When did you discover the internet?

[Blondie]

For me, it was in 1997. My DH had bought a computer and tried to tell me how fascinating email and web searches were, but I said "yeah right, like I have time to get involved with that!"

Look at me now!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I discovered it in 1997 too. I was a senior in high school and my parents didn't let me use the internet until then. They're smart people. I started dating guys I met online immediately and ended up marrying one of them. My dd's never going to be allowed to use the internet, lol.

 

[PrincessaC]

LOL ... 1997 for me too.. my son was just born and I thought the same thing... who has time for the internet...

 

[welovedisneyx4]

I didn't really "discover" the internet until 2002, when I started my current job. I had looked at it some before, but not very much at all. I just never had frequent access to it.

 

[Christine]

1996. I had found out the year prior (1995) that I had thyroid cancer. I just couldn't get any information or find anyone else who had it. Then a woman at work showed me the "internet" and how to find information. It was really a godsend at the time.

 

[shatzjsl]

I started in 1992 on AOL with a 26K dial up modem. Ahh...the days before tons of graphics on each page.

 

[Kitty 34]

'98 but my oldest DS was on our one and only computer most of the time so I didn't "surf" it too much then. Didn't discover the DIS til 2000.

 

[danacara]

I discovered the internet when I applied to college (December 1997) and realized that online application formats were far more user-friendly.

Then I showed up at college (September 1998) and there, the internet was already king. We had the functional equivalents of DSL and T4 even then. The guy who built our campus system (Tim Berners-Lee) is the same guy who launched the World Wide Web. So I remember sitting to my dorm room computer, hitting "cnn.com," hitting ENTER, and bam. The site was THERE. They had the fastest internet connection I'd ever seen. And I remember feeling flabbergasted at the flood of obvious possibility there.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Late 80's. My dad worked with computer technology so I was online before online was cool.

 

[caitycaity]

1992 - ish. we had prodigy. then we switched to aol around 1995.

my parents are profs so we had a lot of computers and stuff at home as far back as i can remember. our first was a tandy trs-80. i remember going to radio shack with my dad to get it!

 

[Galahad]

I first used the internet when it was just "the internet"....that loose connection between university computers. you could take part in a bulletin board or file sharing if you happened to have spare disk space on your own university's computer and the address of the other university computers. No IP, no web. When compuserve came along we said..."well at least they can't do anything dangerous like get to our files". When the web came along we said "there going to let all those people on here?" . That dates back to 1977 when I first did file and e-mail sharing over the internet.

 

[#1 Disney Fan]

My earliest I can track back web-browsing on the Internet is 1995. I might have tried it in 1994 when it first started to catch on, I just can't link anything with a date until 1995.

However, I also used text-based e-mail prior to the popularity/creation of graphical-based browsers.

 

[gallaj0]

Another late 80's here, and before that, it was dial in boards going back to the early 80's, on my buddy's IBM PC (the original), then our Apple 2c.

The Apple 2c- it's portable, really! It had a handle built in, and a $400 green 2'x5' LCD screen. And 2 power supplies, weighing 10 pounds each.

 

[Blondie]

our first was a tandy trs-80.

There's something I haven't heard of in a while!

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

My uncle had Compuserve in the early 90's...maybe late 80's...anyway, I use to chat online..it was all in a DOS format and he was always warning me about talking to "weirdos" online...LOL...he would laugh if he saw me with all my friends I have met from the boards!

 

[becka]

I think it was probably around 1995. DH (then BF) got a campus account for e-mail and Internet access and he couldn't wait to introduce me to it.

 

[caitycaity]

I first used the internet when it was just "the internet"....that loose connection between university computers. you could take part in a bulletin board or file sharing if you happened to have spare disk space on your own university's computer and the address of the other university computers. No IP, no web. When compuserve came along we said..."well at least they can't do anything dangerous like get to our files". When the web came along we said "there going to let all those people on here?" . That dates back to 1977 when I first did file and e-mail sharing over the internet.

i had sort of forgotten, but when i was in middle school, one of my friends ran a bbs that we all used (this was in the late 80's). yes, i was a geek.

 

[skuttle]

I discovered it my first year of college in 1996. I remember a high school friend that went to college in Mississippi told us (I went to college with 4 high school girlfriends) that she got an email address and that we should all get one so we could write to each other. I remember thinking..."whatever, like I'll have time to go to the library and check this stuff." LOL!

 

[sgtdisney]

In the mid '80s with (if you can believe it) a Commodore VIC-20! I bought the VIC-20 for the games and then got some 'peripherals' like a modem. I had a membership to Compuserve. It was all text based of couse, no friendly windows to guide you along. My father was an airline pilot so we were always getting into new technology. We had an IBM PCjr as well during that time but, like the Vic-20, it had no hard drive, everything was 5 1/4 floppy based but for some reason we never invested in modem for that machine. I progressed onto prodigy in the early 90s and remember fondly the Disney forums back then and especially when we invested in the DVC with Clarry Trice and a bunch of others. It was fun times back then, well now too of course.

 

[pixiemomma]

1993. My best friend had internet access.