Describe your fist time using internet >1999 >go to l

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>>56548351

>1999/2000 (can't remember)
>6/7 years old
>family uses AOL
>log into AOL for the first time
>go into chat
>"what does sup mean"
>"what does asl mean"
>spam random RP shit and pokemon shit in chat
>discover methodus toolz, pokemon battlers, and other AOL "progs", get an interest in programming
>get into online gaming a few months later with pirated copies of Turok 2 and South Park the Game, along with Quake 2
>spend a ton of time browsing web 1.0 sites, webrings, abandonware sites, fansites etc

it was a simpler time, a better time

I miss chatrooms, modern IRC just isn't the same
online gaming sure as fuck isn't the same either

crazy taxi cheats

>>56548351
Cant remember exactly but now that you mention it, my first times using the internet i remember that it felt like an amazing gift to me. I could use it 1h a week at the library as a kid, mainly looking up websites I saw around that seemed interesting like a cartoons official website or silly games.

>sometime around 1996 or 1997
>at uncle's house
>he shows me how to connect to internets and how to get to a search engine
>magellan search engine of choice
>search for rugrats websites
>listen to rugrats wav files all day for weeks
>eventually listen to simpsons wavs

look at disney porn

>>56548527
also around this time I was at his house a lot and he let me use the computer whenever I wanted. Eventually I was playing with all his CDs and found Quake.
>tfw I will never forget the first time I gibbed an ogre
>nightmares and shit

>>56548488
AOL was the shit back then

Pokemon fansites were getting big
Ricing your Win98 with awful WindowBlinds themes, mom didn't care
56k modem speeeeeeeeeeed

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>>56548557

>Ricing your Win98 with awful WindowBlinds themes, mom didn't care
iktf
I remember ricing my WIn98 desktop to look like XP before it came out

>56k modem speeeeeeeeeeed
shitty telephone wiring to my house only allowed for 28.8k

Vice City cheats I think.

>>56548351
Holy fuck that looks comfy.

>Be at dad's workplace in 1996.
>Network admin at SUNY
>Not much of anything back then and I didn't know what I was doing.
>Just found some pages full of cheesy jokes but it was cool
>Go back to BOCES and say
>"Anybody who's anybody has surfed the information superhighway" or something cringy and autistic but fuck you I was 10
>Still cringy and autistic
>The guy that bought the evga 960 from best buy and has that old filthy looney tunes mousepad

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>got the internet for the first time
>searched for comics
>found her

Degeneracy ever since

>school
>7th grade
>we were taught how to use search engines
>Google existed
>was a good feel, don't know anymore what we searched for
>the years later we discovered how to find naked woman when tipping in "hör mal wer da hämmert", the German name for the series "Home Improvement"

Was a good time. Sometimes I'm asking if seeing the thousands and millions of images from EVERYthing imaginable and a lot more and reading these partial disturbing things on imageboards etc was good to give me a bigger watch to the world or if it let me becoming this isolated lonely NEET lurking on imageboards all day.

Animal Crossing cheats

Fathers silicon graphics workstation, dunno when. Watched videos of jellyfish and crashed it

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>>56548903
sabrina a cute though

wait, wrong sabrina

mid 2000s. I looked up a lego forum and made a post that was literally nothing but a long long string of smileys
I thought it made sense to post that and that it was good, at the time.
Thats the first time I REMEMBER, anyway.

>1994
>had been using BBSes since 1992
>Dad has had internet access at work since the 80s, used to bring home print outs of game cheats from newsgroups, stuff like that
>He signs up for Demon dialup access
>Amazingly they actually supply software for the Amiga, TCP/IP, email, news etc
>Get online
>Had no idea where to start
>Try some sites from listings in Internet magazine
>Eventually manage to get onto an Amiga FTP site and download AMosaic
>Try some websites
>Everything is excruciatingly slow because using a 2400bps modem
>AMosaic crashes all the time

And that's the first time I used the internet. About a year later we got a 28.8k modem, I found some newsgroups, someone made some decent Amiga browsers, and I figured out where to get porn.

Not my first, but an early memory that somewhat lead me to this horrid website today.

>Be me
>Early 2000s, I think 2001 or 2002ish
>On my dad's trusty Windows 2000 pc
>7 years old really into Super Mario
>Everyday try and figure out how to play original Super Mario Bros which I really wanted to do
>Come across the term emulators a lot when looking
>Find an emulator site
>Click a link and a pop up comee up
>Flashing banner with an anime girls face and says something likeXXX GAMES PICS HERE
>Curious, dunno what XXX Games could possibly be, sounded cool though
>Click the link
>It loads
>Big picture of Goku fucking Sailormoon
>I get a boner
>Dunno what to think, so I bookmark the picture for later
>Invite some school friends over and show them
>Have strange dreams about that picture for a while after

I remember one of my friends finding the picture hilarious at the time, saying, and I quote "Haha, it looks like she's eating it!". My parents never found out, and they probably should have monitored my internet usage as a kid.

>>56549171
disgusting, Goku and Sailor Moon don't even live in the same universe there's no way they could fug.

>>56549166
Oh, and I forgot to mention IRC. I think that was my next discovery after the disappointment of the world wide web. Come to think of it, my social life pretty much died as soon as I discovered IRC. Amiga magazines have a lot to answer for, they led me astray.

>>56549202
I was surprised as well. Seeing two unrelated cartoons I'd watch in the morning before school, doing such a strange thing, what a mixed bag emotions I was feeling.

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>1997
>can barely write
>Ask parents to sign me up for a computer course
>sit with 40 year old tech illiterate people
>find doodie.com
>Internet is awesome

I miss late 90s chatrooms like Yahoo and learning Flash to build epic websites

>>56549227
>>56549166

Good thing you didn't get sucked into the depressing world of talkers and MUDs. Newsgroups were great for discussion back then though, and porn of course.

>>56548351
>1999
>6 years old
>dad figures out how to connect to dial-up
>don't even know about google
>just reading and looking it pictures, but it seems like magic
>dad disconnects internet and says we can't use it because it's too expensive
>cry

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>>56549270
>Get WebTV when I'm around 10 or so
>find a site called Tracy's Fart Farm
>it has fart wav files, fart stories, names for different types of farts, etc
>send email to Tracy with a fart story from when I farted in an elevator
>really hope it gets added to the site
>Tracy replies back
>but my mom gets the email before I do (I used mom's email account)
>mom gets mad at me for visiting the fart farm and says I can't go there any more

>>56549316
fuckin underage faggot gtfo

>>56549316
>inb4 underage b&

>>56549330
Kek, I remember that site.

Internet was sure more fun back then. Fuckin normies ruined it.

