Things went on uneventful for the next 2 years. The creators had given us avatars on a 2D plane that you could move around by clicking the screen. After that, tag was invented. I always chose a T-Rex (my animorph) for my avatar.

However, it all came to an end in a shockingly abrubt way. My older brother, who was too old to use the site, asked if he could use my account to chat with my friends. I didn't see any real problem with, and it was ultimately my downfall. I don't remember the context, but he said "GO SUCK, WHOO WHOO, MAJOR COCK, WHOO WHOO!" The moderators came down on me with a temporary ban for cursing. I tried appealing by saying it wasn't me but someone else on my account. Well, it turns out that was an even more serious offense than cursing. The permaban came down with no room for appeal. My entire web experience for 2 years had come crashing down.

Looking back, I'm really able to see how much this innocent chatroom would sculpt my view and expectations of the internet and how in invariably made me the person I am today.

Pic kinda related. It's what happened when I put the "s" in the wrong place...

>>3538219
>GO SUCK, WHOO WHOO, MAJOR COCK, WHOO WHOO
Dammit, I lold.

Your brother's name doesn't happen to be Cain, does it? Because, if so, you probably could have just told the mods it was Cain and they would have let you off.

>>3538323
Nope, his name is Troy. And based on what I read, he makes Cain look like a pussy.

I had a similar experience with Pokemon chatrooms back in the day. Those were fairly innocent except for the occasional rudeness. Though some internet memes from around that time are still prevalent today, so in a way all that was kind of a cushion for what was to become of my Internet experiences later in life.

>>3538409
Which memes?

It was Penny Arcade forum's debate and discourse board. It shaped my political and philosophical opinions far more than any other single source, and had a fairly large impact on me overall. I might have become the same person eventually regardless, but if I hadn't been exposed to their brand of uber-liberalism & secularism at 14 my mind wouldn't have been the same throughout high school.

>>3538293
Seriously, I'm still laughing at that.

>>3538485
>>3538293
It's funny because it wouldn't even be the last time he'd do something like that.

He works at Best Buy currently, and just the other day, he showed all of his friends there "Goosh Goosh". A week later, he got on the intercom and started saying "GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH GOOSH!" All the employees laughed. Everyone who didn't see it just had no clue.

That's what you get for being trusting, OP

I was 12 when I first went online, back in good ol' 99. My parents were always big 'OH NO, INTERNET WILL RAPE OUR CHILDREN' mindset, so my early online life was pretty monitored and I wasn't allowed in chatrooms.
Of course, tell a preteen/teen not to do something and they'll fucking do it.
So whenever my parents went out for whatever it was they went out for, online I'd go. I lurked around some forums and websites and eventually ended up in a chatroom. I wasn't a total idiot and made up an entire personna, a college student who lived in Maryland and worked at the local McDonald's to pay for school. I chatted with a number of people and eventually made some friends and stuff. Because this was a regular online chat, everyone was in their 20's and older. I eventually got in a bit of an 'online relationship' with a fellow, or at least the girl I was pretending to be did. I never felt anything for him myself. It never got serious, we just flirted a lot.
There was another guy in the chatrooms, who would just call me fat and a cow and all that. I just bantered back at him, and it became sort of a little rivalry everytime I logged on.
I stopped going to that chatroom after a while, but I really think that it helped me learn just how the internet really was. And gave me my first taste of troll, which helped build that immunity.

back when we first got the internet with one of those AOL "2 free hours!" disks, i went into a chatroom for kids about sports and i wrote "martin brodeur kicks @ss" and they wrote my dad an email. i didn't go on the internet for a while after that.

>>3538554
That was fairly disturbing

>>3538580
I honestly have no regrets.

I think the most recently I actually pretended to be a girl was when I was speaking to a british student in private school. I originally did it for trolling, but after getting to know him from just the one conversation, I actually felt for him. Not in intimate way, just a realization that he was human kind of way. Troll's remorse set in, so I bailed.

>>3538588
He does though. He just beat Patrick Roy's regular season win record.

>>3538209

Early web experiences...

In the late 90's, I used to watch flash animations and play flash games on our shitty computer. I had the computer in my room, so my wasted time went to hundreds and hundreds of flash games online, the main one I remember is *insert thing here* in a blender. I also discovered Newgrounds 18+ section back then, and also discovered internet porn and hentai.

Every night, when my parents went to sleep, I was on Newgrounds, jerking it. I clicked whatever ads they had, and got off to "Free Hentai Ticket" banners. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to clear my history, and hadn't known that my mom had been checking my history.

When I came home from school one day, I ran upstairs to use my computer to discover she had taken it away. She called me "disgusting" (I had some pretty sick search terms on that computer...) and said I could never use the computer ever again.

Thank god when I graduated 5 years later (with all C-'s) and left that fucking house. My mom was a crazy bitch and a control freak.

>>3538652
i know, that's why we switched from aol to at&t or netzero or something.

>>3538588
I always took those discs and used them as frisbees.

>>3538638
Yeah. Now he's been showing his friends Girugamesh. I only showed him the sakura-con video, and he picked up on everything else on his own. Now all his friends make fun of it.

Sorry, /r9k/. I didn't mean to.

I used to use WebTV at my grandmother's house/father's house after my parents divorced. I didn't have access to a computer until I was about 12, so my earliest internet experiences mostly consisted of MSN chatrooms and Neopets.

Back in those days, I only had access to the internet on the weekends and on shitty WebTV at that.

Now I have a laptop and I am on the internet at least half my waking hours every day.

>>3538662

or maybe she was just worried about her son being a perv.

>>3538662
Man, what a crazy bitch for taking away the computer you used to jerk off to hentai ads... You fucking idiot.

I didn't really have a concept of an internet community until my parents got me SWAT3 for the PC. I spent roughly 10% of the time playing and the other 90 sitting around the chat rooms talking to people. The username and pw I used for my first account are still what I use now.

>>3538723
Oh yeah. And his latest obsession is with the video "Llamas with Hats."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUPCB9533Y

my first internet experiences were at a friend's house, being that i didn't have internet for years.

we hung out in chat rooms a bit, but mostly we were interested in playing games on the lan like red alert 2.

i really began to get involved with internet culture when in 8th grade on aol instant messenger. i cybered with girls, we sent pictures to each other, talked a lot. it was my first experiences with women.

following this, i began playing everquest. i played hardcore for 2.5 years... this is where i really developed relationships with people older than me that introduced me to a lot of new ideas. this is also the only time i pretended to be a female to get free stuff.
but yea, everquest was a good time... shaped me as a person.

My first email address was "bartgirl12"

I was obsessed with The Simpsons back then, and 12 was my favorite number.
I was such a fag.

>>3538859
We all were.

I didn't do much with the web until my teens. I had an AIM account and I went on nuttysites.com or something like that back when the web was young, but I wasn't part of a community until I joined wikipedia when I was 14. I got really into it, going to obscure libraries IRL and writing technical articles, making thousands of edits, but I never admitted my age, race, nationality, gender, or anything. I started contributing to ANI and the village pump about rules and issues. Legit users with real names and phd credentials started asking me technical questions etc and I started helping some of them research, and I became an administrator, checking diffs for vandalism etc. It got to be too much when some banned pedophile started sending me emails begging for a second chance...ironically, he didn't know I was 16, if he did, I think it would have been different. After leaving, with users leaving tearful goodbyes on my talkpage, I got into joke sites etc and I wound up here, and I've never been as mature as I was those many years ago.

