What age were you when you first used the Internet?

[Jessica.]

And when did you start using it regularly?

[Jessica.]

I was 10 when I used the Internet for the first time, we had it on the classroom computer.

I was 13 when I started using the Internet at an Internet café regularly and 14 when I got it at home and started using it every day.

[Niamh.]

Regularly I was probably 21, I had used it before then in my teens but it was that sketchy loud dial up and you couldn't use the landline at the same time (no one had mobile phones then) and it took forever to load a page etc plus there was nothing great on there anyway [emoji23]

[Benjamin]

Used it first when I was 13/14 back when was dial up and fairly “new”.

Regularly from around 20 when it became a more regular and everyday thing.

[Vicky.]

10-11 ish..my dad worked in IT so we had it a bit earlier than most of my friends

[Glenn.]

Yahooligans crew unite

[bots]

i used bulletin boards before the real start of the internet and was 1 of the first adopters of it in my early 30's

[Swan]

10, was obsessed with the wwf ae, first ever site i went on was wwf.com.

[Dogeatdog]

I remember we had dial up broadband around 2004ish (it was called Tiscali Broadband) so I was about 10 years old. I remember finding loads of cheats for GTA San Andreas and being ecstatic and quickly printing them off in the printer.

We had Limewire as well but I remember it being quite confusing.

[MTVN]

11/12 I think. Grew up in a village so the internet connection was an incredibly slow dial up. The AOL dial up tone is still imprinted on my mind

[Ammi]

11/12 I think. Grew up in a village so the internet connection was an incredibly slow dial up. The AOL dial up tone is still imprinted on my mind

…yeah ours was always slow as well because we were village people…sometimes we would have to use a dongle and not use sites like YouTube that wouldn’t use up too much of the dongle allowance…

[Swan]

…yeah ours was always slow as well because we were village people…sometimes we would have to use a dongle and not use sites like YouTube that wouldn’t use up too much of the dongle allowance…

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I remember the dongle days actually

[bots]

11/12 I think. Grew up in a village so the internet connection was an incredibly slow dial up. The AOL dial up tone is still imprinted on my mind

i loved the aol dial up. I had unlimited use for the same price :laugh:

The thing that was really funny was the way it blocked anyone calling you while it was on :laugh:

[caprimint]

11/12 I think. Grew up in a village so the internet connection was an incredibly slow dial up. The AOL dial up tone is still imprinted on my mind
Omg yes it was sooo bad :bawling:

I was probably about 11 as well (aside from at school to play games)... finally got broadband when I was about 14

[Ammi]

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I remember the dongle days actually

…:laugh:…(…I have actually got photographs of some members of my family as Village People from one holiday…one was the police officer and one was the cowboy…)…

[MTVN]

i loved the aol dial up. I had unlimited use for the same price :laugh:

The thing that was really funny was the way it blocked anyone calling you while it was on :laugh:

Yeah strange to think now, would have my Mum yelling at me to get off the internet so she could use the phone while I was trying to score with the girl I fancied on MSN messenger :fist:

[Swan]

…:laugh:…(…I have actually got photographs of some members of my family as Village People from one holiday…one was the police officer and one was the cowboy…)…

Brilliant stuff :laugh:

[Ammi]

Yeah strange to think now, would have my Mum yelling at me to get off the internet so she could use the phone while I was trying to score with the girl I fancied on MSN messenger :fist:

…poor mom, it’s always mom’s fault because she had to make an emergency/urgent call while the kids are trying to organise their dating lives…

[MTVN]

…poor mom, it’s always mom’s fault because she had to make an emergency/urgent call while the kids are trying to organise their dating lives…

No doubt she just wanted a gossip with the neighbour who she could have popped two doors down to speak to

[Ammi]

No doubt she just wanted a gossip with the neighbour who she could have popped two doors down to speak to

…I mean, you’re just going to spin it that it was all her fault…the crosses that poor mom’s have to bear when they give birth to the new generation…from this day forward, mom…it’ll all be your fault…

[Jordan.]

My earliest memory is using Ask Jeeves on the primary school computer

[Ray.]

Nine or ten I guess.

[James]

I used it in my local library at first about 1994.

I remember I used to look up trivia about films.

[Mitchell]

I use to use it at primary school, but we didn’t properly get it until I was 11 or 12, and I’ve not looked back since :joker:

[Gusto Brunt]

I was 13 in 1995. Parents bought me a pc. Had 3gb hard dive, floppy disks and used dial up Internet. :shocked:

I learned myself how to use it. Didn't have a clue but quickly learned through error.:joker:

[Barry.]

I was about 11, we had the AOL net. It was slow and I was excited for the net as we never really got to use it at primary school

[Redway]

A family friend was (still is) someone who works in I.T. so it was easier for us to get started up.

[Jessica.]

We started out with 1mb broadband but we were soon upgraded to the newly available 2mb and club penguin didn't know what hit it after that!

[LaLaLand]

For my own personal use? About 12/13, that's when we first got a computer/dial up internet (AOL) back in 2002-ish.

Just one lad in my whole class in primary school had a computer with internet before that (probably from about 1999) so we used to all go there and have our minds blown all sitting around his big desktop PC. :smug:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

I think it was 1999 to download backstreet boys comics lol

[Mystic Mock]

12 when I started using the Internet.

And 13-14 when I was basically terminally online.:laugh:

[Quantum Boy]

Probably 1996 first use (looking up cheat codes on my mate's mum's PC lol). Around 1998 (age 13) for regular use. I was an early-ish regular internet user - 56k dial-up internet, AOL chat rooms, 20+ minutes to download one song on Napster, etc :D. Joined my first forum in 1999 :omgno:. My PC was a Compaq Presario 486/66 :flutter: what a champ.

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I was 13 in 1995. Parents bought me a pc. Had 3gb hard dive, floppy disks and used dial up Internet. :shocked:

I learned myself how to use it. Didn't have a clue but quickly learned through error.:joker:

3gb would have been a huge hard drive in 1995 - it was more likely 300mb :joker:.

[Beso]

About 30...probably for big brother purposes.

[Maru]

11 or so. I accessed it in our school lab and I used it to search videogames, my main passion. Then eventually game hints, in particularly, for a game called "Wild Arms". Particularly the silly password in the library that left me stuck for ages. I do not think I would've ever figured that out on my end, but I think I'll look it up again soon with a nearly 40 year old brain and see if I could figure it out now... We didn't have game guides before all that except for magazines, but I was a very heavy magazine reader. So the internet expanded my access to media I love and the culture around that, which I really appreciated...

Fun fact: Before we got access at home, I used to take floppies in so I could download large files from the school's T1 connection. Except I had to tell Winzip to split these files so that I could put them across multiple floppies (1.44mb each). A few Sailor Moon videos, some DOS emulators and other goodies may have made their way onto an internet-less 486 laptop at home. Aah MIDI.