>born in 97
>first time using the internet was in like 2001 or something as a kiddo
>only remember the service provider dialer that had a cute dog
>don't even remember what i used the computer for at home for anything before 2005, before that i barely knew how to turn the computer on and just used it with my dad
Basically my childhood 2006~ish memories from the internet are flash games and neopets i guess, i don't even remember shit properly

Played Doom 2 with a friend. Ended up killing each other for hours instead of finishing the level.

>>56549316
>whole posts boils down to "i'm literally 14 and have child porn"
that cool brah, i'll be sure to visit you in prison when you turn 18

>1995, my younger self is about 10 y/o
>dad gets AOL on a 56k modem, using a cool 75Mhz Packard Bell
>go into the Marvel Comics area and spend all day reading the animated Spiderman and Wolverine comic books that took ages to load
>discover chat rooms, start playing around
>suddenly get the brilliant idea of insulting everyone and talking real dirty to strangers
>look at me, I'm just the baddest motherfucker in the world
>next day dad checks his email and there's a message from some mod saying we were being lewd in the chat rooms...
>get banned from AOL irl, got lucky cause he didnt spank me

good times, they were

>early 2000s
>with my dad
>go to local library to try out the interwebz
>try loading up webpage (can't remember which one)
>couldn't figure out why it's not working
>call over librarian to help
>it wasn't loading because we were putting spaces between the words in the URL

That's my earliest memory of the internet, I must have been about 7-8ish. I literally only remember the librarian showing us that the URL can't have spaces in - I remember nothing else from that day. I wish I knew what site we were trying to get on so I could look at it today.

Before we got a proper computer we had one of those shitty computer-phone things which could access the web. I used to look up yu-gi-oh cards on it all the time.

I also remember the first time I saw porn, I was like 10 and waited until my mum and sister went out so I could go on the family computer in the kitchen. I think I just searched for "sex" and somehow ended up on looking at some bondage pics of women in black latex suits lmao. I came in literally seconds.

Good times.

>>56548351
1987-88 probably, some gateway through college, mostly nntp messaging, some email, some gopher, hard to remember that long ago though

>>56549421
a URL can have a space in it though, that librarian lied to you

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>>56549358
>Normies ruined it
It's true. You can blame Apple and social media.

>>56549428
It can? Not that %20 bullshit but an actual space? huh I didn't know that.

>>56549432
>mfw I was here when the Fox report was new
Why can't I leave this fucking site

>>56549456
%20 is a space, most web browsers will encode the space to %20 for you

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>>56549463

>1999
>2 years old
>Move into new house that has internet
>Fascinated by the sound the modem makes as it dials
>Dad shows me the wonderful world of Yahoo!
That was pretty much it. The first flash I remember seeing was the "Daylight come and we droppa de bomb" after 9/11.
I'm bummed that I ended up formatting the computer's hard drive a few years later.

Does anybody remember MonadNet?

>>56549482
No shit. There's just no where else to go on the net. Reddit is an absolute hellhole that will go the way of Digg and Myspace. This is the only place with a large userbase and little moderation.

>>56549572
We're fortunate the userbase shows some restraint on /g/. Some of the other boards are a mess due to lack of moderation.

>>56549292
Never came across Talkers. I used to play a MUD on one of the BBSes I was a regular on, but by about 1995 I was literally the only one still playing. Probably due to people moving on to the net.

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>>56549467

>>56549601
Yeah I haven't seen many bullshit gpu wars threads lately. Just crapple meme phone ones

>>56549626
>Probably due to people moving on to the net.
There were a lot of MUD/MOOs you could telnet to in the 90s. Fun experience but cancerous user base for the most part.

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'94 or so. All things X-files and MST3k.

>I can still read my cringy usenet posts on google.

>>56549764
Yeah, I think I tried one or two but I didn't get into it. Too much other new stuff to get distracted by.

>>56549774
What if she married CIA?

Her name would be Gillian Gillian lol

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>>56549774
Ah, I remember I used to have a little collection of sexy Gillian Anderson pics that I spent hours finding. It's all lost now but I still have one or two from a floppy that I gave to a school friend.

All my usenet posts are still out there too, I'm kind of glad nobody uses it any more because my name is not difficult to find on there.

>>56548351
I was about 4 years old so I don't remember. Internet has just always been there for me it's like asking about my first time watching TV.

>1993
>Didn't even hear about the internet till a magazine article talking about BBSs.
>Stole my brothers work computer
>installed a 14.4
>Even I was surprised I was able to do all this
>Winsock settings...I think? I forget.
>Logged into a local BBS
>met my best friend for 20+ years this way.
>these spoiled cunts now on web 2.0
>I fucking hate every single one of you at the coffee houses.

>>56549463
I remember finding a great site for anime porn, some of the boards were pretty gross though.

Site shortly there after closes down.

Find similar site, not as good, but not dead.

Forget about both.

Year or two later, look for second site for anime porn, find first site is back up.

I had no idea what 4chan was, but apparently I was already an old fag. Missed out on all the CrAcky-chan and Snacks stuff. Was here when people used to spam Patrick Duffy on /gif/ and Mexi-Moot.

First time on the internet was the middle school shop teacher(for some reason) was teaching us about the internet in 93-94? Had a Mac with telnet, Gopher, and Mosaic.

I miss the GopherNet. That was the main way around the Internet beside CompuServe or Prodigy or something.

>>56548351
Oh shit, he's got the Turbo button on!!!

>>56550017
that makes it go slower

How do you guys remember this stuff? I was born in 1993, if i had to guess i probably used the internet for the first time around 1999 or 2000 to look on the encyclopaedia, but i couldn't remember the first time i used it.
I guess its because ive basically alwayd had internet, even if i didnt start really using it till around 12 or 13

>>56550054
Poor memory is a sign of low intelligence :(

>>56549270
>doodie.com
Jesus fuck, Anon. How could I have forgotten?

>>56549316
mods = gods

Oh man, those were the days. Iirc, the very first time we got internet was,
>1995~1996
>5~6 yo
>fucking loved Blues Clues for some reason
>commercial comes on advertising a blues clues game
>internet connection required
>ask parents before going online
>begged parents nonstop for weeks until finally
>we get aol
>play blues clues game
>from then on it was
>askjeeves.com
>poopyjoe.com
>albinoblacksheep.com
>miniclip.com

>>56548825
Fast forward to 2000/2001
On rotten.com and steakandcheese just kekking at literally every image on there, who did this? By that I mean who made those for the sole purpose of further corrupting unsupervised white trash/middle class kids?

