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

submitted 8 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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[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mid to late 1990s in elementary school computer class. The teacher had us boot up Netscape Navigator on the old Macintosh, and browse to askjeeves or excite or yahoo(I just remember it wasn't Google yet).

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