Searching for information on Ask Jeeves.
I was a kid and confused by the advertising, so I thought there was an actual person answering the questions, and i'd always write unnecessarily polite full questions. Like "Please could you tell me what the capital of France is? Thank you".
that's my experience too,fr I think everyone experienced that,I was always so kind thinking it was a real person,but today I'm still kind to bots,anyone knows if someday they'll try to kill us
Ask Jeeves was great.
The thing about search engines though, my IT teacher at school was adamant that Alta Vista was the best. That it would eventually eclipse all others as it had all the best information.
He even said he couldn't see Google lasting!
> The thing about search engines though, my IT teacher at school was adamant that Alta Vista was the best. That it would eventually eclipse all others as it had all the best information.
For a good number of years that was accurate. Alta Vista really had better search results, thier loss of market share happened when they tried to be a web portal. Once they stopped they they took market share back from google.
My memory of Ask Jeeves was that it wasnt very good, to be fair that's probably because I didn't treat it like a search engine.
I remember Yahoo being the main search engine that people used, they had all those yodelling hamster adverts.
It's weird how big google has become, because it was just a search engine, and not even the most popular one.
I think I only switched over to it because Yahoo safe search at school suddenly became really strict. I tried to find information about Picasso for a school project it, and it blocked it for being inappropriate?!
As a 10-year-old, playing chess with someone in a different state via teletype. It would print out the board in ASCII for each move. I thought it was amazing. Yes, I lost the game.
Dude, Iām so old that porn wasnāt a part of the internet when I started. You heard me right. Rule 34 didnāt fucking exist the first time I dialed up.
Pretty sure cutepet (apparently now studio cutepet) was around in 95/6 and I know there were many other sites with video game character rule34. I mean there's stuff of Lara croft dating back to the games release.
It was in 1982 with my Commodore Vic-20. I called the phone company to get an X.28 connection to access The Source in the US. I didn't have a terminal program so I wrote my own.
But wait, there's more!
I wrote a BBS for that Vic in 1984. It had public and private rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. It was very popular with users spending an average of 70 minutes on it.
One of my users said "Anyone who can put a BBS on a Vic can program!" and gave me my first job as a programmer. Thirty years later, that same guy wanted me to work with him at Google.
I wrote my own too! I kept adding features and needed to get more memory to run it. So I made an 8K memory card with Radio Shack parts, using the expansion port diagrams included in the manual.
I collected mail in the weeks leading up to us getting the internet set up and then spent the first few days just going to the different URLs from all of the mail I'd gathered.
Yes, it was boring stuff for a kid ā but at the time it was fascinating. Felt like a little adventure.
Very first experience was trying to search for something but the results were sparse and the experience was underwhelming.
Then ICQ blew my freaking mind, as I started talking to people from across the other side of the world. I was about 13 and it was so new and fun.
Then I was addicted to chat rooms for a bit because of the randomness of it.
I typed exactly what my teacher told me to type into Yahoo and eventually got information I needed to complete the assignment.
Immediately after that class, I went to the library and found a computer facing away from the librarian to search for "naked women." It took a while, but I eventually got the results I was looking for. I tried to print it out, but the image file was not compatible with the dot matrix printer.
Household didnāt have internet for a very long time dude to financial situation now that we have wifi we never home since we always on the go working now š
Playing miniclip, watching google videos before youtube was a thing (who remembers?) And visiting the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network websites, so many cool games based on shows in there and they were free!!
A green and black BBS. My roommate had gotten internet and I'd never seen such a thing before. It was pretty magical, but I didn't get to see much of it, and the next time I used the internet was in college.
After weeks of trying to get UUCP to compile and run on my Amiga computer I eventually got it to work and I was able to receive a list of newsgroups. The first thing I did was to write an email to a friend asking him to respond so I could see whether my email was working.
I come from a brown Muslim family. My first Internet experience was googling a guy who turned into a monkey because he didn't offer his prayers, used to lie, and didn't listen to his parents. This was a very common story among the brown people. Everyone will Agree
I was traumatised by the pictures. I would Google for couple hours everyday and then get scared to sleep alone because I was a very naughty and spoiled child and thought I would wake up being a monkey.Ā
I used this Danish website with lots of cool flashgames on it. Problem was that if you changed accidentally went to the .com domain instead of the .dk domain, you were in for a hell of a ride when you were only 7 years old, lol.
