Can you remember the first time you used the internet?

**snaw** · 20 December 2007, 07:41

89 - at uni, the pre internet (ARPANET I think it was called). I played that tron game - light cycles or something. Then bummming about on dial up bulletin boards, downloading porn (What else) for ages.

Then this browser thingie came along.

**NotAllThere** · 20 December 2007, 08:08

'87, University.

www first use was April 1996, via compuserve.

**Churchill** · 20 December 2007, 08:09

I invented it.

Threaded.

**daviejones** · 20 December 2007, 08:14

1995, I took out a subscription in Hong Kong to Asia-on-Line. The install came on a floppy and local calls were free so you could leave it on all day. I had a 14.4K modem and it was flying.....

**VectraMan** · 20 December 2007, 08:48

89 at university I guess, but that was just newsgroups and mailing lists. There was no web of course, but I did once get paid £3 to use a hypertext system somebody was researching.

It must have been around 94-95 that the company I worked for (who had Compuserve) got a Demon internet account as well and I was given the task of setting it up.

**chef** · 20 December 2007, 08:50

I was at college, so must be '96, Netscape Navigator which loaded up a very basic almost text only version of the net. First thing I searched for "The Hackers Handbook" followed by "porn"

**daviejones** · 20 December 2007, 08:56

Originally posted by chef View Post

I was at college, so must be '96, Netscape Navigator which loaded up a very basic almost text only version of the net. First thing I searched for "The Hackers Handbook" followed by "porn"

No idea why you bothered with The Hackers Handbook...

**Clippy** · 20 December 2007, 09:11

Nah, never been on it.
It's a fad, it'll never take off.

Bill Gates

**Xenophon** · 20 December 2007, 09:57

1994. Some American consultant showed me the AltaVista homepage and I was hooked.

Can you remember the first time you used the internet?