My BFF got internet in 1995, so we'd have a zillion sleepovers at her house and spend time in chatrooms. And I had no idea about safety, so I gave out so many details that I got a phone call from "cyberwolf" one night, who found me in the phonebook.
We had Prodigy too! Forgot about that one. Netscape was the browser and prodigy was the internet provider. That was back when we had one e-mail address for me and my parents.
Post by fortmyersbride on Oct 2, 2012 8:50:00 GMT -5
I used the Internet for the first time at nerd camp (summer governors school). They let us use the computers on the college campus where we were staying, gave us our own usernames and passwords! I came home so excited to tell my family about "the Internet" and why we needed dial up
My screen name was HotFeetNDA (hotfeet because I ran XC and track, NDA was my high school). I got a lot of pervs with foot fetishes writing me.
I "met" a boy Corey from Bend, OR. We talked on messenger and on the phone for hours. I started talking to his friends, too. I sent him an Old Navy tech vest for his birthday and he mailed me photos of him and his little sister. We planned to meet in person for years. I am not sure why we stopped talking or what happened to him.
Oh I just remembered this! I used to chat about Dawson's Creek and there was this chick who had missed an episode that my mom had taped for me (VHS holla!) and she was from the Midwest but was coming to NYC with a class trip. So I went down to the city with my boyfriend (who thought it was a bad idea) and waited at her hotel to give her this tape. And she never showed up. She was staying in Times Square which was still sketchy in those days. I felt like a fool.
Until 2001 our computer was in full view in the living room and my dad had already figured out internet strangers were bad news. No chatrooms for me, but I did spend copious amounts of time on Neopets circa 1999.
I was in the 6th grade, so 1995-1996. An astronaut from our super small home town was visiting our school, so our teacher showed us how to look up stuff on the internet so we could prepare 'informed questions' to ask him, lol.
I also remember snail mailing pictures to internet strangers. I was stupid and young, but at least knew never gave my real address (I would send pics but not receive them).
And Mom wouldn't let us get the internet at home until we got a second line, so probably 7th or 8th grade.
I don't remember a first time, but it was late middle school, so mid 90s. I know we didn't use aol and I don't remember having an email address until college 1998.
I don't think that I've ever been in an online chat room with random people. I wasnt introduced to aim until college, and remember there was also something else more chat room like - icq?- but I wasn't a fan.
I totally remember my boyfriend showing me the internet on his computer just before I left for college (1995). He took me on some chat site and we chatted with a random person for a few minutes. I think that was pretty much the extent of it. Then when I got to college I started using it regularly, but at first pretty much just to email and livechat with the boyfriend on telnet.
I don't exactly remember but I'm sure it was at school. My parents bought me my first pc in 1995, when I was in second grade, but they didn't want to have internet. My dad refused saying it was a distraction from school, but actually it would have helped me a lot with school asignments!
First time was in 9th grade, so 1996. One of my good friends had it, so we would mess around on AOL chat rooms and stuff when I hung out at her house. I remember there being so many creeepers!
Add my friend to the list of people who got into huge trouble b/c the bill one month was like insanely high b/c of how many hours she'd been on.
I remember begging my parents to get internet after using it at my friends house & they finally did the next year when I was a sophomore in HS...1997? We were a bit late to the game!
I think it was 95 or 96. I remember my dad showing the browser window to me and I was all, "yeah whatever I don't need to use that". I totally didn't get it and what "information" was on there. It was right up there with CD rom encyclopedias for me at that point.
It was around 99 that I got email, conducted searches for college, used AIM and Napster...oh how I still miss Napster.
Until 2001 our computer was in full view in the living room and my dad had already figured out internet strangers were bad news. No chatrooms for me, but I did spend copious amounts of time on Neopets circa 1999.
I LOVED Neopets! I totally forgot about that until just now.
The first time we used the internet was in 4th grade at school so maybe 93ish? We didn't have a household computer/internet until 2 years later. I was jealous of everyone who had screenames before we finally got internet.
I'm not really sure. I could have used it before at a friend's house but I distinctly remember playing Slingo for the first time at my Aunt's house in 96 or 97. I would have been in 6th or 7th grade.
I miss Slingo.
If it weren't for the OC AOL chat I would have never met the friend that introduced me to my husband.
If I google my sn, I find her blog where she posted a lame IM conversation we had that she thought was hilarious. Reading her blog talking about H and me is weird because I don't remember any of it.
This post is making me feel really old. I used it in college, 1993.
I was totally going to say this!
For me, it was 1994, freshman year of college. It was also a telnet/unix thing. I signed up for a listserv for figure skating (I was obsessed -- with watching, not performing), and a couple of years later was on another one for Rent (the show-- again, obsessed). When I think of all the hours I spent in computer labs in between classes reading those messages...
It was also sometime in college that my family got AOL at home.
My best friend had prodigy, I think in the early 90s. That was my first exposure to it. I didn't have an email address until college. Myrrhine has been my sn around the internet since about 1996.
We used a very basic web-based applications in school in the late 80s but we didn't have it at home until the early 90s. My mom wanted to get a computer back when Apple was first well-known, so what would that be, mid 80s? But we weren't interested, and she didn't want to spend what was at the time a lot of money on something we wouldn't use. But once the internet came along we were a lot more interested.
Post by thatgirl2478 on Oct 2, 2012 9:42:07 GMT -5
1996 - my dorm was equipped with internet connected computers running windows 3.1 (they were called 'Residence Halls of the Future' and cost an extra $2,000 a year to live in).
In 1997 I bought my own computer - it cost $2k and was running windows 95. I had an AOL account and had to connect via my 14.1k modem via a phone line that ran under my bedroom door and into my parents room because that was where the 'extra' phone line was originally connected. Sometime after getting my computer, my Dad ran the 'extra' line into my room so they didn't have to worry about the tripping hazard.