How did you start browsing the web? - Reveal just how old you are. Also nostalgia.

[He Who Points And Laughs]

BBS back in university. WWW came later.

 

[trigger warning]

AOL and Compuserve on the family computer, sometime around 1999-2000.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

AOL, on Windows 98 on a really bulky white IBM computer that also came with a binder of software.

I mostly just chilled in the chat rooms trying to make new friends, but whenever i did go online, it was mostly just to watch the flash cartoons that Cartoon Network were just premiering on their new website. Like this one called B. Happy

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Dialup through a local provider on a dell dimension 2400. Early 2000s. Fucking sucked, the celeron D(isabled deplorable disaster) couldnt handle 2003 internet, let alone 2009 internet when we FINALLY got broadband.

 

[Some JERK]

I've owned 14.4K, 36.6K and 56K modems. Some of them were external. You can probably work it out from there.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

My first experience with the internet was looking up pro wrestling fan pages on school computers when I was a teen.

Porn? Screw that! I want to see a cartoon gif of Kane shooting fireballs while a MIDI plays in the background.

And to think that was me at peak sexual frustration. The fix was already in.

 

[{o}P II]

i'd used the internet here and there since 2006 but I'd never really started using the internet until 2009 with IE 7 On Windows Vista

I have very clear memories of being really confused by the concept of the internet and getting lost constantly

 

[Van Darkholme]

Around 1997-1998ish, the local department store had an "internet cafe" (if you want to call it that). They used some version of Netscape, probably 4.0.
About ten years later I leeched unsecured Wifi in public via the Nintendo DS browser, those were some dark times. Or ISDN at my neighrbors, dual channel if I got lucky. I got my own internet connection after getting a steady job.

 

[OneMillionRPM]

IE 4 and a local dialup provider back in like 1999-2000. Of course, I was like 8 then so all I did was look at cheat codes and play Shockwave games. Never really tried to talk to people until several years later, joined the Gamewinners forum and made a complete autist of myself.

 

[XYZpdq]

when Prodigy hooked up with the onlines
within a year or so I got a real isp

 

[Rawhide]

The family computer that ran windows Xp, I still remember the first youtube video this is a reup, I cant find the original Teletubbies vs Darth Maul

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

It was in like 2003 when I got internet access.

 

[Sammy]

AOL 2.7 I think, MacOS 7 version, 28k baud modem.
I remember going to some sort of "MODERN TECHNOLOGY" fair and seeing a copy of AOL 3.0 running on a windows machine and all its new features and being envious that the Mac versions wasn't coming until like a year later. When we got it and a 56k modem I thought this was the pinnacle of the internet.
I don't remember what my first www browser was, probably something built into AOL once I figured out how to slip out of its walled garden (I stayed in there a long, long time though), prrrobably Netscape Navigator being a Macintosh kid.

I also remember when my parents upgraded to DSL. I distinctly remember asking the installer at the house "so, how do I turn on the internet with this new system?" and him being like, "You don't. Its always connected, you just hop in a browser." TimAndEricMindBlown.gif, I couldn't fathom an internet that was just there, always on.

 

[no_mad_johnny]

Around XP era and probably through IE. I used to download and print lists of Pokémon so I could memorize their names lol (back in the day when that was even possible)

Besides that I used to play flash games, download ROMs and random stuff from P2P.

Before that I probably accessed the internet at a netcafe for a school project (I remember spending the whole time playing MMO and watching stuff from...maybe Newsground or something similar)

tbh the only bad thing about old web (besides how slow it was) were the pop ups —including porn pop ups in the most random websites.

I was too young for that sort of thing and could have lived without it. I guess I didn't know how to block scripts yet.

 

[Childe]

I’m a young bitch so I started around 2005-ish with webkinz on firefox because that was the browser my dad used. Eventually graduated to neopets in 2008 and started finding other websites where I could talk to people with minimal word filters (dragon cave, magistream, deviantart) I think my first site ban was magistream when I was around 10 years old because I googled “boobs” and posted the photo on the forums. Simpler times.

 

[I can't imagine]

I first got on the Internet in 1994, though I mostly used it for MUDs and Usenet. Lynx was around, but not terribly useful. In late 1995, I moved from a 2400 baud modem to a 14.4k, and switched to Mosaic, then went to Netscape with...I think it was with 3.0, but it's been almost 25 years, so it might've been later.

 

[Son of Odin]

AOL dialup on a black Dell computer with Windows 98 c. 1999/2000

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Mosaic (on a beige box era Mac)

 

[TaimuRadiu]

AOL on school computers. (Or was it AOL browser?) I also remember using Netscape in 1993 at the school computer lab. Didn't get the internet at home till like 02, and then my parents were like "fuck dialup we're getting you broadband." The fact that it was bundled with cable TV didn't hurt.

 

[NyQuilninja]

Dis P.O.S

486 rocking a 56k modem porn was scarce icq is were peeps were at and aol was freeish(blockbuster had plenty of CDs) and yahoo groups were a thing and newgrounds took hours to play homestar and of course Napster and lfp keep is up for days burning cds