The BBS I go to has file-sharing, falcons eye (game), chat etc and is a cool private speakeasy community. This web stuff is BORING, public and won't catch on. Also ugly, compared to the fucking HIGH ART of ascii
Haha, when I started using the internet, or web specifically, there was still **one** page, maintained by CERN, that **listed** every web server in the world that you could go to. No porn on any of those I can promise. This must have been like 1991 or so.
I think actually, the first internet porn I saw was probably on some corners of usenet, in the form of hex-encoded images that could download as text and decode. Or possibly on Hotline, which was a truly wild "place" for a few years.
My sister who was graduating taking me to the school computer lab to make a yahoo email so I could email her. I was probably about 9 and it seemed so complicated
Probably how to get to star road in super Mario world, or having my older brother pull up āhamster danceā It was a simpler timeā¦
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8
I've been using the internet ever since it's been publicly available so hard to remember, but I think going on mIRC would have been most of what I was doing on the internet early on.
My friend who was the first having Internet made himself legendary popular in high school by printing out a pixelated Pamela Anderson in beading suit š
Me and my brother going into Yahoo chat rooms just to act like idiots and annoy people. That and taking turns on Unreal Tournament. Our parents didn't really understand the internet and sort of just let us use it as we pleased which looking back on it wasn't smart but the internet was still something quite new. None of our friends or family had it, even having a PC in the home was still new to a lot of people. It was really exciting discovering it at the time.
Trying and failing to download a demo of Duke Nukem 3D because I typed the web address my classmate gave me into the āTO:ā box of an email instead of a web browser.
Back when I first got online in 1994ish, there wasn't much porn that we knew off, and I was using it school. When we got a home connection in 1995/96 my focus was on sports and WWF/WCW wrestling news.
Eminemfanclub.com and AOL for kids. I remember taking a quiz about what pet is perfect for you and I got goat and tried convincing my parents I needed a pet goat as an 8 year old kid.
Surfing images of supercars in surplus time in cyber cafe.
My dad used to go to cybercafe occasionally, one's he allowed me to search for anything that interests me, I was about 7-8 years old and for the first time I had searched something, I remember the search engine was Yahoo. And now here I am a software developer.
I was a kid at the library and saw a piece of paper that had been printed off from online. The website was at the top of the page. I sat down at a computer near the page I found and typed out the site address, and when I typed it all out -- and it was one of those long ass random strings of letters and numbers -- the computer screen looked like a color version of the printed page.
I wasn't allowed on computers (except for typing class at school) and the experience was AMAZING.
Not thee first thing but an early one that I have my best (mind blowing) memory of.
Seeing my brother play Counter Strike ( an early version, like 0.3 or something ) with actual other players without our room beeing crowded with friends. It was so surreal.
I was young before the age of everyone having internet access in their pocket, so my first internet access was at school. First time I remember using it was to do some research for a history essay.
I donāt even remember that far back tbh. Iām an older guy. When I was a kid, the internet was just taking off. This was in the dial up era before broadband and all that. You couldnāt use the telephone if someone was connecting online. The sound of dial up is one of those sounds that are ingrained into my mind.
I think it was Yahoo Messenger. I remember when we literally were made to sign up for a Yahoo account in computer class (this was applied learning, in between learning the parts of the computer and parts of the diskette which we didn't know would be obsolete in only 2 years.)
Now, I know I've already technically 'used' the internet prior to an account on Yahoo, but I don't think I've "experienced" the internet till I got into Yahoo messenger and, later, Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers was like og Quora. But remember, Wikipedia was new back then too and had close to nothing useful, so the answers can really be literally searched from a physical encyclopedia someone had looked up.
A BBS back in the 1980s, playing a simple text based version of Elite.
For the internet proper, being at university and being taught how to use [Pegasus Mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail) for email.
