ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet
raquo: It was in 1997 or 1998, don't remember. I was ~10 years old, in LA in some summer school (I live in Russia) where I also got acquainted with Word and some 3D dinosaur game (I've never seen a computer before back then). The internet was the "fun" part, allowed after we completed all the tasks at the lesson. I did not know what on Earth I was supposed to do with it, and the teacher did not explain (considered it evident probably), and I was too shy to expose my dumbness and ask. I saw only some weird page which was probably talking about URL, servers, locations, etc, and there was a Camel drawn on it. So I had to spend time listening to endless 'your-mommy' jokes that other classmates were sharing and wondering where did they get them and why they were so dumb and wtf to do with the camel.And then there was my own Pentium 2, LivePix, 3dsmax, NFS 2/3, HL (!), Diablo, Borland Delphi, html teach-yourself book (without CSS!)...