> literally first day of school
> type "www.asshole.com"
> porn
> permbanned from internet for a while

>>56550182
felt edgy as fuck when I would get ``first'' on a new steakandcheese post

>Be me
>Poor and never had a computer
>Buy my first smartphone
>Suddenly:
Facebook
Instagram
Snapchat
Tinder
Oh yeah and fallout shelter, I'm such a dork lol

Everyone loved hamsterdance.com

Some people were actually offended by jesusdance.com

Neither one of them exists today in a similar form.

>>56550206
I remember my amazement when whitehouse.com was actually a porn site. Not sure if it still is.

>>56550234
>your first PC is a smart phone
get out normie

>>56550253
>yfw you realize hamsterdance.com is a sped up version of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQR2FvWbCfU

>>56550206
Should have blamed it on an older kid lol.

And sending people to shock sites over AIM was the tits

>>56550291
>shock sites over AIM

Don't want to let your warning level get to 100%

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>>56548351
tfw people like us the early adopters of tech and internet missed so many chances to become millionaires.
>missed the .com boom
>missed the forums boom
>missed the blogs boom
>missed the social media boom
>missed the phone apps boom

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>probably '96 or '97
>get dial up modem at home
>father shows altavista
>'you an search for anything simply by typing here'
>sister yells out 'spice girls!' as it was a big thing back then
>father types and clicks search
>results come up, father clicks first link
>porn
>mfw

>>56550206
>permbanned
>for a while

Pick one.

>>56550322
Top fucking lel. I absolutely forgot about that. The time my group of alt-betas gang warning'd me, good times.

t. A faggot who would literally go on Starcraft just to do 'compstomps' and lose respect from everyone when they could see I was naming my games that.

>>56550344
Kek

>>56550344
Nice dubs, but do you have the .gif with Bailey Jay?

>~95?
>get free dialup with local number from Juno
>read wikipedia 4 hours a day for weeks.

>>56550270
https://youtu.be/7upgaUAcjbc

>>56550461
>browsing wikipedia 6 years before it was created
Cool. I used to visit 4chan back in 97. Good times.

>>56550497
Hrm, you're right. Was there some kind of proto-wikipedia that I am remembering?

> 1995
> 4th year (secondary school)
> went "on the hop" "truant! truant! they'll say!"
> with 2 other guy to go into town to check out this new internet thing
> first browser Netscape
> Search engine I think was AltaVista

> didn't know what we wanted really we were like the 3 wise men here to see Jesus but not sure why

>>56548351
>1993
>Try www in text browser. Seems stupud
> Try IRC and DCC file transfers
ordered dialup internet immediately

>>56550564
Maybe you had a Britannica CD?

>>56548351
>2000
>my cousin got dial-up
>one of the first in the city
>google.com took 2 minutes to load
>2 hours to download a song
kek 

>>56550630
I remember an encarta cd coming with the computer. Maybe that was it.

>>56550733
And it had this endless maze game, but I think it was endless because it kept recycling the questions.

>>56550324
I had an idea to start a site like Wikipedia in the late 90s, but no clue how to actually go about it

>>56549846
what?

>>56550234
this is bait.

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>>56550324
Don't forget about the cryptocurrencies boom

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>Didn't get a computer until the beginning of 2000
>Can't get one before because y2k is going to destroy them all obviously it'd be a terrible investment thanks mom
>look up information about turtles (i don't know)
>look up epic Tornado destruction
>play some fucking slingo
>AOL Teens or whatever it was called
>become an ascended fedoralord
>"a/s/l"
>"@---<---<--- a rose 4 da ladiez ;)"
>"u dun need him"

Hell of a day honestly. I'll never forget it.

>>56549426
Wow, how old are you?

>>56548903
Only Amiga makes it possible

>>56548488
This is essentially the summation of this thread.

>Hmm, can't remember, so here's only the good parts
Nostalgia retroactively fixes failure by hiding it through convenient memory loss and is cancer.

BTW:
Know how much of a vocal, whiny piece of shit you are about "normies ruining the internet"?
The moment you logged on you were the normies of the time ruining it for everyone else in exactly the same way.


>>56550324
There's still a thousand ways to make money online. You're just a neo-luddite living in 2003 and unable to accept anything new.

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>>56550953
If liking thicc booty makes me a fag then so be it

>>56548351
>at cousins house playing tony hawk
>he shows me what yahoo search engine is
>get tony hawk cheats for funmode horse game

>>56550394
lol compstomps were so fun
hilarious how people did compstomps thinking it helped their win record but battle.net wouldn't count UMS or any game with a computer player, they'd sit there for hours playing compstomps still at 0-0-0

>unally one random person
>computer player dies
>awkward silence
>game isn't over
>"OMG THIS IS SOOOO CREEPY WHY ISN'T THE GAME ENDING GUYS?"
>everyone is so bad that they somehow can't tell that your giant built up base between everyone else's one CC and 4 peons is the guy
>just yell out "OH MY GOD RED (whoever) UNALLIED ME!"
>everyone unallies red and kills him
>repeat same shit for 2 more players and they still can't figure it out
>kill everyone else easily with built up base
>losers spout "noooo muh record" not knowing that this won't be counted as a loss or win no matter what
>join next game with the 5 left who made another compstomp
>they know you by name from last game but still don't ban you
>do same shit
one of the most fun games with bw I had was this on fastestmap and someone had a hack to tell who had unallied someone (me) but I still destroyed them all because they just sent all their 4 peons at once to like two sunkens I built and had no money left

>>56551199
Nah it counted, but it had to be Melee, couldn't be "Top vs Bottom (or whatever it was called?)" or "Use map settings". That's why backstabbing was so common, you couldn't get wins on any other mode that would allow fixed allies.

I had 70 wins just from compstomps good lord how much of my life did I waste being a fag.

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>Not having this as your 90's rig

>>56551025
Not him, but being of college age in 1987-88 would put him in his mid-40s at a minimum.

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>>56548351
>1996
>visit a cybercafe with my parents and brother
>the place is pretty futuristic and cool
>go to yahoo.com and start trying to surf the cyberwaves, but fall every single time
>finally somehow I reach nasa.gov and see info about the Mars pathfinder robot
>check my watch, that took me one hour
>wtf

A-anyone ever used gaiaonline?

>>56551584
yea i've used gasolin--
oh wait, gaia online? what's that?

>>56551584
Kill yourself

>1998
>local internet caffee with my dad
>got my first e-mail adress
>played flash games
>rea a ton of articles I didn't understand back then
>2001 first used internet on home pc
>dialup connection
> only at night because cheaper
>that sound felt like home

>>56550999
>Roses
I, too, was once a faggot.
I had some in my subprofile.
Thanks for the nostalgia

>>56548351

1992

On a Zenith pc with MS Dos 6.22, in
1994 I installed Monkey Linux on my dosbox

Those were fun times

>>56550999
>y2k
>ascended fedoralord
Best trips I ever read, fucking gold man.

