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My first internet experience... Well I was in grade five... It was at a local internet cafe. I saved my lunch money so I can afford it... I went in with my friend nii... The first page I ever opened was google.. thAT was because I heard someone talk about it on T.V.. the attendant told me about how amazing the internet was and how u can send messages and receive messages online... She helped me to get an e-mail address... I skipped lunch everyday just so I can go browse. By then having a computer in Ghana was a luxury.. and I didn't own one personally... Ma love for the internet and computers grew and today I am a computer science major... Now I use the internet all the time... Thank you internet! Salute!

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it is about 15 year ago,but that time the speed of internet is very slow,I just use the some tool like email.

my first time on the internet was awesome.

my first time on the internet was awesome.

opera very fast
i use modem 1 mkbps
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Dial-Up modem with Opera Turbo.

Back in 1996 when I first saw the internet explorer's logo on a desk owned by a government office. An employee said that they can access internet using a box called a modem that is connected from the telephone line. No. of course she can not show me how it works because it will cost very expensive to open a web page.
2 years later, thanks to a friend, he taught me how to create an email on yahoo and to chat on mirc at the internet cafe.

I was happy n i dont no how 2 control d cursor sum~one now put me through.

First internet experience eh ?

It would be on my eMachines tower that had / was running : Windows 98 SE, a whooping 80GB hard drive, 128MB of RAM, and a dial-up 56K modem. At the time, it cost around $900 CAD . The funniest thing was that on the tower, there was a sticker that read 'Never Obsolete' ... yeah right !

The first thing I did when I connected to the Internet was look for flash games. I didn't know that you needed to install plug-ins and what not so it took me a while before I actually started playing. It was after installing random plug-ins when I learned about viruses, spyware, and all the baddies that are on the net. The next thing I did was go and look for anti-virus software

As for my parents, well, they didn't know much about dial-up so when they tried to use the phone, all they heard was beeps and clicks! Boy did they freak, that is until I told them about dial-up

My first experience with internet brought me back to 1997. I remember, I used the net on my uncle's PC. He was an early adopter for newest technology, so he already subscribed the service back then when internet hasn't been too common in Indonesia, especially in households.

I was amazed with it, browsed around, and of course, as a young teen, I sneaked to search few adult pictures when my uncle's not around. Now I think, it might be one of my earliest moments accessing adult contents

A year later, finally my parents decided to subscribe internet service too. Unfortunately, I forget how much was the cost at that time, but I think it's around 150k - 200k rupiahs per month (around US$10 - 15 at 1998 USD/IDR rate). The modem was still 56k dial-up type and it produced "beeping" sound while connecting to the net. Lovely sound..

And as the connected PC was placed in my room, I had much free time to browse and search for news and pictures, including ones for adult

My first internet experience was watching seniors surfing in the school in my boarding school.Then i tried connecting my pc with dial up connection.Next few days passed downloading Harry Potter wallpapers,muntiple email accounts wwith same "123456" password.

My first Internet experience took back in 1994 with the French MINITEL using 3615 INTERNET service as a bridge to the Web.
It was terribly expensive, very slow and a poor experience but it make me know what was behind this new mysterious cyber-world, also called here "les autoroutes de l'information"
Later (1995), i bought a new PC, a Compaq Presario 486SX25 with a 2400bps internal modem (quickly replaced by a 12x faster one, 28.8kbps USRobotics ). I used it to connect to the Internet via "SIAM" then "France Explorer", a Computer-Answer-Line/Jet Multimedia Software. I was able to create my first e-mail account pcrsvo%siam@cal.fr and browse the web with IE3 then Netscape4, under Windows 3.11.
Few years later (1997), i installed Opera 2.12 founded in a French IT magazine (Netsurf) CDROM and never used another browser

My first experience with internet came up around 2007 my 1st year at university am not familiar with such technological innovation untill that time,i began using wlan around the school with a very slow and painful speed,i usually spent most of my hour at school ICT,till school closes,i was even banned from using internet facility in the school ,i have a laptop hasee f420s which does not have wlan,i managed through to buy nokia N93 in order use wlan which was password protected but the network was so too slow i was so addicted to internet at that time,impact i managed to visit most internet cafes in our community but network speed remains 1 of the problems that really suck,after mobile networks provisioned GPRS i quitly turn back to use gprs even though they are slow but faster than any wlan or lan in the country but at that time it is very expensive only few people can afford it,due to system they applied in charging per Kilobyte,after several few years later i discovered opera can be used on mobile network to browse for free from 1 of my friend i look forward and download opera and find it works for me free,to me opera has the ability to browse faster even on slow networks since that time,after several month they block free browsing ,but i frequently used it to reduce the charges from service provider have a good and speedy network both on PC and mobile its amazing that now we even have 3.75G which means we have a very strong,stable and high speed networks,with affordable price that most nigerians can afford,i have been using opera since mobile version 2.0 up to now v7.0 opera next am proud to be opera fan

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I was on the net for a number of years before the web existed. Everything was in type, there were no graphics or visuals. Everyone had dial-up, bulletin boards were big. Our cutting edge modems were 300bps. And then, sometime in the very early 90's, rumors started to circulate about this Brit in Switzerland who had invented this thing called the "WorldWideWeb." It really sounded very advanced. Everyone was wondering whether they'd be able to afford the fancy equipment required. Lord! No one I knew had the slightest idea what the future would offer! No idea at all!

