Do you remember the very first time you used the internet?

ahah even my sister was a fan of Devon Sawa and Backstreet Boys!!:)
do you still use mirc anyway? I don't know If it's just me but I don't think it's being used that much anymore, people like Msn better and the newbies don't even know what MIRC is. Too bad because I loved it, my cyber friends had set up a bot that used to be online for me even when I was off and it was also meant to keep our chat channel which name I won't tell because it was kind of rude lol I'll just say it's a Slipknot song with a mathematical sign in the title ehehe the channel had private access, old lovely times:)

i don't think there's still MIRC either. i use to always chat there before but i wasn't able to have constant chatmates. just random ones..my sister and cousins also have our own private room but i forgot it already. i think i stopped using MIRC when i got more addicted to other celebrities so all i did was yahoo search for all of their sites. the "in" thing that time was Yahoo so i had plenty of yahoo accounts too. until now i still have my very first email:D those are the days.:D

you know, on the last time that I used Mirc I noticed that people tend to use it more for downloading stuff that's "hidden" inside bot's instead of chatting with friends. I liked MIRC better than MSN anyway, it probably has to do with feelings and emotions concerning the huge amount of time that I used to waste with that program, but it had a lot more of options such as chooseing a chat room basing on your interest, being able to see what kind of interests other people had (the whois option), being able to leave a chat channel open with bot's to guard it and so on. Geez why do I always have to get all melanchonic about the past eheh

we were all into chat websites, weren't we?:)

I used to have a pen-pal in Aussie too but when the web started to gather to many users, we eventually stopped sending letters to each other. It's kinda sad, I loved writing letters and waiting for them, I loved to open the mailbox and find it filled with colorful envelopes. Too bad it's all been lost because of the internet.

the old snail-like modems right?:) I remember they were also very noisy, or at least mine was. Like you said, the internet used to cost A LOT and my parents had set a limit for the hours I could spend online. I remember trying to connect without them hearing, coughing loud to cover the modem noises AHAH just as If they wouldn't notice I did extra hours by checking the bill:)

it's been useful for you then, it's very important to know how to use a computer nowadays. Whenever I partecipate in a job interview they ALWAYS ask me what my level of proficency with a computer is and I'm always like "I only have to sleep with it and then I've done just about everything" eheh

Hi lovelyn medrano: Thank god this days have ended Lol XD. I remember those days too there was no Youtube, no facebook. I wonder how do i find Internet so interesting without those tools i've used everyday now.

@star: well we didn't even know it was possible to have such programs and applications:) at that time a moving .gif image was astonishing for me lol

Right! It is really amazing, we have such technology like this now. I don't stay long on the net before.

judging by the comments I've received so far, we were all very curious about the possibilities offered by chat rooms, and curious to experiment what it was like to chat with someone sitting in the other side of the world. I remember that on the first times I was always thinking "woah I'm talking to someone who's in the Uk! IN THE UK!! and I'm doing it while sitting at home, this is brilliant!!". Now we're all so used to it that we don't even stop to think how much it's changed us and communications:)

eheh yeah I can understand that such a website can show a kid, while older ones are willing to show they are being trasgressive by visiting xxx websites eheh when I was 9 my best male friend was always telling me stuff like "do you know how children get born" and stuff like that which kind of shocked me lol

it seems that at that time yahoo was huge since we all first created a yahoo account:)

chatting is what caught my attention, too:) before going online for the first time I was always using a program on the Macintosh which was called "Eliza", it was some kind of a chat with the computer, a bot that'd respond to your questions and act like a shrink. I was addicted to it and always thinking "it'd be great If I could chat like this with someone human". A few years later I did and now it's become so common that it's part of everyday's life.

eeheh I love comments to this discussion, so far we all agree that:
- it was extremely slow
- most of us first opened a yahoo! account
- we were all interested in giving chat rooms a try

:)