what was your first exposure to the internet like in your country?

i remember mine, it was in 2006, my best friend at the time showed me FRED and Newgrounds on the same day

>>212500136 (OP)
2004, my dad would let me poke around his computer in the basement. I was 4 and it's been a problem ever since.

2001 I think, I remember how magical it used to be. thousands upon thousands of amateur pages hosted on the likes of lycos/angelfire/geocities about seemingly anything

>>212500136 (OP)
my dad worked as an IT guy and we had a big beige box computer that we used to play worms together on when I was really young. on the open net though was probably actually in primary school, there were a few decades where the british government really pushed for children to learn computing (hence where the bbc micro came from), we had classes on basic computer logic and being taught how to properly touchtype, I don't think they teach these things anymore though presuming everyone has a smartphone since birth. anyway I accidentally discovered porn when I was 10 years old and it's been all downhill from there

>>212500136 (OP)
I’m a zoomer that was born when the world wide web era had already begun, so I don’t remember my first exposure to it

>>212500136 (OP)
late 90s, very early 2000s. i remember going to bikini.com and masturbating to for the first time in my life

Played Rainbow Six and Starcraft back in 98.

I remember making accounts on forums and posting as early as 2002. For some reason the Funky Chickens HTML website stands out to me when I was making my own free websites.
I can't really remember using the internet in the 90s, but I lived through the windows 95 -> 98 era and remember the big tower Compaq computers. Regretfully I skipped entirely Quake -> Counter-Strike -> Unreal online play because I was too busy being a consolefag. I didn't pick of PC gaming again until 2004 when Half-Life 2 released.

>>212500136 (OP)
>be me
>circa 1995
>weekly run to the library
>notice new computer in the kid's section that isn't exclusively used to look up the library's catalog
>it has the internet on it
>hand the library lady my card
>tell her to sign me up for my allotted 15 minutes of internet
>double click that Netscape Explorer
>so excited I don't know what to do with myself
>remember all those magazine articles and headlines all about SURFIN THE 'NET ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
>can't think of what website to look at, don't even know addresses off the top of my head
>http://www.lego.com
>make several typos trying to type it in, restart and try again
>nothing happens
>wait
>...
>watch the progress bar at the bottom of the window
>...
>time's up
>next kid gets his turn at the internet computer
>come back the very next day for more.

>>212500136 (OP)
mmorpgs

I was 6 years old and on bonus.com, which at the time had text based games.

Then I didn't use the internet at all again until I was 16, and I found my way to 4chan within literally 3 months and have stayed here for over a decade now.

1995 AOL online

started using it in 1999 because all my friends were playing kingdom of the winds at that time
the internet was really messed up bc there were a lot of bait pornsite banners constantly spamming raw butts and boobs

>>212500136 (OP)
2003 or something, in the local library you could use a computer half an hour for 1€, I remember just googling stuff and printing out random pictures, it was fun.
My first computer I got a couple of years later, my grandpa bought me one of the best laptops available, with an Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA graphics, and 4 gigabytes of RAM. It was a beast for a little shitter who does not know anything about computers, I didn't know what luck I had until years later.

Playing StarCraft: Brood War on Battle.net
Playing the Diablo 2 beta

This was late 90s, the internet only went downhill since then

>get on my dad’s work laptop
>immediately start playing the Powder Game and Shaggy the Boy Scout Killer

>>212505479
sorry, Staggy the Boy Scout Slayer* my bad it’s literally been two decades now lmao

>>212500136 (OP)
cant remember the first experience but one of the earliest was visiting the gameshark. i remember getting ps 1 codes for army men, ffvii, spyro. maybe around 2003

>>212500136 (OP)
January, 2003.
We had no internet at home yet, but my older cousin did and he showed me a BR website called "assustador.com" which was full of pics of dead people, fake ghosts etc. Pic related was one of them.
I actually believed in it. I was only 6.