

 

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,163]

Gawd; it had to have been mid to late-90s. It was in junior high school when I first used the internet. Our computer teacher introduced it to us and I was...spellbound. Granted I was more into Encarta, but that is another story. 

[Balt 110]

As a kid I played Webkins and watched Youtube alot on my old Windows XP computer......miss that thing.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Well, back when dial up was a thing. I used to have to use the American Online program itself to login and every year, it would be updated. I used to use the AOL program to browse kids games and all of that stuff. I also used to go to PBS Kids website, Sports Illustrated Kids and Playhouse Disney website where I'd play games associated with my favorite Playhouse Disney shows. 

[Sir Hugsalot 9,360]

I was about 10 years old, from what I recall, so it was around year 2002. In Poland Internet back then was a rarity, but when I first got it I did not care much about it as to me computer was only to play video games. I think I really started using the Internet, when I was about 13 years old, but even then my activity was mostly watching funny videos or looking up gaming-related stuff. 

If there's one thing I will never forget about it was how absolutely tedious it was to set it up. And boy, setting it up was only worth so much, when back then Internet connection was pretty unstable, especially in my location. 

[Envy 6,304]

Late 90s at earliest, 2000 at latest. My parents were very careful about me and the internet. I mean, I wasn't allowed to join forums until 2003 when I was 14. But I browsed websites for several years before that. Exactly how many, I'm not 100% sure. I am sure that I was by 2000 because I remember seeing the Gen II Pokemon Pokedex online when G/S had only been released in Japan, which for sure puts me before fall of 2000. That's the only guidepost I have, though.

[outlaw_f0x 152]

i used to play club penguin and animal jam when i was like 5ish? then i got onto youtube and i watched tons of “how to make a mlp oc” videos and stuff like that. also i became obsessed with undertale around age 7 so i watched a lot of undertale gameplays. 

[Astralshy 28,754]

I think ... it was around 1997/98 in my school in the computer science class ..

But this is so long ago ... I know later when I got at my parents place and I started to explore the internet

 

[Iforgotmybrain 6,267]

Sometime around 2004-2005. It was either playing Webkinz or playing some flash games on Cartoon Network’s website… I really don’t remember which came first

[Silly Druid 7,514]

I think it was around 1998, in the school where my parents worked. I was downloading fan-made maps for Heroes of Might and Magic 2.

[mistrene 243]

Yeeeees, It was in 2006! I used MSN with mom to call my grandma, who lives abroad. We also had school computers with Windows XP. I independently started using the internet in 2009, when I was 7.

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 4,066]

I first got internet in 2014, the next day I started searching for games in the browser and the first game I came across was Tanki Online. My favorite game.

[Raskolnikov 794]

Early 2000's, we still had dial up and I wanted to use my Magic Kinder code to access games on the Kinder website at my sister's house. Of course my sister's mum talks a loooot on the phone so it used to be an ordeal waiting for her to finish so I could go online My parents only got a desktop and a connection years later.

EDIT: Might have been mid-to-late 2000s in fact, I can't find a date on when the Magic Kinder website first became a thing? Goes to show you how little I remember besides "I existed some things happened then I became a teen" lol if it weren't for joining forums in my teens that had post dates I would never remember a single date of my life.

Edited May 20 by Raskolnikov

[Acinonyx 762]

I don't remember in the slightest tbh, sometime In the 90s I imagine.

[sebrosills 86]

Oh boy, I think 2014?