I doubt it was me! Normally Quidco are good at announcing the winners quickly..

Did I win????

Can't see any notification of winners

using compuserve dialup in 1994

Using Netscape Navigator to search Yahoo.

Being able to start researching my family tree which has been an exciting but difficult thing to do. I've traced back to 1858 but am starting to struggle now.

The dogpile search engine in early 1996.

I was so impressed with my first search that I bookmarked it.

Ebay........................................................

My first net experience was with a free compuserve for a year when I bought my computer. It was dial up and everything took forever to load. I got signed up with AIM messenger service first and wow was that exciting. LOL

my class computer geek tried 2 explain the web to me when i was 15 (9yrs ago) i still dont really understand how it really works!!

bt internet on dial-up - everything took forever!

My first was with a free 40 hour AOl trial SLOOOOW I remember I got up early in the morning i was so excited

My first experience was so slow that I gave up after about half an hour of trying to get an AOL page to open up!

AOL Free Trial and 99% was BBC.co.uk/football

My first experience was checking out usenet sites using a slooow 56k modem which sounded like a Spectrum loading. How far we've come!

My hubby helping me to set up my yahoo email, him sitting patiently next to me, ahhhh. That was shortly after we got married, he would not do that now.

downloading pictures of the Spice Girls for a school project, ahem...

My first experience was at home, with a 30 day free trial of Compuserve on a 28.8k modem!

This was in the days when not only did you pay for dial-up charges, you also paid Compuserve by the hour!

How times have changed

Mine was years and years ago.

Friends was my fave programme at the time and I remember the first thing i decided to check out was the programme on our brand new pc using Wanadoo I think it was then.

I naively searched for 'Friends'...the 'friends' it brought up with not quite what i had in mind! - The filters have been on ever since! ;o)

My friend helped to access yahoo.co.uk from local library computer more than ten years ago

First thing I did was to Google my own name, but it wasn't me.

It was so long ago I can't really remember, but probably looking something up for work.. Getting it at home was a whole other ball game and really only for email to start with!!

Dial-up with Tiscali. I used ask jeeves as I didn't know what google was then.
I mainly used it for researching things.

using good old ask jeeves

setting up email

At uni the computer science teacher set it all up so it didn't matter what you searched for in the search engine, a recipe for chocolate cake would come up. It was only funny the first time!

using dial up to look up something and enter a competition on the bbc website, I remember being terrified of using it for some reason, and doing it as quickly as I could so phone bill wouldn't be too big

My first expreience was sooooo long ago, about 13 years, and I have no idea what I first used it for!!!

I was a mere child at 11 years old when we paid by the minute! My older brother has gone to university and at christmas came home to introduce me to "chatrooms". Username: Boogy (not as in the Boegy) with my first line of "Errr... hello". I'm still as classy.

My first experience was probably on AOL chatrooms in an internet cafe many many moons ago, I had no clue about how to log on or surf- now look at me, glued to it like it was made of chocolate! ;0)

First time was setting up a MSN hotmail account. Thought i was part of the glittering jetset...until i started getting junkmail telling me i had won a "jackpot" in a competition i never entered..then the synicism began.

Using AOL in the days when you had to dial the nearest access number to get online - the nearest to Cardiff was Bristol so it meant a very high phone bill - and it took ages for any pages to load up.

First time was setting up Yahoo email account and wondering if the internet provider would charge per email sent... what a fool!

my first time was using freeserve back in 1998 and spending too much time on yahoo chat!

I used dialup originally with Freeserve and my first time was emailing my husband in Lossiemouth who was in the Forces at the time. I was studying Law and he went unaccompanied so I could continue my studies in England. He was away for 2.5 years and without access to the internet or email I would have found it extremely hard and lonely without the communication.

Mine was checking to see how actors are connected to Arnold Schwarzenneger in as few steps as possible at school

My first time was in my sisters oceanography lab at uni searching for random hobbies just to see how it worked, lots of waiting around for things to happen.

My first internet experience was on a dial-up connection at school, using Alta Vista for searches.

my first internet experience was setting up a hotmail account, most of the time since then i've been trying to empty the junk mail it seems to attract!

Remember Gopher and Veronica for searches and ELM for e-mail? In the days before the mosaic web browser was developed. I still play the solitaire games I found with gopher and downloaded using ftp.

My first use of the internet was for Emailing. I used dialup and only got broadband 2 years ago. I can't believe how I put up with dial up for so long!

I used to hum along to the dial up tone as it was going along, and I could memorise when it would connect, how sad! Other than that I remember hotmail and messenger and only being allowed about 15mins on the internet in case someone needed to call on the phone!

