[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.

[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.

[user104658]

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 . Joined my first forum in 1999 . My PC was a Compaq Presario 486/66 what a champ.

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

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

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

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

[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.