re: Do you remember the first time you ever logged on to the internet

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I had a Compuserve account in 1983 or 1984

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$6 an hour adds up fast when playing games. My parents were not pleased.

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my first home PC from QVC

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Useless trivia: QVC’s home office is now what used to be Commodore Computers headquarters.

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What kind of porn where you checking out back in ‘97?

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I feel like there were just loads more websites you went to to get your smut in the early days of the Internet. Now there are like a handful.


So many viruses, so much scrambling to clear google and yahoo search history before parents came home.

My neighbor had a printed "phone book" of sorts that listed "all the websites."

I remember very early 90's my dad and I in the car and he was trying to explain this article to me he had read about the "information superhighway". Of course, it made no sense.

'95 I was at a friend of a friend's house and her family had internet. I was huge into Pearl Jame at the time and I freaked the frick out when I realized I could print every one of their song lyrics. Printed them out and put them into a binder.

First social media type thing was IRC. I was in Kuwait with the USAF and all the dudes in my shop used IRC. I checked it out and was amazed. I remember one chick gave me a "ROTFLMAO" and wouldn't tell me what it meant. I spent hours trying to decode how those letters translated to her wanting to have sex with me. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed when she told me what it meant.

I don't remember, but I know it was Compuserve. Then we got Prodigy. Then we got AOL. Then it was NetZero. Then we got broadband.

Netscape

I remember my cousin getting AOL in '96 or' 97. We were both young teenagers.

We stayed up until 3am one night going to various chat rooms. I still remember talking to this 'mid 30s woman from Australia' and things got pretty heated.

It was probably some redneck old man, but we believed!

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I remember when news people would read out the entire html link when referring to a web page.

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Yep. I recall the local new lady reading the cue card and saying we could get more information at LINK D O T (she pronounced each letter, D O T, instead of saying dot) ksla D O T com