My first use of the internet was about 10 years ago - compuserve was my ISP at the time and I surfed via my Macintosh LC III - main use at that time was checking out Univeristy Websites

Since discovering emails - have forgotten what a postage stamp Looks or where my neareset Post Office is.

VAX/UNIX system and text based web research, in Uni back in 1990-1992. VAX had great facility, that you could on screen get a seating plan of who was logged onto which terminal, so work out and send a message to the attractive girl opposite, even though you didn't know her in person!!!

Creating my email account with hotmail back in school when i probably should have been practicing my computer skills typing up word documents are something monotonous like that

Sitting with my sister, who is real computer wis kid, when she was setting up my first computer a few years ago and teaching me how to navigate round the web and set up my hotmail. I asked her why is that arrow moving all over the screen!! She found it quite funny and thankfully I have moved on a bit with my web knowledge since then! But I am happy to have my sis at the end of a phone for help!

Dialup. Went on the Gunness website and was amazed! The Amiga browser I used back then - "AMosaic" or something - was the slowest thing I have ever seen. I bet it would still beat IE7 tho

My first experience was when I was 7 years old and my father's friend helped me create a hotmail account on a Windows 95 computer because "it may be useful for the future".

To this day I am still using said hotmail account (in fact it is the one that is linked to this Quidco account!) and enjoying the Internet.

dialup to play rpg games, took forever to load, and lagged so badly.

hotmail in 98 and still using it now

I found a disc in a shop and i thought i only had to put that in my disc drive and it would give me internet ;/

The company was called Zoom and it used to be fashion based and have email too. Bright orange it was and i thought having an email address made me so cool..

Then when i set up my internet i didnt have it set up right and was paying per minute to use it,, often beng on for 7 hours a day..

Saying that when i got the bill........... i stayed away from the net for a long time

I remember accessing electronic messages (now we know as email) through a system called VAX and then UNIX in the 1991 at school and I had to teach my IT teacher how to use a PC an explain how it worked. Ironic.

And then a few years later, I ramdomly met the Father of the World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee......

Pegasus Mail on the university computers. Sending email to people sat five feet away, just because we could.

yahoo pool - what an awesome game!

First experience of the internet was dial up and listening to the modem connecting, very tempremental, so sat with fingers crossed hoping it would!!!

First experience with the World Wide Web was using the search feature on my first ISP's home page. Use to take ages to find anything on a dial-up line.

using paint and draw applications at primary school

my first experience on the internet was about 11 years ago when I created my e-mail(yahoo) account, which I am currently still using.

My first ISP was AOL dial up and for some unknown reason I loved AOL. When I first changed I did miss the IM but then was relieved I didnt have it after a whilst remembering all the IM spam

My fires experience of the WWW was at school.

It was ridiculously slow and I just about managed to ask Jeeves a question lol.

I'd be lost without my broadband now!

My first exp of the WWW

Yahoo groups - Chatting to people all over the world - I was amazed - oh those where the days

I was with AOL dial up and it cost me a fortune to say the least.

My first experience (and this betrays my age) was using the Gopher service to get information on Elvis Costello. The company I worked for only had text based access to the web! It lasted until I was told off for using it for home use and was politely told to get a home connection. MIRC was my first home use, met some great friends that way.

I had AOL dail up and paid by the minute for the calls used to cost a fortune!

first thing i did was to find old friends ,and then msn....ive never stopped since lol and more and more people

My first experience of the internet was using google to search for essays at university.

I opened a hotmail account about 12 years ago in order to keep in touch with my family.

With dial-up, was really slow and would have been to go on e-bay, where I could not
believe the price of things, until my husband pointed out they still had 6 days to go.

I guess my first experiense was setting up my e-mail account with yahoo.

I remember setting up a hotmail account. I still use that email today.

getting my hair straighteners off ebay

using hotmail at uni

About 1990. After spending hours trying to configure a 14k modem then connecting to compuserve! I then realised that no-one else I knew had email. Probably browsed for some game cheats (slowly)

Using the web to check my bank account - First Direct was good for telephone banking but even better on the web.

I remember being up till 3, 4 and 5 in the morning searching for anything and everything lol

Using email at university and downloading shareware games

Appropriately, line went down after sending my previous comment - will no-one rid me of this turbulent ISP?

In a library, doing the obvious and searching for my name via Google, I'm ashamed to admit. My first ISP was F2S, quite good until LLU and Pipex ruined it; on my 3rd one now and still dissatisfied. Need to switch at end of April, so this prize would be extremely timely for once!

I remember setting up my first email account in the computer room at university.

