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What was your first experience using the Internet? (leminal.space)

submitted 4 months ago by Flamangoman@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?

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[–] MrTHXcertified@lemdro.id 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This was probably 1997ish. My godparents had a computer with AOL, and I remember being blown away by chat rooms and being able to instantly communicate with people from all over the world. A year later, my family joined got our first internet connection.