>early 2000s
>can't even remember because it was an ancient eMachines with the actual NEVUR OBSULEET sticker on it
>was unbearably slow because it was dialup and my parents only let me use the stupid AOL kids page full of shit that took literally forever to download
>lose interest in computers until age 14 and cable internet

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>>56549463
>>56549572

I know that feel, senpai.

I probably wouldn't be here except for porn and asking questions on /p/ and /k/
4chan and other imageboards are the only place you can have a semi-intelligent conversation.

Despite having internet since the early 2000's, I never really did much on it until ~2010 when I joined a forum. Unlike most forums, there wasn't any circlejerking and you could actually speak your mind. There was no moderation. From what I could tell, the Admin had given up on it years before I joined, so you could do whatever you wanted.
It was a nice community of about several dozen regular users. One user eventually gained control of the sever and modified the forums, adding pictures and renaming them after the more prominent users including myself. For whatever reason, the Admin started caring again and instead of restoring the system, he deleted the forums.

That was the first and only place I knew people online that I could casually talk to.
I still keep in limited contact with one user after the three others stopped replying.

The others that are still online are either using a much larger SJW forum they use as a replacement or facebook.

On one hand, I'm glad the cringe worthy comments I made during my teen years are forever washed away from record, but I'm also disappointed it ended because of how much fun it was.

>1995
>8yrs old
>Uncle shows me early web
>Lots of chat rooms with teenage girls
>Didn't twig at the time that it was odd a ~50yo man would go straight away to chat rooms filled with teenage girls
>10yrs later he gets busted for CP and possibly more, he actually did some jail time so I assume it was fairly serious shit.
>Rich enough and close to retirement so losing job doesn't matter. He had to move house which was a shame, his house was nice. Not seen his current house.
>Wife stays with him.
>We still talk, he's cool.

>>56549601
>Some of the other boards are a mess due to lack of moderation

Like what?

>2004
>local computer club
>.25$ per hour
>click on the strange "e" icon
>yandex.ru
>hurr durr gta cheats
>that's werks, what an awesome thing

>>56550161
>miniclip.com

Are there any new good games on there anymore?
The last time I checked, the only things that were new were "games" that shilled you into buying upgrades.

>>56550234
OMG Anon ur such a nerd XD XDXDDD

>2001
>get first pc ever
>look for sexy pics
>download lots of porn dialers cuz 10 yrs old
>£1420 bill from internet company

ayyyyyy

>>56551089
Normalfags weren't on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s kid, stop shitposting.

>>56548351
holy shit please tell me you know the brand/model of that rig, it's the one I had in my childhood days

>>56548903
>find Sabrina Online in 1997
>still a furfag almost 20 years later
Someone kill me

>>56553238
moar?

>>56553440
No more of her, I'm afraid.

>>56553238
Shame she isn't wearing a McDonald's uniform.

>>56548351
>2001
>7 yo
>uncle's computer
>56K modem
>Windows 98 Machine
>Used to play some flash games
>That's it

I really didn't use the internet regularly ultill I got my first XP machine and broadband in like 2006

>>56551089

>lmao dude everything always sucks

thanks for your contribution

>>56548351
>be me, kid
>first days on the Internet
>home alone
>"congratulation! You are the 999999 visitor! You won!"
>get super excited
>wait for parents to get home
>"MOM MOM WE WON"
>"no Anon, that's a scam"
I'm still disappointed

>>56548351
>2000
>parents buy a computer
>wow this stuff rocks
>search "naked women" on Virgilio
>install a ton of malware
Good times

>>56553784
Hello fellow Pizzanon!

I think it was at my dad's workplace, of course the first thing I did was look up some Sailor Moon hentai

IRC, ohh dcc

>2001
>3/4 years old
>enters Lego.com
>Looking at amazing lego-sets and play Lego gayms

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>>56548351
I don't remember the year, but I was 8 years old because I looked up "8 year old girls naked" because I wanted to see girls my age. Didn't even realize the problems with that so I've probably been on a list for the past 14 years.

>>56551220
>safety is our first priority
>15 years
That's not safety. It's fear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIl4eP0DaJk

>1994
>Parents got me a PC
>AOL

>3 years later:
>Stole parents credit card
>Signed up for 7 different porn sites
>$900 a month bill altogether

>3 years later finally get to use Internet again

>that one time I downloaded a cp pic from emule into my dad's work laptop
Nothing ever came of it but when I realized what I'd done years later I threw that shit away, it didn't even turn on and had been in a closet for a long time but you're never too sure

>Back in early to mid 00s
>Liked transformers
>Went to transformers.com
>Totally different site then
>Played transformers games


One thing I remember

>Saw a add that said "you win a free iPad!"
>Not sure what it was, I just know it was technology

>1993
>dialing up local BBSes at 2400baud
>discover university freenet
>get an actual email address and gopher access
>what's a www?

> 1994, looking up something for gradeschool science project
> oh they have these new "computers" that have better graphics than my apple][//e's at school.
> huh everything looks like an encyclopedia, except on a crt.
> this is boring as fuck
> archie and gopher search for photovaultaics research

still a better search engine than wikipedia and google

>56k modem
>no phone in the house
>download low resolution mpeg porn files from kazaa
>fap

>>56556447
the first ipad came out in 2010 tho

>>56550958
*bubble

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>>56550324
>>missed the phone apps boom

We are still there buddy, if you create some interesting app right now you will get a lot of cash.
Pic related some chink that made a police radar app for iphone.

>Be early 2002 or earlier.
>Family machine is currently shitty Celeron emachine running Windows ME.
>Mom lets me browse shitty shockwave sites/lego/PBS.
>Always get stuck, don't know how to computer. She says she'll help me 4 times an hour.

Oh how the times have changed.

>>56551220
>what is menopause

>be 10 years old
>dad has own company
>gets 128kbps internet
>better try this shit out
>enter chat room
>first thing I read is "I wanna eat your sperm and you to push your cock into all of my orifices"
>remember that sentence every time I ask myself what went wrong

1997 weight for 'nude image' to download on my screen.. On my 14400 modem.. Phone rings connection drops..
Learn about that rpg have where other creatures are actually players! Mfw I enter the online sensation of ultima online... Playing every night all night before school...

>>56548351

>2003
>go to local computer store
>bought myself a compaq presario with xp on
>get 1mbit internet
>use IE 6.0 to search on the internet in MSN
>install bunch of toolbars and games

Autistic? Yes, but man... those were the times.