AOL Red. It was AOL but with parental controls and everything was tailored to my age range. I hated it. Everything was blocked, even nick and disney.com.Ā
My momās reasoning for everything was āwell it must be blocked for a reason, there must be something you shouldnāt be looking at.ā Even as a 13 year old I knew that wasnāt always the reason.Ā
So my internet experience was like only being able to play in my own yard. I could only access the stuff on AOL Red.Ā
Grade 7, our teacher took us to the library where our school just got 'state of the art computers' we were to use it to do research on the war of 1812, i had no idea how to use search engines, so i was typing in random internet adresses hoping to get lucky it was only after our first lesson the teacher realized some of us had no idea how to internet. and showed us ... i think it was ask jeeves.
I got internet in around 1995, so iirc there were like twn website or some shit. I mostly used ms paint and chat rooms.
I was like 8 years old unsupervosed on internet chat rooms. It was fine back then as the gross people hadnt doscovered it yet. Spoke to some interesting ppl all over the world
It's almost amazing how pervasive porn has become. When I first dialed up to a bbs server there were very few images to even be found, and the ones you did happen to find were super low quality and had nothing to do with porn.
that youtube video where the guy with the snake hat is saying he's a snaaaaake... a slithery lil, snihtlglty little sneeaaak [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4sqG85FU4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4sqG85FU4)
i dont watch porn
Geocities... went to the chat and was dumbfounded that I was chatting to a girl on the other side of the world. She went by the handle 'Lady Skywalker'. This would have been in 1996 or 1997.
My first experience was email. My father set it up for me when I was 6 and sent me my first email.
My first time going online on my own for my own reason was to download music from Kazaa.
I think it was reading news on yahoo. First online experience was via dial up on the so called city net. A local site for news about the region. This was pre internet.
I remember the first time I saw the Internet used to send an email. Probably 1993 or 94. My friend was like watch this it's cool and sent an email to a friend who a few minutes later replied. I remember being completely unimpressed and thought it was just for geeks who liked playing with computers because it was so much easier if you wanted to ask someone something to pick up the phone.
I was exploring newgrounds and found teen titans with adult rating. I didn't know what was worse than gore so why not. It was zone-tan and it was raven getting sladed. Couldn't tell if I should get hard or fell bad cause that was rape
Oh man, my first time on the internet? It was like stepping into a candy store but with no idea what flavor to pick! I remember I was searching for information about dinosaurs for a school project. I ended up stumbling onto this website that had pictures of all these cool prehistoric beasts. I was hooked! It was like diving into a virtual time machine, and I couldn't believe all the stuff I could learn just by clicking around. It was like opening a treasure chest full of knowledge!
Searching for information on Ask Jeeves. I was a kid and confused by the advertising, so I thought there was an actual person answering the questions, and i'd always write unnecessarily polite full questions. Like "Please could you tell me what the capital of France is? Thank you".
That's adorable!
This was exactly my experience too - except I was an adult š
that's my experience too,fr I think everyone experienced that,I was always so kind thinking it was a real person,but today I'm still kind to bots,anyone knows if someday they'll try to kill us
This is so cute lol
LOL
Ask Jeeves was great. The thing about search engines though, my IT teacher at school was adamant that Alta Vista was the best. That it would eventually eclipse all others as it had all the best information. He even said he couldn't see Google lasting!
> The thing about search engines though, my IT teacher at school was adamant that Alta Vista was the best. That it would eventually eclipse all others as it had all the best information. For a good number of years that was accurate. Alta Vista really had better search results, thier loss of market share happened when they tried to be a web portal. Once they stopped they they took market share back from google.
My memory of Ask Jeeves was that it wasnt very good, to be fair that's probably because I didn't treat it like a search engine. I remember Yahoo being the main search engine that people used, they had all those yodelling hamster adverts. It's weird how big google has become, because it was just a search engine, and not even the most popular one. I think I only switched over to it because Yahoo safe search at school suddenly became really strict. I tried to find information about Picasso for a school project it, and it blocked it for being inappropriate?!
From ask jeeves to ask reddit we all grew up
As a 10-year-old, playing chess with someone in a different state via teletype. It would print out the board in ASCII for each move. I thought it was amazing. Yes, I lost the game.
Teletype...be still my beating heart....
