your first memory of the internet

[sexy-kitten]

I feel like I can relate to most of the replies. I remember bein on somalinet chat posted on North American shit. I had Msn for a while, myspace, hi5, yahoo music,I was on slife... I had so many accounts I lost track.

[Hargaysa1982]

I remember the landline connection damn it used to be so loud the computer was in our room and my uncle would always hear as we tried to sneak in the middle of the night to chat he would hear the freaking connection going shhhhhhhhhrrrggggghhhh and come in and turn the thing off.

[Talo alle udaa]

American online (AOL) was big back then.

[Twist]

Were you all born in the West? Damn!

I had my first internet experience back in Mogadishu, around 2000.

[Hyperactive]

twist adiku ma mardow bad wadanki ka so hajirtay?

[Cali_Gaab]

My first Internet experience was in 1998 I believe. There wasn't a lot to do for a young guy but I remember always going on Lycos and searching for lyrics to rap songs. I used to deliver newspapers just so I could buy two CDs a month and ask some family member to buy me another one, thus way I was always ahead of my friends when it came to music and they always usedto come to my house to see what I discovered next. I didn't live in a English speaking country which explains the lyrics. I really miss the dial up connection sound, can't believe I waited ages just to get online.

Napster was another thing, by the time this came out I had so many CDs and downloaded songs that I used to burn them and sell them to even school teachers, I went to a focked up school. With the profits I bought a scanner for my pc to print the actual album artwork, front cover and back with the tracklist. I was like a young Alex Sugar.

[gurey25]

1995 i used to pay 5 dirhams to get access at the only public library in Abudhabi the Cultural foundation (arabs apparently dont read )
I was shocked at the amount of Porn, damn.. the Local ISP started using a proxy filter 3 years later in 1998..

1998 was the first time i had a connection at home in australia, and it was an AOL account.

Who remembers AOL chat?

I used to use Lycos and Altavista and AskJeeves and i was always on yahoo.com
I signed up for Hotmail in 1998 as well and it was my address of choice.

I hardly use it now.. its Gmail all the way..

[Twist]

twist adiku ma mardow bad wadanki ka so hajirtay?

hyper, almost 10 years ago. In badan ma aha marka loo eego dadkiinan dhaqan-celiska ah.

[Twist]

1995 i used to pay 5 dirhams to get access at the only public library in Abudhabi the Cultural foundation (arabs apparently dont read )
I was shocked at the amount of Porn, damn.. the Local ISP started using a proxy filter 3 years later in 1998..

1998 was the first time i had a connection at home in australia, and it was an AOL account.

Who remembers AOL chat?

I used to use Lycos and Altavista and AskJeeves and i was always on yahoo.com
I signed up for Hotmail in 1998 as well and it was my address of choice.

I hardly use it now.. its Gmail all the way..

Arabs & porn waaba synonyms dee; maba kala haraane.

I remember back in Baghdad around late 2002 I used to go to an internet cafe inside Funduq Falastin and I used to visit a German site (had tons of topless models and stuff) and this Iraqi guy at the place was telling me how it's not allowed to visit such sites and stuff and I caught the bastard watching photos from the same site after a little while.