What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like? +

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What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like? - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

Kinda limited, in the sense that I didn’t have my own computer until about 2006 and just had a “family” PC before then, which my brother and dad used.

One of my earliest memories from the late 90’s (I would have been about 8 years old) was making a website on MaxPages, which was one of those build-your-own-website services. Mine listed video game cheats and passcodes. I didn’t have much time to add to my page as my computer skills were limited and I didn’t get much time on the computer, so I got bad reviews just for not having much content. Some asshole on one of their public chatrooms hacked my account and defaced my site a few weeks later.

For reasons I’d rather not go into, I had a more limited exposure to Flash games and didn’t really get involved with Newgrounds until my late teens. Cartoon Network (at least the US/Canada site) used to have a great selection of Flash games though.