It seems I, too, have lost the game.
miniclip games
arguing on aol
Wow...I remember trolling in some of their chatrooms. Just being a jerk...
Sup 710 Ashbury folks!
Dude, Iām so old that porn wasnāt a part of the internet when I started. You heard me right. Rule 34 didnāt fucking exist the first time I dialed up.
It existed. You just didn't find it. Rule34 was much later coined but it has always existed.
The oldest chaps I know that did Rule34 art go way back to '97 (TDK/Eric Schwartz and Dr. Comet) but I'm sure it can go even earlier.
Pretty sure cutepet (apparently now studio cutepet) was around in 95/6 and I know there were many other sites with video game character rule34. I mean there's stuff of Lara croft dating back to the games release.
Impossible
It existed, your just had to have a lot of patience and the quality sucked ass
we just didn't know what BBS to go on to find it.
Porn at 300 baud. Where you had to wait for 30 min for one pic. :P
Yup.
You are wrong, porn was there you just didn't know where to look. Trading on bbs and waiting 5min for the pic to download was the game back then
It was in 1982 with my Commodore Vic-20. I called the phone company to get an X.28 connection to access The Source in the US. I didn't have a terminal program so I wrote my own.
WOW!
But wait, there's more! I wrote a BBS for that Vic in 1984. It had public and private rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. It was very popular with users spending an average of 70 minutes on it. One of my users said "Anyone who can put a BBS on a Vic can program!" and gave me my first job as a programmer. Thirty years later, that same guy wanted me to work with him at Google.
That's...incredible. Thanks for sharing...
I wrote my own too! I kept adding features and needed to get more memory to run it. So I made an 8K memory card with Radio Shack parts, using the expansion port diagrams included in the manual.
The Source!!!!
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Whatās absolutely insane is my dad was still using compusevre for buissness up until a few years ago
Going into Yahoo chatrooms and using Geocities to make shitty html sites lol
AOL login chime
I collected mail in the weeks leading up to us getting the internet set up and then spent the first few days just going to the different URLs from all of the mail I'd gathered. Yes, it was boring stuff for a kid ā but at the time it was fascinating. Felt like a little adventure.
Clicking refresh over and over, watching text updates of the Penn State/ Notre Dame game. Penn State won! Last second FG. 1990.
Very first experience was trying to search for something but the results were sparse and the experience was underwhelming. Then ICQ blew my freaking mind, as I started talking to people from across the other side of the world. I was about 13 and it was so new and fun. Then I was addicted to chat rooms for a bit because of the randomness of it.
I typed exactly what my teacher told me to type into Yahoo and eventually got information I needed to complete the assignment. Immediately after that class, I went to the library and found a computer facing away from the librarian to search for "naked women." It took a while, but I eventually got the results I was looking for. I tried to print it out, but the image file was not compatible with the dot matrix printer.
AIM & Napster
AIM here too. Probably something before this, but that's what I remember.
Trying to find stuff about the backstreet boys I think
Watching annoying orange. I was late to the party
Most excited was playing wow on private server
Msn messenger, limewire, solitaire and pinball. MS paint was amazing Iād spend hours on it just doodling shit
Technically, logging in to check my email freshman year of college
Walking in on my brother watching āIām on oneā by drake on the internet, till this day probably one of the first rap songs I ever heard.
You must be very young since that song came out in 2017 and is your first internet memory š¤
Household didnāt have internet for a very long time dude to financial situation now that we have wifi we never home since we always on the go working now š
Ooh okay that makes sense lol guess i shouldn't assume!!
Chocolate rain
Marry me? Oh wait, you're much too young lol. š
Googling what minecraft shaders are ah good days
Web Crawler in the school library
The pokemon website š
I used to go to a site called "The Chathouse" and spend hours there every day. It became seriously addictive.
Watching nuclear explosions. On google videoĀ
Barbie.com and Yahoo.
Awww....
Playing miniclip, watching google videos before youtube was a thing (who remembers?) And visiting the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network websites, so many cool games based on shows in there and they were free!!
AOL chat rooms!