When I was about 14 or so, I used to stay awake until about 2am, and then connect using dialup to look at porn on the shared family computer. The connection would show up in the itemized phone bill if I stayed connected more than 5 minutes, so every 4 minutes I'd disconnect and reconnect again.

And when I was 16 I got a part time job and bought my own computer. First weekend with it was spent entirely on porn.

I used to think typing in lowercase was in bad taste, SO I TYPED IN ALL CAPS. SOMEHOW THAT SEEMED SO MUCH BETTER.

I think the first thing I did on the internet was look up jokes soon followed by porn

Did anyone go to the junkmachine (run by the guy that built the computer in an NES) or SundevilDVD forums? That was back in '02 or '03 I guess, I had Internet before that but only really used it for games and porn, not chat

I was 8 when I first started going online, so 1996. I mainly went to yahoo, picked a category of interest, and surfed from there. Usually I went to the education category and looked at university websites. I made a website using Homestead when I was 10 that just had random bullshit about people that went to my school. It was a diary of sorts. I had that website until I was 14 and it seemed like everyone at my middle school knew about it since I would get a dozen or so comments in my guest book everyday.

Then in late middle school, I discovered the art of camwhoring, thanks to facethejury. I was pretty popular on there, probably since I had 100K posts on the forums. My time on the computer was completely unsupervised. Had my mom known that I was lolibait on the internet, she would have flipped, with good reason.

Since I got my own computer, which was April 4th, 1999 (not even kidding), I was ALWAYS online. That has shaped who I am now because I still am always online. Kind of sucks.

My first internet experience was stumbling across DBZ NC-17 fanfic while looking for "cool pictures of Goku."

>>3538554

What the fuck is this from? I was surprisingly disturbed by this, despite how retarded and unrealistic the entire scenario was.

My mother still has no fucking clue what the internet is. I got a computer for Christmas in 2000 or so. I ran a phone line into my room so I could use the internet alone.

I got started on Atom films, in the adult section. If you were lucky, they would show a tit. I was so underexposed to that sort of thing that I was shaking and physically upset from seeing a woman.

It was really bad. I was affraid that if I type something into yahoo, my parents could read it on the phone bill. so I had to navigate by starting at a save site, and only clicking links.

I memorized the paths to get from a starting site to somewhere with swimsuit girls or nudity. Like Atomfilms -> refresh till yellow flashing ad at bottom, then click that -> navigate to fourms -> sort by date -> pick thread with name "My new york" April x 2000 (it was 2002 at this point)-> second page, click post by "brian G_G" -> go to profile -> homepage -> JACKPOT!

from 7 until 10 I was scared shitless of breaking the computer, and only used the internet to look at pokemon.
at 11, i learned of irc chat through Planet Namek, then migrated to cjb chat. started making webpages, learned what mirc was, started coding. became a huge fucking trolling bastard on cjb (then run by the dudes who .. founded deviantart i guess, spyed, jark, etc), then made mirc scripts and bots. used to ddos flood with *nix bot networks, then my parents found out what i was doing on the internet and banned me for four years. shit sucked.

First experience with the Internet, eh?

It all started with Pokemon, I think. I was looking for random things about the Pokemon red/blue games and that led me to a video game website, which led me to their forums. There, I started browsing some Final Fantasy forums. This was back in like... 99, so I was like 10 or 11. Obviously, thinking people wouldn't talk to me because of my age, I started pretending I was 16.

This has pretty much ruined my life. Every friend I've made on the Internet had a relation with my other Internet friends, so I've never really abandoned that persona. My whole life is the Internet and I don't even tell the people on it the truth. So now people think I'm 6 years older than I really am. This wouldn't be such a problem by itself, but I obviously had to make stuff up in the past (i.e. I had to invent a job when I was like... twelve, I had to fake high school interactions when I was eleven).

I think that's why I started going to 4chan so much at first.

>>3539027
I still remember the day that a friend of me told me about how he discovered a crossover porn with Goku and the Sailor Scouts. I didn't believe him at first until I actually checked. The guy was a compulsive liar, so I didn't really have a reason to believe him. But I still wanted to look.

That was my first exposure to Rule 34.

Years later I finally realized how cool my parents had been about the whole internet thing. They were a little overprotective but, deep in their hearts, anti-censorship. I read novels voraciously, and they never pried about whether I was sticking to things they'd consider appropriate. The written word was too sacred.

I think that, since most of the internet was text back then, this attitude carried over. My dad set up the content filters on AOL, but he didn't seem too excited about them and when I complained that they were blocking non-pornographic sites, he took them right back down again. He also told me how to clear my browser history, though not in the same context. I still don't know if he did that just because he liked to show me how to do cool computer things, or because he wanted me to be able to explore without being afraid of my parents looking over my shoulder.

I tried cybering with strangers a couple times in junior high, pretending I wasn't underage b&, but I don't think my partners were any older than I was, or at least any more experienced, because it was about the least erotic experience I've ever had.

I didn't want to go to a lot of blatant porn sites or look at pictures because my dad is a programmer and much more knowledgeable about computers than I was. I was never sure that I could clear all evidence and even if my parents made an effort not to look at my stuff, they'd still feel obligated to react if they did find something. Then I discovered erotic fiction, and then pornographic fanfiction started getting really popular, especially anime and manga fanfiction. That was how I got into anime, and eventually came to 4chan.

The end.

wow, you're a faggot.

Anyways, I always went to this anime community.. I was a janitor and seemed like I had a stick up my ass taking it too seriously.. oh and I discovered limewire and CP.

Neopets.

I was banned for trolling the chatrooms. I had fucking 2 million Neopoints too. Bastards!

I never DLd porn (Friends father got divorced because of ONE nude saved on his computer, LOL)

But what I did do was read through a fuck ton of those tinfoil-hat sites and look at plans for anti-gravity machines. Triangle power. New age shit ETC.

I believed every word of it. lol.

We got dial up back in the late 90s. Only people I knew who had it.

Wasn't watched. I looked up typical juvenile shit, would have been age 9 or 10 I guess.

Didn't take long to find porn.

bombs, sciencehobbyiest shit, I weas a fucking geek lol, tinkerer. uh

Chatting it up on the IGN forums and listening to mog.net radio when I was 13. Though I only did that for about a month. Wasn't 'til I was 17 that I really got into the internet.

>>3539091
>He also told me how to clear my browser history, though not in the same context.
My parents have a computer now. Last time when I visited them, I told them how to connect to the internet, open the browser and that stuff. A few days ago, my father called me and asked how to clear the browser history. It was hard not to laugh.

I've spent the last couple days deleting/clearing out all the old, forgotten accounts I created over the past decade or so. Not so concerned about the stuff I did between 1996 and 2000, which was fairly innocent (and most of the sites are long gone anyway).