Very first time was on my sister's PC and can't remember what I looked at. After getting internet via work PC, I used it to check out my favourite authors' websites. I still do this regularly but from home, of course and not using up my employers valuable time. :-}

bbc website at school for me

First time online was a magical affair- on my aunties PC, on a grey danm Sunday afternoon playing Tetris online!

i started with an AOL subscription on dial up in 1995 but after the first year I gave up because I could not find enough to do.

Research in my junior school

Bulletin boards on an Amiga 500 [1200 baud rate] was my first experience of being "online".

Then the first time I was on the web was with a 19.2K modem on AOHELL + IRC

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mine was back in 1988 using eudora on a unix station at uni. I found this site called breaks.com and it helped me to find out where the cheesy samples in the rave tunes I used to listen were originally from. talk about educuation!

love you quidco

Mine was a very traumatic experience!

It was 98, we'd just moved to a new town and my 5 yr old son was finding it difficult to settle in and I thought a kids club would help him find some new friends. So I sat down in front of the computer, carefully followed the dial up instructions, found a search engine, and naively typed in 'boys club brighton'.................

After jumping up in a panic and pulling the plug out of the wall, I spent the next few hours expecting the police to arrive at my door!!

My first internet browsing was done on south park fan sites!!

My first venture on the Web was to search for game hints for Baldur's gate

Nasa website for me. No idea why I decided to look at it, but was amazed that I could

I signed up with one of those silly deals they had in the early days, which paid you for staying online, and spent my time playing Hangman on one of the early online games sites. It had a good chat facility and I got a small steady income while making quite a few friends in Australia, NZ, South Africa - and about 100 yards down the road!

My first experience would be wikipedia. Whenever I had some coursework to do I would get half of it from there. God bless that website. And this one too lol

My first experience was with a 56k modem free Internet calls!!

Mine was at school years ago, can't remember what though!

mine was aol dial up which used to cut off every 20/30 mins and then redial lol,used to enjoy ms chat with the cartoon caractors.

The first internet website i went on when i purchased my pc years ago was ratemymullet.com. so much fun looking at geeks with mullets

Pre web really.

Found different sites, BBC, probably beebug too, OAG, HSBC online banking and many others all with dialup from my trusty Beeb. 56K? - I wish!

Used gopher & ftp at work. And email addresses were all different formats depending on where you were. Then we got Sun3 workstations & TCP/IP took over. I got a text based browser and finally I found & downloaded Mosaic. When Alta-Vista came along it was like a new world!

mine was to copy and essay for secondary school, got a b as well happy days

creating a hotmail account. sigh.

I worked for Microsoft for a while, at the begining of the birth of the web. I was one of the very first people to see the precursor to Internet Explorer. It was codenamed Blackbird and was also a web authoring tool!

Probably at College, learning how to use google and then instead of doing work just playing on miniclip.com (flash games website!)

I think it was through work - so it will obviously have been dull. Probably checking up on our competitors!

My first experience was on the sega dreamcast using Freeserve or AOL looking at gaming sites.

Mine was with AOL, and it's "walled service". Booooo

I was the first in my year at school to get t'interweb!

My first experience with the internet was trusty Freeserve (then wanadoo, then now Orange) hometime dial up. I was very deprived since i was restricted to access only during 7pm-7am!

I'm not proud my 1st experience was with a friend we was looking at a porn site !

My very first experience was attempting to look up information on the x files on my uncles brick of a laptop, I was totally obsessed with the x files, but the web took so long (back in 1995) that I gave up, having found nothing! What a sad 12 year old I was!

First web experience was through works dial-up connection back in early 1994. In no time I had my own Mac at home and a dial-up account with AOL I think it was and I was off. Think it was a 28.8 connection as well which was quick considering works one was only a 14.4 one. Oh how things have changed now, what with broadband at home, mobile broadband for my laptop and works access too.
Question, How the hell did we survive with out the web? Anyone know?

I will go for Barbers Shop and hope to be a 'cut above' the rest.

My first email and Internet experience was with a lovely orange cd from Freeserve.
I was a real internet virgin - afraid to even look at eBay in case I somehow managed to be drawn into gambling all my money away on some kind of adrenalin fix bidding for something I probably didn't need anyway!
And wasn't it slow, but did we care? No. Now my pc lives on permanently borrowed time before going through the window, because I think it is running too slowly
Aaaah, those innocent days seem so far away - if I was an Internet virgin then, I'm probably an Internet tart nowadays............. ooer!

My first experience on the internet is long forgotten. It took me ages to get going - still not got the hang of it yet!

My first experiences with the internet was in 1999, with my freeserve dial up account and my lovely new HP computer. I spent time trawling the net for information for my wedding, speeches and seating plans etc and now we're ten years married this year :-O Doesn't time fly!

