Comments on: My First Internet Experience

By: Elina

Elina — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:00:46 +0000

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”

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:20:53 +0000

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…

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:14:43 +0000

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!

By: DCC

DCC — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:29:23 +0000

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!

By: Lam Nguyen

Lam Nguyen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:00:37 +0000

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.

By: Juliet | Freelancewise

Juliet | Freelancewise — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:36:00 +0000

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

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:23:06 +0000

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!

By: Denny

Denny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:58:41 +0000

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.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:24:46 +0000

I can’t believe that only a few caught the joke (took me a while too – not paying a lot of attention) … funny stuff.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:39:03 +0000

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