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I’m old. I used the Internet before there was a “World-Wide Web” - so no web pages. I used telnet to connect to other computers, where generally I had to have a login. At home I only had dialup, but the school computers had Internet access. Those connections did include Usenet discussions, which were kind of like a primitive version of Lemmy.
I remember something about a fully naked Pamela Anderson and a 30 day ban from using the school’s computers, but other than that… Kazaa and MSN, I think.
A remember a few images like that with resolution so low it was just one step above watching scrambled Cinemax after my parents went to bed.
Opening a telnet connection to a friend’s workstation who had started studying at another university.
Using the UNIX “talk” command to chat. Yes, I am old.Gopher and IRC.
To sail the 7 seas! 🦜
If BBSs don’t count, the Tolkien-based text MUD in the university’s computer labs, and later a Discworld MUD.
Web games :3
That’s my choice too. Honestly I actually forgot as I think I first accessed the internet when I 12 and our country only just starting to install broadband and having GPRS mobile phones or something like that
I was… younger than 12 back then. But I remember playing games on my mom’s facebook account back when they had web games on there lol
Going to the South Park site and playing some flash games.
Random chat rooms in a public internet café
First thing that come to my mind was Caramail (just in French) which was an open chat plateform where you could talk with other people of your age, I was preteen at the time, it seams crazy now, I don’t know how much pedocriminal were there but it didn’t seams to be a big concern at the time
No profil pic, i dont think there was way to send images neither, full binary with blue for boys and pink for girls… but still the first interaction was often “ASV” which stand for “Âge Sexe Ville” (Age Sex Town/Location) …
Yeah… i don’t think I had deep conversation at the time
The first search engine I used was Alta Vista by DEC, I remember looking up pictures of cars and trains…
I’ve been online longer than gmail. Its like asking me to remember my birth.
Got an AOL CD in the mail with a few hours of free dial-up time and, once I made it past the screeching of my 28.8 kbps modem to a friendly “Welcome!” (no mail yet though), there was a button promising games and I’ve been hooked ever since.
As i had no direct internet access back then (I initially only got BITNET mail privileges), I used mails to bitftp@pucc (yes, this was the complete email address) to fetch files via FTP and send them to me via uuencoded mail.
I don’t remember exactly what, but I distinctly remember it was searching something on Altavista.