My first real Web experience was at KidsCom.com. I once won a writing contest where I had to use three specific words in the story. Later, when Wow! closed down (anyone remember that?), my parents switched to AOL. There I spent a lot of time in chat rooms (mainly gaming-oriented places like ANTagonist), eventually getting the account banned when I impersonated a mod and tried to get some random guy's password.

We then got CompuServe, which by that time was identical to AOL, until about late 2000 when we dumped it for Bellsouth DSL and I began playing Quake online. It was the best game my piece of shit PC (S3 Virge GX2, baby) could tolerate, and I had never really played through an FPS before, much less a multiplayer one. It was an amazing experience.

>>3538432
Lost the thread. Didn't see this till now..

Anyway, one meme I remember from waaaay back is goatse. A few minor Internet phrases like kthxbai was around back then too.

I'm talking like, early 2001-ish.

>>3539163
Damnit, I forgot my pic.

I looked up a ton of child porn on kazaa back when I was like 10-12.

I also played Diablo, then moved on to a web game called Utopia, where I ended up in a group of players that would eventually end up being one of the most consistently dominating kingdoms in the game for the entire 8 years I played.

>>3539160

Wow, haha! That's priceless. You should probably teach him how to google for computer help in case of awkward questions.

Long ago (I forget when), I stopped playing Runescape due to it becoming exceedingly boring. Then, I found Kingdom of Loathing and played that. Eventually, I made it to the Castle in the Clouds in the Sky. One of the enemies there was the Furry Giant, and one Google search lead to another and I stumbled upon VCL.

At first, I was somewhat disturbed by the images assaulting my eyes, but soon I became immune to them.

This was all around the start of high school or the end of middle school.

come back to /a/ Jake, shit sux even more without you

>>3539163
Jesus, for how long have you had your current computer?

I can see it already. Some kids like ten years from now will be talking about how they discovered 4chan and how they're so fucked up now because of it.
You know there's at least one 10 year old lurking this place.

>>3539260
I don't want to go back, though. /a/ is beyond me now. The only way I'd consider going back at the moment is if moot decreases the image post limit.

By the way, I heard that Takumi got banned. Is that true?

>>3539317
the 10yo don't lurk

I had used a computer to play video games ever since I remember (born 1990) cause my dad worked at Intel. Still does, but when we got dial-up I'd go on there and read stories on MSN and things in general that interest me. I had already started masturbating, but one day while waiting in line in 5th grade I was staring at some girls and wondering what they looked like naked. Then it hit me, why not search for it on the internet?

Thus I found my first porn website tours. I printed out some pages from them too, and I still fucking have them! Old as shit man! I didn't really have any preferences and just looked up hot girls having sex. I have a pissing one for some reason...

My parents actually caught me on two seperate occasions, red handed as it were. They were just worried that it was against the law I suppose. I've never been caught since, at least not as big as those two times. Eventually I got pretty big into hentai.

My first forums were the Bungie forums, strangely. I had just bought an Xbox when Halo 2 came out, and I got Xbox Live with it. I basically jumped head first into the deep end. Joined a machinima group actually. It made me the internet user I am today.

Holy fuck I'm a late bloomer.

I didn't know what the internet was until I was 16 and that was back in '02. The first thing I looked up on the internet was "hot girls". I spent exactly 20 hours looking at porn and fapping at leats 20 times. No jock. By the 15th jack off I didn't have any cum left.

I spent a lot of time playing random games on Beyond. The one I played the most was Dragon Warrior Online. I would watch people chat and stuff but I pretty much stayed quiet.

My first internet experience involved a computer back in 95 that was supposed to be brand new. A little diddling around and I found there was some porn on it. Being the naive kid that I was, I didn't realize that it was connecting to Russia each time I fapped. Got away with it because it turns out that after starting it up the first time, it would come up every time the computer was started. I was able to make the argument that the former guy had it on startup and my parents were never the wiser. $800 bill.
My first actual communications? I would get on Atheist Vs. Christian debate rooms on Yahoo and troll Christians all day. Eventually I tried to get the Atheists to learn more about the Bible so we could all troll better. They wouldn't. Long story short, I did and now I'm Christian.

Honestly, I didn't spend that much time on the internet before I started coming here. I just played video games all the time.

>>3539333
l dunno, haven't see that trip today

l don't want to spoil /r9k/ but i think you'II eventuaIIy figure out why this board is not that different from the rest

Hopped from forum to forum in the early days.

Eventually discovered Neopets from a kid in my class. I was I think 12 then. Signed up and got addicted. Some other girls in my class were into the same thing so we played the site together for maybe a year before they moved on. I stayed for years. My first account was banned before not even the first 6 months for bitching at some girl on the chatboard for breaking the rules. My next account is the one that I stayed with for fucking ever. I wrote so much shit for the neopets newspaper and had 75 trophies because of that. Made friends with other "writers" on a forum dedicated to people who wrote for the newspaper and even got friendly with the editor who unbanned me when I got permabanned for saying "sperm" in a private guild board. I watched the site transform from a homely website where the staff interacted with the players as much as possible to a fucking disgusting ad-ridden site interested in nothing but MONEY.

Met some interesting people through this. One being some 9-year-old who was I think the victim of my first ever trolling, and this trolling was... subconscious, for lack of a better term. I fucked with her. She had a crush on me and everything, told me she had a dream we kissed. Super conservative bitch. Got pissed when I made an anti-woman joke. I just fucked with this girl. Lied all the time, played with her emotions. I would institute "bans" like "because you said this and that, you are banned from talking to me for 3 days" and she would always come crying back.

Cont...

I've been playing video games ever since I was 3 or 4, But one of my earlier memories has to be going on The Palace.

I remember seeing all the avatars of KoRn fans, juggalos and goths and thinking they were soooo KeWl. I had to have been like 7, but for some reason i remember cybering with a lot of 14 year-old-girls... i lied and told them i was older. It owned.

(holy shit was I pathetic), I've had broadband since about 98 though. shitrox

Oh the early days. I was a big fan of cybering. I often pretended to be 16, when in fact I was 13/14, to talk to older men and women. Looking back on it now, I realize people talking to me probably wouldn't have really minded that.

Apparently I'm easily led. I almost always did what people told me to:
-I pissed on the computer chair
-I stuck a pen up my ass
-I stuck a comb up my pussy
-I actually once called a guy, but hung up right away because I was so scared.
-Set up fake meetings with pedophiles
-Had a series of lesbian relationships with much older women.

I started feeling really awful about what I was doing, so ended up pretending to be my mother and sent a letter to one of the women. I think that probably scared the shit out of her. Yeah, no surprise I ended up here.

I used to join about 10 different MSN chat rooms at once and wait for all the girls/sweaty paedos pretending to be girls to message me. Actually ended up getting my first IRL girlfriend from one of the people that spoke to me.

My early web experiences are pretty vague. I used to explore, sort of 'primitive hacking', if you will. I thought that Google knew everything (I searched for passwords on google), that MySpace and Youtube were porn sites, and that there was a web site for everything. I got into Runescape and was relatively obsessed until someone hijacked my account and got me banned. My first porn experience was in fourth grade when I typed "middleages.com" into the address bar for a report on the middle ages. The first thing that I remember loading on the 56k page was "College FuckFest." In my naive state of mind, I actually thought that it was some sort of party where people cursed a lot. I didn't look at porn again until about middle school, where I realized that I had never masturbated. The first porn image I found was a mod for Morrowind that made females naked. I didn't look up 'real' porn until about six months later, where I found pornhub.com and rolled from there.

