Internet-What drew you in to all that you view and your status on it?

Lightning said:

I think I was 11 when I next used it. I'd just gotten into Pokemon and started out downloading music in Napster and chatting with the people I was d/ling music from. I don't remember who it was but someone introduced me to Yahoo Instant Messenger and its chatrooms and I was addicted. I RPed Pokemon a lot and from there, moved on to forums and the like. :] I've been a forum-goer ever since. Toss in Livejournal in 2004 and Twitter in 2007 and you've got me addicted.

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MMM napster. I love how my favorite band shut it down but they cannot shut down limewire the most virus ladden thing ever.

The internet gave me music. Well, that's it. Oh, and a way to interact with friends over the world.

This is why I don't use Myspace and such, as I only chat with people in my school, which I could already accomplished in real-life.

Oh, the bygone days of the early internet. Slow as a snail and good for nothing but gaming gossip and mediocre cooking recipes. Anyone else feeling a bit nostalgic here?

I believe I first began using the internet as a serious method of interaction with people around the age of twelve. The exciting world of AOL instant messenger and websites with these cool things where you could ask people questions and they would answer you back... It was all like a marvelous dream. It would still be quite a few years before I would understand that one couldn't really enjoy an "internet forum" unless one was semi-active there.

What started out as a simple application I could use to learn how to catch Mew in the old Gameboy games would one day grow into something of an obsession. Who knew, right?

What a great question. Well, I'm not going to lie here like everyone else has. Especially Larry. I'd have to go with Porn.. or MSN. Probably both, but more MSN. Still, there's some porn in there.

I needed to find some FAQs for pokemon so I went on gamefaqs. Then I went on youtube, saw some hacks and then got here. Plus no one can hurt me.

Well, i used it for school, games etc, it wasn't until I played Runescape that I got into the internet. Runescape showed me the basics, I learned typing, the faces made of text, but most importantly, the forum. When I got pokemon Diamond and wi-fi, I found PC via google looking for some way to echange FC's. And it just grew from there.

I'm actually going to spoiler this because I don't want anyone to get after me or to bad rep me for it. It's not for sympathy and it DOES apply to the question.

(If you don't want to hear me talk about...you know what then don't read it. The reason it's spoilered is because I don't want to be attacked for being sympathetic because I'm not. I'm just making a point.)


I also managed to find it by just going on games and then looking for a place for anime, I found RXN, and soon after, I came here and I've been here ever since.

Archer said:

I've never really thought about it, I've just taken it for granted that I've always been an internet junkie. When in actual fact, I rarely got to to go online until I was about 12. Even at that stage, I didn't spend much time online, but it's gradually grown to the point where I can spend the entire weekend on the net, provided my parents don't disconnect the router on me.

But my internet obsession started after I became obsessed with GBA games. That grew to include pokemon and then just a vast range of computer-related concepts.

I regret it, to be honest, because it's taken away time I could have spent doing other things, but despite feeling I should, I always stick around for fear of missing something.

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I am also like that, but I started to go to internet even more after I started reading English websites (before, I read Chinese game guide sites).