How long have you been on the internet...main uses? Changes in uses?

Hello Peace. I have been using the internet for over 9 years now. I love having the computer to do research for things I want to learn. I use it for email too. I am looking for ways to earn on the internet. That is why I joined my lot was to learn how to earn more money on the internet.I learned how to repair my own computer through the internet. I used to go into chat rooms but that was before I got married. That was almost 3 years now.

counting back i guess i have had a computer for about 15 years. I got it mainly for selling on ebay when i had my antique store & other than e-mails that's about all i used it for for years. Oh yeah, i talked to an old friend on instant messenger every day for years to but he & ebay are out of my life now. About all i do now is mylot, i never have ventured out much like i should have. I am on facebook but don't do much w/it. I know it is alot of company to me having a computer.

I have been an savvy Internet user for five years now. In the past before then, I did not care for the Internet. When I decided to stay home full-time with my kids that is when I started using the Internet. I discovered that there was many free money making opportunities that were of interest to me. I then started being on the Internet more and more.

I've been use Internet in almost 12 years now, karen. But as you said the technology is more advancing as it's not like in the past. We encounter many exciting things over the internet. I didn't yet close to download anything, do banking online, buying online. Because my focus then is to play online games and do chating. Even do I have a computer shop then I never tried all the stuff you said here. I do some research then because of the business that I have but not really a pure leanings because those are not minds. When my business down I tried myself to eliminate my frustration and depression looking for something that was ease that disappointment. I am addicted to play online games. Until I realize that there is no impossible on the net. So, I decided to search for a jobs and I learn about online jobs. I tried it and looking it good. Until I continuously doing it right, now. This is a good thing of the Internet, karen. Well, nice to participate in your discussion again. Have a nice day!

ya, i think my aim when online had changed since May,2009 after my college mate had give his payment proof from ciao.befoe may, i only go online for reading articles,send or receive email, chatting, get new online friend and do activity in friendster

Hi Karen, It's my 16th year in using computer and being exposed to internet usage. I learned a lot within this period. I developed my skills in preparing powerpoint presentations for training, lay-outing of reports, newsletters and manuals. I became comfortable in using word, excel and other programs. Yes even chatting is fun to do plus the other social networking sites and now online earning and mylot is one. Computer and internet usage is more on work for me.

I have been an Internet user for over 20 years but only for the past 5 years since I retired have I used it stricly for my own enjoyment.

I have been online since 2000. My partner has been online for much longer, since the internet was in it's infancy. I am not online as much anymore. A few years ago, we used to work from home, and were online a lot, in between calls we would do surveys, online activism, research, webpage creation and so forth. After we got jobs outside of the home, I still was online a lot, just not as often. I mainly chatted a lot with online buddies, played on social networking sites, researched and downloaded. Now, time is more rare, there is less that interests us to download, and I don't really have online friends anymore, so internet usage has went down a lot.

I have been on the internet for about 7 years now. I like it because I can do some research online. The library can also us the internet and get books from different libraries for research. I like be able to check out the news at different websites. This is my first social website and I am liking it alot.

Had a Kaypro with a modem in the late 80's I was a regular with some BB's in Tallahassee Florida at the university. Then in the early 90's with Prodigy* then I wandered to the internet. Would say I started the WWW about 1997ish.

I've been an internet user for over ten years now as well. When I first started using the internet it was all about the chat rooms. Then, I started college and it became a way for me to do some research for my classes. And then I found forums of expectant mothers like myself and that was the network of friends that I had when I was pregnant. Then there was and still is digital scrapbooking, I share my pages online. I also attend weekly chats with some of the other scrapbookers and now I've added making money on the internet as well.

Before, it was mainly for academic purposes. Our internet then was just prepaid cards, so it is slow. After DSL was connected, I started social networking sites, online games, downloads, and stuff, but still the acdemic stuff is there. Now, I got bored on those sites, and now I only use it through earning online, online shopping, and also academic.

Oh wow, I really feel old now, I've been on the internet since 2000. The main uses that I have used it for has changed from using it for assignments and joke websites as a young person, and now for checking emails, news, research and mylot! The changes that I have seen is the evolution from slow dial up and to now broadband. I am yet to move into the wifi ear. I can still remember the dial up tone. I use to tune in and sing along whilst it dialed away!

I have been using the internet for a very long time. I miss the days of dial-up connections and waking in early morning just to have the free internet hours. It was pretty cool. I used the net to play online games but I shifted on writing and earning money online recently. I also love to talk with people which I miss most of the time. Too many things to do but there some things that can you sacrifice for... and its worth all of it.

I think I have been on the Internet for 11 or perhaps 12 years - can't quite remember, but at first it was through dial-up, which was very slow and I would never have been able to work all the sites I work these days. I used it for nearly everything. Research, shopping, business, blogging and maybe other things like downloading programs but not much music, because I haven't got my computer linked up to my music center. I have made many friends on here that I haven't even met, and probably unlikely to meet, and that is something I find exciting. - Derek

I started using the internet in 1997 which makes it about 12 years that I have been using it. I stated out reading emails, browsing sites and generally wondered how such beauty was created. Then I learned how to chat and also do research for school work. Then came the era of making money online which would never end and then the social networking. The internet has really made a big difference in our lifes, you can shop and adminster your bank accounts from home, listen to great music, watch movies and more. Thank God for the person who created the internet

I am using the internet from years. I have learnt a lot from the internet and came to know many things i didn't know before. It has helped me in learning many things. Internet has both uses bad and good now it's on you.

Hi, tell you the true, I had been used internet for over 10 years. In general, I use internet to get the daily news, attent the live event, get some daily life knowledge, search for something which do not know and need to know right now. I think internet make our life very convenient, and colorful. I do not like to use internet for chatting, I seldom login online chat room, I just can't waste time to say something nouse for me, I thinks most of the chat room are mess-up (it is just my one-sided view, sorry for that). and never use internet to buy something, whhich was widely use nowaday, I just don't want to be cheated by some cheats which are really existing in the network. I think internet will give our life more convenient in the future. Thanks.

though it has been 2yrs i am using internet........... but its been only a year that i have got net connection at home........... previously i used to go to a cafe 2-3 times a week to surf ................. sometimes even for 4-5hrs at a stretch........ and now i am onl9 24*7

Let's see.. I have been an internet user for about 10 years now and my habits have really changed. When my family first got the internet when I was in middle school, it was when Napster was huge and you could pretty much find anything for free. So I always used it for music and to IM. These days though I do a lot of research and use Facebook and Twitter constantly. It helps me keep in contact with people that I know that have moved away. Lately in these hard economic times I have been trying to use the internet to make a little extra money also!