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pwhodges:
I first used email at Norsk Data in the mid-1980s; it was a private system, and they had a line from the UK to Norway.  The mail itself was surprisingly much like modern systems, with the ability to attach files, even.

The Internet arrived when I bought a 14.4 modem (it could do 19.2, but using a proprietary standard that never caught on) and joined Demon Internet (essentially the UK's first ISP) in late 1992.  I wrote and contributed a dial-up script for OS/2 users to connect to Demon, which was used for several years and got me mentioned in a couple of articles about the Internet.  I also joined the older bulletin board system CiX, which I still use a little.

In 1993 I started looking at the web, using the earliest widely available browsers for Windows, Mosaic and Cello (the team that wrote Mosaic later went off to start Netscape), and then in 1994 came IBM's Web Explorer for OS/2.  Web Explorer was good enough that if IBM had done things right it would probably have enabled OS/2 to beat Windows in the marketplace - which would have made the world a very different place today!

In 1997 I started helping to run a web server for my employers, and by 2002 I had my own domain. In 2003 I set up my own server to host all my domain services at home over an ADSL line.

supersheep:

--- Quote from: Eris on 22 Sep 2009, 22:38 ---The first time I really remember going on the internet was in year 7, when I would go to the computers in the library and look at Harry Potter fansites and find out what House I would be in and what wand I would get.

Before that all I would use the home computer to look through Encarta and play the trivia game where you went through a castle-type thing?

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man i loved that game and the madlibs shit you got when you won

seriously that was some hardcore gaming chops right there

also, remember webrings? they were a thing

Barmymoo:
I had my first website about fifteen years ago (you can still see it in its latest incarnation! But please don't, it is horrifically boring and I can't update it because I've lost the upload password), maybe sixteen years. My dad was a web developer, or rather at that point he was a technical author who dabbled in the web, so I've been online basically since birth.

It's weird because there is no memory in my head of a time before the Internet; I do remember joining Facebook but that's about the only "start of something" Internet memory I have. I've had the same email address since my website was made. I guess I'm old skool.

est:
I am pretty sure Paul wins Internet, but c'mon, he's kind of cheating.

I used BBSes with my Amiga uh, ages ago.  I was in highschool I think.  BBS games like Legend of the Red Dragon, TradeWars, The Pit and Hack N Slash were The Shit.

One of the BBSes got some kind of email gateway thing for people who wanted to send email but didn't want to sign up for internet.  It seemed kind of dumb to me back then because hey, if I wanted to talk to someone there was a chat channel right there in the BBS and a message system and all that jazz.  Basically BBSes were kind of like forums, only in ascii (and if you were lucky, ANSI art).

Around the time that Windows 95 came out (I think?) one of our friends started getting hacked OzEmail dial-up accounts for us to use.  Used to talk on irc a lot back then because it seemed like a logical progression from the BBS chat rooms.

Can't remember when I set up my first webpage.  I could set one up at uni, but I think I probably set one up on Geocities or someshit before then.  I've had my own domain since 2002 though, and I remember the relief I felt finally being able to do whatever I wanted with it.

Boro_Bandito:
Internet usage for me was about 12 years ago, I remember doing a lot of MUDs through www.mudconnector.com , Ultima Online, playing warcraft 2 online with the brand spanking new battle.net edition, downloading cobs and norn breeds for creatures, and also the first incarnation of the neopets website. Later I remember creating a xanga in highschool, then later myspace and finally facebook. I remember a lot of earlier webcomics, like that 3D one about the egyptian king. I remember using Homestead to build my first website about 3 years ago and joining my first forum over at creatures.co.uk (which of course is totally defunct now)

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