When did you FIRST learn how to use the INTERNET? At what age?
I am almost 46. I understand that children are learning at a very young age nowadays....
I remember the phone "pager" days! Those big clunky phones wherein you left your phone number and waited for a call back.
I was just learning how to use the computer in college. And it was those old monstrous ones! I actually typed all of my term papers on those old-fashioned type-writers. BOY! Things have come a long way!
19 Answers to "When did you FIRST learn how to use the INTERNET? At what age?"
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Fairly new to this internet thingy 6-7 years now, took me a week to figure out how to turn computer on(in between taste testing beer that is)
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That's ok, sweetie! We all learn. You'll be a genius next year!
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I never "learned" how. I just got on, and knew. Intuitive, instinctive, whatever you want to call it.
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I admire that!
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some time in the mid to late 1980's '86 I think, I accessed the internet with Prodigy at 1200 baud (dial up modem)
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I was 38-39 when i first learned how to use computer
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Good for you! I'm glad you're here!
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I learned when I was 28 - when I got my first computer.
Get this - When I was in high school, we were taught the punch card system in "computer class". When I was a senior, the school bought 5 Commodore PET computers (saved files on a cassette tape).Like (2)
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No! Do you remember when things were saved to the old "floppy disks"? Those tiny ones?
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Let’s see….when was the internet invented? Actually I used the precursor when the internet was used for the military only. Boy do I feel old.
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Haha! The precursor or the cursor? :-)
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Around 1995, so 9 years old. My brother-in-law had AOL dial-up xD. I remember seeing a page for pizza hut and being amazed and empowered that I could just order a pizza that way. Now my wallet and my fat arse regret it lol.
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Haha!!!!
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About 13, logging on with dial up @28.8k with an old P75 ibm machine back in '83. Basically just chat rooms, some basic news and libraries.
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Not nearly young enough! My nieces and nephews know so much more than I do. Duh. lol
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No! Not Duh! Just uneducated! Look how intelligent you are now!
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I had access to a computer lab where I worked it, I learned to surf the internet there when I was 42. The lab technician helped me get a password and ID and then showed me (and my friends) how to log-in, and the rest was self-taught. I used the lab at almost every lunch break until the end of the school year and then bought a WebTV for home use, and used that till I got my first real computer a couple years later.
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Computers first made their way into my school when I was in 11th grade, and it was all of that green screen dos prompt crap, but to actually use the internet, it wasn't until I was probably thirty-ish that I gave it a proper whirl.
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THOSE are the words I was trying to remember! DOS! THANK YOU!
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like you, it was sometime during the late jet-age
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Good question because most answers will be incorrect. Most fools don't know how to use the internet They just know how to navigate to a handful of sites and talk ****.
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Almost 55 years old.
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You're gettin' good!
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Thank you; still learning.
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When we got it at school. I was about 11.
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I learned when I was about 7.
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The mid 90s I think it was, around the age of of 13. Yeah those pagers too lol, I had one in middle school and thought I was the coolest.
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At a guess 27. Super slow dial-up was all that was available to home users here at the time and now I find it hard to believe I ever had the patience to wait that long for everything to load up.
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Posted by PrincessLadybug Feb 9th, 2013 at 7:19PM
5th grade but my brother knows how to use one since he was like 5
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Reply by PrincessMaine Feb 9th, 2013 at 7:22PM
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