The first time you used the World Wide Web

[soop]

What did you do?  I was just listening to an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, and visited the first ever webpage, http://info.cern.ch/.    I knew friends that had modems with their BBCs and they used to access BBS before all that, but I never did.

[Ji-L87]

It was in computer class, at school. Just logged into our 10mb accounts and used Altavista for the first time. I searched for (and found) the official Ferrari homepage.

...ah, I was innocent back then

[RegalSin]

I looked up the word pussy

I researched about my favorite fictional material. I chatted in AOL with people from the deep south, west side, Long Island. Even those jerks with the text messengers. I even had a sorta role-playing friend. I made a phone call to one of these people. the good old  NORMAL fashioned way, back on 56K. No I never cyber with anybody, as the commercials called it.

I toured the world of webpages, Back then I had tons of viruses on my computer because the viruses, all messed with IE, and not AOL explorer.
I saw all kinds of wonderful, things, that people of today would
find abnormal. It was like the world rediscovered.

This was all before I entered high-school, We were like Children of the Corn back then. Extremely smart and advanced for our generation group,
but we had one weakness, the thirst for knowledge and understanding.
I was on the road to being a scholar with honors before I used the internet.
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More or less I stopped browsing xxx pictures around 2004. I even deleted them, and then again deleted them. At some point I played
PSO for the GCN. I got BSOD BY ROSE1/2 from Japan ( told me that I was cheatin but it was him/her ) on PSO, and even called the dickless SEGA hotline ( that was my WOW days ). I collected all the items, and chatted with all kinds of people from around the world. I tried using the BBurst but my computer was too slow. I have seen Ever quest but never knew it. Maybe when I start to care, and get another powerful machine, I will play WOW.

More or less today, the internet is like this

That "ass" with the Matrix coat is what got me in trouble, recently.
You see they name the files retarded names. Curiosity got the best of the cat.

[Tatsujin]

it was in 1995 or 96, when we first got internet at my work, during my apprenticeship at the swiss telecom.

i very first surfed to hompages of konami, capcom and such DLed a lot of picture and illustrations from games like parodius, twin bee, captain commando, street fighter II, final fight etc.

took a lot of time until a pic was displayed in full grace on the screen..you sure remember the multiple mosaic DL procedure until a pic was displayed in full resolution..lol.

to me, at that time, it felt like being the very beginning of that new medium.

got my first flatrate around 98 at home, and was lucky to have few kb/s with my 56k modem at that time. lol.

netscape navigator, alta vista and hotbot were my best friends. lol.

lol, hotbot is still around. wonder if that get still used by the peeps.

http://www.hotbot.com/

so is altavista

http://www.altavista.com

I still used that prior google was available.

[Tatsujin]

one of my friends used BBS in the 80s with his c64 and a 2400 baud modem,  to share cracked games within his cracker group.

i always visited him with a bunch of 5 1/4" floppy disks.

[Ji-L87]

I looked up the word pussy

This explains everything. 

[soop]

I remember sitting there looking blankly at the screen for a while thinking "What the hell do I want to know?"  Then I typed "Ghost in the shell" and I was like "huh." TBH though the Internet's way better now.  Everything's quick and the day of AOL homepages is pretty much behind us.

[Arkhan]

I got on AOL and typed in "nintendo"

a few hours later, I was on like Rotten.com or something

no idea how that one happened, lol.


GOOD JOB AOL.

[Duo_R]

My first experience was with AOL, so for me it was all the chat rooms, etc. We got one of those 90 hours free disks.

[Arkhan]

My first experience was with AOL, so for me it was all the chat rooms, etc. We got one of those 90 hours free disks.

DUO_R

ASL,

WAN CYBER?  IM ME.

[RegalSin]

The wild days of AOL was amazing...... I miss the innocence of everything. I miss the days when nobody knew what a Juridian was,
or why Kyle was a messed up name to have. Everything before that was just Mcdonalds, SNES, VHS and homework. The internet is like biting the apple from the fruit of knowledge, but like a hydra/dog, bite me in the ballz. I regret nothing. They make it seem like the last 14 years of my life never occurred.

[esteban]

I flirted with BBS stuff on C64/Apple and MUDs (on terminals at computer lab) during 89-93...but only when I was at a computer lab/with friend who was online. WHICH WAS RARE. I knew ONE person who was online (and we had to wait until his DAD was done using the computer, which was NEVER), and I rarely was able to get a terminal at the computer lab (folks would get there earlier than me).


Completely on my own:

(1) Prodigy Online Service (90-93?) --> message boards (Asking questions about obscure bands and getting reliable answer was awesome. I remember finally getting some additional info about "The Commonwealth" (Dave Ort) (...all I had was a fantastic LP by them...I couldn't find anyone, or any fanzine, that gave much info about them). LOTS OF QUESTIONS about when "the next" Fugazi album was going to come out...

(2) 1993-94 --> Freshman in college and used a proper browser for the first time. I looked up information about (surprise!) obscure bands. I had some Polish and Ukranian punk/hardcore EP's and I was hoping to find more information (like, other bands that were similar to them). Needless to say, I found NOTHING. So I read some FAQ's about The Human League and New Musik and Zounds! and etc. instead. I WAS IN HEAVEN.

[geise]

I used to use BBS on my Amiga and ST in the early 90's.  We got a Mac Power PC in 94.  That was really when we first had the WWW.  I think we used iCab.  Then installed Netscape Navigator.  I have no idea who we used at the time, but it was a 14.4 modem  We then upgraded a month later to a 56k.  By 95 we had Mindspring as our provider.  They were great for newgroup access.  Newsgroups was were it was at for the pr0n stuff.  It was also good for the .rec groups for video games and music.  That was also the time when all the pages on the net were using a black page against censorship.  Haha the blue ribbon campain.  As for the first thing I searched for?  Hmmm...it was probably something pr0n, music, or video game related.

[RegalSin]

Speaking of internet history on the record this was the first image

http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/15968853firstphoto_finished_full.jpg

Ironic isn't it. A bunch of popstars, B-girls, dressed up like if they are from a
retro 1950's dance.

[SuperPlay]

In the late '80s and Early '90s I could loan an Amstrad PPC-640 as I required it (I was a very lucky lad!).  I used this to connect to BBS boards at 1200/2400 Baud (Whopping 512k/1MB per hour download!).  Mainly for PC apps n chat and then later new game releases for the Super Famicom.

Amstrad PPC-640:  http://www.computercloset.org/AmstradPPC640.htm

Also around the same time I was lucky enough to have access to the local universitys 24 hour computer lab.  I knew the head of the computing faculty and they arranged me access :-)  I had some strange looks in the lab as I was only 14/15 at the time ;-) I mainly used this to access FTP sites for downloading apps and pc demos from the Future Crew/Triton etc.

Then in 1993 I stated to work at a computer store who sold their own ISP service (If I remember it was the DEMON internet service re-branded) and as a member of staff I had free internet access at home (I still had to pay the local call charge).  I cannot remember how, but I managed to get my hands on a US Robotics 56k Courier modem for not a lot of money.  At the time these retailed for around £400!