When did you first hear about the internet?

[Boozy]

Just chatting at work, my memory of it was working at a bank, who's premier customers could phone these people and they could answer anything, holiday bookings etc, couldn't get my head around it, spoke to my mate who then said "you can get pron on it as well you know" He sat me down, showed me the internet and life has never been the same since, nore my eyesight! think this was around 1996 or so.

[AndyAudi]

Early 1998

[MaxAndRuby]

Does Janet count? Early nineties.

[BigJonMcQuimm]

1996 as well.....

Maybe worth stating age?... 32

[Pork]

In Uni, c 1994. Using chatrooms with mates when we should have been studying. Couldnt belive you could 'talk' instantly to a college chick in Hawaii. Back then, she probably was a chick in Hawaii. Now it would be a trucker from Stoke-on-Trent.

[shirt]

97. a couple of kids at school had it but i didn't use it until moving into 6th form where we had access.

[Try_Management]

I think for me it would have been 1997 when I went to 6th Form College.

[DrTre]

I was a trucker in Stoke on Trent back in '94, talking to naive students around the world.

[Strangely Brown]

Started using the forerunners to "t'internet" in 1979.

[dibbers006]

What's the Internet?

[JonRB]

1987 at school. There was a gateway onto JANet (the Joint Academic Network) and rumours of being able to get from it onto a thing called the internet.

First real direct experience was in 1989 using the University mainframe to post on various internet newsgroups such as alt.fan.pratchett

[dmitsi]

We got the internet back in 1993, they were rough times back then. 56k dial up made it a lot slower on the old grooming. I know people who would talk others through loading a BO virus onto their own PC, under the premise they were helping protect against viruses.

Funny times.

[lunarscope]

Probably 1990 for me. Have had email at work since 1989.
Before the web and browsers, all command-line interaction.
Downloading 'artistic' pictures from what were then called "bulletin boards" using a 9600bps modem.

I remember when I first saw an email address on a shop sign and commented on it to a friend who didn't have a clue what I was talking about. It was a novelty to see URLs advertised.

[FourWheelDrift]

dibbers006 said:

What's the Internet?

They have the Internet on computers, now.

[RemaL]

prob about the mid 90's through collage

[Raffles]

FourWheelDrift said:

dibbers006 said:

What's the Internet?

They have the Internet on computers, now.

Start > Programmes > Internet Explorer

[clonmult]

lunarscope said:

Probably 1990 for me. Have had email at work since 1989.
Before the web and browsers, all command-line interaction.
Downloading 'artistic' pictures from what were then called "bulletin boards" using a 9600bps modem.

I remember when I first saw an email address on a shop sign and commented on it to a friend who didn't have a clue what I was talking about. It was a novelty to see URLs advertised.

About the same here. Lots of artistic imagery was to be found via command line, uuencoding them so I could mail them to a PC client in order to download to the PC and uudecode them ....

Although that was jumping off the PR1ME systems at Uni onto various Unix systems around the world. Browsers? They're for wimps ....

[schmalex]

1996. I was 22

ETA. The scary thing is that now, my son, who is 5, just says "Daddy, you can always buy it on the internet" when I explain to him that Toys R Us is closed on a Saturday afternoon.....

Edited by schmalex on Tuesday 17th February 15:11

[over_the_hill]

Started using e-mail in 1988 and as I was working at CERN as part of my Ph.D. I started to see early internet stuff by the start of the 90's.

[rhinochopig]

dibbers006 said:

What's the Internet?

I think he means the Porn library.