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Can you remember one of your earliest interactions online?

I started when I was 19 on AOL, with instant messages and chatrooms.

I remember my friend Halina showing me how it worked on her account. An IM pops up, this guy says, "So what do you like to do?" She looks at me, I reach over and type, "Number 2."

We both laughed. Still makes me chuckle to think about.
SW-User
lol, that's perfect. I miss AOL!!

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5thApprentice · 31-35, M
Playing runescape with friends when I was like 11. Before that I hadn't really talked to others online.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@5thApprentice I was playing original Nintendo at 11. Megaman, Kid Icarus, Legend of Zelda. It was a more innocent time ;)
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@5thApprentice I remember the first bastard I met in RS, i was new to the whole computer thing and One user told me that if I dropped my entire fortune(some 9k) and pressed alt F4, it would double....
5thApprentice · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol Yeah, had same had some similar moments like that. 😂
Only way to learn how to use the internet I suppose. The hard way. Lol.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
USENET, 1990 on a friend's self run BBS (Bulletin Board System). Can't remember the exact news group or what I replied to. Some alt.* category
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
Trading five mithril for one addy!
5thApprentice · 31-35, M
@Longpatrol Runescape? Lol
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
@5thApprentice yeah lol
@Longpatrol bahahah I am on RuneScape right now!! I started in 2006. Been on and off it for years. I go on to chat with people and catch up with old friends I met there over the years.
I was gonna start talking about floppy disks, but then I reread "interactions online." I started going online regularly when I was twelve or thirteen. I went to RuneScape, MySpace, this webcam website, chat rooms, etc. I got such a rush from it. I knew what I was doing was wrong. I wasn't supposed to chat with strangers. I wasn't supposed to tell them anything. I would only tell them my name. Crazy to think of all the shit I was exposed to as a kid...
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@lovelywarpedlemon it was a more insular time when I was that age sweetie
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Newsgroups and BBS sites in the mid-90s.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@CountScrofula So a bit more serious than my humble beginnings
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@DanielChristensen I was technically on the internet as early as the 80s, but I was just a kid playing games on my dad's unix account. So I got in reaaal early.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@CountScrofula Wow mos def. I hadn't hardly heard of it before aol
KelseyR · 26-30, F
I was told that once I picked a username and icon I couldn't change it.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@KelseyR Where are you referring to?
KelseyR · 26-30, F
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@KelseyR Well you could change your picture. I never tried to change my username
Tinkerhell · 41-45, F
I don't remember those I had last week...
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@Tinkerhell What about this morning?
Tinkerhell · 41-45, F
@DanielChristensen I remember those, yes. I think.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@Tinkerhell haha I don't remember a lot from way back when, a few things
iamnikki · 31-35, F
Yahoo chess at 14. Earliest i remember.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@iamnikki People chat alongside the games I presume?
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@DanielChristensen yes. I don't think it exists anymore
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DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@geoam1 Yeah I remember dial up holy shit. The sounds of a dolphins diarrhetic nightmare
I was around 9 or 10. I remember watching YouTube videos.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@GreenGoddess No wonder you're so delightfully twisted ;)

 
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