I also spent loads of time in chat rooms talking to many dodgy people, looking back now they were probably all big hairy handed truckers pretending to be 20 something girls

First time I saw the 'internet' was on my brothers computer, I was young, maybe about 8 or 9 so he'd only let me look and not touch I spent forever waiting to have a go!

Got my first email account back in 1995, then having nobody to e-mail apart from my work colleagues as nobody else I knew had e-mail!

Mine was on one of the 1st games consoul that could acess the net, and I tried to do my shopping at Tesco online, it took about 2 hours!! then it crashed and I had a break down lol.

yes... i was that sad back then !!!

Back in 1992 , using a very slow modem on a 286 pc looking at a web page dedicated to the Mk 3 Ford Cortina

Wow.. my first experience is going back 18 years which is 1990. I still remember modem dialing tone clearly:) I was full of curiousity! I remember what to use as ID for my first email. I created it and sent it to myself. I still use that email now and I remember I upset my parents with a hefty phone bill too
I strangely miss this old fashioned modem dial tone now......

I downloaded some games at University I didn't really appreciate how fast the JANET netwrork was compared to dial up ha !

First experience on the web? That was at a trade show in Paris in 1994. I was 16 and found the AOL stand, I stayed on a computer surfing the internet for over 3 hours, to the great dismay of my parents who didn't quite understand what I was doing!

When I went to university back in 1999 I think.

Playing Doom multiplayer!

Hmm, about 1995 and an incredibly clunky powerbook. It was exciting up to a point, but there wasn't much to do. Much better these days!

email - what's wrong with good old fashioned postage stamps?

My first experience with the WWW was using Microsoft Encarta Online via a horrible MSN Web Portal thing. It was orange and black in colour, very horrid - Eeeeew...

I remember setting up my hotmail account on a school PC but have earlier memories of seeing my dad browse on a 14.4k modem at home - for work research purposes obviously!

I have fond memories of the dial up tone, specifically being able to tell a good connection from a bad one depending on the number of pops and clicks while it dialled up.

ahhh memories!

My first experience of the WWW was back in 1996 when I was given my first email address by my school

Prob setting up MSN on snailband

My first experience was the excitement of using e-mail,I then realised that it is a bit like being excited about morse code for communication,the phone is far easier,still the brainwashing lasted for a while.

my first experience was good old 33K modem speeds via Zetnet, slow as anything now but lightning fast back then

very vague but it was probably MSN Messenger or Ebay what I can remember.

The memories of the dial-up modem dialling and then the line being engaged - the wonders of "free" dial-up. First experience was using msn messenger to talk to school friends but didn't work very well as in the days of dial-up no-one spent much time online!

the screetch of a dial up modem !

Creating a hotmail account

My first use of the internet was in the early 90s when I installed Compuserve's dial-up software on my PC. I had a quick poke around their web portal and got bored with the slow speed on the 14.4k modem.

Using Netscape to view my hotmail account (when it actually was 'hotmail' and NOT MS Hotmail!)

Oh yeah, and Shockwave games!!! Hahaha....

My first experience with the WWW was literally visiting any website advertised anywhere. Such as www.nestle.com from the back of a chocolate bar.

"My first experience with the internet was a little bit like your very first date - lots of fumbling around, quite unsure what to do but boy, I didn't want it to finish. What a great time!"

Being introduced by a work colleague to an early Netscape beta browser - went on to set up our own Intranet with 000s of users!

Wasted days at university... online chatting via IRC. I soon had half of my course mucking about on it talking to any old random people and using emoticons. Oops... For anyone who managed to 'epic fail', I take full credit - sorry!

Emailing the girls school down the road in the lunch break =)

Oh, struggling on dial up in the Middle East at outrageous rates, while also being told by the one and only isp in the country that I had to have the username that they allocated me. I won that one!

A bit like above - buying a "warbling" dial up modem to look up info on the new star wars film - "The Phantom Menace" and setting up a new hotmail account. Oh and being able to chat to people around the world on IRC.

downloading photos of rollercoasters

Quidco of course!

Haha only joking it was probably eBay or MSN Messenger from what I can remember.

research work at college

I'm surprised so many people's first experience was creating a hotmail account. I couldn't think of anything worse than having a web-based email account when using dial-up. I had a dial-up account with Zoom and I opted to use their POP email via Outlook Express rather than their web-based email (although it was always there as a backup). I've never used the email account for a long time but it has remained active until a few days ago when Zoom shut down the service.

Using the Lynx text-only web browser in 1993 in the only "connected" engineering lab at uni.

