My very first was my dad showing me his ICQ convos and letting me say hi to one of his friends, the client going OH-OH every now and then. Late 90's.
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I don't remember, neither the first time I used a computer, I was born in the 2000's.
I was attending University in the mid 90s, where I had an account on the University mainframe, and access to a service called Gopher. Al Gore and his "Information Superhighway" showed up a couple of years later.
Similar, went to take your kid to work day with my dad sometime in the 90s. Looked at fractals and MC Escher art.
I can't even remember. It was dial-up, and I probably found my way to those sites for kids that were coming out around movies and kids TV stations.
The earliest things I can remember using the internet for were looking up cheats for video games, and Neopets, lol
For me, it was a game called Brick Breaker or something like that. It was a flash game that you can still find on and play using Y8 Browser. I'll see if I can find and link it here.
Looking for cheats, or downloading trackmania car mods I can't remember what came first.
Probably 1998, Apple donated a bunch of iMacs to my elementary school and that was the first time I had free access to the Internet before and after school. I remember learning about search engines in class (pre-Google - Altavista, Dogpile, and AskJeeves were the big ones), and I remember learning html and making a website as a group project in 5th grade. I also remember the stuff I shouldn't have been looking at, mainly FunnyJunk, lol. I got dial up at home in 1999 or so, and got into role playing forums and Gaia Online.