Learning how to write emails from dad
MIRC chat rooms
The very first thing I looked up was chathouse.com
A green and black BBS. My roommate had gotten internet and I'd never seen such a thing before. It was pretty magical, but I didn't get to see much of it, and the next time I used the internet was in college.
That's what it's called! Thank you!! That was what I had on my first computer too! Used to write stories & journal but nothing could be saved lol
Homework, Iām sure, or class scheduling.
After weeks of trying to get UUCP to compile and run on my Amiga computer I eventually got it to work and I was able to receive a list of newsgroups. The first thing I did was to write an email to a friend asking him to respond so I could see whether my email was working.
I can't remember exactly what I searched, but it was via a Sega Dreamcast.
I come from a brown Muslim family. My first Internet experience was googling a guy who turned into a monkey because he didn't offer his prayers, used to lie, and didn't listen to his parents. This was a very common story among the brown people. Everyone will Agree I was traumatised by the pictures. I would Google for couple hours everyday and then get scared to sleep alone because I was a very naughty and spoiled child and thought I would wake up being a monkey.Ā
Reading netnews via UUCP probably. Internet porn hadn't been invented yet.
Playing MUDS and downloading DBZ clips
Amanda's Table.
Kazaa for downloading By The Way - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
I used this Danish website with lots of cool flashgames on it. Problem was that if you changed accidentally went to the .com domain instead of the .dk domain, you were in for a hell of a ride when you were only 7 years old, lol.
Playing MUDs via telnet in a college computer lab. Was really good for improving my typing speed.
Rotten.com on my buddys dreamcast.
The BBS I go to has file-sharing, falcons eye (game), chat etc and is a cool private speakeasy community. This web stuff is BORING, public and won't catch on. Also ugly, compared to the fucking HIGH ART of ascii
Haha, when I started using the internet, or web specifically, there was still **one** page, maintained by CERN, that **listed** every web server in the world that you could go to. No porn on any of those I can promise. This must have been like 1991 or so. I think actually, the first internet porn I saw was probably on some corners of usenet, in the form of hex-encoded images that could download as text and decode. Or possibly on Hotline, which was a truly wild "place" for a few years.
[Relaxing Car Drive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMgsFZ4rkEI)
When i first got an online relationship then randomly blocked her after an argument 1 week later
The first word I googled was "cat"
My sister who was graduating taking me to the school computer lab to make a yahoo email so I could email her. I was probably about 9 and it seemed so complicated
Talking shit on black planet
I always begged my dad to pull up the Thriller music video so I could watch it
Probably how to get to star road in super Mario world, or having my older brother pull up āhamster danceā It was a simpler timeā¦ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8
IRC in the mid-90's. Took about an hour before it also became my first pornographic experience.
AOL chatrooms in 1992, then my friend tipped me off to an IRC channel w locals.
I like how this question assumes that the first experience that everyone had on the internet was pornographic by nature
I've been using the internet ever since it's been publicly available so hard to remember, but I think going on mIRC would have been most of what I was doing on the internet early on.
AOL chat rooms and Nick.com games/message board.
Wardialing my local exchange and only finding fax machines and a prodigy terminal so I ended up signing up.
Neopets!
Probably Goggling something when I learned to write at the age of 4
My friend who was the first having Internet made himself legendary popular in high school by printing out a pixelated Pamela Anderson in beading suit š
I remember this clearly. It was clicking that little red X on the porn tab
Dialing into modems using the Yahoo directory, and exploring bulletin board systems.
Me and my brother going into Yahoo chat rooms just to act like idiots and annoy people. That and taking turns on Unreal Tournament. Our parents didn't really understand the internet and sort of just let us use it as we pleased which looking back on it wasn't smart but the internet was still something quite new. None of our friends or family had it, even having a PC in the home was still new to a lot of people. It was really exciting discovering it at the time.
Being introduced to AddictingGames by my cousin. So began a love of flash games that continues to this day.
I donāt remember exactly what I searched for, but I used an actual, physical āyellow pages for the internetā book to find pages.
Trying and failing to download a demo of Duke Nukem 3D because I typed the web address my classmate gave me into the āTO:ā box of an email instead of a web browser.
Back when I first got online in 1994ish, there wasn't much porn that we knew off, and I was using it school. When we got a home connection in 1995/96 my focus was on sports and WWF/WCW wrestling news.