>>3539525
Through another 9-year-old I met on Neopets I was introduced to Furcadia, a horrific MMO for furfags.

I actually started with a male character, but when my friends from Neopets diminished, I dropped the character and created a female one for kicks (I'm a guy irl). I had no intentions of making everyone think I was a girl irl, but it just... sort of happened. The lies became so deep that this pixelated character had an entire backstory. 16 years old, name was Alyssa Emerson, ended up going to Georgia State when she was like 18, 19? I played her for years and fucking had these people celebrating her fake birthday and everything. Had like 4-5 boyfriends and probably textfucked even more than that. Made friends with all these chicks and shit. Had fake pictures, Alyssa was blonde... and only 1 person that I can remember noticed the different pictures I had were not of the same person.

Alyssa pretty much left a legacy behind. Again I kind of subconsciously trolled everyone with authority. With all these friends I made online to back me up I was actually pretty powerful and led to reforms in different parts of the game and caused a huge stink. Everyone in administration knew who the fuck she was and hated her more than anything. Of course I ended up being permabanned. When I google the full fake name (first and last) or the character name I used ingame, people are still fucking talking about her, goddamn. And this is like 2-3 years that I stopped doing this.

God I was gay as shit.

Only really got into internet communities when I was 11 or 12 on fucking, yeah, Gamefaqs. I posted on LUE and the Super Smash Brothers message boards. I was in a fucking SSB "clan" for people who liked playing as Pikachu - we got into internet debates ("clan wars") with other clans about which character would win in a fight. GOD I WAS GAY.

Then I went to the Neoseeker forums and made some e-friends that I now realize most likely hated my obnoxious ass. (hey guys lol o.O ^_^) Also I roleplayed SO MUCH and I honestly really enjoyed it even though every thread was just "medieval times magic and dragons RP!!"

To thread:

Did you get into hentai because you lurked list sites, jerking it to 30 second clips?

I remember having the thought "all these girls are like my moms age. Why aren't there any girls my age(12)" found out a few keywords (lolita, russian BBS, preteen etc) that worked well in google. You had to put them in and then go to the last page of search results.

By going backwards, you found the most obscure shit that was so cash.

I got into H after stumbling onto lolitampgs.com and clicking the "anime" section in search of cartoon cp. I found it.

We first got dial up around the turn of the century and I mainly used it for downloading roms and watching flash videos on Albinoblacksheep.

On one particular rom site there were always porn ads and I always intrigued by them and would sneakily look at them from time to time.

It was a few years after that when I started looking at porn after stumbling over a site call poopie.com in the process of putting in silly urls. I was the master of looking at porn with people in the room because I was a daring bastard. I usually saved porn to a floppy and fapped in my room over the pictures on my Win95
computer.

There was some scary times when the computer was going slow as it did and I had to close it quick and the time when my Mum and Brother were in plain view of the monitor and I had a regular window and a porn window. Luckily I closed both with my '1337' ALT+F4ing skill. I was also obsessed with leet speak
back then also.

I managed to loose my nerve back then and did it when the family wasn't home. Which I don't know why I didn't in the first place. This was aided by our broadband connection which made porn browsing easier. In all of my porn viewing career I have never
been caught.

I discovered 4chan about 05/06 because my friends were browsing it at school before it was inevitably filtered but macrochan never was. We browsed /b/ because it was fresh for us and we had never seen anything like it. Also we browsed /s/ nuff said. The other boards didn't strike us really.

Now I have my own computer in my room with the internet and I look at porn freely and have realised how bad /B/ is and am a robot now.

I CBF editing. Also underage B&.

>>3539603
>early web experiences
>Youtube
>I didn't look at porn again until about middle school, >Morrowind
>''real' porn until about six months later
>pornhub.com

Either there are some serious anachronisms in this post or you are underage b& as fuck.

>>3539505
He's not a trip, he's the guy the starts the RP "so how was your day" threads.

Also, I realize that a lot of the boards are similar, but I just kinda got sick of /a/ in general. I went there to talk about talk about various "obscure" anime and manga in moderation, and somewhere along the line, /a/ lost it's ways. What made /a/ special for me back then is now dead and gone.

If the board was shit, I often decided to image dump instead of just raging, and, well, you see how that turned out. Maybe someday I'll go back, but not now. Not for a while.

>>3539688
A little. Like I said, it's very vague, all the timings.

>>3539667
That was my attitude. I was often pissed that I couldn't find hot 13 year olds to fap to back when I was that age. I had no interest in older women.

back around the year 2001 our family got a computer and dial up internet. I mostly hung around cartoon network and played games on there, mostly extreme pong. Candystand was also a personal favorite. Then I discovered the exciting world of internet pornography...
A few years later I got an early account on the Adult Swim Message Boards (which I had completely forgotten about until recently). Then it got a wicked virus and we kind of ignored the damned thing for a few years.

DSL, shit's so cash.

>>3539603
Do you happen to be 15?

I have no idea what my very early internet experience was; my memory only really kicks in when I found Graal Online. My first few formative years on the internet were spent almost entirely on that game, probably age 10-12. Graal today is a hideous, clunky bastard child of a game, but back in the day...

Originally it was designed to be an online multiplayer version of Link to the Past, with graphics ripped straight from the game. When Nintendo sent them the inevitable C&D, they overhauled the graphics and to a small extent the mechanics and released it as Graal in its earliest version. I stepped into it just as it was coming out of its infancy and entering that golden period where there were just the right amount of players and player activity and still while the game engine was still relatively simple and true to its roots. It was glorious.

Think of the game as sort of a 2D, proto-Second Life. There was the "core," relatively small game world and then endless tracts of player-made frontierlands and extra areas to explore. The gameplay was crude and it didn't take long to max out on health and sword strength. Its lasting appeal came from the community spirit and the relative ease with which a player could make new content.

My moniker was Suz, which was the name of a golden lizard in a Patricia C. Wrede book. People mistook it as shorthand for Susan. I acquired some small renown for my levelmaking skills, which were apparently ahead of the curve of all the other 12-year-olds out there playing the game (there were some older players, but the average age probably was about 13-14). I made several large house projects and many aborted attempts at immense story-driven worldspaces. I was rarely intelligent enough to get any of them actually put up online.

My skills apparently attracted the attention of many of the original designers of the game who were assembling a dev team in an attempt to completely reinvent Graal from the bottom up. The project was called "New World" and although it was open for anyone to apply they personally invited me into it.

Of course we were a team of amateurs working towards an impossibly grand goal. I worked on the design of a few houses and city segments before losing interest and functionally leaving the team. Later on I felt remorseful and reapplied, but by that time the entire thing was slowly disintegrating from the inside out. Part of the reason was that New World was only one of several revitalization efforts going on at the time, and other ones were proving to be faster/easier to implement and more importantly, more profitable - this was the dawn of New Graal, a hazy period where the Graal project began branching off into a number of variant games, some of which at least were pay-to-play. One was a 2.5D take on Graal Classic, another was a short-lived 3D reinvention that went nowhere fast, and hell if I know what else. Looking at the main site now, there's more bullshit there now than I can wrap my head around, and I'm pretty sure classic Graal the way I used to know it is long dead and gone. After New World crumbled I sort of lost interest and drifted away to other parts of the internet. I think I got tangled up in NWN shortly after.

