ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet
rsheridan6: That would have been about 1991.  The web did not exist, or at least I wasn't aware of it, and for me the internet = Usenet.  I printed out copies of something called The Terrorist's Handbook ( http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/terror.html ) and sold it for $5 at school (and in 1991, this was perfectly acceptable behavior.  It didn't even occur to me that I could get in trouble for this).  Mostly I read stuff like this on alt.tasteless:
http://www.tocotox.net/bedtime/smut/beaver-and-mr-ed.html
(Warning - do not click on that link)But the internet didn't really make a big impression on me until I saw NCSA Mosaic (precursor to Netscape) on a Sun workstation a few years later.  I knew the web would be huge.