Share your earliest memories of using the internet!

The doors to the Internet opened for me with 56k Modem.
I can still hear the melody which allowed me to enter THE Internet.

The game of choice was Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, first offline.
But soon when my parents left the house the phone line was blocked…
I found myself in Baal-run-34 and soon in  Baal-run-35.

Wanna know how my parents checked if i was still playing?
They called… and guess what the line was in use so they knew what was going on.

I never saw ISDN but after the 56k Modem, once DSL was there..oh Boi
Counter:Strike Source was on the plate.

So this was around 2001, which made me ~11 Years old.
Before that i already got infected with SNES and a cracked PS1 with Resident Evil.

Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/professionalbadass/

My earliest memories of using the internet was spending hours chatting to people MSN and the internet wasn't the quickest, I also used to spend quite a bit of time playing flash games on a site call Miniclip even everyone was doing this in school during their breaks. I also got to play my first MMO which was Guild Wars. Finally there was a fair usage policy with a set data cap which I may have gone over and incurred extra charges a few times much to the annoyance of my Dad.

Okay I have a REALLY EMBARRASING one. So I was born in 1993 so I fully went through the early stages of the internet using a dial up cable to log in and your mum not being able to dial out or take any incoming calls

It must have been the early 2000's, Goku had just disappeared from Dragon Ball Z and was on another planet (This is massively relevant lol)

I really missed him and I used to get up early at like 7am to watch dragon ball z on the weekend. My dad had a laptop he used for work and about 7 or 8 year old me figured out how to go onto the internet and I came across a DragonBallZ forum, I didn't pay much attention to the site about from the "Contact Us" Box

So obviously as a child I thought this was me being able to email the creator or dragonball z. So i went him a long message about how I miss goku and I want you to bring him back to the show early and can you please move the shows to later on at like 8am on a saturday so I can sleep in. I Fully believed the creator of dragon ball z would cator to my request

A few days later my dad gets a response email saying something along the lines of "We believe your son has gotten access to your email address, this is an 18+ website please do not let him on here again"

I must have gone on some Hentai website in terms of dragonballz anime, I don't remember I JUST WANTED GOKU TO COME BACK. I cried when he did

Early internet memory highlights

Club Penguin
Getting banned from club penguin
2007 RUNESCAPE YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE, pls reply if you were
And also limewire was a classic, we had it easy back then.

Also scrolling through gamespot forums for cheatcodes was a lot of fun as a kid

Earliest Memory?

I think this would have to be before my foster parents did their second extension, our computer at the time was basically a 512ram machine, it was about the best you could get and, of course, had the dreaded "Dial-up" at this point because broadband was not a thing as of yet.

So the very first thing I learned to use on the internet was a chat service called "Virgin Chat" which was essentially a small chat room where people who were fortunate enough to have the internet, chatted and so on and the moderators had little "golden" keys next to their names.

It was literally everyone's goal to get a "key" next to your name and have "power" and after time, the IRC clients were invented. And the chat room situation online exploded. Of course the other memory at the time was sending "images" which would take hours to do so or trying to download MP3's from "fileserver" chat rooms, which again took an age to do so.

And if anyone picked up the phone to make a call as again "mobiles" where not really a thing, the internet would cut out and any progress you had would stop instantly.

My early memories of the internet and using it where rage inducing :P

My perspective is probably a little different than most due to my age. If you've ever seen the film War Games then you have an idea of how I spent my High School years, using the phone to dial into networks blindly and wander around. In the early nineties I convinced Campbell's Soup to let us put up some very early banner ads on several BBS servers. And sometime around the mid-nineties I attended the very first Ad:Forum conference in Chicago and met some of the very earliest internet based companies.

I returned from that conference and wrote a White Paper about the future of internet advertising and presented it to the CEO and CCO of the advertising firm I worked for at the time. I wanted to start a digital arm for the agency and get ahead of the coming trends - but sadly neither of them believed a single thing I told them. A few years later our client Adelphia Communications introduced the world to "Broadband" (Fiber-Optic) cable based Internet service and I created the campaign that launched that product.

I have so many stories.