Going to astalavista for warez

Not the first time but
>Dad shows me how to download stuff
>Hear funny commercials on radio
>Tell him I'm gonna download some commercials
>Loses his shit and spergs out about it

Another time:
>2003/4
>He sets up webcam in basement window
> Tells me him and coworkers are gonna watch me walk home off the bus
>Walk by camera and flip the bird

>>56552998
Try playing game over "TCP connection" always fails.. better luck connecting directly with those ridiculous pin serial cables

>>56556905
https://youtu.be/5X1gC3BLq2w

Still remember this song so clearly

Pure excitement

>>56549774
in the not too distant future ..

>>56548351
>old pentium 2 pc
>friend invites to play rs classic
>struggle playing with disconnects constantly
>never play at home ever again

that might've been my first experience

>>56550002
Anon
How old are you?

>>56548488
pretty much this but my internet usage involved more dinosaur related things. fuck I used to love dinosaurs

>>56548351
Googled Hairy Wet Asian Pussy Close up

>>56553164
Normalfags were on the internet in force starting in September of 1993. That's when AOL allowed Usenet access to their users. Look up "The September That Never Ended" or "The Eternal September".

afkmn
aavfff

>>56548351
Win 3.1, 486 dx/2, 28.8
Follow winsock instructions, install netscape from floppy, dial into mom's work mainframe, tunnel out over T1
cnet.com, software section, 5 remaining hours to download.

>>56557417
*sorry, it was actually called winfiles.com at the time.

> be 5 years old, 1998.
>parents sell comic books on eBay with old pentium I PC
>parents get chain emails, play elf bowling
>dad sets-up webcam so him and grandpa can do video chat

I had a relatively innocent idea of the internet until like 2003+ when I started to use it more unsupervised, like ratemypoo.com and newgrounds.

>1997 or 98
>save enough money for a 56.6 kbps PCI modem
>buy it after school from this tiny PC parts shop
>run home
>install the fucking thing
>realize I don't have a phone line in my room or a long enough phone cable
>fuck it, move the PC to the living room for now
>configure ppp
>dial up
>IT WERKS!
>"where do you want to go today?"
>I know one of those "web address" thingies, it's my favorite band's website so let's try it
>holy fuck, all that info! and pics too!
>whoa, there's a forum with people discussing whether the last album was good or shit
>sign up for a free 2MB mailbox
>register and start shitposting right away

Amazing times. Altavista, Usenet, IRC, MUD games over telnet, worldsex.com, people's "home pages"... 100% cancer-free experience. I wish I could go back.

>1998
>Didn't own a home computer because poorfag
>Move to place where school has a computer lab with internet access
>Wangblows 95 and 98 systems
>Go to first lab class for the year
>Teacher shows us how to open netscape navigator
>Search Yahoo for "HORSE"
>Find black horse
>Kid next to me shows me sikids.com
>Ski down mount fuji and dodge metal heads in Daytona race car
>Set precedent for the rest of my computer experience the rest of the school year

But then eventually we did get internet access, but it wasn't until 2004

>Parents get PeoplePC dialup
>No DSL or cable internet access near us
>PeoplePC had a bunch of different dialup servers and would just pick w/e it thought was the fastest
>One month later we get a $600 phone bill
>Find out it has been dialing to Marquette because there wasn't a local dialup host
>No internet for the rest of the year

1992
>dude explained how to log onto ftp servers from telnet at a library.
>seemed horribly complicated but now laughable
>navigated directories, large and interesting even just file names.
>looked at text files, can't remember what
>later tried Mosaic when WWW was basically browser instruction manuals and some linked through pics (and there was porn already)

>1994/1995
>dialup
>searching for websites through some external crawler application
>kinda crap, except for IRC
>downloading warez was painfully slow, 30-odd 1.44mb files would take days

Was a kid in the mid nineties on dial up looking for game cheats

>>56550999
Oh man, I remember looking up tornadoes all the time as a kid.

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I vaguely remember trying to access nickelodeon.com through a DOS browser on an amber-screened Atari sometime in the early 90s as a young'un. My father was faculty at a university and they had their own in-house ISP at the time which we got at home for free. Thus we eschewed the whole AOL business throughout the 90s.

I don't remember. My dad got a PC to play Quake. My dad is a rough old school conservative veteran, and he would never touch a video game these days, so I guess he was different then. He showed me Quake and I was awestruck. He let me play it and fuck I was so scared. I remember in the first level there was this bridge with enemies on the other side; I knew what would happen if I crossed it so I never did. I wound up fuckin around on the computer playing games and such. Probably first used the internet to look up cheats.

>>56558166
My father also worked at a Uni. So the first family computer was a Sun Sparcstation1 SLC. It was a stand alone computer but he mainly used a SLIP line back into the university. Unfortunately, that model was the cheap all-in-one built into a CRT that overheated and died quickly.

1997/1998
Romania
Get online and first thing was to go to cartoon-network.co.uk and get flash games
Months of starcraft multiplayer followed

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>>56549358
Getting lost on the net was such a wonderful experience. This entire world just out in front of you with little handmade sites about farts, midi files and micro communities of people for specific shit.

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>Dad has Packard bell windows 95 computer.
>Just goof off with the kid software on it and look around in the files
>Dad gets AOL
>Shows me some sites and vividly remember him bringing up a webpage with power rangers
>Just a few blurry jpegs with some text about the characters
>Didn't realize that this is information being sent over from another computer and that one computer can talk to another
>Thought it was ok and walked away
>Didn't use the internet again until 96 realizing that you can find stuff on there and it isn't just a offline catalog of information
>Gamesages.com Video gamespot
>Finding cheat codes online

>>56558806
One of the first things i did was pay like 7 bucks to print out 120 pages of final fantasy 7 info, it was certainly cheaper than buying a strategy guide

To be honest I don't really remember my first time on the internet. But there is this one particular experience that I still remember very fondly.

>Pay for two hours at the cybercafe
>Play some music on WMP while I download songs from limeware
>Chat with stupid friends from middle school through windows messenger
>Play Max Payne and other games
>"Hmm, I wish this computer had Starcraft BW installed"
>Google "download starcraft"
>Google gives some actual results
>Turns out you could actually download the game
>Who would have thought
>Ask some more stuff to google
>As in ask actual questions to google
>It literally searches and finds solutions to everything

That's when I understood the power of actally seearching for shit before asking any people in real life. It might be common knowledge now but it was quite a surprise when I was 13.

>>56550074
Its actually the opposite.

>>56550206
If you are interested in learning more about the opportunities that exist with this domain name, please contact [email protected].

buy it

Am I the only one who would blast midis then moving to wav files of movie and weeb music through headphones while they surfed the web back in 97-200X?

