What year was it when you

[low-key]

discovered the world out there thru your computer ?

1998, I cant imagine life with out it now

 

[Handbag Lady]

1995, but I found the world long before that.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

1995

 

[DaisyLynn]

94-95....sometime during my freshman year of high school.

 

[Emteach]

We got our first computer when I was in grade 5 (so 1996) - at that point I think it just had a couple of games on it. I distinctly recall using a typewriter for a grade 6 Biography paper. I dont think we had the internet/printing programs at home until grade 7 or grade 8 so 1998/1999.

 

[low-key]

94-95....sometime during my freshman year of high school.

i was a junior in High School in 95

 

[Cantw8]

i was a junior in High School in 95

on what planet? Certainly not this one

 

[HelenePA]

95-96 I was a senior in high school

 

[superme80]

I want to say 94 or 95. I remember one of the internet companies had this maze game. It was super cool. Then they went bankrupt and we had to change to Compuserve.

 

[hopemax]

Beginning of '95, even though I knew about it before then.

One of my good friends in college couldn't believe I got through my first year of college without an email account or a modem. But I kept telling him, "If I get it, I'll spend way to much time online." Jan '95, one of my engineering pre-requisites was a computer programming class, so I had to get one then. Plus, at the end of Jan I got a job in the university department that handled all the account maintenance for the university (via the same friend, he knew I was pretty knowledgeable about computers so he really couldn't understand why I didn't have an account).

So within a month I went from no account to having like 3, and being responsible for people knowing how to use email and surf the web and all that!

 

[moon]

95. IBM Aptiva, which had one of those new awesome PENTIUM processors

 

[lightmoonstone]

1997...I think i was in grade four

 

[frostywolf]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 that we got in the early 80's. no Internet access at home until the early 90's, though. I think at the time I had a Packard Bell PC.

 

[Diznygrl]

Seems like we always had computers around while I was growing up (remember playing all those primitive games like the original Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail, and many others), but it wasn't till about '97 or '98 (when I was 16 or 17) when my dad encouraged me to try out something called the World Wide Web. Been hooked ever since, haha.

 

[tvguy]

1994. My son was in second grade.

Me, I was 37.

 

[Starclassic]

1998

 

[shortbun]

Mid 80's at work, late 80's(guessing 89) at home-email and limited internet...it was so slow and shut down all the time. Became addicted about 92.

 

[Nancy]

It was shortly before I registered here...and since I lost my original start date in the board crash I am thinking we got our first computer in early 98. My youngest DD was in kindergarten...she is now in college.

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

My family got its first home computer in 1981, when I was in first grade. It was a TRS-80 Model 3, brought home by my father who was Chairman and CEO of a large publishing company and used to bring home used computers as they phased them out at his company.

I blame my terrible penmanship on the fact that I started typing my homework in the second grade. And how I loved printing out banners on the dot matrix printer!

As far as getting onto the Internet, I had access to it when I was in high school (1991-1994) and my college had high speed hardwired network access available in the freshman dormitories and upper class houses when I arrived as a first-year student, but both my high school and my college were very early adopters, so I was definitely anomalous.

 

[Meriweather]

We got internet about 1995 when DS was a sophomore in high school Couldn't get him off it. We had to have a 5 minute window each hour when he went offline so we could make phone calls.

First computer we got about 1984.