What year did you really start using the internet and when did you think was the prime?

[Xennial]

MySpace overtook Friendster in a very short amount of time

I remember getting Friendster first. Then MySpace along.

 

[wayniac211]

Napster was intro 02-03, early eBay, and NT for Nike release/deals.

 

[Xennial]

Napster came in 99 actually, 99 was a huge year for the internet that drastically changed it

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

Once we got access to HD pron I knew that we’d created the pillar of existence.

 

[freakydestroyer]

Napster was intro 02-03, early eBay, and NT for Nike release/deals.

NT, eBay, and Myspace were at their peak simultaneously

 

[wayniac211]

U right. Was around 00 or 01 when my daughter was born. Network54 domain was huge for ethnic community forums around 01. **** talking at an all time high and meet ups to square up. Faces of death

 

[joe billionaire]

i remember using napster, rhaposody, audio galaxy (this one was really good), then finally limewire

i remember the jump from 56k to dsl was drastic. songs in like 3-5 mins instead of 30...pron in 30 minutes instead of 9 hours lol

 

[supa vegetto]

It was the summer of 97. My dad brought home a work laptop with a 14.4k modem that peaked at 1.2 kbit/s. I remember installing AOL 2.5 on a floppy disk. There was nothing to do but hit chat rooms and discover random websites like http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/futuregirlfriend/

 

[Coromanti]

2000 my mom got compaq dialup. i didnt really start using it hardbody until 08 when we upgraded to DSL

 

[DB Cooper]

I think Limewire is what killed my PC at the time. Ish was virus city.

 

[stickmandude]

1994 or 1995, because when I was using AOL they were still charging per hour. Based on Wikipedia AOL started charging a flat rate per month on December 1996. Dial up 56k modem back then meant you were doin' it. No 28k here. Chat rooms was where we honed our online game. Using PROGz and punting users offline and out the chatroom was THE trolling move back then.

The internet was the wild west. Make a mistake typing in a website by even just one letter and you were directed to a porn site and had watch out what for the bevy of viruses. I remember chat rooms where they had warez, all pirated music, and games and had to use FTP. Once I got that CD-R burner it was a wrap. Selling bootleg albums and games.

Once DSL and Hi-Speed internet became affordable to the average consumer it done changed the internet and how we use it. Crazy when I think about it.

Damn feeling like an old man over here.

 

[rbk93]

Early 2000s. Don't think we've seen how extensive the internet could become.

 

[Xennial]

 

[beh235]

97-98 for me...Got to college in 99 with a T1 connection in my dorm room and went buck wild like I ain't never encountered internet before. Napster then changed the game forever for me. Then coming back home on break and downloading ONE song overnight while I was asleep

 

[prodigiou$]

2000-2001 for me

 

[ahat]

97-98 for me...Got to college in 99 with a T1 connection in my dorm room and went buck wild like I ain't never encountered internet before. Napster then changed the game forever for me. Then coming back home on break and downloading ONE song overnight while I was asleep

Yooo i remember downloading or installing something and just leaving and doin something else cuz you knew it would take forever

 

[ogbobbyjohnson773]

95-96 in like 8th grade. Some typing/computer class. Teacher one day was like "check out this search engine called Yahoo." I remember my first search was chicago+bulls+logo (pluses only cause she said to). I honestly didn't think it was useful really - not til a few years later when I found the true purpose of the internet: sneakers and nudes. But in college it was game on with Napster and then Limewire. Man those were the days.

 

[ccastro02]

Summer 2000 to download songs off Napster.
Before that I was only using it at school for research and stuff on the fat back apple computers.

 

[ccastro02]

I also used to go on CDnow.com to sneak peak all the new albums.

 

[tr1ll]

Class of 95-96. Me and my boy immediately walked directly to the dark side of the internet. . Some of those images are still burned in my head.

 

[sooperhooper]

Class of 95-96. Me and my boy immediately walked directly to the dark side of the internet. . Some of those images are still burned in my head.

I feel you on that. I remember in 2000 at summer camp, kids were trying to find some weird content....... they succeeded and the description can not be erased from my mental.

 

[getback]

Summer 2000 to download songs off Napster.
Before that I was only using it at school for research and stuff on the fat back apple computers.

Can remember downloading songs and it would take mad long and it would end up being a shortened version, 5 minutes of silence, or half a song that stopped suddenly followed by a screeching sound

I think Limewire is what killed my PC at the time. Ish was virus city.

One wrong click and it could be curtains for your PC

 

[ahat]

I remember downloading what i thought was the south park movie on kazaa...

Whoever uploaded it had used that file name, but it was pr0n.... i clicked play and it got RIGHT into the nasty


My mother kicked my ***

 

[sooperhooper]

Kids these days virtually want for nothing! Shows, movies and music streaming around the clock. Hands free access to pron. Unlimited sports highlights. In 5 years they will probably be able to 3d print shoes from the phone.

 

[Xennial]

looking back, web 1.0 > web 2.0