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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

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

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!

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:

I think it was 1999 to download backstreet boys comics lol

12 when I started using the Internet.

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

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.

https://retropages.hu/Gepek/PC/Presario%20CDS%20510.jpg

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Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt (Post 11634178)

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:.

About 30...probably for big brother purposes.

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.