My First Internet Experience
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I was just reminded of this the other day talking to a friend about the Internet, how it has developed, and grown since it first came out. I can’t remember the very first time I used it, but I can remember the first time I was taught how to sign up for an email address using hotmail.com.
The picture above pretty much explains it all!
There we were, sitting at our old clunky mac computers, and our teacher started talking about what email is, and how you use it. So, our first instruction was to go to “Hotmail.com” and she would walk us through how to sign up for a new email account.
Needless to say, most of us typed in “Hotmale.com” without realizing what we were really typing, and the entire classroom full of monitors was filled with imagery that no child should see! At least no child in Ireland!
What was your first Internet experience that you can remember? Add in the comments below
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Never mind what’s shown on the screens. I’d be more worried by that creepy looking bloke in the corner.
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HAHAHA! I noticed him in the pic also, and yes, it is very creepy. Not sure if it is Mr. Rogers or not. Don’t think they showed that across the pond. You’re better off David.
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Ha – yeah think my first experience of the internet was something similar.
I remember signing up for some email account that allowed you to personalise the domain on address so my was ben@hotmale.com lol
I thought I was so clever!
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Hmmm…I was working at a tech-related publishing company and I remember someone handing me the software Pagemill. It was supposed to be like Pagemaker for the web. Never did learn to use it. I’m also haunted by images of Netscape and Lotus Notes. eeek!
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My first internet experience that I can remember is chatting online with someone from South Dakota. I think I was 9 which would have made it 1992 – the person I was talking to was getting upset because I didn’t type fast enough.
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My first internet experience was in 1995 waiting for 20 minutes as the image of the Reichstag wrapped in cloth by Christo appeared on the screen pixel row by row coming through a 4800 baud modem. I think we finally had to just give up.
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My 1st Web experience was in 1996. I think I was shown to use Altavista, and one of the first things I was excited to look and find were ALL the lyrics by The Doors. A friend of mine used to call me necrophiliac: I was so obsessed by Jim Morrison
Soon after I’ve signed up for my 1st free web email: @usa.net, and then was asked by everyone to create one for them too
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You were just a whippersnapper by the looks of that photo! Too cute.
My first e-mail was with mail.com – spam hell – back in the 90′s (I was in my 20′s then), and my very first web site some time later when Google made an appearance on the scene was a Geocities monstrosity.
Back then we used Excite, Lycos, Altavista, Netscape, Ask Jeeves etc., before Google and Yahoo came along and upset the whole applecart.
Btw, just found this awesome search engine history site – your post sent me down memory lane and I did a quick search:
http://www.searchenginehistory.com/
and the birth pangs of Mozilla
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/netscape.htm
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I can’t believe that only a few caught the joke (took me a while too – not paying a lot of attention) … funny stuff.
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I remember my first experience with the internet was on my grandpa’s old machine (i remember playing commander keen on his old compuserve computer prior to windows!). It was dial up (having a brain fart the provider started with a P) and basically a glorified email interface with a few selective browsing windows. I played some games. My first email account was a juno account sans actual internet.
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I still remember how it was using the net the very first time.I was in school at that time and still could not understand what the teacher meant by us just opening mail accounts for us.Why would any send me mail here and not by the regular mail?
The teacher then explained what internet had in it in terms of capability and boy he was is and would always be right on this! I still meet him and we talk about the next thing the internet could take us into! -
Ha, ha
I was at University (does that give away age?) No lessons and frustrated as all hell trying to do research on google, or was it yahoo…
Juliet
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Haha, I could not stop laughing when I was looking at the pic.
My first internet experience was the day when I saw my friends chatting with IRC. Wow! From there on, I chatted with IRC everyday. -
DCC says:
Too funny. Though not really. I was teaching a course to teachers, in the mid ’90′s, they were elementary teachers so I asked for a topic to demo search, someone called out “fairy tales” and you can guess what results that led to. My first Internet experience was in the 80′s, had to get a grad student who had access at a university research facility to look up some references on orchids, card catalog stuff, basically. Then Gopher, then Netscape, then… here we are!
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I remember someone in some office I was working in taking ages to search for something in Yahoo! and going through page by page to page 20 before giving up. Searching was bad back then!
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Julie says:
My first internet experience was a co-worker signing us up for yahoo accounts. We had to use the receptionist’s PC because our MACs didn’t have the internet! She kept using combinations until one was accepted – not necessarily an address I wanted, but I still have it nonetheless…
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Elina says:
My first experience was going to Altavista to search for some Backstreet Boys photos. I had to wait about 2 hours for one photo.. so after dinner I came back to the computer and screamed “yey I can see his nose”