Used windows 3.1 - was a dialup connection with a text-only interface. Started by using pine for email. My favourite pastime was a game called acrobot available on IRC. Really good fun.

using windows 3.1 at on my first day at uni - slightly different to the world of ZX Spectrum!!!

My first experience was being hacked by some guy in a chatroom on the very first day we got the internet at home. He managed to get into my desktop and print off the message "Hi" on my printer!!!

Doing a school project finding out about victorians lol.

A late night program on BBC2 called 'The Net'. I just didn't get it !
Then someone installed Netscape on the UNIX machine at work. Oh dear - I've been addicted to the web ever since.

The first I remember using the internet was searching for something on a computer in the school library using ask jeeves!

My first recollection of the world wide web was loading mosaic (long before Netscape or IE) and seeing the world in COLOUR. until that point I'd only used USENET and email on a green screen/text based applications.

Being the only person in the company with internet (out of 1000+ employees) gave me an instance advantage for research purposes.

Thats was 16 years ago!

Dial up, Hotmail, then waiting for my friends to get email too

Searching for all the old games I use to play - asteroids, space invaders, pacman, missile command, galaxian.............

Mine was using Freeserve and probably for game tips

My first experience of using the web was for researching online for my university degree.

My first web experience was way back in 1994-95. The small town I lived in in Herefordshire won a national competition run by apple mac which resulted in Kington becoming a Techtown. A few of us doing A level Computing got an hour of web surfing... as 6th formers I'm pretty sure the first word ever searched for on the net was probably 'boobies' or something else intelligent like that.

On a sidenote I've been having a good look at broadband providers and Plusnet certainly seem to be coming out on top at the moment.

Going yo the local libary ang logging into chat rooms with my friends.

My first experience back in 1995, was starting a course in "Global Communications" at a college, and signing up for my first ever pre-Microsoft Hotmail email account, and using Yahoo as my search engine. I also vividly remember being filled with awe that you could watch video clips downloaded from the internet. How things have changed. lol

My first web experience was about 12 years ago, telnetting into mailservers to send hoax emails, back when it was easy. But I was only 14 and I just sent them to myself so I wouldn't get into trouble!

Using Netscape Navigator 1 in about 1994 at the local university, dialup from home was just for bulletin boards with direct dial into peoples computers!

My first experience was work related - I work in IT and started using it to get instant access to drivers to fix computers rather than waiting for a floppy to arrive through the post!

For those of you not familiar with Plusnet, they have a history of data protection failings, deleting user's email, and general incompetence. I imagine the second prize is 36 months free with plusnet.

I remember dial up...

Using Compuserve and the Netscape browser to access online news websites.

1p per minute on BT dial being so so slow, remember when it took days to get 1 song.


yahoo pool.

I believe mine was with ebay the discovering of a new way to make money and spend a lot of time!

Signing up for hotmail...

Cant remember, but it was either google or some online gaming!

1996 using Netscape at University also to access scientific papers using Medline!

preparing for a project for my college, where i had to do research on car industry

I bought a Sega dreamcast (are they still around!!) in 2000 to both play & access the net...turned out to be an expensive phone bill in the end compared to today's prices & speeds...cheers

Looking up train times for our holiday on Hungary and Slovakia in 1999!

Dialling in on a 14.4 Kbps modem in the mid nineties, and being gobsmacked to find a website on my home town football team (i had moved 120 miles away at that point, and BBC / newspapers only seemed to cover the Premier league / Championship glory boys - not "real" lower leagues footie!). Greatest ever invention then, and probably still my favourite now (after all, there'd be no Quidco without it).

Compuserver overnight downloading of a small program!

Blimey...racking my brain here. I have vague cloudy reccolections on using a mates PC for the first time and totally being blown away by the fact i could read about match of the day ONLINE! Oh how things have changed....

Mine was with Compuserve back in the day when you had to pay by the minute! I remember the huge bills my parents got when I tried to download anything at all!

first memory of internetting was looking up roller coasters at the network admins pc, the only pc that had network connectivity and where each link we wanted to click on was pre-vetted to make sure it was safe for our delicate little minds.

I have to say MSN with my friends on my dad's work computer, that's my first real memory of it

I can't remember the first thing I did on the Internet, but my first experience OF the net was watching You've Got Mail (I can't believe I just owned up to that!) and thinking..."ahhh, online romance..."
Unfortunately, that was before I discovered all the wierdos out there...except on Quidco of course! (Have to say that as I'M on it too!)

Mine was on AOL, on my brothers internet telly, do they still exist?? lol

Mine was at Secondary School. First year using an Apple MAC (Old Shool).

