When did you first get online?

Contributor: BlooJay BlooJay
I think it was around 1996.
07/10/2012
Contributor: PeaceToTheMiddleEast PeaceToTheMiddleEast
Mine was in 1991 when we switched our typing from typewriters to computers. Then they started bringing in the computer classes as well.
07/10/2012
Contributor: jennifur77 jennifur77
Can you imagine trying to go back to 28.8 dial up speed? How did we survive back in the day?

And didn't you love that sound when connecting?
07/10/2012
Contributor: Rossie Rossie
I really don't remember!
07/10/2012
Contributor: KrissyNovacaine KrissyNovacaine
Elementary school in about '96
07/10/2012
Contributor: Ms. N Ms. N
Can't remember exactly...it was in the early-mid 90s though, so I picked 93.
07/10/2012
Contributor: Geogeo Geogeo
I don't really remember
07/10/2012
Contributor: padmeamidala padmeamidala
Quote:
Originally posted by jennifur77
When did you first get online? The very first time ever? I know for myself it was at computer camp when I was a child and we got online (such as it was) in 1985. I've only ever encountered a couple people who were online that early. Of ... more
1997
07/10/2012
Contributor: Sera26 Sera26
I'm in my late 20s. The first time I went online was at a science museum. I found it so fascinating that you could contact people in other countries. I was probably a preteen then. When I was in junior high my family was the first to get actual dial up internet. Well a few of my school friends (who were wealthy, not like us) had parents who had it but they didn't trust their children to use their computers. Of course I got into making fan sites as a silly teen girl, lol. Prior to that my family had a pretty old Apple computer that we just played Oregon Trail on, so fun!
07/10/2012
Contributor: Bignuf Bignuf
Quote:
Originally posted by jennifur77
When did you first get online? The very first time ever? I know for myself it was at computer camp when I was a child and we got online (such as it was) in 1985. I've only ever encountered a couple people who were online that early. Of ... more
1977 at work. 1978 at home. YES...there WAS an Internet back then. Not quite as full as now, but it was already a .com environment!!!!! Believe it or not.

Of course, I also had a CELL PHONE the size of a breadbox!!!!!
07/10/2012
Contributor: Loriandhubby Loriandhubby
i'm getting older so it is hard to rember. but around 2001 seems like a good guess
07/11/2012
Contributor: richsam richsam
Quote:
Originally posted by jennifur77
When did you first get online? The very first time ever? I know for myself it was at computer camp when I was a child and we got online (such as it was) in 1985. I've only ever encountered a couple people who were online that early. Of ... more
i would say in about 98
07/11/2012
Contributor: HippieFeet HippieFeet
either 1999 or 2000.
07/11/2012
Contributor: KyotoAngel KyotoAngel
Quote:
Originally posted by Bignuf
1977 at work. 1978 at home. YES...there WAS an Internet back then. Not quite as full as now, but it was already a .com environment!!!!! Believe it or not.

Of course, I also had a CELL PHONE the size of a breadbox!!!!!
0_o
...and why am I thinking those "cell phones" back then caused many a case of carpal tunnel?
07/12/2012
Contributor: Lioncub Lioncub
1994 when we got married.
08/12/2012
Contributor: hotcherry hotcherry
I don't remember
08/12/2012
Contributor: LAndJ LAndJ
I'd say somewhere around 2001, I don't know the exact year, but I was in 5th grade. My parents finally got a computer that was internet capable so that my sister and I could use it for homework. It was even later for my sister who was in 7th grade at the time.
08/12/2012
Contributor: LAndJ LAndJ
I'd say somewhere around 2001, I don't know the exact year, but I was in 5th grade. My parents finally got a computer that was internet capable so that my sister and I could use it for homework. It was even later for my sister who was in 7th grade at the time.
08/12/2012
Contributor: ArmyWife4311 ArmyWife4311
I don't quite remember when I first got online, but it was when I was in elementary school...so early two thousands?
08/12/2012
Contributor: michael scofield michael scofield
like 98 or 99 I was about 10
08/12/2012
Contributor: sexfairy sexfairy
1998 I think
08/12/2012
Contributor: Tangles Tangles
My parents got their first computer in 1995. I believe I was 3 years old when my mom taught be how to get online and log in to AOL. I don't even remember what I did on the internet back then. AOL Kid's? Barbie.com? It's all a blur before Neopets.
08/12/2012
Contributor: hjtee hjtee
1991, I was three and my uncle is big into fixing/making computers, so he let me fool around on the older ones all the time.

I got my first email in 1996 (age 8), it was a yahoo account, and I still use the same one!
08/12/2012
Contributor: bedorerc bedorerc
I cant remember when I think in middle school, but maybe 5th or 6th grade. So between 97 and 2000.
08/12/2012