...to be on a computer? Guess, my first time was 12-26-07. (Then, was online; 12-27-07) First stop--JSH, it was Great. How about you-all?--Oh! I must say, I have enjoyed every minute, & still learn something new each time I am on, this computer.

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Being on the computer may not seem; a pleasure to some. (But, for me it is just great.) I told my friends;( many of them in their 50's & 60's),i will try learning the computer. They all said no way! Many of them do not want, a computer.

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Believe ir not, I was on line in 1984 when it was only black screen and green text.

Hmmmmmmm...... I can't remember my exact time but I know it was about 7-8 years ago. It was a Gateway I earned through a sales promo, I followed the directions setting it up....then I had to get my 12 year old daughter to turn it on and show me how to use it. My first social stop was AOL chatrooms!

The first computer I remember using was an Apple IIe in grade school.

my dad had a word processor. it only had one game - tetris. he let me play it a few times... but that isnt a computer.

my first computer was in 1st grade. i played number cruncher or something. my grandparents also had one of those full-desk computer with the 8 inch floppy drive. they had pool and frogger for that big clunky thing.

The first computer I remember was a terminal that had a built in acoustic coupler to it. You had to dial the mainframe telephone number wait for it to answer then when you heard the tones plug the handset into the acoustic coupler to connect and type in your username and password.

Then again that was before the internet was used for advertising and commercial business. It was only used then for Education, Military, Research basically.

It was before Tim Berners Lee wrote the http protocol. I can imagine that is before most of the people on here can remember though.

My first real experience was with the WEB TV, remember those? I thought it was the greatest thing back then, now look at how much things have changed lol.

my first time was in 2002.my cousin was on the internet all the time and showed me how to set up an email acct and i started off with an excite email acct and started using the excite chat rooms



now look at me.i'm an internet pimp!

Yeah we had an Apple for the kids for a bit but, I think it was all learning stuff, no internet. Geeeszzzz....I remember using "Juno" to get online because it was free and back then everyone had to pay for Aol with a c.c. after the free trial.

aah yes the dial-up days....



those days sucked!

I've been working on computers since 1986. I remember green screens, DOS, the 8" floppies, and so much more, lol. Some of the veterans at work & I will laugh at the newer techs when they complain about a page load taking more than 2 seconds....we remember when 9600 baud was blazing fast, and having 8 MB of RAM was considered indulgent.

It didn't change much in the 5 years until I first saw one in 89. I was in the Army in Germany, and all anyone knew how to do with it was play Leisure Suit Larry, of Wolfenstein (I think).

I bought my first pc in 99. It was a POS Gateway, with a 5 GB HD. I now have a homemade PC with an Athlon Super-Duper Board, 3GB of RAM, and 3+ Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) of HD space, a 22 inch flatscreen monitor, and a s-video cable hooked up to my 40 inch TV...

My First Computer... *chuckle* was in 1983. It was a TRS80 from Radio Shack!


We had to hook it up to our 13" TV because it came with no Monitor, and I would piss off my Mom and Brother when they wanted to watch TV, and I was in the Mood to be feelin GEEKY.

In 1988 we got an Epson 8086.
Complete with 16 Bit Color Monitor, Daisy Wheel Printer, Gigantic Mouse, not one, but 2 5 & 1/4" Floppys, a good Old Fashioned Tape Recorder from Radio Shack to play games such as Frogger and Donkey Kong. (Sounded like a Dial Up Modem if you turned the Volume up while Loading the Game - Which I was told NEVER to do... so you Know I had to! )
It had NO Hard Drive, so I had to load DOS Every Time I chose to use it, and I had no choice but to save my High School and College papers, Written with "PFS First Choice" onto those Huge Floppys.

Awe yeah... I was The Bomb back in the Day, and would make extra $$ Typing my friends' papers!


When I Moved to Atlanta in 1993, I left that computer behind.
The first time I saw "Windows" I was dating a College Student back in 1996 - Win3.1
30 minutes later... I Crashed that Packard Bell POS... heh...
(I still have no Idea, to this day HOW I Managed to do that!)

That was the first time I was Challenged to Fix a Computer, and Til this day I have Never once Looked Back!

mid 80's sometime...I forget. :(

The first computer I had and used had to be the Commodore 64. Probably was using bbs's way back in 86-87.

the first computer I ever used was a 286 around 1989

Hmmm...1980 something. Maybe 85...I was 10 and I was fascinated with this helicopter game that flew around, made out of lines on a black screen. I was hooked about computers, then I learned to type on an Apple computer in 1991.
Ever since then, I started to speak English.