I remember looking through game reviews and forums while listening to shit like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTtOUlhL0WQ while on my old 98 computer

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>1998
>8 years old
>looking up guides for Zelda Link's Awakening
>don't know what a search engine is
>don't know what GameFAQs is
>type "zelda.com" in the url bar
>it's fucking lesbian porn
>mfw

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>>56548351
>about Christmas 1999
>see 14.4k supra fax modem on sale
>purchase it, probably paid more than what it was worth at the time even
>eventually get AOL, probably about February of 2000 or so
>connect for the first time to anything other than my friends DooM / Quake multiplayer games
>very excited
>immediately look at news section in AOL
>don't remember what I read there but I remember reading badly scanned copies of peanuts comics for a few hours.

I've still got that modem, pic related.

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My first online experience was sneaking on my dad's computer to go to eiffel65.com (my favorite band). I wasn't allowed online at the time.

Maybe not the first time but it's my earliest memory

>sleeping over at friends house
>playing neopets on friends laptop
>he wants the pc to check his email for a sec
>he got a email with a bunch of Simpsons porn
>closes it immediately
>wait can you open that again?
>for what? no
>please let me see it again
>no forget it
>wait until he is asleep, google "simpsons naked" and fap all night (in the living room) like a madman

>>56550161
>poopyjoe.com

Not my first time using the internet, but when my brother and I were at Summer camp, sometimes we'd go to the library nearby. My brother and I were probably playing some shockwave games or lycos searching some shit on the upcoming Pokemon Silver / Gold.

This kid's next to us, laughing his fucking ass off. We peek over, and see he's on this website called poopyjoe.com. This kid is dying from this site.

We still remember this story to this day. We later went to the site and were laughing at how dumb it was. I think it was still up a few years back.

>>56548351
Prolly @ 2002 or so. Using the cartoon network site.

>>56548507
>cheats
>>56548745
>cheats
>>56548975
>cheats
>>56549171
>Big picture of Goku fucking Sailormoon
AYEEEEE>>56549387
>i'm literally 14 and have child porn
>>56549421
>I think I just searched for "sex" and somehow ended up on looking at some bondage pics of women in black latex suits lmao. I came in literally seconds.
>>56550002
>I remember finding a great site for anime porn
>>56550461
>Juno
>>56550662
>2 hours to download a song
>>56550999
>Can't get one before because y2k is going to destroy them all obviously it'd be a terrible investment thanks mom


WE HAVE TO GO BACK

>>56559986
What's the problem?

>>56550497
Looks like Juno free internet didn't start till 2000. Wikipedia began in 2001, so that's probably what I'm remembering.

1995, used my aunts computer to log into her AOL account. I told her how stupid AOL was when she could just get a call number from a local ISP. She didn't care. Looked up a Warcraft 2 cheat.

I built my first computer in 1998 after working all summer to save the money for the parts. Made sure I sole the 56.6k modem from my brothers Gateway since he had AT&T@home, AMD K6-2 and a TNT 2 video card. Homeworld still tugs my heartstrings when I play it.

>>56550344
Notice how the mouse is on the desk, then when it zooms in on his face it's raised up more.
Never noticed this.

>>56556703
Shit and he's not being tailed by anybody? Shyeet Imma have to think up something quick

>2004 or something
>live in a big town
>no internet until around 2006
>download shitloads of viruses from Ares (basically emule but newer)
>download an antivirus
>see shitloads of virus detections so i think the antivirus is a virus and i uninstall it
>download counter-strike at 1 Kb/s by Ares

>>56559268
I used to have one just like that.

>>56558966
I used to listen to MOD files constantly in the background on my Amiga, then I started getting into electronic music after my brother started pointing out tracks that had been sampled in the MODs I was listening to. I usually just put CDs on once I got a CD-ROM drive for my Amiga, and then Napster came around and I could just barely spare enough CPU to listen to MP3s while I was on IRC or newsgroups.

>>56558966
>Am I the only one who would blast midis then moving to wav files of movie and weeb music through headphones while they surfed the web back in 97-200X?

I still do

the guy who made this did too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

this video is like a fucking time capsule

Back in 2003, I was spending summer in my father's hometown. My uncle had a nice computer. We bought a dial-up subscription and logged on to Yahoo Messenger to troll people.

>>56562053
I wish there were more videos like this. I recently found some IRC logs that I saved for posterity and it gave me such bittersweet feels, remembering that idyllic carefree time, and all these people who I've not spoken to in years. Most of us just went off to college and lost touch. I wonder how different things would be if Facebook had been around then.

>>56548351
>Dial up
>2nd world country
>parents didn't let me get on the Internet
>Accidentally get online
>playing a Donald duck game from an old Disney website
>sisters realize I was connected and IE wasn't running in offline mode
>tfw they kick me out

Also, we had emails from hotmal and some other website that started with numbers.

>think back to my first years of internet
>realize I've been using this hellhole since I was 12
Truly you can't ever leave. That's like 10 years now, fuck.

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>text-based internet on dos via external dial-up modem
>generally underwhelming because I'm 7
>altavista is pretty cool
>discover irc
>unsupervised
>no longer underwhelming
>holy hell, how did I not get abducted

>>56557277
>>56556905
OOOOOoooOooOooooOOOOooOooOoooOOOO

>>56557367

Musta had yellow fever pretty early.

>>56548351
>about 7 years old
>go on AOL kids chat rooms
>correct the admins' spelling/grammar mistakes all day

>"Are you a bot admin?"
>"No"

>smuganimegirl.png

I don't miss 28.8 one bit.

>>56562701
Oh and in my emails I won the Nigerian lottery many times, and this company kept trying to sell me viagra

>>56548351
Damn now I really want a CRT monitor to play doom on it.

>>56549316
MODS !!!

>>56549270
Thanks, i saw him once on the Internet but couldnt remember the Name for some reason and now after All these years i find him again on a Board as shitty as doodieman himself

>2016
>finally get a phone since my dad wouldnt buy it for me when i asked for it in 2015
>its an old iphone but its ok i guess wish it was the newest number
>join fb since all my friends are already on it and im way behind
>friend tons of friends from school and they friend me back
>have fun typing about my life and reading about other peoples
>eventually i read some guy talking about that evil com called 4chan that i heard the news talking about once
>i get the courage to check it out
>i click on this technology board because im pretty good with my phone
>all the images i see are gross and disgusting
im scarred now........everything i heard about you people was right

>>56563357
i know right, stallman is pretty gross

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>>56548351
IDK, maybe c. Y2K?
I know I was using COMPUTERS since I was only a year and a half old (toddler games, my uncle had some things. I tormented Elmo and laughed at his anxiety when leaving him in the dark)

But, I think my first real use of the INTERNET was probably something like Postopia.com when I was like 6... on a Win 95 with like 16 MB RAM. (got it updated to 32 MB at some point, though)
The fucking hard drive was like... 1.4 GB?