Mine was using emails for the first time with freeserve dial up...was sooo slow...do you remember the dial up noise.....neeeeee warrruhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeee deee aaaaa

Probably using Alta Vista as a search engine... then google came along... "who would use that rubbish" I used to say... oops!

Trying to play chess or something on the cwcom.net homepage, I think...I'm pretty sure it wasn't on anything as speedy as 56k

mine was years and years ago when me and 3 girls were granted some time to use the schools 'brand new' diall up access. We went onto Coca Colas website for information for a bursury and then waited about 10 minutes for th page to load. Another memory I have was the big red button that was a page with a single large red button to click.

I first started using the Internet in the mid 90's at College for studying and setting up my hotmail account!

searching altavista and playing rubbish games

chat rooms years ago

As most people here, I started using Internet at uni. Had only shell (ascii) access. But, I remember using a program that uses shell connection to download data and then show it on graphical mode.

My first experience of the internet was going on band websites and forums in the IT room at school, and getting pretty told off for it!

my first experience of the internet was through cable and wireless TV internet.. i was astounded to be truthful.. i kinda take it for granted nowadays

surfing netscape in the late 90s and finding time out listings online which seemed incredibly exciting til i realised i could have browsed the mag at least 1000 times faster!

I think it was on yahoo setting up an email account in 1997....

Chat rooms years and years ago!

Ahh... Remember it well, having flown to Amsterdam on the morning of 9/11, we were due to return home on the Thurs 11th. I ventured into a Easyinternetcafe and asked a dutch guy to show me how I could check if our flight home was not cancelled...ahhh the memories

Waiting patiently for AOL pages to download on dial-up modem around 1997. Kind of miss the dial-up modem's warbling as it connected though!

I had a nightmare with dial up, really slow- but then found broadband- what a difference

Broadband? dial-up? Bah! You've all had it easy. In the old days (1991) - some of us used to meet online using X.25 PAD based services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Assembler/Disassembler) on an underground MUD at Warwick University known as Cheeseplant's House (http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/cph.html). Oh the infamy!

setting up my yahoo account about 12 years ago, I'm still using the same account

I think mine was Yahoo Messenger!

I discovered chat rooms, oh how I cringe!

mine was on aol playing american bingo

A bulletin board via a 14.4k hayes modem

Mine was buying cds from ebay and QXL!

First experience of World Wide Web: was about 12 years ago with Freeserve on dial-up connection. Verrrry Slow & it used to disconnect sometimes when the fax machine cut in.

Using a Dial-Up connection to use excite chatrooms (Where I met me wife!)

Back in the eighties I used a Sinclair Sopectrum to access a half dozen local Bulletin Boards and progressed to the Web when it arrived, via Usenet and suchlike. Such a long long time ago.
Prestel, that was another one - 75 Baud upload if I remember correctly!

My first experience of using the Internet was back in about 95/96. Back when websites looked like they were designed by Stevie Wonder and would burn your retinas. I dismissed it at the time as being a 'glorified teletext'...

Cancelling AOL at home - not as easy as I thought it would be!

I still remember it pretty clearly, in the IT room in school way back in 1996 - discovering the internet for the first time.
First thing I did was sign up for a Hotmail account, sat around with all my friends doing the same trying to think of the funniest name possible to register.

Such a long time ago.

Finding out how to make dial-up go FASTER! Technology lover to through and through.

Using Sable at university - slow and text based but it did the job.

Started toward the end of my time at secondary school. Had to use my Dad's office computer and dial-up. One of my first memories was planning a trip to see family in the US on Airmiles the summer before I started university.

mine was setting up a 6 digit ICQ account starting with 4, they're in the billions now

started long time ago, on dialup. Email kept me intouch with family when I was working on the otherside of the world.

Along time ago there were no search engines worth having, I could never find anything. How the world has changed, now I always find too much!

I had free dialup (including no call charges) with NTL. They didn't do that for very long, but back in the day that was brilliant!

I remember setting up AOL dial up... was trying to email people I knew but hardly anyone had email?!

only dial up was available then, and I cannot imagine how we managed until the arrival of broadband

My first experience was at school, using Yahoo to search for random things from my childhood - like Pigeon Street!

My son installed AOL dial-up in the house. I am glad that we progressed to broadband...

mine was running a server on the old berkley irc server those were the days

Mime was with an old PC hidden somewhere in a scientific university hall. Netscape to go to a directory of websites... there was a page for each letter of the alphabet. 14 years ago...

My first use of the internet was at school to research Scottish Political parties... I have been addicted to google ever since :p

Netscape Navigator to look up Rick Astley profile!!

My first experience was also dial up with AOL and trying to work out how their weird e-mail account worked - unlike any other...