I always went to cartoon network and disney for the flash games and such, and got into the cartoon network "space" thing where you bought characters from the shows and put them in your place, it was pretty neat.
Also, I would go to a site for a DBZ magazine company, and followed link after link, exploring the deep dark abyss of the internet, filled with anime, fake information about future DB stories, and such. Then, from of those links, I found hentai. I found out about bible black, and some other hentais, and a lot of hentai game pictures. Of course I didnt know how to masturbate back then, so I just really looked at them.

>>3539794
I am between the age of 15 and 18.

My biggest lasting mark on the Graal world was my invention of the water maze, which was an insidious and frustrating mechanism that forced a player to carry a clay pot on their head while walking a series of very narrow paths surrounded by water. If they fell in they dropped the pot and a script would notice and teleport them back to the beginning. I guess they became all the rage after I left.

I still have every level I ever made for Graal, and even an "intro" level I made, linking them all for easy access so I could show them to my friends with minimal complications. If anyone wanted I could upload the zip and you could romp around in the same levels that used to be my whole goddamn world for a few years in my early adolescence. Oh, memories.

>>3539789
oh yeah, that's right
Early Neopets account also. From time to time I still feel remorse that I just sort of let them die.

1. My mom showed me bored.com
2. Eventually a link for runescape came up.
3. I played for like 3 years and joined a fansite.
4. In the off-topic forum some guy posted a pixelcar.
5.I learned about them and began to love the Nissan 240SX
6. On Nicoclub some guy posted a lolcat and i followed it to ED
7. ED showed me /b/
8. after about a month my sickfuckery came out and i felt like i knew about /b/ enough to post and sound intelligent.
9. posted for about 6 months before going to /wooo/ and also coming here occasionally.
10. Now i'm here.

Fucking hell Graal Online. I don't think I've thought about that game for at least 8 years.

I used the Internet for the first time when I was eight or nine, when our school's library got their first three comptuers ever. They all ran Windows 3.1. I didn't give a damn about the Internet back then, really, but would spend hours in the lab playing Kid Pix.

Anyway, five or six years would pass before my family got a computer of our own... I mostly used it to talk to my best friend over ICQ or troll chat rooms. I was also very interested in Pokemon... There was this forum on Raichu.com that I would post on frequently. Eventually I started trolling there by pretending to be Team Rocket... I would hijack random threads and start Pokemon battles against the other kids there. Eventually my younger brother joined the forum and told on me to the lead admin after we fought over something stupid and she permabanned me.

My being banned was a turning point for me... After that I got involved in the RPG Maker scene and started to draw a lot (and make shitty sprites and animations in Paint). I saved my allownace for three months to buy a flatbed scanner and started whoring my (terrible. I was only 15 after all) art on Deviantart. I also learned from a guy my sister was dating at this time how to crack programs and I got involved in a few things that I really shouldn't have gotten involved in. During this time I would usually pretend to be a 19-year-old male online.

Once I finished high school I gave up on everything that I had ever done before and started going back and forth between posting here and working 60 hours a week. Then I went to college. lol

I wasn't born in the US, so I had no idea what computers even were until 1996 when I used a mac in 3rd grade. I eventually got a computer (lol, I even remember the specs: Cyrix 686 CPU, 32mb RAM, 1gb HDD, S3 Trio 512k video card) in 1997. I got the game Wolfenstein 3D soon after because it was the only game under $10 (my parents were stingy as fuck) and played that game nonstop.

I then bugged my parents for the internet (the excuse that I used was "a computer without internet is like a car without wheels" lol), and they finally got it for me in mid 1998. Now, remember, I'm only 12 at this time and had only been using the computer for about a year, but I managed to install a modem and connect to the internet all by myself, with the support guy from compu-serve that was helping me on the phone.

By this time I had gotten a new game, Starsiege (the regular one, not Tribes, for those familiar with the series), that had multiplayer, and I started playing it nonstop. I was the youngest member in any of the clans, and my group -CC- (which stood for "The Chan Clan", lulz) was very well known at the time....

>>3540015

...The way we kept in contact in Starsiege was through ICQ. I quickly found the "search for people" feature and that started me with online chat. By 1999 at the age of 13, I became a pro at trolling, by that quickly came to an abrupt end when I inadvertently downloaded a trojan, which allowed some douche named TiMiNaToR to fuck up my computer (lol, subseven, anyone?).

I was the only one out of my entire circle of friends and family that was computer literate at this time, and around this same time I had unintentionally found porn (I had no idea it even existed beforehand). Since my parents were clueless, I started browsing xxx sites late at night (I remember my favorite was blondjes.nl), but my modem would wake up my parents when it connected (dialup) so I figured out how to turn of the sound and viewed away. Also, around this time, I found out about shownomercy.com, a gore site which was the precursor of ogrish.

Then in 2000, I started playing Starcraft, started posting on a bunch of Starcraft sites (sclegacy was popular), moved on to gameFAQs and a bunch of other boards, and continued to troll.

What I still find funny in all of this was that I never thought of the internet as a serious place and laughed at everything I saw. Even when my computer got hacked, I laughed at myself for being so retarded.

I can't really remember earliest child experiences on web.

Earliest I can remember, I went to a website called The Spriters Resource for a while because I loved looking at all the sprites, which was what sprung my interest in spriting and art in general.

From there I found my way to www.drshnaps.com which I thought had the coolest people ever, but I've realized by now they were and are a bunch of self loving ass holes. I've checked recently, they've got the same exact members as two years before. Those ass holes shoot anyone with bad grammar on sight so I learned quickly proper grammar.

It was a shitty intro to the internet. Those ass holes were the ones who showed me 4chan though.

>>3540015

Sweet Christ, you are nothing like me.
That's actually pretty hot though.

Dont remember the year, But my dad brought home some 3D Centipede game, played it and when I was done...Netscape. Games, games, and neopets later I had The first tom Clancy game. You couldn't even see the gun, all you had was crosshairs but it was online, and fun as hell. played that till 3-4am.

The first thing I remember on the internet was getting a computer in 95 and searching for online games before they existed. After that, I would sometimes use microsoft's "comic chat" that came with

>>3540043

Nothing like learning internetz firsthand.

See Cindy Crawford's shit

It was about 93/94 when I smooth talked my way into the restricted adult area of a BBS. I saved lots of pixelated porn to floppies. 14.4kbps. Good times. :)

I don't remember the year, but I was young, and I loved digimon. So I got into the Pojo digimon forum and became a pretty somewhat popular regular on there. I was part of a community and I was such a fag about it. Anyway Pojo wiped its digimon board and some of the community moved to their little relocation camps but most of them just disappeared into the mists. Most of my "friends" ended up going to this crappy little ezboard some 13-year-old girl made. There was like ten of us there and we had some ridiculous number of posts because we all had a dozen or so alts. It was actually kinda fun at the time, because we were all aware that we were all pretending to be all the other people, but we never broke character. Then the admin through a teenage shitfit, and I followed my friends to another board.