Anyway, I've had an Internet addiction since I was in 1st grade. It has been many months since I last was off the Internet for more than a day or 2 (only b/c my briefcase is too big to unpack for a night at a hotel when travelling - fucking like playing Tetris with a drunken Best Buy. Thank God I don't fly... I'd be detained as hell. Wires fucking EVERYWHERE
>pic related
)

>>56548351
>'95/96
>friends always come over to use internet, i have blazing fast
>28k modem
>remember getting 56k in 1998/99
>felt like my computer was supercar

>>56548351
I was about.... seven and kept seeing the cartoon network site being advertised on my TV. I kept looking at the ads and asked my brother to get me on it. When he told me no, I whined tony then late 50's dad and he let me on it. I got bored in like a minute because the dial up was soo slow.

flash forward to now, I want to shoot myself everytime my internet shits the bed and tries blaming it on me then laughs and says "no, it was me.. poop is funny."

>>56548351
Went to library to print out a list of cheat codes for GTA 3

>>56562693
Fuckin Anime man

>>56557350
Thirdy Fife.

>1996, first RPG, Mario RPG
>7 years old, don't know what to do.

>Dad finds guide online in 1996 somehow and prints it out for me.

>>56548351
1989
get hired to a company, it had a next computer which had intenet connection and some programs for that

i shitposted a lot from there

>>56551235
>>56550394
You know brood war is still very alive and popular still? Search iccup or fish server

>Be 16 , 1996-ish.
Upgrade modem to 56 k modem.
Uunet isp.
Has a chatbox with manual refresh...
Monthly meetup.
Got a bdsm gf.
Got a 36 yr old gf.
Chat.be asshole buys rights to chatbox
Shuts it down... Fml.


Those where the days. Only lonely people and tech geeks on the net. Double win.

Hate what 'social' internet shit has become

>>56567558
Anyone remember a.b.p. sappho, ... ,...

>>56567558
>I hate that other people use the internet for what I used it for

Fucking LOL. Also, what's it like being 30 and still coming to 4chan? What decisions in your life have brought you to this point? How do I avoid making the same mistakes?

>>56549432
reminder that if you were under 18 in 2007 you're part of the problem.

>>56567640
Well, 4chan is one of the few old places that look comfy. I come jere for quick answers and shitposting (wiping as we speak).Read up on Hossein Derakhshan . He hets it.

Internet used to be people adding content and sharing knowledge. Now its corporations telling you what you need to know.

I used computers since I was very young, probably like 3 or 4. I used my parents windows 95 IBM for a while, mostly to play games. I had this one kids learning construction game that was the tits and it had its own unique peripheral

Anyway I think the first internet experience I had was at my apartment back in 2000 where I used dial up to look up how to beat the first level in super Mario bros 3.

Tbh I really didn't use the internet a lot until like 2005 and after because that's when we got high speed internet I was way too impatient for dial up

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>>56549400
>>1995, my younger self is about 10 y/o
>>dad gets AOL on a 56k modem, using a cool 75Mhz Packard Bell
YOU FUCKING LIAR, THE 56K MODEM WASN'T SOLD UNTIL 1998!!!!

You were probably using a 3200 baud or a 33.6k modem...no worries bro just FYI.

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>>56550757
this?

>>56557476
Holy shit i remember ratemypoo.com I used to go on that every day for some reason.

>2000
>6 years old
>search for 'teletubies' on google
>save and print pic of tinky winky

>>56568496
porn ads

>>56550461
I had juno as well, 2003-2005 though. I remember wondering what to do on the internet at first so i just never used it till a year or two later.

>>56568205
Holy fuck, yes, that was exactly the same computer we had. The speakers on the side and that shitty mouse, can't forget it.

It was 75Mhz, and I was so jealous of my friend when a year later he got the 90Mhz one.

It came with the Megarace game, played the shit out of that one, and a bunch of other boring educational games like Dino park, one about the human body, etc.

Good memories, man.

>>56558976
>https://web.archive.org/web/19990901000000*/http://zelda.com

Jesus, kek

>2000
>grandma shows me google
>search for "scyther"
>try to print picture
>nothing happens
>keep submitting print jobs until the printer finally starts making noise
>print does what I told it to do until it runs out of ink
>grandma beats me

in retrospect she made the right choice

mid 90s, used aol, mom got mad at me for clicking on the naughty banners

i guess i was always meant to be a degenerate

>>56549519
>people born in 1997 know how to write and stuff
:-( pls send help

>>56563666
Is that a bomb, Satan?

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>>56548351
2001
>56k
worldsex.com

I am massively impressed that it's still around.

Back in my day it used to be a black site with just links. Thats it.

Occasionally there would be a 1~3 MB video in horrendous quality lasting 30 seconds.

For the non porn part I used Yahooo Mesenger and ICQ with my friends.

Tried to play online games ping was shit. Didn't try it until Ragnarok Online at that point I got a 64K cable modem. It wasn't much faster but it had 50 ping and it was 100% stable. So torrents and downloading became a thing.

Used to download MP3 and anime with WinMX...

Anime was 30 MB of 25 minute episode in 320×240 in .rm format...

I still have one. I makes my eyes bleed. But I guess CRTs had to have had better scaling or something...

This was one of my first animes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNsRU1TYOA

The quality was about twice as bad as this youtube video...

I found this song to be fantastic... boy it aged horribly...

My desktop probably looked like this... I wish I had screenshots of my older desktops. I'm so sad that part of my childhood is lost forever...

>>56548351
>1993
>Student at Cal Poly Pomona
>VAX/VMS shell account
>IRC
>#xfiles
>usenet and UUdecoder - manually captured via terminal and decoded
>#pr0n invented

My computer was a 486 DX2 66MHz 8MB RAM running OS/2 3.0

>>56556703
Be the right person, at the right place, and at the right time. Nothing else is needed.

>>56558628
>Getting lost on the net was such a wonderful experience.
This.

I find myself searching for this feeling, but google is too good now for it to happen easily.
If there was a way to use 2003-era google I would imagine it would be way easier.


Normies certainly ruined the internet.
I can't wait for an underground internet 2.0 that makes the internet great again.

>>56558966

I started with Ranma and Sailormoon midi. I belive my Soundblaster 16 was awesome for midi playing. I listed to a lot of midis...

Later on I found winamp in 1999 and the mp3. But I remember ogg and other formats too were used a lot.... real media was really popular back then .ra and .rm espeically with weebs. At least on WinMX..

>>56562053
What a video FANTASTIC. The nostalgia is real.

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So what p2p programs did you guys use the most?

