How old were you when you first used the internet?

how old were you when you first used the internet?

  • 0-5

    Votes: 13 13.3%

  • 6-12

    Votes: 54 55.1%

  • 13-18

    Votes: 17 17.3%

  • 19-25

    Votes: 5 5.1%

  • 26-30

    Votes: 3 3.1%

  • 31-40

    Votes: 5 5.1%

  • 40+

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • actually i can`t remember life without it....

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    98
At a quite young age for that time, like over ten years ago or so. I also remember back in 2007-2008 i believe, i used to be on a forum. While i still end up posting cringey things from time to time, it was nothing compared to what i used to do back then. :scared::lol: Of Course nowadays it's totally normal for kids around 6 and more to browse through the internet and watch youtube videos...
 
Somewhere around 1999 for me too. I'd say the first half, which puts me at... 12 years old.

GT news was some of the first stuff I looked for. That and Mortal Kombat 4 fatalities.
 
For me it would've been the mid/late '90s, probably 1996, at my dad's office when he had to pick me up from school but wasn't finished working for the day. Offices are pretty boring for kids... We only ever had Macs at home and I was really into (the idea of) Mechwarrior 2, a game I wasn't able to play, so I'd look at the robots on the Internet and fill in the numerous gaps with my imagination.

I would've been about 8, by the way.
 
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I got on the internet in late 96 I believe, on AOL 2.7. I was 14. We were one of the first to move from dial up to cable as well since my father worked for Comcast at the time. Mmmmm the good ol days of chat room roleplaying and phishing...
 
I was about 21, so around '93 or '94, I suppose. It was some form of Internet at uni, although it was only on one machine so wasn't widely used or available. We probably got it at work in maybe '97 or '98 and at home perhaps a year later.
 
neema_t
For me it would've been the mid/late '90s, probably 1996, at my dad's office when he had to pick me up from school but wasn't finished working for the day. Offices are pretty boring for kids... We only ever had Macs at home and I was really into (the idea of) Mechwarrior 2, a game I wasn't able to play, so I'd look at the robots on the Internet and fill in the numerous gaps with my imagination.

I would've been about 8, by the way.
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We only had Macs at home as well :) Did you play Hellcats over the Pacific, by any chance?

First time I used the internet was probably in school, I remember that we had a couple of PC's with Netscape Navigator. I don't remember which year, but I guess somewhere between 1995 to 1997, when I was around 10 years old. I have no idea what we did, maybe we were sending e-mails to other schools?
 
I don't really know, my earliest memories of the internet involved AOL instant messenger and Cheat CC so probably around 1997-98, but I have a feeling it was later than that. That puts me at around 8 years old at the youngest.
 
When I was in primary school there was intranet we went on when I was about 9
We got our first computer in 2002 when I was 10/11 then got internet later with aol:
 
To my memory it would be during my primary school days so 6-12 that I first discovered the internet which the time would invested into playing games on Miniclip rather than doing work.
 
@eran0004 no, never heard of it! My Mac gaming history consisted of F/A-18 Hornet, tons of Ambrosia shareware (Harry the Handsome Executive, Aperion, etc.), Escape Velocity, EV: Override and EV: Nova (which I still love and play), the Marathon series, Myst, Bolo and the demo for Star Wars: Dark Forces. Then later on there was Quake 3, Ghost Recon and more EV: Nova. I love that many of these games are still around.

My brother, born in 1992 doesn't remember life before the internet. I've known for a long time that this is my generation's equivalent of "in my day, we didn't have TV" that I used to hear when I was much younger but it still strikes me as insane that there are already adults who don't remember not having the world in a small box on their desk. And pretty soon there'll be people who don't remember life before smartphones, which are even more insane than computers with Internet access. Madness.
 
'twas the summer of 1993. XS4ALL came to be in the Netherlands and my parents jumped into the web, taking us kids with them.

10 years old I was. Good times.
 
I had to have been like 5ish. My dad spent all his money on tech junk. When I spent time with him I'd play with his stuff. You couldn't really surf the web because everything was so slow. But I started using e-mail a lot because it was a fun new way to keep in contact with my dad. I was a gifted kid so I could read and write well by that time. I remember when I was a teenager I found a bunch of my old emails written at 5-7 and I was so surprised at how well-written they were. I've regressed. :D I remember being mad at him for something, and I couldn't believe what a jerk he was in response. Looking back, he probably thought it was my mom writing him. :lol:
 
I've been using the internet since the early 90's. Don't recall exactly when but the linux kernel I was using at the time was 1.08 for what that's worth.

I'd been online for a decade previously; I was active in the BBS community.
 
I was 5 years old in late 2001 when my dad and I were stuck at some point in a game I don't really remember, it was some sort of sandbox driving game, so he looked for help on the internet. I was with him so he explained me how useful the information that can be found here is. I had a go and looked for Gran Turismo 3 images (Because I didn't have it but I knew it existed), we had dial-up so it took so long to load the images! :lol:
 
Somewhere around 1999/2000 whilst at senior school. At home I remember the first connection we had was 150k "Broadband", ie only about three times as fast as 56k. That was in 2003, I think.
 
Sometime around the time the iMac G3 was a thing in schools and I moved to my current residence, so...I'd like to say...hold on....seven or eight. Well, earliest I can recall.
 
My first experience with the world wide web would have been on a Mac around the mid-'90s, when I spent most of my internet time browsing web lists for shareware and freeware games to download. My parents bought our first Windows computer in 1996, so I was younger than 10.
 
My earliest memories of using the Internet was back when I was looking up news on "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" (an excellent game). So for me, this takes me back to about 1995. This means I was about 12 years old back then.
 
I got my first taste of the internet in middle school back around 2001-2003

No idea how I didn't get caught saving porn to my folder on the school server. Or maybe they knew about it, but never caught me red-handed so they let it slide... my teacher did seemingly start looking at my screen a bit more after a while, but then again perhaps I was just getting paranoid.

Also took advantage of my middle school's internet to research anime and survival horror games, which I was getting into around the same time thanks to Adult Swim and Silent Hill.
 
Probably in 1995 at the school library.

One of the first things I used it for was gathering information, sound clips and video on the McLaren F1 for a school paper on modern technology.

I remember saving the files on floppy discs :lol:
 
Wolfe
My first experience with the world wide web would have been on a Mac around the mid-'90s, when I spent most of my internet time browsing web lists for shareware and freeware games to download. My parents bought our first Windows computer in 1996, so I was younger than 10.
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Do you remember an old peer 2 peer program for the Mac? Can't quite remember the name. Something Hat I think. You could host a file server on your machine or load up someone else's with their client software. Has chat room functionality as well. It was the first time I recall running into "go to this site, click this link and this spot is the password to download" messages.
 
Samus
Somewhere around 1999/2000 whilst at senior school. At home I remember the first connection we had was 150k "Broadband", ie only about three times as fast as 56k. That was in 2003, I think.
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56k was insanely fast. I first got online with a 300 baud modem, which had a transfer rate of about 27 bytes per second. Not megabytes per second. Not even kilobytes per second. Bytes per second.
 
14.4k! We had that until we had cable. And wow when we got that! First time my connection speed was faster than my computer could process.
 

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