How old were you when you first wen on the internet?

[scraparcs]

I was 16. Almost made it to adulthood without the internet!

Do you remember how old you were when you first went online?

 

[kingoffools13]

I've been using computers since i was 7 ... internet prob a year or two after that but it wasn't the same back then ... bulletin boards and dial in servers etc.

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[SplendidTree]

I started using it at age 12 I think. When it was Prodigy for internet service and I think AOL. We used Prodigy first. My folks would time and monitor us on it. Soooo different now.

 

[K9_Trainer]

9 I think

 

[HighwayMan]

13-14, when I came to North America for the first time.

 

[Blank123]

7 or 8 I think. I just remember my dad getting me in touch with some little boy in Scotland so we could be penpals and how cool it was that I could actually communicate with someone living that far away from me.

 

[Flashlight]

probably 18.

 

[ceh85]

13 or 14 I think. I didn't use it regularly until I was 16 or so.

 

[Singermom]

My introduction to anything remotely resembling the Internet was the Digital Notesfile (an inter-company bulletin board, but it WAS world-wide) when I was about 23 or 24. As for the traditional Internet as we know it now, that was about 1994 - so I was 30 - but that was only at work. I didn't access it at home until 4 years later.

 

[Sketcher]

Middle school, we Telnetted into Yahoo.

 

[Keri]

I think I was about 14 or 15.

 

[Rose of Eden]

Computer: 3 or 4. I would sit on my dad's lap and he would teach me how to use it and then I would make a picture in Window's Paint haha

Internet: I think I was 9 or 10

 

[Apollo Celestio]

10 at the library.. we were too poor for our own computer until I was 15. But I've been using computers since I was 5.

 

[benf]

3 or 4 when I was using prodigy and playing MadMaze

 

[Miles]

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered BBSes. As I recall, my parents weren't thrilled with the telephone bill that month.

Around the same time, a few friends and I discovered a racing game called Stunt Driver. The coolest thing about it was that we could race each other via modem.

YouTube - Stunt Driver PC / DOS Game Review - Lazy Game Reviews

 

[Touma]

Internet was something like 10-13. Computer was a bit before that.

 

[Qyöt27]

It was the early part of 1998, because it was toward the end of 6th grade. So I would have been 12.

I've been around computers since I was 7, though. My mom had a DOS machine she'd gotten through a correspondence course, my elementary school had a handful of Apple II's and Macintoshes, and my grandfather had a Packard Bell that ran Windows 3.11 for a few years. We got a Win95 setup in 1995* - that computer is still functional, nearly 16 years later (although rarely used). Most of the Windows-based computers we used at school also ran 3.11 until I got to high school, although there were three or four Win98 machines in my 7th grade comp class.

*IIRC, it cost somewhere around $3-4K...Pentium (not sure which one, could have been the P54CS or P55C - either a Pentium-133 or Pentium-166), 16MB RAM, 4GB hard drive. It was this computer that I first used the Internet on, via AOL.

 

[Dzhessika]

16 I think

 

[Amber.ly]

I've always been around computers but we got internet at home when I was 15. My Dad's work paid for the installation and monthly bill so that is the only reason we had it.

Before that, when we went with my Dad to work a few times a year, he would set us on a computer and we would surf the internet all we wanted. For me that meant about 2 hours on Amazon.com and then I was bored

 

[Spirit_Star]

hmmm it was probably 1996 or 1997 so 13 or 14. We didnt have a computer at the time, so I used the computer at m parent office sometimes we'd go in on weekends if they had to get some work done. I dont think we got a home computer until I was a junior or senior in high school