can you remember the first time when you used the internet ?

India
March 1, 2010 8:59am CST
i used the internet first when i was at the age of 13 . i first used to register for a competition . but after that i dint use internet for a long time . but i started using internet then only at the age of 16 and from then i am using it almost everyday . from when have you been using the internet and for what did you use the internet for the first time .
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@sheetalnr (586)
• India
4 Apr 10
I used the internet for the first time when i was 15 [That is 11 years back]. I was trying to get some information for my history project.
• Philippines
27 Mar 10
I think I was 16 at that time. The only that you see is black, white and green. It was very primitive then. Computer has come a long way since then.
@jezzmay (1845)
• United States
7 Mar 10
It was probably about 15 years ago. I had had my computer for a couple of years before I connected to the internet, but when I did I started looking for ways to earn money. I have come a cross a few good sites.
@adhyz82 (36249)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 10
hm, ya i remember it.i began to use internet in 1999 when iam in college school first grade.i began to know mirc and email(yahoo) and read some news in internet.i see it miracle when first time to know internet. amazing, amazing. LOL.
• Bangladesh
26 Mar 10
Yes my friend, I definitely can remember the day on which I used internet for the first time. It was 10 December 2002 when I was 29. I went to local internet browsing center for sending a mail for a friend of mine as he didn't know ho to do it. It was a amazing feeling when I saw that a large mail was delivered in a few seconds. But internet service was not available in Bangladesh. I started using internet heavily only 1 years ago when a broadband internet service center was established in 20 December 2009. From then I've been using internet to my heart's content. Have a nice day.
• Indonesia
8 Mar 10
Dear dilipmiester, Yes, I remember, The first time when I used Internet is when I'm 14 years old.
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
2 Mar 10
I was around eighteen and I went to an internet cafeteria I ended up browsing the same page or two for half an hour, not knowing what I was doing. I did not know how to navigate from one page to another. There was no one to show me around. So I had to do everything by trail and error
@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
2 Mar 10
First time i ever used the internet my son-in-law took me to the library. We used the computer there to find reggae concerts in my area. That was like nine years ago.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
2 Mar 10
I think I first used the Internet in the late 1990's, perhaps 1997 when I was 24. There was no such things as internet when I was at school and no one had computers in their home either. It certainly is a different world now with my kids accessing the internet at school and even sending me emails from school! I received two from my 10 year old daughter yesterday! I think the first time that I accessed the internet would have been at a library maybe when I was doing research for a six month tourism course that I was doing in 97, or I was researching my upcoming overseas trip perhaps. Not sure.
• China
3 Mar 10
now i cant remember it, but if i want, i can refer to my past diary. but i'm sure it happened in the university. before that, i only saw computer, and never used any. my hometown and my family then was really very poor. really unbelievable now when i think of it.
• India
2 Mar 10
i started using computer at the age of 19 and I used Internet first time when I was 21. I created 2 -3 email ids and forgot the password and could not use them again as I did not use them for long time. After doing masters degree, using internet become very frequent and I could remember passwords of the email ids. Now internet has become non-distinct part of my life, I am connected minimum 8 hours in weekdays and 2-3 hours on weekends. I cannot imagine life without internet :)
@myzire72 (1154)
• Singapore
2 Mar 10
I still remember I went to my friend's house when I was still schooling. He introduced me to the Internet. That time, I had no slightest idea about what the Internet was and what it can do. Also, I didn't have a computer at that time. He introduced me to his chat friend in IRC. I was so surprised that my friend could communicate with someone overseas in real time just by typing on the keyboard. That was my first encounter with the Internet and since then, I had earnestly read every book that I could get hold of about the Internet.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
3 Mar 10
i could hardly remember the time i was introduced to the internet. what i remember is that it's excruciatingly slow then and i don't have the patience to wait. so, i just list down what i need from the internet and let my assistant suffer the waiting and put on floppy disks the information i need. when it got a little faster, that was the time i really went to personally using the internet and it's just a couple of years ago...
• Indonesia
2 Mar 10
Dear dilipmiester, I was used Internet the first when I 14 years old.
• Philippines
2 Mar 10
Yes i do remember the first time and the first time i chatted and used the cam. It was all new to me and i was really freaking out that its amuses the person i'm talking to. And then slowly i learned the ways of internet, the many wonderful things you can do here and explore and increase your knowledge.
@junil_jk (496)
• India
2 Mar 10
i used the internet for the first time when i was 14 in the year 2000. i accessed the net with one of my friends as it was my first time. if i'm not wrong, i opened my email id in yahoo, and visited the backstreet boys website(they were my first favorite artists). i might have visited other sites or done other activities but i don't remember other than the ones mentioned above.
@andu_95 (31)
• Romania
2 Mar 10
The first time i used intenret was at the age of 8 and i used at my mom's work, playing some computer games. I simply loved it but i had to wait for another year until i had my first computer and another year for internet but since then it's a part of my life.
@hhtyww (44)
• China
2 Mar 10
I used the internet first when i was at the age of 11, At that time I love playing computer games very much.only remember that I waste a lot of time and money at that time.With the years goes on ,I realise that earning money is so difficult
• Philippines
2 Mar 10
Not sure what you mean by using the internet, so i'll list my first two. The first time i experienced internet was when my brother let me play on his Ragnarok Online account, yes it's an online game. The first time using internet through a browser was when i opened a new hotmail account so i can register my own ragnarok online account. So my first internet use, was completely because of an online game.
• China
2 Mar 10
when i was at the age of 19 ,i first used the internet to send a email. In 1990s,internet is a new thing in china, very cool