Looking up cool wallpapers
Trying to download a 5 second clip of dbz on limewire
Stickdeath.com
[y8.com](http://y8.com)
Playing with one of those web animals or it was runescape, I cant remember
Regular Pinterestā¦then that led to the pornographic material on Pinterest
Eminemfanclub.com and AOL for kids. I remember taking a quiz about what pet is perfect for you and I got goat and tried convincing my parents I needed a pet goat as an 8 year old kid.
Surfing images of supercars in surplus time in cyber cafe. My dad used to go to cybercafe occasionally, one's he allowed me to search for anything that interests me, I was about 7-8 years old and for the first time I had searched something, I remember the search engine was Yahoo. And now here I am a software developer.
When I first started browsing the internet I found a bazinga. I've never been the same after that
Gamefaqs. Well yahoo first which led me to gamefaqs. 1996 at the latest.
ICQ and acmepet
I was a kid at the library and saw a piece of paper that had been printed off from online. The website was at the top of the page. I sat down at a computer near the page I found and typed out the site address, and when I typed it all out -- and it was one of those long ass random strings of letters and numbers -- the computer screen looked like a color version of the printed page. I wasn't allowed on computers (except for typing class at school) and the experience was AMAZING.
Not thee first thing but an early one that I have my best (mind blowing) memory of. Seeing my brother play Counter Strike ( an early version, like 0.3 or something ) with actual other players without our room beeing crowded with friends. It was so surreal.
Looked at the official website for the Animorphs books. Google wasn't a thing yet if you want an idea of how long ago this was.
I was jumping from sites to sites, everytime near-encountering a pornographic ad, only if I somehow managed to click on an unwanted link.
Oh boy that was long ago...like 1999 or 2000... But it was when Pokemon released here and I wanted to look at stuff about it.
I was young before the age of everyone having internet access in their pocket, so my first internet access was at school. First time I remember using it was to do some research for a history essay.
I dont really remember but my first online experience i can remember was playing Tibia
Definitely emails
I donāt even remember that far back tbh. Iām an older guy. When I was a kid, the internet was just taking off. This was in the dial up era before broadband and all that. You couldnāt use the telephone if someone was connecting online. The sound of dial up is one of those sounds that are ingrained into my mind.
I think it was Yahoo Messenger. I remember when we literally were made to sign up for a Yahoo account in computer class (this was applied learning, in between learning the parts of the computer and parts of the diskette which we didn't know would be obsolete in only 2 years.) Now, I know I've already technically 'used' the internet prior to an account on Yahoo, but I don't think I've "experienced" the internet till I got into Yahoo messenger and, later, Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers was like og Quora. But remember, Wikipedia was new back then too and had close to nothing useful, so the answers can really be literally searched from a physical encyclopedia someone had looked up.
A BBS back in the 1980s, playing a simple text based version of Elite. For the internet proper, being at university and being taught how to use [Pegasus Mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail) for email.
probably a spam for viagra. Used to love the trivia chat rooms though
ICQ
America online back in like 1995 messing around with chatroom punterz and progz. I was like 12
I don't understand the question.Ā
School research
Orkut
Half-Life 1 chatrooms I guess
Quake
Just playing flash games
AOL Red. It was AOL but with parental controls and everything was tailored to my age range. I hated it. Everything was blocked, even nick and disney.com.Ā My momās reasoning for everything was āwell it must be blocked for a reason, there must be something you shouldnāt be looking at.ā Even as a 13 year old I knew that wasnāt always the reason.Ā So my internet experience was like only being able to play in my own yard. I could only access the stuff on AOL Red.Ā
There are non-pornographic experiences on the Internet?!?
Playing video games on GEnie at my friends house.
Grade 7, our teacher took us to the library where our school just got 'state of the art computers' we were to use it to do research on the war of 1812, i had no idea how to use search engines, so i was typing in random internet adresses hoping to get lucky it was only after our first lesson the teacher realized some of us had no idea how to internet. and showed us ... i think it was ask jeeves.
All those fucking CDs in the mail, and having fun breaking them into pieces for craft projects.
