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I remember visiting Serebii in like 01/02 after we got our first computer, but I was still a kid and didn't remember what the site was called until 06.

I was late to the party. Left for the Navy in 1994 and was out to sea and traveling the world when the Internet started becoming much bigger in 95. So I didnt start using it regularly until I got out of the Navy and started my job June 28th of 1999. Then I started using it regularly at work, then also bought a PC and started using it at home.

So yeah wasnt until 1999 for me at 23 years old.

2002 to 2004.

So i browsed askjeeves and google at school for computer class around 2002. I would be 6 years old at this time

The 1st time I browsed the web at home was in 2004. I remember my first google search being related to Spyro 3 which i was playing at the time. My fave sites were snopes and wikipedia lol. I liked looking at the paranormal section of snopes. Freaked me out a bit. idr how i discovered it

Either 1994 or 1995.

I downloaded a clip of cartoon I had seen several times before, with the worst quality ever, that took nearly an hour to download.

It was amazing.

I think I was 7 when my parents bought a PC and got actual internet access, both of which I so proudly set up myself. So it had to be 1997-1998. I spent a lot of time on cartoonnetwork.com before discovering newgrounds.

'94 - '95 with AOL.

I think it was 96, definitely somewhere around there. I was in high school, junior year.

Looks like it was somewhere from 1994 and 1996. My dad had the internet service called MindSpring, which started in 1994, and I remember being probably in 9th grade, possibly 8th grade, when we first got the internet. I remember most of my online time spent being on on mIRC and getting my pictures from alt.binaries-type newsgroups.

1995

1995

96 probably. We went to the library for a school trip or something and I got to see that new fangled internet and computers.

I was an engineering college freshman in 1991, so I got an email address and used the pre-web Internet. It wasn't long before Mosaic was available to browse the early web on SGI machines and Sun SPARCstations. Shortly after graduation, I was one of the first people to sign up for the then-new concept of a permanent alumni email address, so I have a rare firstname@x.ivy.edu address

Probably somewhere around 2024

2000?
Maybe the late 90s

i only got a computer around 2000, but i must have interacted with it before then, probably

My first screen name was in 2000

Early 2000s, Parent's had a friend that was into computers and built our first one. We never had dial up and remember being a fairly early adopter of broadband.

2001
played a bunch of flash games on Cartoon Network and stuff. Was encouraged to browse the internet at the local library and stuff. Also saw some kids play RuneScape and thats how I came to make my own RuneScape account

my step dad had dial up internet, and my dad always got a bunch of different hp computers because he wasnt tech savvy and would get them destroyed within a year. So I grew up using a bunch of different windows OS.

It's tough, because it was literally right at the cusp of 95 and 96. I had it at spring 1996, but then lost it for some reason until early 97.

I'm pretty sure it was on the official enix forums trying to find a guide for Dragon Warrior. I discovered gamefaqs a few years later when I got stuck in Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

2004 when I got my first PC

98-99. I started using it in middle school. In elementary school, computers were mostly used for edutainment games like carmen sandiego/oregon trail.