How Old Are You The First Time You Use Internet?

I think I was in 2nd year highschool that time, so that was around 1999.. We had a dial up connection in our house.. but back then, I don't really use the net cause it cost so much, plus, I have no idea what to do with it. hahaha. So I was in the house with a few of my friends, and one of them had the idea of checking the net to look for pictures of ( drum roll please.... ) BACKSTREET BOYS! hahahahahahah!!! now that I think about it.. I could just die now from humiliation. lol.

Oh yikes - I think I was in my mid 20's or somewhere around that time. What year? Years ago - hee hee. I never got my own computer because I always had one at work - and even then I didn't even need to use the computer. But then there was a need, so my boss got me my own computer to use for work (but I learned quickly how to use it for personal things at the same time - ha ha). I seriously cannot remember what sites I visited back then . . . if anything most of it was work related (like emailing). I think I went with hotmail for my first email account. If myLot or Facebook existed back then, ohhhhhh that's where I would have went!

I am a very late starter and I mean very late! (LOL) We didn’t get our first computer until 2003 when I was 42 years old! It was an old dinosaur that we bought for one hundred dollars and it was really sloooow! We had dial up then which was also very slow and it would cut off every time the phone rang; we had a long cable that ran along our passage way! We’ve come along a long since then, now we have fast broadband and three computers in the house!

In 1997 I used the internet for the first time. I didn't have my own computer and that time, but one of my teachers introduced the students to the internet. At first he told us a bit about the internet and how it worked and then we got the chance to try it on our own. In the beginning I only used the internet to search for information about different things, and I remember that I read the news online. I also found some information about the university that I was interested in and some information about psychology. We were only allowed to use the internet for one hour, but I didn't want to quit, because I loved exploring this new "world"

Well, the same age as you, I was 14 years old that time. The year was 1998 and there were very few internet cafes available in my town. The connection were really slow and it took me hours to open the site I want. It was very frustrating It was 10 years ago, and now almost all people have internet access at their homes. I access internet at home too, and I am grateful because the connection is not so much faster and I don't have to go out to find the cafes.

May i know what country are u living coz perhaps we are living in the same country?hahaha i live here in the phils. We are one of the poorest country. That means were pretty behind when regards to technology. The first time i hold and used the computer when i was just around 15 i guess. At first, i'm so scared of touching it, hahaha so ignorant. Everytime we had a computer lab, i will always have a peek to my classmates what they're doing, I am afraid that i might make a mess.hahaha its such a funny experienced. I am glad that i had a computer at home now, am pretty good now how to used it and surf, that's why i was able to land on this site.hehehe

I was in college already when i first use the "Internet" i was so pathetic back then...It was late 1999 or early 2000, i think...I was in first year college i went to an internet cafe with my cousin because i need to research something for a certain school project. If memory serves me right it was something about the history of bible or something like that. It was just a random site i opened.

I was I think 20 when I first used the internet.I was totally new to internet.I have studied about it but never really used it till that moment.And from that moment Internet has been part of my life and now it has become a part of my career and personal life...now its a platform where I meet my friends,discuss issues and even professional interactions.

hi lordcaocao hi again Please laugh if you wish but I was fifty seven when my adult son gave me a used computer and monitor,the monitor was old and clunky. I knew very little about internet or computers but I did learn with my son's help and I was off and running. I loved surfing the net and I did genealogy and well just about everything you could think of. I have had a love affair with the internet and in my old age I still do. he he.my son of course started young and by the time I was surfing he had become a computer programmer so we still have a huge love affair with our computers and now I have a thin monitor an led or whatever they call it, you can pick it up with one hand and the screen is big and the colors are bright and clear , I really love this new monitor samsung.

When I was at university they had a really basic version of the internet, just with black and white screens and no pictures. I don't know what you would call it, but it was, I think, the technology of the time! This was back in the early 1990's, and I was 18 or 19. I don't think I actually visited a site (didn't know I could at the time!), I just used it to email my friends.