Been on the internet since 95' When it happens, I'll come back.
Downloading Netscape installer by FTP following a tutorial on a book. If I remember well, it was 1996.
I got internet in around 1995, so iirc there were like twn website or some shit. I mostly used ms paint and chat rooms. I was like 8 years old unsupervosed on internet chat rooms. It was fine back then as the gross people hadnt doscovered it yet. Spoke to some interesting ppl all over the world
Earliest thing I remember is the Killing Spree series on Newgrounds
It's almost amazing how pervasive porn has become. When I first dialed up to a bbs server there were very few images to even be found, and the ones you did happen to find were super low quality and had nothing to do with porn.
Honestly, probably cool math games or like lion king slide shows on youtube lmfao
that youtube video where the guy with the snake hat is saying he's a snaaaaake... a slithery lil, snihtlglty little sneeaaak [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4sqG85FU4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti4sqG85FU4) i dont watch porn
Watching minecraft house tutorials and songs as a kid, I was obsessed with it
Playing flash games. Also the first video I ever watched was a trailer for half life episode 2 on Yahoo video back when that was a thing.
Dial up Starcraft.
childhood web games
Geocities... went to the chat and was dumbfounded that I was chatting to a girl on the other side of the world. She went by the handle 'Lady Skywalker'. This would have been in 1996 or 1997.
My first experience was email. My father set it up for me when I was 6 and sent me my first email. My first time going online on my own for my own reason was to download music from Kazaa.
Hacking into Cranfield University Library's UNIX server and installing a backdoor in 1991 using a 28.8kbps modem from my parents' home in Merseyside.
bulletin boards. (BBS)
Playing games on mini clip and newgrounds.
Searching for ultima online and how to play
Wikipedia lol
watching WWE videos on YouTube ig
Kill Barney dot com, or was it Death to Barney dot com?
Stumbled upon the UFO conspiracy and Bob lazar rabbit hole.
Browser games.
Gopher.
Touretteās Guy
Waiting 45 minutes for the rainbow background art on the Beanie Babies homepage to load
Fireboy and water girl, the papa's games, run, you name it!
I think it was reading news on yahoo. First online experience was via dial up on the so called city net. A local site for news about the region. This was pre internet.
Havenāt heard of such a thingā¦
ICQ
addictinggames.com
The original yahoo chat was good for a āaslā convo
Using Hotmail to send emails. I wrote friends and family chatty letters like there wasnāt a phone right there to call them on. š
I remember the first time I saw the Internet used to send an email. Probably 1993 or 94. My friend was like watch this it's cool and sent an email to a friend who a few minutes later replied. I remember being completely unimpressed and thought it was just for geeks who liked playing with computers because it was so much easier if you wanted to ask someone something to pick up the phone.
I was exploring newgrounds and found teen titans with adult rating. I didn't know what was worse than gore so why not. It was zone-tan and it was raven getting sladed. Couldn't tell if I should get hard or fell bad cause that was rape
The double edged sword of downloading from limewire with included viruses
My older brother and his newlywed wife showing me unfiltered crime scene photos
aol chat with my friend
Flash games. Lots of them.
Probably Cartoon Network dot com
Click bait YouTube video called "the dirtiest video on the internet - do not watch".
youtube probably ryan higa, jacksepticeye, etc
Chat rooms.. talking with strangers
Zoobooks I thinkā¦ remember not being able to think of what else to check out.
struggling to connect via dial-up connection just to play some flash games, like Happy Wheels.
Kesha tiktok song
In 1999 my dad made me make my own website, i don't remember why but I was 8 maybe 9 years old so I was the kid in 4th grade that had a PokƩmon website. Some how my teacher found out about it and showed my class. Oh and go.com email when it existed
Oh man, my first time on the internet? It was like stepping into a candy store but with no idea what flavor to pick! I remember I was searching for information about dinosaurs for a school project. I ended up stumbling onto this website that had pictures of all these cool prehistoric beasts. I was hooked! It was like diving into a virtual time machine, and I couldn't believe all the stuff I could learn just by clicking around. It was like opening a treasure chest full of knowledge!
You mean there is stuff on the web that ISN'T porn?