When was your first internet expierience. When did you start ?

[gemstar]

Hello. I have a question that just came up in my mind. When did you first get online and when did you first realize registering domains was more than a curiosity. Was it after The movie War games? I know after the movie I was more inspired to investigate cyberspace lots of the stuff in the movie worked!
Tell your story no matter how long or recent.

 

[lll]

Aol beta I think

Didn't realize about doms manyyyy moons later sadly

 

[PNW]

I think the first time online was in the early 80's using a coupler like you saw in WarGames. Funny you mentioned that as we just watched it again less than a week ago.

The BBS was the main interest until AOL came along. Where I lived at the time it cost almost $1 per minute to use. INSANE!

1st domain/web development project was in 1995 for a small cosmetics company's new line of skin care products.

 

[Kate]

At the university. Fortunately it was in the early 90s.

 

[enlytend]

Online in the late 80's, initially for work. Personally, got an AOL dialup account in the early 90's.

First website built for someone else: around 1996

Domains: not until much later.

 

[Jawed]

It was early 1990s at the University. I remember it was Gopher that we used to connect to the Internet. Later Mosaic was introduced with http protocol.

I registered quite a few names for the company I was working in 1997. Almost all the domains were either long abbreviations or contained the word LTD in them. The irony is that all of them are available to register now with the only exception of hmic.co.uk.

Again in 1999, a friend of mine and I registered loads of names but none of them was generic. Very few people were aware of the power of generic names, unfortunately I wasn't one of them.

 

[twomoon]

Expirience with Internet: very high school (middle 90th).
With domains: 2008

 

[iowadawg]

Well, Al Gore and I founded the internet.

Now in the mid 80's, did do a lot of congregating with other people.
Not the internet yet.

First domain was 93-94...somewhere in there.
Know it cost me like $150 for a year.

 

[mjnels]

First domain was 93-94...somewhere in there.
Know it cost me like $150 for a year.

domains were free until late 1995 and then cost $100 per year..

 

[alma mott]

That was way back, I was really nervous and excited at the same time. I was doing my research in school.

 

[ioana_bv]

There is such a big difference between US and most of other countries. It seems US is light years far.
I started with domains about one year before I registered here and first experience with internet was at the end of 90's

 

[Alexander George]

My first internet experience was back in the year 2002 in my school days. We were introduced to the world's greatest search engine in a small computer lab of my school where we were required to search a number of items and know what a powerful tool internet is!

 

[lennco]

July 1997
AOL 3.0
After I got my brand new HP 2gig hard drive, 28 ram all set up and that cost me $2300
I immediately signed up with AOL for $19.95 and my first search was for.....what else...Porn...LOL

Like you guys didn't do the same thing

 

[Ms Domainer]

*

In 1995. During a library orientation, a student of mine was showing me a website. The browser was either mosaic or Netscape

I thought, "This will never fly."

LOL

My first at-home experience (dial-up) was live for about 2 seconds and then totally crashed my 20 mg hard drive computer.

For years, I used Netscape and then Explorer.

My first reg was my full name; authors were beginning to realize that squatters were snapping up their names, so I decided it was a good idea.

*

 

[Mathew12]

I started to use internet in 2000. It was really great experience.

 

[vintageblack]

The first time that I used the internet was in 2001, I think?
It was for an assignment in Grammar. I was having a hard time finding the answer in my grammar books so I decided to look for the answer online.

Well, I got a score of 80 something because what I found was similar to what my classmate submitted.

 

[chris_b]

i was using internet since my childhood but my interest developed when i started to play online games and after that this interest shifted to online book reading. NOW i usually use internet to read new books on technology.

 

[RogueWriter]

In the 1970s, Indiana University had a plasma screen terminal they called the Plato System. I saw the game Empire being played on that system, a top down graphic image of a federation or klingon ship, and you could go looking for other ships to attack, which were other users located on university campuses scattered over the country. It even had a primitive chat box, where you could post a message and others could see it.

One of the reasons I got hooked on computers and ended up with a degree. So I went to IU, very first class I end up keypunching, uggghhh. Underclassmen got the crappy equipment, isn't that always the case? We actually had a Texas Instruments computer where you had to flip switches, which represented 'on' or 'off' for each bit in an instruction, then press a button to enter that instruction into it's memory, then flip the bit switches for your next instruction...... all the time I'm thinking, get me to the dang federation, man, come on.

So, I don't know if that was the 'internet' per se, but the idea that you could communicate with multiple people at the same time on your screen from locations around the country, that still sticks in my mind. This would have been 1977 plus or minus a year.

p.s. - as an unrelated afterthought; One of the crappier projects I worked my way through in those years was creating a Compiler in Assembly language. Puke.

Since someone brought this thread back up, here are a couple of pictures of the Plato terminals.... and that first glorious, multiplayer, networked game from the 1970s:

 

[tanvirnabi]

Well, I feel good to say. It was ten years ago. My idea about internet was vague and internet connection during the period was not available in the part where I lived. I was in trouble to find some information. Someone told me to go internet. I went to the cybercafe. That was my first journey to internet.

 

[aquaprin90]

Actually I don't exactly remember about this but may be it was the time when I was in 9th or 10th i.e during my school days. I used it for the completion of my summer project and at time, I hardly know about the Yahoo and Google. Lolz...