The DHZ. The Digimon Hentai Zone. SIGH. At the time I didnt see anything wrong with it. I was like... 14? at this point. Honestly, digimon itself had lost its luster for me personally, and the porn was even more uninteresting (unarousing, too- you've never seen such a dense cloud of poorly drawn pornography) but I enjoyed feeling like I belonged, and I figured, hey, its none of my business what these people fap to. I was still somewhat well-known in those circles. So I hung out on the boards, IM'ed almost exclusively with those people, became a member of their starcraft guild. Then I got a got a little older and I realized I was hanging out with a bunch of creepy loner pedophiles, and abandoned the place. I checked back, like a year later, to see if anyone remembered me, and apparently there had been a thread where everyone was assuming that I had died or something.

I was retarded, but thank god I wasn't so retarded as to leave any connection between my online presence and my IRL identity.

I was much like everyone else, curiously looking through MSN groups and chats.

First porn experience was when I was on a webpage for sonic the hedgehog (i was huge fan of comic) I was looking through the fansites and one of them ended up linking to the first porn I ever saw. These 2 girls and 1 bottle (lol) first they were just blowing in it, until finally they stuck it in their vagoo.

I didn't know about masturbation and I enjoyed watching, so I thought I was cool sitting there with a hard on and doing nothing.

>>3540180
Then I used Sierra Online, or somesuch, and MCI Internet. Newsgroup porn was next. It took all night to download a crappy 10 min vid clip. But it was worth it.

>>3540035
>I learned quickly proper grammar
>learned quickly proper grammar
>learned quickly grammar

facepalm.jpg

Everquest -> Graal -> Starcraft -> NSider forums (Official Nintendo forums) -> 4Chan

I have my own forum which is active for the last three years. About 30 unique views a day.

So far I think I turned out pretty well.

>>3540226
Sentance structure they didn't give a damn, it was just capitalization, commas, and periods.

First time I got a private pc was about 2002 around december.

I joined my first forums back in 2004, and was with them until about 2007 when the community died. After that my web activity kind of split into this multi site shit that everyone does. My first game was a demo for delta force black hawk down, and I played it so fucking much. Like probably for two years because my parents didn't buy me anything until like 2005 which is when I got counter strike source. I joined a clan and that ate up my sophmore and junior years.

I joined theatre my senior year in highschool, and thank fuck. I was socially by this time, because I had never made a friend until then, Like literally this was the first time since like grade 6 that I left my house and went out with people. That prepared me for social contact at my community college which is where I am now, and I graduate this fall with an aa so I can hopefully transfer to uf.

still a virgin though, but fuck I have friends. halfway there right?

>>3540345
Keep on truckin'
Truckin' on down the line
Hey Hey Hey
I said keep on truckin'
Truckin' my blues away!

>>3540158
fuck, accidentally submitted that early...continuing on...

Later, I joined some site on the internet about collecting virtual stickers. I can't remember why I would want to do such a stupid thing, but it was there that I came up with my first sn, "zoomcool." After that, I became interested in creating webpages and made a few really shitty geocities and angelfire pages. Around 5th grade, I got caught in the pokemon craze and spent a lot of time around those sites. From there, I continued being a complete faggot and found my way to neopets.

Fortunately, my time on neopets shaped who I am today. For a while, I tried to play the game normally, but constantly wondered how some people were amassing huge collections of points while I struggled to get more than a few thousand. This wondering led me to a community of neopets "hackers," who wrote programs that exploited the games to get points easily. I eventually took a step even further from that and started scamming people by setting up a fake login page, which sent their username and password to my email. This turned out to be extremely fun, and my collection of neopoints quickly grew to 5 million. But, I was stupid and eventually fell victim to the same scam that I used.

After neopets, I moved onto a new internet addiction on graal online. I was terrible and mostly hung around the NPulse server because it was less laggy than the main. I think my K/D ratio was 1:50. I mostly just sat around in the non-PK areas or water and chatted. But like most players, I started to drift away once they started charging to play.

>>3539800
THAT'S ME IN THE MIDDLE
THAT'S ME IN THE SPOT LIKE LOSING MY RELIGION

/fag

In 98 or 99, we got dial-up. I remember my grandmother was babysitting us and she ran into the computer room because the dial-up noise freaked her out and she thought I was breaking things. The first website I went to was the Limp Bizkit site, because, being a prepubescent angry little girl, it was the ultimate band for me. Then, AIM and the related chatrooms, interwebs boyfriends, making retarded sprite comics because of my fucking friend Kara (who has gone by the name Nami and made shitty sprite comics pretending she was a fucking enchidna, then a fox, then a hedgehog, etc. this is her deviantart: http://werewolfofthewater.deviantart.com/ and her livejournal: http://werewolfofwater.livejournal.com/ and her usernames:
AIM - WerewolfOfWater
WL - WerewolfOfTheWater@gmail.com
E-Mail - WerewolfOfTheWater@gmail.com)
I haven't talked to that girl in years. She deleted her crappy sprite comics after I made fun of them, actually. So if you want to troll her and take her idiot self down a notch, go for it. Look at her deviant art. She's like fucking Chris-Chan.

Used kazaa to look up porn. Noticed that most porn had the same keywords in the filename, dogprnggg lolita etc., so I started just searching for those terms, thinking they were some kind of secret internet slang for pornographic images. Saw some child porn, was unfazed by it until years later when I started having nightmares about it and the memories came flooding back.

>>3540404
From there, I started hanging around GameFAQs forums. Back then, there was a forum dedicated solely providing feedback on game reviews, and I spent a lot of time writing up reviews and commenting about others'. But that got boring after a while, so I naturally continued my spiral into the abyss of internet faggotry by joining the IGN forums.

fuck it...I don't feel like writing a complete autobiography of an internet superhero, so here's a list of where I went from there:
IGN
Counterstrike
assorted paintball-related forums
SomethingAwful
4chan

>>3540399


This about the virgin stuff?

Because I am tottally working on it.

You know, by being on 4chan and all.

>>3540399
You're one step ahead of me matey.

>>3540406
You sound like you could use a good mushroom slap.

I started on gamefaqs looking up hints for my new n64. As I matured I got the fuck out.

>>3540466
I like mushroom slaps :3

My first internet experience was probably on a Harvest Moon message board.
I SPOKE IN ALL CAPS AND USED SO MANY EMOTICONS WITHOUT PUNCTUATION.

I started my first website at 11, learned how to design templates, etc.

Now I'm here. Fuck.

The first proper web browsing I did was via Mosaic...a friend and I were looking up misc shit but in particular I remember loading up a site about The X-files. I can't remember how long it took to load but it seemed like ages. This would have been around '94 and we would have been ~14. We found porn (and much more) before that though via local BBSes and telnet through an unsecured dial-up connect via a local college. It's been an interesting 15 years or so. Pretty amazing how much (and how little) things have changed.

rom forums initially. the people were pretty ridiculous. didn't really have much to do with any of them individually, just occasional shooting the shit.
after that newgrounds, likewise.
after that a kingdom hearts forum. though in a similar way as the above (i never stayed up all night in an im conversation with anyone &c) i really do like the people there. weird to say but i sort of grew up with them even though i only talked to them over a free-for-all thread. left that a few years ago after i decided it was time, still lurk, bad habit, every once in a few moons somebody from there will try to strike up a conversation.