Mine would be using ICQ to talk with my mates living within a few hundred metres of me. I still remember my ICQ number too, it's only 7 digits long..

Hmmm... That was a while back, I think I was searching for newly released titles of Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine!

Overseas Cricket scores - as Ceefax (and prestel before that!) were naff!

'browsing' with the first non-graphical browsers, all you got was text... I could hardly see the point of it all...

VTX-5000 modem with a ZX spectrum and the Prestel service.... think I looked at a couple of pages and then came back a decade later to the real internet.

MSN messenger

Setting up a hotmail account & then using MSN messenger

i used icq, mirc, hotmail, etc...

I used the internet for the first time to try and seek out long lost family.

Another world away. IRC chat and downoading doom and doom mods on the funky dialup tone.

ICQ, IRC and checking some exotic places online! it was like 12 years ago or more!

Using netscape navigator to check alton towers oblivion site to check out the new ride which openned 1998

Used it a bit for researching school projects, but that was with help from my parents.

The first thing that really got me interested in the internet, and using it on my own, was neopets.com - and I am still a fan of the site now!

My earliest memory of using the Internet was roleplaying on wrestling game websites. Wrestling was a great passion of mine, and this was really fun.

I can't remember that far back, but I guess it was research work at uni.

Setting up my hotmail account and looking at all the black web pages with white text and silly animated gif's!!!

Not my first, but I used to love Microsoft Comic Chat.

Mine is IRC ..about 11 years ago..such a long time

Using Internet Relay Chat client to chat with my friends.

Think it was tiscali we were with. I remember waiting ages for it to dial!

yahoo email account

First real experience was at Uni - and we were spoilt as we had broadband-speed connections in our rooms so coming home during the holidays to (eventually) dial-up was frustrating to say the least!

It was compuserve chat.... a good number of years ago now! Was shown the way by a new friend and have been 'surfing' ever since!

Getting banned from the mouse in at I.T lesson for being too click happy! The internet was not that fast back then and obviously required lots of clicks to speed it up....

Using IRC (internet chat thing) to talk to my mates at uni...who were sat about 5 yards from me. Thought it was the most fantastic thing...but it was 1996. Oh, and 'asking jeeves' ridiculous questions!

My first experience with the net was the joys of setting up my wireless connection and then trying to access my mail account. I then enjoyed surfing and reading all the rugby league sport that was readilly available.

Ask Jeeves....he was my bestest internet friend when I got introduced to the world wide web !

Using hotmail on a very very slow connection!

I had DialUp and it was so slow! I just used to use ASK search engine to search for pieces of information and try to learn new things from the masses of information that was made access to me from that first evening I logged on!

joining the CiX conferencing system in 1988, on dial up!

Researching management theories at Loughborough University 15 years ago! Blimey....was it really that long ago!

CompuServe, all the installation stuff came on a floppy disk, and was it SpryMosaic? the web browser that came with it? Hilarious! all through my 14k external US Robotics modem, which had so many flashing red lights on it. I had a state of the art Amstrad machine with a whopping 40Mb (80Mb once I'd installed stacker!)

My first recollection was downloading stuff for GCSE coursework, and chatting in the chat-rooms!

I helped out my neighbour, a beautiful lady to log into her broadband account by entering the correct username & password, because she knew I was good at using the typewriter. Lol
The website was hotmail, Btw.

looking up my favourite wrestlers at my local library lol

The cracking search engine that was HotBot

mine was searching altavista for stuff on FFVII!

Shameful to admit, was on Neopets at school.

...mine was to set up a HotMail email account...which I've still got...as well as 6 others lol !

Early 90s paild for dial up connection to IOL (Now also part of BT)
The "Browser" was text only, but did have hyperlinks (of sorts)

AltaVista, when it was still a part of DEC, and their PDP11s

My first use was with dial up when the speeds where slow and disconnect every hour to redial in but it was an exciting new world of internet!

my first use of the internet was as school 10 years ago, creating an email account

I had dial up so had to watch the cost. I found chatrooms and forums first.

Mine was using MSN messenger for first time back in 1995

I had dialup and had to pay per hour as well as by the minute for the phone call, worked out really expensive.

I have no idea what I browsed but I believe it was just fan sites and stuff.

My dad had a state-of-the-art-at-the-time T1 line at work since he worked at a university...this was before the internet was a normal feature of the home, at least in Indiana. He let my sister and I surf around and I used Altavista and Lycos to search for sites about the X-Files, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman and Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, I was cool.

my first day on the net was 30th July 1999 (can tell cos thats when my e-mail was created) but I have no idea what I was looking at, i think it was when freeserve was about. The old days

Setting up an account with aol on dial up...a nightmare at the time. How did I manage before the WWW? It's a total mystery to me.