QUIEROOOOOOO Q LINDO!!!!

My first experience with the Internet was fleeting, but changed my life, I really did not know what exactly the internet, but suddenly I see in front of a PC with the incident occurred in 2000 at the University, I remember I had to hand a book of Civil Engineering and I get to open it and see the email address of a publisher and I get to type it in Internet Explorer, not that time I had to wait for me to open the site but without exaggeration I read almost half the book, partly because the connection was extremely slow and the other the browser (some time later when I met Opera I could tell), I remember when I opened the page looked like a child with a new toy, I could hardly read what said the site, but since then I could see queInternet would be very important in my life.

My first Internet experience must have been early last decade, I was probably around 9-11 years old, still watching cartoons. Around that time my dad got a work computer with a weak Internet connection. My big brother quickly became the computer wizard dad would go to every time he's email wasn't working or something similar. I didn't care for computers at all, I was too busy watching Cartoon Network. During one of the commercials they advertised their new site "cartoonnetwork.nu", which supposedly had loads of cool content. To my big surprise and everyone else in the family, the site was blocked for porn. It was a work computer after all and had some restrictions that were impossible to turn off. My brother began investigation double-checking the url many times, he even went as far as going to the library to check if it really the right website. Nothing was resolved. After the buzz went down I still wanted to see what was on the site, so I searched for images on Google. From that I found out that the site would load if it was in Google Images frame. Apperently the the firewall only blocked the site when it was in the address field, not Googles obscure url. That meant I could click around on the site if it had the Google Image search frame. This is my first experience with the Internet.

tl;dr: I bypassed the firewall by using Google Image search frame, so that I could click around on Cartoon Networks site.

My first internet experience was in 2009 when i got a nokia 6230i from my mother, i remember the phone's browser could not display web pages well - it was not easy to read from web pages using this phone's default browser.

Then i recalled having receive an SMS from my service provider Airtel it was like this "if you have a problem in viewing web pages download Opera."

Then i downloaded Opera mini 4.2 on my nokia 6230i, after this download my browsing experience was now real - it was more exiting browsing using Opera browser.

From the bookmarks of opera browser i discovered My Opera Community and started blogging at http://my.opera.com/chiyembekezo25/ using Opera Mini 4.2 working on my nokia 6230i.

My first Internet experience was in 2006. It was an old, late 1990s system that had 56 kbps on dial-up. Then my father gave me a Compaq Presario with a Pentium 4 processor. Our service was upgraded to a 5 Mbps with a Motorola Surfboard. Needless to say, I WAS HAPPY !!! A brand new world was opened up to me, as I discovered that I can access anything I want or need at the click of a mouse button. I thank God for this blessing and privelege.

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My first experience was in 1995. I just upgraded my PC to Win95 and had a 28K modem (if I'm remembering correctly). I remember that I had to call long distance, because no one in our little town supplied access to the Internet at that time.

I remember that my web browser was Mosaic and that most of the web pages back then consisted of text and some .gif animations - which was good, because with a 28K modem, anything more would have taken ages to download. But I was still amazed at the amount of free information that was available on the Internet. Even at that time I speculated that the days of encyclopedias and libraries were numbered.

I remember that the search engine I used was Webcrawler. Yahoo! and AlatVista was the Google of the time. My Internet provider did give me an e-mail account, but for the longest time, I had no-one to e-mail. No one I knew was on the Internet back then.

One of my first e-mails was sent to Star Wars actor, David Prowse. I found his e-mail address on a fan webpage, so I sent him a short e-mail. I was thrilled when he replied to me a few days later. I actually got to communicate with the actor who played as one of my favorite movie characters (Darth Vader)! It was amazing to me.

Apart from viewing webpages (and sending fan-mail), a lot of my on-line time was reading and posting on newsgroups in those early days.

Honestly I can't even remember. I know I went on Neopets around 2000-2001 or something. I would have been 10-11. But my family had an old mac and a dial-up connection before then, so who knows, I could just not remember surfing when I was like 6.

The first time I saw the Internet was at my friend's home, when I asked him to show me the website of my favorite (at that time) music band. The connection wasn't extremely fast (it was in 2000 or maybe 2001), and I said, that the site loads slowly. In fact, it's quite fast - answered the friend.

The first time I experienced Internet by my self was at school, in 2001. It was a dial-up connection. First, I wanted to find my favorite band's (the same) lyrics - and I did it. Second, I set up my first e-mail address. The oldest e-mail I have, dates back to Wednesday, 5 DEC 2001, 09:03:40.

Th first best internet experience was in 2005, when another friend of mine showed me Opera 8.XX.

I think i can do this work, & its my own inspirersion, & i also try to following opera guide line, how can do the social networking by mobile device. Thanks for opera mini, & thank also opera guide line..

