For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?
Ha, using the internet to get pictures of Pokemon too. :D
Looking for cheats, or downloading trackmania car mods I can’t remember what came first.
Mid to late 1990s in elementary school computer class. The teacher had us boot up Netscape Navigator on the old Macintosh, and browse to askjeeves or excite or yahoo(I just remember it wasn’t Google yet).
Someone tried to get me to check out meatspin. Insisting it was a wonderful recipe site. I politely declined as I am a vegetarian.
If Gopher counts, 1993, downloading Wayne’s World and Ren & Stimpy clips at the university’s biochemistry lab on a Mac IIsi. Otherwise 1996, looking up Green Day lyrics on Webcrawler.com and posting on Usenet from a Sun SPARCstation in the computer lab.
Does anyone remember Freenet? It was community dialup where as long as you had a modem you could dial in and use the Internet without your telecom being involved. Anyway I found my way to telnet talkers, which predated web browsers, and you had to telnet into a specific IP address to join a text based chat room. This was the earlier 1990s.
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The flash games on the Lego website were dope. That’s probably my earliest internet memory as well. I still have certain scenes from the Mata Nui point and click adventure game burned into my brain.
“Dad, Of everything out there, it had to be a CNN website 😣”
It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.
My very first was my dad showing me his ICQ convos and letting me say hi to one of his friends, the client going OH-OH every now and then. Late 90’s.
I don’t remember, neither the first time I used a computer, I was born in the 2000’s.
Similar, went to take your kid to work day with my dad sometime in the 90s. Looked at fractals and MC Escher art.
I was attending University in the mid 90s, where I had an account on the University mainframe, and access to a service called Gopher. Al Gore and his “Information Superhighway” showed up a couple of years later.
Being into marvel superheros, i tried spiderman.com, and it brought mento a spiderman website. pretty straight forward i thought. next i wanted to see xmen stuff, but i typed in xman. there was a big difference between xmen.com and xman.com
For me, it was a game called Brick Breaker or something like that. It was a flash game that you can still find on and play using Y8 Browser. I’ll see if I can find and link it here.
