How old are you?

[tozevleal]

It seems the average of ages with the most active users here on this forum is about 20-35 years old ... Pretty young comunity in my opinion

 

[barak06]

51..... already.... .... Time is the only Known dimension i dislike (one way)
But lot of people don't get so far... so

 

[Quantumcat]

Was anyone in any big online communities before this one? I was a member of GameTalk when I was around 15-17 years old. Modded the Dark Cloud (PS2) forum. That was so much fun. I used to get up at like 4am because that's when so the fun chatting happened on AOL instant messenger (of course most others were from the US)

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Turning 50 this Sunday.

What do I win?

You should get a special medal for oldest member

 

[BORTZ]

Glad there are some older than me. I'm 30.

For those 25 and older, what was your first exposure to the net? I was about 12, and joined a chat room called "Acme Pet" using the school computers. I gave myself the username Quantum Cat, because the name Schroedinger's Cat was already taken :-) Then in high school (year 7) I discovered Neopets, and got all my friends to play it too, and the school blocked its first website ever.

When I was very young my father worked for a pipeline company and we did pretty well, financially speaking. My earliest exposure to the net that I can remember was in late 95 or 96 my dad bought a bunch of stocks and would get online daily to check them. Boring to a 5 year old, yes. But I can remember the old net quite well. Pages were mostly displayed as plain text or HTML. Links were much more noticeably either "blue" or "purple" (visited or not) thanks to the much more limited colors a monitor at that time could display. My dad used Netscape and Outlook for his business stuff. But what was the real fun for me was that when he would go online, after he checked his stocks, he had a site bookmarked for me. Every day he would visit this site that generated a maze and he would print it out for me. I had hundreds of mazes.

My next biggest remembrance wasnt until 98 or 99 when my dad starting getting into Y2K prep and other stuff. That was right around the time I remember our homepage being replaced with google...

 

[guitarheroknight]

Im too old for this shit.

 

[Quantumcat]

When I was very young my father worked for a pipeline company and we did pretty well, financially speaking. My earliest exposure to the net that I can remember was in late 95 or 96 my dad bought a bunch of stocks and would get online daily to check them. Boring to a 5 year old, yes. But I can remember the old net quite well. Pages were mostly displayed as plain text or HTML. Links were much more noticeably either "blue" or "purple" (visited or not) thanks to the much more limited colors a monitor at that time could display. My dad used Netscape and Outlook for his business stuff. But what was the real fun for me was that when he would go online, after he checked his stocks, he had a site bookmarked for me. Every day he would visit this site that generated a maze and he would print it out for me. I had hundreds of mazes.

My next biggest remembrance wasnt until 98 or 99 when my dad starting getting into Y2K prep and other stuff. That was right around the time I remember our homepage being replaced with google...

Yeah I remember when Google came around. Before that it was Altavista, Yahoo, or Ask Jeeves :-p

 

[Hanafuda]

You should get a special medal for oldest member

Nah, already beaten. And knew I would be. There aren't a lot of us fifth decaders here, but there are more than a few.

I try to look on the bright side ... how many of you ever saw Frank Zappa or Pink Floyd live?

 

[Quantumcat]

Nah, already beaten. And knew I would be. There aren't a lot of us fifth decaders here, but there are more than a few.

I try to look on the bright side ... how many of you ever saw Frank Zappa or Pink Floyd live?

That's awesome!

 

[DeoNaught]

15, my birthday was on the 15th

 

[Mansize]

For those 25 and older, what was your first exposure to the net? I was about 12, and joined a chat room called "Acme Pet" using the school computers. I gave myself the username Quantum Cat, because the name Schroedinger's Cat was already taken :-) Then in high school (year 7) I discovered Neopets, and got all my friends to play it too, and the school blocked its first website ever.

With a crappy modem that made all sorts of noises and beeps, it was as expensive as calling. Since you had to pay for every byte downloaded, my parents restricted me to "one hour a day". Modern times create the illusion that the internet itself generates information; but back then it was crystal clear that man has to do its thing before stuff becomes available. It was like a desert; you had to put stuff out there yourself; it was your holy duty. Eventually, I connected with other gamers, and found out that I was stuck (for years [literally YEARS] in a Sierra PC VGA rpg/point and click adventure game called "Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness" because of a bug. Really now. Some people wasted years on fences, but I wasted years in some Eastern European inspired fantasy land because of a bug. Okay. That kind of patience is no longer needed in modern gaming I guess.

 

[slaphappygamer]

I'll be 40 this Saturday. Met my wife in an AOL chatroom.

 

[VinsCool]

22 years young, but I don't feel I really am that old already.

 

[RustInPeace]

24. You know what will be better than 24? I'll lay it on you...25.

 

[Kourin]

21, turning 22 in October.
Actually pretty nice to see a lot of people here around my age.

 

[JFlare]

15. I will be 16 on August 17th.

 

[Hanafuda]

Glad there are some older than me. I'm 30.

For those 25 and older, what was your first exposure to the net? I was about 12, and joined a chat room called "Acme Pet" using the school computers. I gave myself the username Quantum Cat, because the name Schroedinger's Cat was already taken :-) Then in high school (year 7) I discovered Neopets, and got all my friends to play it too, and the school blocked its first website ever.

First time "online" was in 1980. I'll come back and edit in a few. Eating right now.

Edit: there's a thread for this topic now. I'll post there.

 

[slaphappygamer]

My connection at the time 1996ish was 56k. Yes. Dialup. Had win95 on a P.O.S. HP pavilion. I'm not even sure why I started using the internet. Now, it's as essential as a telephone. I've been in the telecom business for 20 years now and I've seen the transition from rotary and 56k to voIP and now fiber. It's pretty crazy. My great great grandma died at 102. She remembers when cars came out.

 

[MajinCubyan]

I'll be 29 in 8 days. o3o

My first time using the internet I can remember was visiting my Uncles house. Also when I discovered emulation, downloaded Chrono Trigger and zsnes from Zophar's Domain. Couldn't get it to load for the life of me. lol.

 

[ThisIsDaAccount]

18. I'm going off to college in the fall.

 

[swabbo]

17, will be 18 on October 15th
(Like it also says in my profile)

I turn 23 on 15th of October ^-^