Mine were going to websites to find out about Pokemon cheats. There were at least A THOUSAND pokemon fansites out there, and any one that had a sidebar was considered the cream of the crop.
I think my first experience was talking in an AOL chat room at a friend's house. They had AOL, and it was pretty cool.
Mine was at school searching the net on Alta Vista and Yahoo, and Google didn't even exist.
Funny, mine was talking smack to a 14.4 user, saying my 28.8 was superior.
TRADE WARS 2002
Dancing baby and Dragonball Z text based RPGs soon after ;-;
Looking for... Pictures of airplanes on the internet as a ten year old, and being shocked at the amount of porn.
spam and junk.
My first experience on the net was seeing various cheap graphics on various websites(Pokemon fansites mostly) and thinking "I could do that!", and then proceeding to make a website. I was obsessed with Choose Your Own Adventure books at the time, so I made a whole Choose Your Own Adventure scenario as a website, working mostly in notepad. I was a very geeky child.
Link, or it doesn't exist.
Searching for Diddy Kong Racing and other N64 game information, IIRC.
>>72
same!
only mine was Mario Kart 64 (better game, obv)
I can remember having AOL for a few months back in the day, then dropping them for a local ISP and playing TF on Quake.
AOL in the Mid 1990s and on IRC, Mostly hanging out in the ZZT-MZX community and making terrible adventure games.
Looking up Dragon Ball Z plot summaries and pictures, since it was before the decided to dub all of it.
getting onto IRC through a proxy on GE's old dialup service (GEnie).
I started off with IRC. Some otaku IRC chat that's probably dead now.
Working my way through retro snes roms :)
it makes me sad that there are people who don't know what the internet was like before 1993.
In short, Help! I'm trapped in the existence of a newfag.
>>80
Get used to this feeling. That's how it is when you get older; young people keep coming. Also, substitute anything in the world for "the internet".
>>81
In 1993 I was 8 and using my dad's password (post-it notes stuck on the bottom of the keyboard can have really useful information on them) to dial in to the university he was teaching at and get on the internet.
going to cheat code central for SNES cheats, waaaay back when it first opened ... can't remember for which games.
dialing into various boards via compuserve. dialing into their tex-based Dungeon game, which cost $$ per minute.
AOL
Trading warez on various BBS
AOL Chatrooms.
Looking for user submitted cheats on supercheats.com
playing muds, a space ghost one, yes it was a bbs code game.
My first online experience: calling BBSes when I was 9 years old with a 300 baud modem I got for Christmas. There were a lot of BBSes, and I was confused about why the ones with the most child-themed names turned out to be adult only, like "The Toy Box"
My first Internet-related experience was a BBS that had Usenet feeds coming in. I'd read the Usenet Oracle mostly, and this gave me a feel for net culture before I had net access.
My first Internet access was from the local community college. I actually got to submit questions and answer questions with the Usenet Oracle, and even got some of my questions and answers posted as Oracularities.
Late bloomer here. Got internet access in 2002, lots of Kournikova pics, matrix fan pages, random crap, using IE's own search function for a while (ugh) and Kazaa.
I remember using Windows 95 and Netscape v2 in middle school. Even then I could sense that IE was trouble. I messed around with the school network, screwing up the printer system and setting a virus in the schoolwide T: drive. I wouldn't discover teh pr0nz until much later though.
Online: Prodigy and Compuserve. 7ish yrs old, on a 286/386(ish). Can't even rem what I did with it at the time. Just sort of poked around.
Prodigy Internet. 9ish yrs old, on a brand spanking new 486, saying "There's no way in hell this is going to work. It's all flashing gifs and crappy search engines that crawl...no content."
>>93
There's a lesson there for the jaded Anonymouses who dismiss new things now.
MSN Chat was the anime ghetto of the cyberverse and I was a highly-decorated, chat-fight picking kickass Megaman original character out to save the world from whatever the RP flavor of the day was and knock heads with school-RP douchebags and space pirate fuckoffs that dared to slight me. YEAAHHHH!!!!
I soon realized that this was quite possibly the stupidest possible way to spend my time and promptly quit. That was about ten years ago.
seeing a girl shit on a guys chest from some BBS back in the day. Once I saw that i knew the internet was for me
Hacking into the NASA mainframe on my Commodore 64. Ah, good times, good times.
(No, not really.)
>>97
Woah, I did the same thing.
Only mine was a MSAI 8080 and I hacked NORAD.
Turns out the only winning move is not to play.
gamefaqs
fuck yeah!!
Looking at NASA website.
My friend and I in middle school used to skip lunch to browse the internet at our school's computer lab
Actually, I remember using the internet even sooner in 5th grade. The first web browser I used, Netscape! I don't remember what I browsed though.
Late bloomer - Win98 system, online activities consisted of chatting on a RP/Gaming community by the company 3DO, IRC downloadz, building craptastic websites.
>>101
Astronyomy picture of the day was great back in the days.
got internet back in 98, 99 maybe, i cannot remember. was what, 9 or 10.
use to use google to search for things, nothing specific, never used any forums or anything. Just anything I was interested in the time I would look up. lota science shit.
The first time I used a chat room was in 2006.
I don't use any of that stuff now. All i do is browse chans as anon.
> I don't use any of that stuff now. All i do is browse chans as anon.
Amen. That's the point of the internet.
First I remember was hanging out in the "Boys Only" chatroom on Prodigy, and raging at the fact that girls went there (I didn't understand why yet, lolol). After that came pokemon RP on AOL 3.0 (15 hours free!!!! omomgomomgomgomg), then EverQuest, then IRC.
My earliest site was a crappy video game link site. Then I had a Pokemon website (it even had a sidebar! Also had a MIDI that played in the background, that you could select.)
Fucked around in the late nineties as a kid, started growing some balls with the use of IRC and stuff, eventually found Something Awful and eventually followed the draft of the Internet until meeting a funny guy named moot and his website 4chan.
My father was in the chat room where the Soviet Union coup attempt was unveiled to the rest of the world. Pretty hardcore stuff if you ask me.
Pokemon cheats, and Neopets.
Using Netscape to search for Monkey Island walkthroughs with Altavista. Waiting for an hour to download a tiny video from the intro of Worms. Finding random chatrooms and just talking shit.
Another youngin' here, learned my way through the internet first from Digimon fan sites (whatever shit i needed for pokemon i'd just use a strategy guide because it never occurred to me that online walkthroughs existed) and DBZ spoilers or whatever sites on a 56k modem in 2001.