1997. Netstorm. Yeaaaaaaah.

-Friend showed me starcraft at age 11

-Got into playing Diablo 2

-Joined a forum been there since I was 13 I am now 19.

I'd used computers in school since the early 90's, we still had apple II's lol. Then we got our first "IBM" comps, and each one was on dial up access in the computer lab. 15 computers on one dial up line is sloowww, and useless.

We didnt do much but learn to type and all that horseshit.

Around 98/99 i and most of my friends got computers, and linked up on msn messenger. After that it was warcraft 2, diablo 1 and 2, starcraft, red alert, AoE 1 and 2, etc.

We used to get on msn "zone" and spam/troll the checkers/chess rooms until we were all banned.

Discovered porn/fapping almost immediately, and where to get the free preview galleries. As someone else mentioned i had to memorize the directories and links to get places, even though i knew how to clear my history lol.

Around 2002 i joined my first forum, a general discussion forum older than the internets that just went down a few months ago.

Met my first IRL gf over msn messenger sometime in 2003/04, she lived in a nearby town and we were together for about a year and a half, then i moved.

First was Warcraft 2 Battlenet, back in the late 90s.

True internet experience came in middleschool when I started liking Digimon. So I surfed the web for Digimon stuff, and I found plenty of sites.

There was one site, Megchan's Digimon Emporium, that had tons awesome of stuff. I checked out all the cards, looked at a bunch of screenshots of episodes that had aired in Japan, and then started reading fanfiction. Within short order, I was reading the "lemon" stuff, complete with plenty of hot, Digi-destined fucking.

I fapped long and hard to those stories.

>>3538979
HAI EMIRY RI!

I used computers since preschool but I never got one of my own until I was 9.

I stayed on nick.com a lot back when it had chatrooms (mamamedia I think...it was always full). I checked out animorphs stuff and did the usual kid thing. I had AOL and AIM early on, despite not having any friends to chat with. I also had those Petz games Dogz and Catz 2,3 and 4. I looked at a lot of those websites.

I was like 6 or 7 when we first got AOL. My SN was my real name shortened (My dad thought this was a good idea?). I don't remember much all about it except I was always downloading random sound bits from shows and stuff and they were always in .zip and AOL's pkunzip never fucking worked ever. No idea what I was doing. Then I had a babysitter one time, I showed her my AOL acct and told her the password because she asked (lol 6). The next day my account was spammed with porn and shit and was then banned, I don't even know the crazy bitches name!

My first chatroom experience was with AIM, when I was around 10-12. I used to go into random chat rooms and I made some friends, there was one who IM'd me a couple days ago and was still on my friends list, I had forgot they even existed. Friends and I would go in chatrooms together and start shit, whether it was just spewing retarded stuff or insulting people (trolling as I now know it). I think I even had a girlfriend on AIM, although that was short-lived. My cousins and I also used to go on some online pool game that included a chatroom, and would try and 'flirt' with girls (or what we thought were girls). Surprisingly, we got most of these girls' emails & phone numbers, plus where they lived (of course I just assumed these were real, they could have all been fake lol) considering we were like 11. I still have all the email addresses and #s written down on a bunch of post-its. When I got curious about porn, I had no idea where to go, so I just typed in Nude.com, which pretty much came up with one picture of some naked chick on all fours. Of course after some consulting with my peers, I evolved to using google images (safesearch off =D), then alltheweb video, then the actual pornsites (bangbros), and finally, lo and behold, 4chan. I pretty much consider 4chan the hub of the internet, Times Square of the tubes if you will.

There you have it, an internet coming of age story.

OH SHIT
OH SHIT
OH SHIT

I LIKEM WITH A SMALL WASTE AND NICE HIPS
EN I MHYTN FROM THE BACK I GET A DEAD LAYBEE
LOW DOWN STEADY LIKE A LICE ICE-80 KA WHY LIKE A HYKE K-D

I remember the first time I saw porn. I was with my aunt and our cat was pregnant, so we decided to look up "pussy names" on this search engine (before Google... I think it was named Copernic? Pulled data from every search engine that existed back then). I was like... 8 and she was like... 20 and she didn't even realize it until it was too late.

I convinced some chick to send me nudes when I was 13 without even knowing what the photos were. I was just curious to see this chick I was chatting to and had no idea why she was so reticent about linking the pictures.

She wasn't particularly hot or anything anyway so meh,

My first internet access was around 1990 or so.

I discovered that the local educational dialin numbers (merit.edu) would allow access without a password if enough of the lines were free. You were restricted to telnet connections to a few preselected sites.

One of them was burrow.cl.msu.edu, which would give you access to a text based gopher client. From there, you could navigate through the menus, and find a link to telnet to nyx.cs.du.edu ( http://nyx.net ) which would give a shell account to anyone who filled out a form.

Downloading files was tricky; I ended up UUencoding them and just capturing the text in my client. To download the UUdecoder, I found a program which would encode a short file into a script you could feed to debug.com, and have it create the file.

I used to be on Pogo... A lot.

I got pretty pissed when EA started shitting all over it so I rage quit. Met a few characters but mostly just embarassed myself because I thought online relationships were SRS BISNESS

Oh wow, earliest experiences was learning to type and playing Nippy the Squirrel or some shit like that back in early 2000s, then I read a Pendragon book and lurked the forums [link was in the back of the book] for a while, and eventually registered. Those forums were a suprisingly bustling metropolis; a lot of kids probably got their internet start there. I trolled around the General Comments section and KAWAIEED about the books for a bit and then began flaming like a fucker.

D: In like 05 and 06 people called me a 'flaming god' and I was like the alpha male of the internet and my strut was so pimped out. I remember I had account names like 'pymp_masta_DJ" and "playa_hata".

I'm still a pseudo-celebrity on that site and people love'hate me, a couple of newfags once tried this anarchy thing on this offshoot website that I made [got 500 members, I thought I was the SHIT]. But yeah, I stopped going there only like last year, but stopped becoming an active member of the community in 06 when I discovered the chans.

D: I miss the internet.

Me and the Internet had some great times. I latched onto porn right away. I looked up fanfiction and fanart of everything that was on on Saturday mornings, particularly Digimon. I bummed around on various all-topic forums, usually with waning interest after a couple of months. I chatted with older teenagers and had cybersex three to four times a week. Once I had cybersex with this girl that called herself Bubbles and lived in Trinidad. I never got into Neopets or Newgrounds or any of that shit. It was around 2000 that I got turned on to Star Trek, and one day in fifth grade I stayed inside from recess and downloaded MIDI's of Star Trek music. I thought I was the leetest dude ever.

Then I discovered Wikipedia in 2003, and 4chan in '04 or '05, and I've pretty much matured as an Internet fucktard.

fuck your kid chatters, motherfucker

freezone ftw.