I was twenty-one old when I first used the Internet. This idea of an 'e-mail' was so new and everyone was talking about it. It seemed like a fantastic idea, adn I'm sure I had no clue about the real impact of an email or even the Internet back then. It was just one of the most popular things at that time, and, I must add, quite expensive. A lot of us thought the whole concept was just a temporary fad. How little we knew back then!

The very first time that i use he internet is when I am 16 years old and I was first year college that time. We have a computer subject and we had to ue internet for our practicum. At first I was scared because that is also the first time I use a computer.

Hi lord caocao: same as you. My first experience with the Internet was when i was 13 years old with one of my cousins. First things i remember i did this dar were opening an email account and chatting "to know chicks around the world" Off course i was really curious at that age and my parents weren't there because i have to the Internet outside. Now Internet it's everywhere and it's actually very cheap, you can find little boys 2-3 years old using the Internet. Sounds incredible

It was in the year 2000 when i first use of the internet when it was introduced in our University as part of enhancement to student learning. I being one of the teachers, also became interested in it having came from a poor family with no access to computers or internet. Funny as it may sound, but the first time i surf the net was a very hilarious expereince as i was also getting used to the movement of the mouse's cursor. It was a real nice experience getting information from the web not with the window's based programs that we have now but with black monitors which will bring you to sites with dot matrix texts and black and white picture or graphics. The experience of getting and sourcing the information from the web especially on subjects like Psychology and its related fields was very rewarding. Sooner, i get used to the use of the internet and there is never a day that i did not go to the inet lab to surf on information which i could make use of in the explanation of my lessons and to really enhance and improve my teaching with my students. I honestly thank the persons responsible for introducing this technology. I truly believe internet and the computer is really a boon to mankind with the readily available information on the net. By the way i was already 36 years old at that time. REally funny is it not? Learning through the net at this age? Thank you.

Lets see........the first time I used the internet. I will have to figure it out for you. I took computers in school but that was before windows and the internet had come out. I bought my first windows based computer not long before 1990 but I can't remember exactly so I guess I have been using the internet for ten to fifteen years and I am now forty two so that would make me probably about twenty eight years old when I first started using the internet. I remember when I first discovered the internet; I didn't know anything about it so I taught myself by trial and error using it. I remember staying on my first internet capable computer for hours and hours until I would be nodding off at my desk. I am still amazed at the wealth of information at your fingertips with the internet.

i was actually 15 when i entered an internet cafe...it was my first year in my high school, i went up to an internet cafe and made my first mail id..then i entered chat rooms later when i was 18 i took up a broadband connection in my home...still internet is very costly in my country...they have cheaper plans, but that has very low bandwidth.. i think it will take decades to make internet cheap in my country like other foreign countries of Europe and the America... happy mylotting...

The first time I use internet that was way back 1998. Where the trend of internet connection is dial-up. I didn't use yahoo messenger then as a tools for chatting because the connection is very so frustrating in terms of speed. That is why MiRC will one of the best chatting because this is easy to install...

I was only 15 years old when I first used the Internet. I remember using it for a school project. It was in the year 2000 the same as yours. I knew nothing about it and so I took a friend of mine with me so that together we might be able to figure something out. And guess what after a couple of visits I almost became an expert.

I think internet services has became very popular since 2000. So people who born after 2000 have great chance of exposure to it since young age. It is not fair to compare with people who born before year 2000. Doesn't make sense to compare too. Difference generation will face and have different information technologies. I used internet first time when I was 15 years old. By that time, the popular search engine is yahoo. :) I still remember that I was very proud to sign up my email account with yahoo and hotmail... LOL. I chat in ICQ using computer service in my school... :P Of course cannot chat for too long. Everyone was entitled to used for 2hours only for each session (morning/afternoon/night). Fun memory to recall back... Thanks for sharing this topic!

Hi,I use internet when I was in my high school too.Maybe it 's the first computer course of my high school. I remember I didn't know how to type in the keyboard. My teacher tauhgt me how to type first.I spend about 5 minutes typing only few words. Now,I am 27 years old and like chatting online with my freinds. Now I usually visit some sites about raising baby because I am a new mommy. haha! happy mylotters!