I found myself using WinMX from 2000 well into 2005 before torrent sites beat it with content.

I loved that in WinMX you could what with the people. I often found myself chating with someone over weeb music...

>>56548351
>1998, 5 years old
>mom gets computer with 56k Compuserve 2000
>played flash(?) games on lego.com, eventually move on to albinoblacksheep
>find hentai sites not too long after
>degenerate ever since

>>56571877
>I can't wait for an underground internet 2.0 that makes the internet great again.
You mean Freenet?

>>56572028
Irc dcc bots.

>>56548351
1994. Brand new expensive computer. Like a 486 or something. Mum turns it on to show off Internet. Saw the word sex on one of the Web pages. Memorized how to get to sex hyperlink. Had my first accident later that night.

Did I lose my virginity to a computer?

> be in 5th grade in 2000
> Learning to use search engines and other things
> Friend tell me to search tubgirl
> Get PTSD

>>56572078
Doesn't it use the internet's infrastructure?

The way that I see it, internet 2.0 is going to have to be satellite internet.
It would have a decent barrier to entry because of the hardware to connect, and can't be controlled.

>>56572078
>google it
>white text on dark background
MY FUCKING EYES.

4 sentences in to reading release details and I already have eye strain.

>>56572028
WinMX, Audiogalaxy and Soulseek. I hope Soulseek lives forever, I love it.

>>56553012
/o/ has problems

>mom on yahoo
>types "s"
>"sexy naked girls"
That's when I stopped using the internet

>>56572685
/o/ is fine.
Faggot raids happen rarely and the board is mostly a circle jerk and picture book to begin with, so nothing is really lost when it happens.

>>56572801
Alphonse is fucking annoying, and slides threads all the time. There has been less GTR vs corvette, Ford Ecoboost, and Ford GT shit posting lately I guess.

>>56548351
>2000
>mom goes to a internet cafe
>she does some email
>she lets me use the computer because im such a little shit kid
>its yahoo
>click at text
>yahoo finance, yahoo news, pictures
>still doesnt get why people use computer and shit because tv says its bad for you

>2002ish since the PC came with a brand new OS ( XP )
>3rd world
>DSL has like a year of wait time before you are eligible to apply for a modem
>get dial up
>set up stuff with dad since neither of us knew much
>he took a class on MS Office
>Convinced he's the next Bill Gates armed with all the knowledge of copy paste and print preview.
>We fuck it up
>Call tech in shame
>He set shit up
>OK connect
>SQUEEK PIUMP REEE PARUM WAWAWAWAWA TU RU RU TU RU RU
You_must_construct_additional_pylons.mp3
>Open Internet explorer
>Just kinda glare at it
>Go back to pinball and MS paint general fuckaboutary
>None of my fends have computers or the Internet so i can't get any info on what its used for.
>Dad uses it for porn.
>Not as subtlety as he should.
>eventually set up Warcraft3 multilayer
>Get rekt every day for a week
>Love it
>Run out of internet hours
>Have to wait for the start of the month to get another 100h.

>>56572245
>>56572403
It stores web sites in a distributed P2P kind of way. It's entirely closed off, unlike Tor. All the sites look like they were made in the 90s.

>2001
>internet cafe opens near school
>friend invites me
>fat middle age woman in charge of the place
>obviously doesn't know anything more than turning on the computers
>open search engine
>everything is porn
>spam porn
>hentai
>Garfield porn
>watch Pamela Anderson sex tape
>go home
>fap

>2007
>discovered runescape and google

the rest is history

dad used to troll people on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
on win 95, or playing Ultima online

Can't really remember the first time, but a few times stick out.

>7 in 2004
>Look up stuff related to love hina (read about it in one of the kids mags that were popular in aus in the early 00s)
>Find the bandai love hina site
>Free wallpapers and shit
>nice.jpg

I managed to find that site again on archive, took me a good couple of hours

>Be 2007/8
>Go on youtube for the first time
>Discover AMVs, FND Films
>"Please rate 5 stars"
I miss old youtube the most desu, there was so much quality shit on it.

>>56572028
>your sister has 23 copies of young_jeezy.exe

>>56573069
I thought free net was tor?

I thought the p2p thing was zeronet?

>>56572028
Napster, Gnutella, Kazzaa, Limewire

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>>56548351
1992
command line
unix commands
hung out in a lot of MUD's

>>56548351
got AOL with parental controls circa 2002

was restricted to about 4 different sites that had shitty kids content

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>>56573651
>>7 in 2004

holy fucking shit this is mind blowing that I'm sharing a board with people this young

whoa

My first internet experience was when I was 6 in '02, and I stumbled across the usual shit some little kid might find on the web at the time. AlbinoBlackSheep and Newgrounds, Rotten.com, and I always tried to get my friends and teachers with www.something.com. At the time I distinctly remember our dial-up provider being EarthLink, and I somehow used a fake email to join MySpace in 05, using earthlink.com, even though it didn't exist. I thought that shit was magic u kno wut im sayin

>>56557362
Pretty much this.

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>>56550161
>albinoblacksheep.com

MY BOY

>>56550161
>>56574865
Fuck yall, this was the real shit
http://www.battleon.com/

I still have my gaurdian level account info I think

>>56574943
NAH FUCK DAT U AINT SHIT IF U AINT AT BNET

>>56575253
Can't play battle.net games on school laptops nigga

>>56548351
>be in grade like 4 or 5(1998)
>brand new blueberry macs in the school library
>learning html
>totes made some hotlinks
>marquis 5 lyfe
>askjeeves
>other stuff, learning how to compute

pretty dank. made it before i used it
wish i got in sooner

Anyone have a windows computer lab in school?

Anyone ever hook up 4 keyboards to the same machine and run a nintendo 64 emulator?

>>56575337
no but we had a hidden netwrok drive with quake III

was hilarious watching the tech re-image and reinstalling deepfreeze 1000 times wondering how we could always just play

>>56575271
Don't worry dude I found out how to download Halo!

>>56574830
I'm 19 mate.

I used to summerfag hard back in the day.

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>>56575383
Same. Stumbled upon /b/ in 07, being an edgy little 11 year old faggot. Been trapped here ever since.

>>56572028
i used some irc channel to download a cam of some ben affleck movie that i can't remember. i think morgan freeman was in it too?

Started using BBS's 1991-1993. Got dial up in 1994, used DOS/Win3.1 for netplay of doom, etc. The rest is history.

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>1988
>IBM 286
>9600 BPS modem
>IBM buckling spring keyboard
>Prodigy Network
>Pay by the minute
>Wracked up 500 dollar bill first month browsing Tijuana Bibles and Hardcore Hustler Images
>Been addicted since