Did you grow up with, or without, the internet? - Poll

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I think my timing was pretty good myself. I grew up without the internet at my parents, but not long after I moved out at 18, I was able to get it. Maybe 19?
Anyway, this was not too long after America Online became really popular, so thats what I got/had. Back then it was one of the few games in town. This would have been about 1992.

So, my answer is without.

How about you?

Did you grow up with. or without, the internet?
  • I grew up without the internet
  • I grew up with the internet
  • I got the internet midway through growing up
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Without. I didn’t have my first computer and the internet until I was 40 in 2001. I managed to survive without it for 40 years.

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I had computers growing up but no internet.

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I also first went online with AOL… their CDs were everywhere. It was in '97 and i was aged 24 so without for me.

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they started with floppy disks.

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We got AOL when I was quite young, probably around 7 or so. I answered yes.

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I learned to use a computer at the elementary school I attended (floppy disks- Oregon Trail all the way, baby!). We were lucky on two counts. First, we had a Mac lab and a lab with HPs. Second, I got extra computer time because I was in gifted and talented class. But no internet. My friends started getting it in middle school, but I still only ever used the school computers because we couldn’t have gotten that at home. When I got married, my husband came with the internet and a computer that he’d built.

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As a teen I had a DOS computer. I had to tell it what to do. When it turned on (after 15 - 20 minutes) it was a blinking light waiting for commands.

In college, I had Windows and internet

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My first job was troubleshooting Internet for Earthlink competitor for AOL.

I got introduced to Internet when I was around 16 years. Pretty young I guess.

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I started using Prodigy and AOL around the age of 12. I was mostly up to no good in the chat rooms.

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Since there are so many here in on ther early days of AOL, I wonder how many of you remember “Scrambler”. That chat room game where you tried to type the name of the scrambled word first.

I think it was called “Scrambler”.

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I was born in 1980. Does it get any lamer than that? The death of the 70s and Reagan era America. LOL!

Oh well. At least punk music saved me. But I got into it more at the second wave, like when bands like Rancid actually got airtime on MTV.

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I actually remember playing oregon trail on the ONE computer they had in the library in grade school. It was probably an earler version than yours. I think I was near the tail end of grade school, maybe 5th or 6th grade.

I cant remember what type of computer it was.

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We had an Apple computer which was our first computer. Then we finally got Internet when I was around 15. I remember I it had to go through the phone line. And when it connected nobody could call on our phone they just get a busy signal. And it was through dial up so the modem had a speaker in it or something it always made this obnoxious sound.

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I’m 1995, so by the time I was five the internet was pretty commonplace in some homes and mostly workplaces

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This version. lol.

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This was the hunting for food part of the game.

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I’m 65 now, and I don’t think I got onto the internet until I was around 58.

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Got the internet when I was a student in 1998. I was 18 years old and started by looking up nude celebs and football.

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I had an internet connection when I was around 13 or so but it was extremely basic (dial up). You would have to wait for images to download line by line.

It took a couple of years for my parents to understand that while we were using the internet no one could call us. I can still remember my mum’s horror at the idea that if something happened no one would be able to contact us. That’s actually what made us upgrade.

Even when we got better internet a few years later you’d have to wait for videos to buffer even though they were very low resolution compared to what’s on offer now.

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My family got AOL when I was a youngin’.

I remember the first website we ever got to load was some educational website on ancient Egyptians.

:desktop_computer:

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