A: I was a new graduate student at Indiana University in 1987 and had just received my username and password. The only other users I knew to contact were other students and faculty at the university. I was looking at a black screen with orange text. www.uark.edu/... — brescia [add comment]

A: A fellow student discovered Mosaic and got into the NASA website www.nasa.gov — Xaphire [add comment]

A: My first experience of being online was pre www. I joined the thing bbs which was a text based community involved in art theory discussions. bbs.thing.net — G.H. Hovagimyan [add comment]

A: yes, I read a sexist piece of crap joke in a usenet group — Pam [add comment]

A: The web was grey with slow-loading images and Times text, aligned left. Links were blue. The nicer homepages had CD-rom-like menus executed as server-side clickable maps. You had to mess with a couple of Control Panels on the Mac to get the 9600 baud connection running. It would take a night to download a 1.5Mb Quicktime movie. Existing sites were mostly from universities and researchers. — Maarten Handstede [add comment]

A: Dat was in 1995 op de universiteit omdat ik voor een onderzoek iets opzocht over een electriciteitsbedrijf in Engeland. Ik heb toen yahoo gebruikt www.yahoo.com — Femke Snelting [add comment]

A: Sitting in small sectioned off area of the department I worked in( a technical school) looking at some gallery/exhibtion in London, I was in Melbourne Australia at the time. It was a Macintosh, maybe a Power PC 6000 series? On a 28k Modem! — s2art [add comment]

A: In oktober 1995 i took home the the modem we just got at work. On my MacIntosh IIsi with its 12" color screen, using Netscape 2, i started looking around. I used infoseek as a search engine, cuz i could search in search results. I looked for pages about Scritti Politti (didn't find any) and information about Walter J. Ong, whose book 'The technologizing of the word' i just read. I discovered the topic computer-mediated communication. Through that i found out about these text-based worlds. Being a wimp, i logged on to this educational world, MicroMUSE. 2 memories stand out, the first i talked to someone online in telnet. The second one was the first time i got killed in Windsmare, a related game-oriented muse. www.december.... — Ellen Pronk [add comment]

A: Yes, sure! I was using my company's computer and Internet account (was working for architecture consultant at that moment). Connected using Winsock with PING utility, browsing with Netscape 1.0 and checking my first e-mail using Eudora 1.X.X! — merlyna lim [add comment]

A: Absolutely! Mosaic browser, Yale University German Department work room, Mac Classic, 1995. — Jennifer [add comment]

A: Nope www.dolmensni... — cyrill duneau [add comment]

A: Kort voor de Kerstvakantie in 1995 had ik al een modem gekocht om op een BBS (Spidernet) wat rond te kijken. Via via had ik weleens van internet en email gehoord, maar ik kon me er nog niets bij voorstellen. Na 2 weken op het BBS, besloot ik de grenzen van het eindeloze internet eens te gaan verkennen. Ik heb toen een abonnement bij de eerste ISP in Den Haag genomen: bART. Nadat ik de handleiding had uitgepakt, de benodigde software geinstalleerd (binnen 15 minuten was alles geinstalleerd en ingesteld), drukte ik vol verwachting op de 'Connect' knop. Mijn modem begon te ratelen, maakte piepende geluiden en uiteindelijk ging het lampje van 'connected' branden. Tsja en toen heb ik vervolgens een half uur naar dat beeldscherm zitten staren, in afwachting wat internet mij te bieden had. Niets gebeurde, dus ik besloot de handleiding er nog maar eens op na te slaan, daarin zag ik een afbeelding van een browser (Netscape 1.0), die applicatie heb ik toen maar eens geopend en vervolgens een adres ingetypt (het adres van ISP: www.bart.nl). En weldra ging de wereld voor me open. Met verbijstering heb ik de hele avond zitten klikken, binnen één klik van Nederland naar Japan. www.bart.nl — Bas Leurs [add comment]

A: Mijn eerste online ervaring was bij mijn oom en tante waar ik logeerde. Mijn oom had toen een Quadra 800 (Mac, 33mhz) met een isdn kaart waar ik de hele dag op mocht internetten :-) — Maarten W. [add comment]

A: must have been somewhere in 1996, when we got our first internet connection at home.. i remember the installation guy telling me and brother: "gentlemen, the world lies at your feet" :) a while after that, all the pupils in my class (i was still in high school) were helped making their very own e-mail address. i think we were the first school in europe using e-mail to submit homework to our teachers, pretty cool uh? actually, the real addiction kicked in when i made my first website (still on line at www.fluxx.be/... www.fluxx.be — bruno [add comment]

A: yes... ;) it was by telnet! in 1996 the first site i saw in my life was yahoo. (w/ a friend) it was amazing for me. my first personal conection happened 1 year later and the first site i saw in my desktop was "the li library of congress"... i still like this website. i recomend the movies section for all VJs ;) www.desvirtua... — giselle beiguelman [add comment]

A: yes, i'm so afraid when the modem do this horrible noise ... www.michelcle... — mc [add comment]

A: It was by accident, whilst starting to learn Digital Art back in 1996! I hit a wrong key and the computer (an AppleMac) launched Navigator. I thought it was some weird observational spy-ware from the government so left it well alone! — Ruthie B [add comment]

A: When I was studying at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The academy had at that time only one computer that could go on line. I have no idea what programme we used, or what the desktop looked like. I do remember that we had to register how many minutes we where calling and because we where calling xs4all in Amsterdam (Maastricht did not have it's own provider yet I think), this was never cheap. — Femke Snelting [add comment]

A: I was a young kid - perhaps 8 or so - and I remember going to the AOL Kids section. My internet connection through AOL was so slow (14.4) that it couldn't even fully load the page before it timed out. www.hellommx.com — John Nicely [add comment]

A: i felt that when i first used MIRC. — Libanus [add comment]

A: 1997, it was terrible, I was scared and I did not know what to do. They said I was online and then what?.... — Iana [add comment]

A: I remember being realy unimpressed by the standard of graphics- and the time it took to load- I figured I could do better! I was at art school at the time.... www.pixelmorp... — kirsten wolf [add comment]

A: I couldn't believe that it was possible to use more than one browserscreen at the same time. www.harmlog.tk/ — harm [add comment]

A: Im Rahmen meiner Weiterbildung zum Chemietechniker musste ich Anfang des Jahres 1999 mit Hilfe eines 56k Modems online gehen. Vorher habe ich vom Internet und dem World Wide Web nichts gehalten. Die ersten Internetverbindungen klappten erfolgreich durch die Hilfe eines Technikerkollegens. Die erste Webseite, die ich ansurfte war das Open Directory Project von Netscape. Die erste Internetanwendung war das Schreiben von E-Mails www.dmoz.de — jodigi [add comment]

A: Yes. In the year 1999 I go first time on-line. My first Website was www.dmoz.de, my first internet application was outlook express and my first webbrowser was ms internet explorer. www.dmoz.de — jodigi [add comment]

A: Yes ... I took the Dell out of the box and hooked it up according to the instructions. I then used the included AOL software to connect to the web .. it's a shame so many people have that first experience - it looks so cruddy. Soon I discovered I could get on line using the AOL stuff and then just use IE which was already on the computer -- but it started booting me off and penalizing me for doing that, so I switched to Earthlink after a few days. — jwilley [add comment]