Oldest memory of the internet?

[K3Nv4]

I know we got some users that actually watched it go from nothing to what it is now. For me I'd say the days of yahoo messenger rooms and flooding people with chat room bots breaking connections. Fun times.

 

[Xdqwerty]

I think it was playing flash games on friv.com, and watching Thomas the thank engine videos on YouTube. When I was about 4-5 yrs old.

 

[MFDC12]

The oldest memory I have our family using dialup to log onto the internet for one of the first times, and my sister doing a paper using encarta 97.

My favorite older memories are spending time in Zelda chat rooms on IRC when I was like 8/9 and using the OG Napster to download music

 

[JuanMena]

Can't find a proper picture... but I remember browsing Nickelodeon.com in the 90s. So, pretty hard to find a screenshot of that time.

Mexican TV website esmasniños.com comes to mind also.

And, of course, the old AOL homepage, since back in the day I browsed the Internet with the free AOL discs that came in selected Magazines.

Then, Todito.com became more familiar, basically pre-paid Internet cards.

Then, when we had a proper modem in a Windows98 machine, Google.com became the "REAL INTERNET EXPERIENCE". Speeds weren't as good as nowadays, but we had unlimited time. Spent a fuckton of time in the aforementioned sites and ClubNintendo.com (a Forum) downloading GIFs and reading dumb shit in Yahoo! Answers... acktchually... The EOF reminds me a lot to Yahoo! Answers

 

[Blythe93]

I remember going with my dad to his workplace just so that I could download and print some guitar chords for some songs I wanted to play. Dial-up connection was pretty much terrible, even back then.

 

[JuanMena]

Off-Topic...

Funny how watching videos back then fell in two categories:
Porn and Gore.
Nowadays, YouTube did it right and got ruined in less than 10 years.
Ironically, Porn and Gore sites (today) offers a better service than YouTube ads wise... and probably too regarding privacy

Was trying to remember if we had videos then? But no?
All we had were VHS.

 

[emigre]

Using an internet free trial disk to browse thr internet for the first time with my sister. None of us had a clue in how to use it.

I was about 8 and had only limited use of computers but never the internet in my underfunded state school.

 

[ciro64]

Internet Explorer in a Window 95 using dial-up

My oldest memory of something specific being browsed in it probably is some site with space as a background image. It wasn't spacejam.com, I think it was about space fun facts.

 

[SaberLilly]

looking up cheatcodes for a game on cheatplanet, i have no idea for which game though, might have been GTA

 

[worm28]

My oldest memory is playing ET the worst game ever made the internet has come a long way.

 

[Cranesbill]

Social Media, Myspace, back when it was still shit on, but many still went there for interaction purposes
Internet in general, playing those flash games on CN, Nick or PBS kids

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

playing cool math games in the computer lab

 

[Ettino]

Folks, if the answer isn't porn you're lying to yourself.
Ah the 90s, I still remember looking up "Sydney Moon" on,..........it was either Yahoo or Altavista.

Oh yeah, my discovery of emulators during that time too! I randomly found gameboy emulator AND Pokémon rom. The whole things would fit on couple of floppy disks. I then took it to my school and play it on the school's computer, my classmates were in awe lol. Also spent like forever trying to download Final Fantasy 3 (6) rom for ZSNES Dos with dial up modem.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Social Media, Myspace, back when it was still shit on, but many still went there for interaction purposes
Internet in general, playing those flash games on CN, Nick or PBS kids

Wasnt pbs kids non-existent in latín américa?

 

[Cranesbill]

Wasnt pbs kids non-existent in latín américa?

You can access any region, bro

 

[Xdqwerty]

You can access any region, bro

I was referring to the tv channel itself

 

[Hanafuda]

My first time "online" was in approx 1979, but that was just me and a few friends connecting with some other kids at another school in the same county to trade shit talk. We used a modem like this on TRS-80's.

First time experiencing "the internet" I guess was in '91, when I was living in Japan and a guy I knew who ran the computer network for the local university downloaded some of those "hidden image" pictures from a server at UCLA. The pictures that looked like a bunch of static until you put your eyes out of focus, and then you could see the silhouette of a dinosaur or something.

 

[Cranesbill]

I was referring to the tv channel itself

Oh, then yeah, they were only available in Brazil

 

[hippy dave]

Stole my school's dial-up internet login details for Demon Internet from the one Acorn Archimedes in the IT centre that had the modem and internet connection. Didn't have proper internet dial-up software on my PC at home (running Windows for Workgroups 3.11), so used a dial-up app to connect the modem, then I think I had to do something manually over telnet, then run a tcip/ip stack app in the background. Not certain what web browser I used originally, but apparently Netscape Navigator was around since 1994 so it could have been that.

 

[InsaneNutter]

I remember browsing the Age of Empires website at my uncles house sometime in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19980120120129/http://www.microsoft.com/games/empires/ - that was the first time i'd used the internet and thought it was cool how the midi music played in the background on the website.

I also remember my mum taking my brother and I to a cyber cafe in the school holidays, we downloaded a text guide for Tomb Raider 2 from GameFAQs and saved it to a floppy disk. We were both stuck on the Opera House level back then, so that was a great help!

Both of these were long before we got the internet at home.