I guess I started searching for Pokemon stuff after someone told me they saw a picture of Ash and Misty kissing on the internet.

I found Neopets very early on in my internet experience, when they still had theme parks, and I stayed on that forever, which got me into basic html/css coding by doing look up pages and guilds and stuff. I hung out on the Help Chat message board and was a regular there. I also had this weird phase with pixel art and making dolls with pixel templates.

This was also the time when I discovered porn, reading stuff on Literotica and playing porn games on Newgrounds.

I eventually transitioned into Gaia but left before they changed it from go-gaia.com. From there I found 4chan, and lurked /b/ until /r9k/ was made.

>>3541363
PENDRAGON. Tell me forum name now! I bet i knew you

>>3541363
Tell pendrqgon name.

Started with AOL chatrooms back in 95 when I was ~5 or 6 years old. Lurked poke'mon sites and printed pictures of poke'mon which I traced and sold to kids at school (lol). Hung around nick.com and eventually ended up at neopets. Started perusing ROM sites when I was 11 and that's when I discovered teh pr0nz. Shoot, I still remember my first jerk, it will never feel that majestic again. Anyway, I was a heavy lurker. Never had much to say I guess.

Pokemon chatrooms and websites. I had a phobia of porn because my mom was a feminist dyke who told me porn hurt women badly.

to be honest, this thread makes me rage at seeing how fucking young anon seems to be, judging by these timelines.

keep that shit to yourself, so i can respect your opinion please.

>>3541434
>>3541419

Chances are I probably made some of you newfags. 4chan always floated around the background of that forum but I flaunted the memes a bit too much. And I'll toss some names and see if you guys know who they are, or can associate me to them.

Rellin - no shit
Seed
Hocha
DJ [lolwat]
Umm.. 04 - 05.. metalheadbanger, drew, patchuly, scy, etc.

There's another obvious one whose more notorious on that site than me though if I mention his name you penfags'll know exactly who I am, hell you probably do already. But me and him go together like peanutbutter and horsecock.

I used to go on yahoo chat when I was 12ish. I pretended to be a 21 year old college student that randomly fucked guys. Made loads of foreign 'friends' untill I got bored of it.

My first web experiences were mainly online computer games. Way back then it was some good old Command & Conquer on Westwood Chat, StarCraft, and Diablo II.

I'll never forget those experiences, mainly because I was on it 24/7 and it was amazing. I'm not much on it anymore (gf, friends, schoolio) but I still play SC. I remember a lot of people I met way back then and still remember some old strange conversations I got into with strangers (mostly about sex, no not with pedos). I miss it sometimes, growing up when multiplayer gaming was at its genesis, and I was king.

I also trolled around flame4cash and rokked for like five or six months.

Back in 1995 my family got dialup Internets through MSN with our new computer. This was actually our third computer, but we never heard of the Internet before. My mother is computer illiterate, and my dad knows a little about computers but not much, so we didn't know there was anything outside of the "MSN Explorer" program or whatever it was called that came with the computer. So we just used it to look at news, etc. I've been into video games for a long time, and of course I played Pokemon like crazy, so somewhere (probably at school) I found out there were these "webpage" thingies about video games you could look at with "Internet Explorer."

So I figured out how to do that on our computer and went to the Nintendo website and whatnot. I was amazed; there was all this information just sitting there at my fingertips. Then I figured out how to search for stuff (FUCK YEAH ALTAVISTA) and looked up Pokemon guides. Holy shit, there were thousands! So that's how I found out about GameFAQs, IGN, and some other sites. I started posting on the forums at IGN and Pokemasters, which gave me my first taste of online interaction, and from there I picked up Internet culture (leetspeak, all your base, etc.). Also started hanging out in the Pokemasters IRC channel (even paid for mIRC, ha ha), talked to a few people over instant messenger, and I made a shitty little Tripod site with some software that was on the computer.

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In 2001 one of my friends told me about this comic you could look at online called Megatokyo. So I checked that out and was blown away. I watched the Pokemon cartoon, and I knew from Nintendo Power that it was an "anime," so I thought it was so cool that there was a comic done in that style (obviously I didn't know about other anime or webcomics). I started following Megatokyo, and eventually joined the forums there. Thing is, there's one forum for the comic, and all the rest are about other topics. Also, there were a number of fairly bright people in the other forums, who mostly came when the comic had just started and gotten linked by Penny Arcade, and then grew to dislike it as it got shittier (as I eventually would), but still hung out in the non-comic forums. I got sucked way in to the place, racked up thousands of posts, and also hung out in an IRC channel some people from one of the forums made. In the process, I got exposed to loads of information about politics, religion, anime, open-source/free software, etc. (particularly because I often got involved in debates). Also found out about Internet porn. At first I looked at those "non-nude models" because, I reasoned, they weren't really dirty pictures, since nothing was showing, but eventually I started looking for hardcore stuff. I got caught once looking at some picture of a threesome, and my mom was apocalyptic at the moment, but after a week or so she pretty much forgot about it. I stayed away from porn for a little bit, but then started taking more care; I only looked it up when they were out of the house, and stored downloaded stuff on a CD-RW that I hid in my room.

golden compass/northern ligts forum. I think it was citagazze.net or aomething. My name was jesuspwns and jesus's homeboy. Major christfag back then. Still am. Message me please if you remember

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In 2004 I followed links from the forums and IRC to Wikipedia and some picture site called 4chan after it came back online. I figured out you could edit the pages on Wikipedia, and 4chan didn't require an account to post, and from then I was completely hooked. For a while I was like >>3538898 and was pretty much addicted to Wikipedia (well the English one, of course). Edited articles like crazy, joined the IRC channels to watch for vandalism, posted in deletion discussions, became an admin, the whole nine yards. Stayed up late many a night editing articles. I also lurked 4chan periodically, but eventually I started frequenting it more and more, especially /b/ back when it was often funny. I also set up Linux dual-boot on our computer, so I was able to start building a porn collection (since all the user accounts are passworded). In 2005 I built my own computer and put it in my room, so from then on I was pretty much an Internet junkie. Spent looooots of time on /a/, /b/, and /v/, and thanks mostly to /b/ I became pretty desensitized and cynical. Also /a/ got me into anime and hentai. Lots of late nights. I managed to finish high school and started college, but by then I was sick of school and I hated dealing with people (by the end of high school I had already become pretty much a loner). Also I was taking an engineering degree, so I got hit with some pretty tough classes right off the bat, especially calculus, which for some reason I found impossible to get my head around even though I aced all my math classes in high school. Got depressed, and the Internet, especially 4chan, was my escape! Who needs classes? Tried therapy and antidepressants, wound up flunking out anyway. So since last year I've been sitting at home leeching off my parents and spending all day on the computer. If it wasn't for the Internet I'd probably have killed myself a while back.

I was first introduced to the internets through Neopets. /facepalm.

Other than that, several notable experiences...

-I went on a chatboard where we RP'ed being dinosaurs. It was basically a furry chatboard before I knew what it was. I was a velociraptor because velociraptors are fucking cool.

-I went on a cybersex chatboard frequently and pretended to be 10 years older than I was. Sex ed through cybersex, mhm.