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When did you learn about internet for the first time?

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The Internet is a global network of computers and servers that communicate with each other using a standard set of protocols. It allows people all over the world to access and share information, communicate, and collaborate in real-time. When did you know what internet was and when did you start using it? Well, I was in school when I learned about internet and had access to the internet fore the first time.
 
When I got the very first phone, I didn't have internet and I used the phone only for calls for about a month. However, within a month, my parents had already bought a router and installed the Internet in the house, and then I started to understand how everything works
 
The last decade. I used it long before that. But the kind of utility it provides, it came to me only during the last 10 years.
 
I learnt About the Internet even before I got my own phone. Back then I used to see my dad browse a lot of things and it usually amazes me. After my dad died and I was left with one of his old phone that was almost damaged, that's when I started browsing.
 
I realised that I can do more by using the Internet. To be able to contact and reach out to friends was not something that I thought it would have possible in the past.
 
Henrywrites said:
I realised that I can do more by using the Internet. To be able to contact and reach out to friends was not something that I thought it would have possible in the past.
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When I first found out that our family also has the Internet, I didn't even have a smartphone or a computer because everything belonged only to my older brother and my parents, but I knew that when I got a smartphone, I would definitely look for friends on the Internet who would understand me
 
I never paid much attention to it until I got into the workforce and had to bone up on it. Now I'm able to build firewalls and code.
 
I really can't remember. It was 1995 when it came on the scene, right? It seems like before university it didn't even exist. Anyway, of course, I heard first of it at university (I was 18/19 in 1995.), but I can't remember the exact day.
 
A friend told me about it. I tried it in 1996 with a very limited account that was packaged with OS/2 Warp. I didn't get into it.

But the following year, I started using an unlimited account from another company and got hooked pretty quick. Started running sites that same year and still do!
 
I first learned about internet when I was in my first grade in high school. For us then, we just had Yahoo and we were really fascinated by the prospect of chatting with someone from a very far country. I think that was around the year, 2010.
 
zoldos said:
A friend told me about it. I tried it in 1996 with a very limited account that was packaged with OS/2 Warp. I didn't get into it.

But the following year, I started using an unlimited account from another company and got hooked pretty quick. Started running sites that same year and still do!
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How was web development different in those days? I never got into making websites until around 2003 and not seriously until 2008.

Note: my first jab at making a website was posting guitar lessons on this free hosting site that had ads. I just used simple html.
 
Jayson said:
How was web development different in those days? I never got into making websites until around 2003 and not seriously until 2008.
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I just did basic HTML. There wasn't CSS back then, and everyone used tables and frames. I learned by examining other sites. There was also no Google. I did take Web Design I and II in community college in like 2001. That was pretty boss!
 
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For me the first time l learned about the internet was in the high school when we studied about the technology.
 
I didn't have access to the internet until I get to the university. That time, the internet was not very common in my country and you can only gain access to them in few centers.
 
I can vividly remember my first introduction to the internet back in 2003. It was in my elementary school's computer lab where we learned basic typing skills and got to explore these new things called "websites." Using archaic web browsers, we visited basic FAQ sites on topics like animals and planets. While the internet was extremely rudimentary back then..
 
Yusra said:
t back in 2003. It was in my elementary school's computer lab
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The concept of internet was strange when I was in elementary school. I used to hear of that term sometime but I don't really know what it stood for. Until I got a phone that can assess the internet, I began getting the hang of it.
 
I was about 11 years old when my classmates started talking about it. I didn't have the Internet then and I was very surprised by what they were talking about, because they said that you can search for various information and communicate on the Internet, and for that age it was very strange
 
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