For me, my Dad brought home a laptop from work and we looked up pictures of pokemon and went to the Simpsons website, circa around 1999. How about you?
irc chatting ~1988, lynx via a BBS was my first browsing
very academic. it was largely only nerds/computer geeks that could cobble the hardware together to get online, or were maybe interfacing with the local college. i used kermit to upload my homework.
that said, first porn downloads were from these BBSs which were like little mini local AOLs… provided ‘email’, chat and some gaming
Learning how to find flash games, then memes, then real games, then it all went down hill when I found my way to 4chan as a kid.
I was attending University in the mid 90s, where I had an account on the University mainframe, and access to a service called Gopher. Al Gore and his “Information Superhighway” showed up a couple of years later.
Geocities, yahoo chat, 28k modem loading pictures one line at a time, Windows 3.1 running on DOS.
