How old were you when you started using the internet?

New Zealand
June 26, 2007 12:41am CST
I started using the internet when I was about 7 years old, how old were you? I remember going online and playing this submarine game that I thought was really fun back then. (If I were to play the same game today I don't think I'd find it as fun) You were in a submarine shooting down ships, I think that's how it went... What was the first thing you did when you started using the internet?
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@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
5 May 08
i started using the internet when i was like 12 years old. i learned to use it all by myself lol
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• New Zealand
6 May 08
Great job teaching yourself!
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
28 Apr 08
I first began using the internet in 1996, that is also the year I purchased my first computer. Prior to that I was using a little tandy my father had given me when he upgraded... hard to believe that little tandy with only DOS cost him a lot more than my brand new computer.
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• New Zealand
6 May 08
Technology improves so rapidly... a new computer costing $2000 now would be half the price a few years later...
@jiangsl (377)
• China
20 Apr 08
Hi cellophane,I will feel shame of that.I began to use the internet at 22.At the beginning,I touch the hardware of computer.My first game is the Red Alert 2,it is very interesting for me to play.Now I like it very much.I like to be a commander,and I have a power army.I can find much pleasure from defeating enemy.
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• New Zealand
28 Apr 08
Hello Jiangsl, I remember playing Red Alert 2, it was pretty fun, but I preferred age of empires .
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
gundam series - my all time favorite anime mecha
me firts year highschool, we are having fun searching the net about out favorite anime, gundam wing... heheh
• New Zealand
5 May 08
Sounds like you were having fun Thanks to the internet you can read about it, watch it, chat about it... all without having to leave your seat!* *excluding toilet breaks, drink breaks, etc.
@tops76 (289)
• India
28 Apr 08
I was 16 when I started using internet. You know I asked the cyber cafe attendant to help me create my first e-mail id on yahoo which I am using till now as my primary e-mail id. At first I used internet for filling out online job application forms, now I use it for various things like online ticket reservation, downloading new softwares, wallpapers etc........ its only about a year ago I got my personal internet connection at home. I am still new for internet.
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• New Zealand
5 May 08
Sounds like you use the internet for quite a variety of things! After a year of internet use, I don't think one could say you're new
@308dfbb (28)
• China
20 Apr 08
i started using the internet when i was 13 years old.i was separented from my parents for my studing.i was sent to a middle school.i have no friends there.so i begun to play computer games.
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• New Zealand
28 Apr 08
Computer games do make for fun breaks, hope you enjoyed yourself
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
13 Oct 07
I was running a food distribution company for an FMCG (Fast moving consumer goods) a multinational known as Unilever. There I was asked install a system with internet, so that the orders can be placed thorugh internet, rather a fax or through courier. Similarly all financial claims clarifications one could get through net. It was started in the year 1999. But I never used it for surfing websites, till 2006. In August 2006, I gave up the distribution work, the systems were free, internet connection was available, I started surfing sites.
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• New Zealand
13 Oct 07
The internet definitely improves efficiency for most businesses... so you only started using the internet for personal use relatively recently, thanks for your response.
• China
26 Jun 07
when i was young not too much internet...so when im in the university that i started to learn searching in the net because it needed for the school hehe if not needed i would not but as i became old now im enjoying searching in the net and playing games here...
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• New Zealand
26 Jun 07
I am similar, these days I use the internet more for research and leisure activities (like MyLot). Thanks for your response!
@lynnz78 (75)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 07
hahaha...i'm too embarrased to say but the truth is i started chating via the internet when i was 21 years old, which was 8 years ago...the most embarrasing part is my little sister (at that time was 14)the one who introduce me to MIRC...
• New Zealand
9 Oct 07
That's nothing to be embarrassed about... and I only found out about MIRC around a year and a half ago! Thanks for your response :).
@kkittu (426)
• India
26 Jun 07
i remember that noughty days when i was in school ,i was in 10th standard and first time i used internet with my friends, to see some bad pictures and clips, that was my first time with internet....... thanx Kkittu:)
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• New Zealand
8 Oct 07
That's a pretty popular use of the internet these days... hope you all had fun doing so :)
• Pakistan
26 Jun 07
heh u started at age 7? i started at 10 cause my mom didnt allow me to use the net and i know now what she meant cause of all the inappropriate stuff on the net, when i was below 10 i just saw my brother use the net and the first thing i did on net was to get a hotmail account :) so i could chat with my friends.
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• New Zealand
26 Jun 07
I just stayed on the same site for a while, funny how kids can be so easily amused haha. After a while though I got a little bored, but then I found neopets and played that for a long time, up until the end of primary I think it was. Thanks for your response :)
• China
26 Jun 07
u started using the internet at 7 eh I'm a little surprised I remember I even didn't own a computer at 7 I started using computer at 15 and surfing the web at 18 when I got enrolled in the college at first i just browsed some websites and did some chatting now I'm fond of downloading movies especially american tv series like pb, heroes ,lost... pretty fun
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• New Zealand
8 Oct 07
Hehe, when I was 7 I didn't use it often though, like maybe an hour or two a week... The internet is definitely useful for entertainment! Nice taste in tv shows, might I say ;).
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
7 Oct 07
I was still in grade school so I would say ten but i started using the computer probably around seven too. I liked playing games too. I had this game I got out of a Chex cereal box where you fight aliens. Omg what fun.
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• New Zealand
9 Oct 07
Hehe... that game sounds like a classic ;), thanks for the response :)
• Finland
20 Apr 08
I don't remember when I got started, but it was near my 14th... It was for my study and I have to search sth. on the net :)
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• New Zealand
27 Apr 08
These days the internet is often where I go to find information :)
@sanshray (149)
• India
26 Jun 07
I started it when i was 11....started it means I regularly started to use it but the 1st time I used the internet was when i was 9.....forgot what it was for.
• New Zealand
8 Oct 07
Ah, I think I regularly started using it around that age too...
@ebenjie (440)
• Philippines
26 Jun 07
i started using internet when i was 10 or 11 yrs old. i forgot the name of the game, its a ball game.
• New Zealand
8 Oct 07
Thank you for your response... if it was a soccer game, those are often quite fun to play :).
• China
26 Jun 07
I stared when am ten
• New Zealand
8 Oct 07
Thanks for the response :)
• United States
13 Oct 07
I started using the internet when I was 12. I played online games at nick.com back then.
• New Zealand
13 Oct 07
Game sites are often the starting point of internet browsing for those who start when they are under 15 years old... I haven't heard of that site, but I'm sure they must have had fun games (or fun at the time).
• India
20 Apr 08
I got using Internet habit when i was 16 years old.My first experience was to look for my 10th std marks.I was astonished by its speed and its services that it offers.But once when i started i growned in Yahoo chat and made a couple of good friends.
• New Zealand
22 Apr 08
If you're looking for something, the internet is often a great place to start!
@busta1 (1026)
• United States
20 Apr 08
man i started when i was about 13 because i was in Jamaica and i didn't have a computer down there i left Jamaica to come stay with my mom in the US and she got me one..
• New Zealand
21 Apr 08
That's a nice present to give