A list of usenet groups on my dad’s computer around 1989. Porn groups, I think, but that may be mixed up with another later memory.

I have a very early memory of being showed a grey web page with just a list of blue hyperlinks, extremely rudimentary. I think it was an early form of Yahoo! search.

The first thing I remember doing on the web unsupervised was looking up cheat codes for N64 games on Ask Jeeves.

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Porn lol

Rage comics

Honestly the original Runescape is probably among the first things I used internet for

EDIT: Oh! Also Stickdeath

I might be an odd one out here. By the time I was forming memories the internet age was well underway.

The first thing that I can remember was some old flash game about guiding a worm through a maze.

That game was unforgiving, tiny me had to be on point with their trackpad movements.

Oo… In ICQ voice

making maps in warcraft 3 in elementary school and getting in to a mapmaking guild with people of all ages and genders. those were the days

The very first time I got internet, it was by hooking my BBS up to an internet provider in Colorado. Every night my computer would do a dial-up connection and exchange email and Usenet via UUCP. I was the only BBS that was connected to the for-real internet that I know of. Probably the very first things I accessed as I was getting the account set up were Usenet and poking around on anonymous FTP sites for major universities. They had all kinds of random nonsense there.

I moved away from home for the last two years of high school, so I had no internet, but we got email through the high school in my senior year. It was a big deal; among other things it meant I could exchange email with a girl I knew who lived far away instead of sending letters. It was her dad’s email account though. She had no email of her own. You kids have no idea how lucky y’all are.

The first time I messed around with the web was at a summer programming job; it was very rudimentary at that time. We basically didn’t use it; the day to day job was effectively disconnected from anything aside from the work we were doing locally on the machine. Pretty much the only thing I remember from the one machine in the office that was hooked up to the web was the Rome Lab Snoball Cam.

In college first first couple of years I used an extremely rudimentary DSL-type system for accessing email and things from off campus. Text only. Computers on campus were web-aware; mostly Unix machines with Netscape. It was as I was going through school that things like the web started to become really ubiquitous on all PCs, and by the time I’d graduated it was everywhere, mostly the modern version, and all computers were assumed to be hooked up to it.

Earliest I remember?… searching for “Mario 64 tips & tricks” in the Internet Café on Yahoo and printing a novel length convoluted “cheat” to unlock Luigi

Probably Yahoo. I had dialup in the 90s and Yahoo was the gold standard for search.

I remember trying Ask Jeeves later, but always went back to Yahoo when it inevitably failed to find what I wanted.

I played a ton of Yahoo games and remember getting into their “gambling” games as a kid (mostly blackjack, but also holdem on occasion). I would play at night when my parents were asleep because I want allowed to tie up the phone line during the day unless I headed to for school.

Depends on what you mean by online. If anything internet related counts, it was e-mails I got from teachers at university. That was totally new at the time and only people in computer science and related courses had access.

My first multimedia experience was with Usenet. The internet access was from a terminal account on a UNIX host. I had to telnet into that from a Windows machine (3.1 had just come out). There was this post in several parts named “cute girl getting it up the ass”. I had to download all the posts as text files, stitch them together in an editor and uudecode the whole thing. Then i had to ftp it to the Windows machine and install a JPEG viewer on that (similar procedure). Then i could finally open the Jpeg, which took about a minute on that machine. The girl wasn’t actually that cute.

The first Internet thing I remember actually doing is my friend helping me sign up for my first email account, on Hotmail… In high school computer lab, so it must have been 96 or 97.

I do remember reading about the Internet and trying to find a way to connect from home on our Packard Bell… But we were remote… It would have been some extreme long distance bills…

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