Using a Dreamcast at a very slow speed on Ebay!

email using hotmail

setting up a hotmail account, then looking up my fave bands websites.... still use both today too hehe

At school- researching for topic work

setting up hotmail, icq, etc....

As a over excited student i was downloading pictures of Dani Minogue off the internet circa 1995. It took hours per pic!!!

My first WWW experience was at University using Netscape Browser, I visited the Netscape home page, browsed for 15 minutes got bored and went down the uni bar, if only I had more vision I could have been an internet millionaire!

It was at an internet cafe setting up a Yahoo email account!

mine was at Uni too, involving a few games such as doom!

Mine was Dialup connection via Virgin.net and using Netscape browser to signup for my first email address in 1995! Google wasn't even born and you only had few 100 websites to choose from.

Very slowly downloading shareware doom game!

Early 90's at Uni.

That would have been sometime in early 1993 while at university, when some friends called me over to see NCSA Mosaic. I haven't a clue what site they went to - probably a comp-sci department at some US university, as there wasn't much else on the Web at that point.

It was a long time ago - I looked myself up !

I was pretty young and my dad is in IT - he brought a computer home and said "want to see an online shop?" I imagined some game-like setting where you ran around with a trolley in some wonderful 2D world, picking things off the shelf... Needless to say my first experience was a little disappointing... Now my career depends on it!

Its been that long I really cant remember what my first thing I did was.. I think it was accessing my Open University files

I remember waiting ages for the dial up to connect and then having to keep finding something to do while I waited for each web page to load.

BTinternet, receiving a snotty email telling me i was overusing the account. LOL didn't know dialup could be overused.

mine was visiting the MSE site and discovering quidco--the only site thats payed me to visit it ,cheers

i remember the first thing i did was set up a yahoo mail address, i still use it just not as much

I remember setting up a hotmail account. I still use that email today.

waiting ages to receive an email with a large attachment on dial up. At least it was quicker than post - just!

Yahoo Pool - I spent months of my life playing that LoL - And also working a way to get flash to play Video (First ever version of Flash) - We did it by saving a video clip as a series of images and importing them into flash. Was ground breaking at the time, but now it's as common as ever!!!!

Gaming, all the way!

Using Netscape Navigator on a very slow dial-up connection - probably setting up a yahoo account

Using my mcmail email account and ICQ to chat to my friends!

mine was on aol homepage
didnt last long as it was dial up,and everytime someone tried to fone us the internet would go off

Mine was going into the chatroom on the Dreamcast, Dreamarena -- I had never even used a PC haha

Mine was finding out about Hotmail in my first year at uni, and choosing a 'suitable' username, knowing it will be with me forever!

playing games and useing chat rooms for hours one end. dial-up. i dont do that anymore, but end up with computers now on net all day long, very sad. But hey this be great for the new house ^^

First experience of the web?? At Uni, NCSA Mosaic on Sun Sparcs... Alta Vista for searching!! There weren't that many websites around then... Quite bit of online gaming though, but all character based..

Mine was chatting up blokes that were in their 20's with my mates pretending to be 18 and university art students - we were 14...sorry guys

mine was searching the web for ringtones that I could manually imput into my phone....

As others have said early memories include a hotmail account although I changed from my original email name for the millennium and playing very low graphics games.

Mine is setuping ICQ account,

i too spent way too much of my uni time playing with this magical new interweb thingy... mostly talking nonsense to people on a very basic ascii IRQ program. back then we used to have to make smileys with real characters .... you young people have never had it so good!

In 1995 when I was working as a long haul flights specialist for a company which will remain anonymous lol I used to sneak downstairs at nightime to access the world wide web which they was testing for development of a web site.

There wasnt much you could see back then and I remember the first thing I saw was the weather!

mine was using dialup to connect to (very) local servers to play quake online. Lots of fun and laggy frustration all rolled into one.

Setting up a Hotmail account on one my schools 3 computers!

Mine was via dialup searching for info on laws relating to work I was doing. It was so slow and frustrating I vowed never to use the internet again! Ha, that didn't last long

Amstrad Computer , Windows 3.1 , Netscape Navigator searching Yahoo for anything I could think of!

I struggled with dial-up when trying to do things intitially. Now I couldn't live without my broadband!

i think my first experience was setting up a hotmail account!

AOL was my first isp (gawd help me...) - but I soon found their chatrooms - specifically the pub quiz one

That and using ICQ with mates. Seems like an age ago now!

Mine was using a Sega Dreamcast would you believe! Sad really.

BTW - Been using Plusnet for a year now - Awesome service! 100%!