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My first experience with Opera was about 5 years ago when my PC was infected with some kind odd virus or something. By searching the WWW I found that Opera was immune to it(IE, Mozilla, Safari just didn't do nothing). When I started using it I completely fell in love with this browser- I mean it was fast, like really fast compared to other browsers I had even after i got rid of that virus. Since I desire speed in PC more than anything and it's fastest on all my house PC's/laptops. It is No.1 browser on my list, despite all the tests and review there are out there.

Now that there are different extensions and stuff, I can truly thank Opera developers for such a nice achievements.

Edit: Now using Opera Mini 3 as well on older Nokia

It was November 2000. Had Dial-up. Thought it was great. Just like having television.

I'm using opera for soooo long already, that i can't really remember my first experience with it. I'm certain that i've been a faithful opera user for at least 6 years. I probably stumbled upon opera when i was searching for a faster browser but was mostly impressed by the speed dial option and by how much can the browser be personalized. I've been using opera mini for about 6 years too - there really is no better option although i'm not really happy about the fact that it has poor support for flash or maybe i don't know how to turn it on.

"The Internet you say? How's that? It's all the time on the media and being a second-year Computing Science student we certainly should know a bit about it... How could we with those high by-the-minute tariffs from Spain's only ISP and our university not caring about it? So what's this place you're taking me to about?".

My first contact with the Internet was in the autumn of 1998. A mate from the hall of residence were I lived knew about an affordable Internet cafe (actually, the only in town). If you think about paying 200 pesetas per hour it wasn't really cheap (a meal at my faculty's cafeteria was 350 pesetas, a 10-trip bus travelcard cost 450, a Coke in any bar was between 75 and 100). So we sat in front of one of the three computers they had and opened a browser. I didn't have a clue about anything and I kept asking my buddy, as this was his second experience and he knew about Altavista. So we unsuccessfully tried to find some free information for the subjects we took that term. That hour went so fast!

A few days later after that obvious lame failure we cheated and gained access to a couple of terminals connected to a Minix mainframe in our faculty (its use was restricted to last-year students). We certainly knew not a thing about advanced Unix; fortunately there was a text menu to help, so we managed to join an IRC chat room. Being so excited, we talked nonsense to people from all around the country until we found out that one of the guys actually sat in the terminal behind and wanted to report us.

Next summer the public library in my home town finally offered free Internet. They had two computers and you had to make a reservation at least two days in advance (the service had such a high demand), and that's what I actually consider my first hands-on experience: I managed to get a e-mail account and found useful information using a search engine. The difference was they had a sheet of paper next to both computers including tips and examples about what you could do; a lot of people in my 45,000-inhabitant town learned the basics that way.

Using a 56k modem at my grandparents' house... And using Opera with Turbo! I don't remember the version, maybe Opera 6. Now I have Opera on my mobile, pc and Nintendo DSi. All my family use Opera! Great Job, team!

My first internet experience was at 2002 when i was 14,still using dial up modem 56k and that's really a memorable experience, not because how slow it was but because of the price, at that time in my country they still used pay per kb for your bandwidth usage, that's why my parents really monitoring all internet usage and forbid me to use it too much, since i've been a really heavy internet contents downloader from back then untilnow. But because of the dial up connection i'm always getting caught using the internet without permission and opening dirty kind of story i'm in puberty afterall at that time , at first cause i was a noob in technical thins back then , i thought the dial up sound coming from the computer's speaker so i unplugged it from the computer, but the sound still there when try to connect,so i thought what the hell,i bust up the speaker then but it seems i've mistaken and made very bad mistake, got scolded and banned from using the internet for a month as the result >.<, after discipline time over i'm back into the internet again:D

My very first Internet experience was when I was 9 years old. It was back in 2001. I clearly remember my dad showing and explaining me how dial up modem works. I still remember that sound when you were connecting to the Internet! I also remember how you could not use landline phone. My dad was always complaining about prices for data usage therefore all he was doing was receiving and sending emails. I really wish someone introduced me to Opera web browser.

I started using Internet regularly when I was 13 years old and I wanted to learn how to create websites. That's when I first discovered Opera web browser. I was amazed because it was (and still is) much faster than other browsers. I loved it even more because I always could customise it the way I wanted. As I was learning HTML and CSS I discovered the Opera was the best for web developing. I also love how Opera web browser is years ahead other web browsers because of all those cool features it has which are generally later implemented in other web browsers.

To Opera team - Keep up this awesome work, I'm really impressed and excited!

PS I really think you should open online shop with all your super cool Opera gadgets for your fans. I would seriously love to have some of them.

Originally posted by sneons5:

PS I really think you should open online shop with all your super cool Opera gadgets for your fans. I would seriously love to have some of them.

Yes ! Please do ^W^

Originally posted by sneons5:

PS I really think you should open online shop with all your super cool Opera gadgets for your fans. I would seriously love to have some of them.

I am using Nokia 5233 and by getting Net connection thro it I had installed Opera Browser. It is really a useful and fats one.........

I liked my frist time Nescafe steel i did not get how can you helping me