My uncle showed me a website where I could download GTA 3 mods.
Half-life 2. I never really used the internet until i made a steam account in 07. I played the Xbox version of HL2 in 06. Year later i find out about it on PC, so i got it. That single game has since expanded to 130+ and i've been on FP since 08. Lost my old account, so i just use this one now.
I first learned about the internet when I was in 5th grade. The computer teacher logged on via Prodigy and as he example of what you could use the internet for told us that they were planning the "final" Nightmare On Elm Street movie.
First time I ever used it myself was in High School. I learned you could get detailed guides for games off the internet. I spent an hour and a half printing out some 30+ page guide for the village building mini game in Breath Of Fire II and earned my only infaction every towards the schools internet usage policy(because I got caught using it for "non educational" purposes, yet they did squat to the kids that were looking at porn.........).
Well I used the internet heaps when I was a kid, but I really only became a member of steam late 2009-2010.
Newgrounds, Addictinggames, and the Lego website forums.
In terms of PCgames (since some people talk about that as well here)
Not counting little kid games or things like Lego Island, around 2000 or so, my dad fixed up an old dos machine and I had three games, Tyrian, Rise of the Triad, and Daggerfall. I wish we didn't sell all that stuff years back though.
i frequented some shit pokemon forum when i was 8
it ruined me forever
I have a good bit to thank and hate the [URL="http://forum.blockland.us/"]Blockland Forums[/URL] for. Back in 2008 it was a really damn funny community, great people, the mods were cool, lots of fun to be had. First community I've ever joined, and holy fuck I was a bit of an idiot. I learned from my mistakes though, but later on the community just became shit, I became an asshole, got banned, and now I have no reason to return.
Nobody there can take a joke. They're argumentative as shit, extremely sensitive. The community is pretty tiered and you get respected by being a massive cunt. Full of ignorant elitist / arrogant assholes, and just general dumbasses who have no idea or authority on what they're talking about. The moderators are shitty, only about 2 actively participate in the community and one's a raging faggot who has no idea what he's doing. Took my knowledge of internet forum to Facepunch and I like this place heaps better.
TL:DR don't go to blockland unless you have a time machine
Computers has always had a presence in my life considering my father has always worked with and around computers since before I was born.
Towards the age of 8 I started becoming involved in multiplayer games, hosting my own server in Unreal (the first one, still have fond memories) as well as playing Half-Life single player and the like.
First became a member since I heard of Tracy Beaker and wanted to play on that website. Spent ages trying to win at the CBBC games. Good times.
I became a full fledged member of The Student Room in 2011 and found this forum by accident when searching for the "Game Skyrim" forum and what it actually did.
YouTube in 2010, I used to make loads of Pivot animations, I later joined Darkdemon.org. Stopped animating at the beginning of 2012, and got into gaming at the middle of 2012, I later joined Facepunch.
[QUOTE=avon43;43770517]Miniclip[/QUOTE]
this, but prior to that, my mom set me up with a kid's AOL account. Ah, dial up, I do not miss thee.
I wasn't actually all too interested in computers when I was younger, we always had one in the house but I found books and Lego much more interesting. Eventually my brother got an Xbox so I became interested in the Halo series of games, I ended up installing Halo 1 for the PC on our computer, I ended up joining some Halo mod forum and then I very quickly became entranced.
My mom used to be a computer nerd and as a result I ended up the same way
It was around the mid-90s
I was a kid at school. Playstations had come out.
My Dad just bought a PC for like £1,000, (I dread to think the specs for that price)
To me, this thing looked fucking amazing.
I asked what it could do and he told me he could print out cheats for my games.
[url]www.cheatcc.com[/url] was the site he used.(it looks very different now)
I ended up selling cheats at school for £1 a game.
Then! This game happened. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7XzWfwicKY"]Air Warrior 3[/URL]
56k modem, online, shooting people down. REAL people. not AI.. (I [B]really[/B] hate any AI in game)
By this point I had my own PC and was LAN'ed to not only my Dad's PC but nextdoors too.
We joined an Air Warrior clan called "The Krate Squadron" or something along them lines with people all across the UK, we even met up and went Airsoft weekends in the Welsh Valleys once in a while.
(To me this was amazing but most of the other kids at school didn't really understand about networks, websites and all that stuff.)
And Thus! I become a lifetime member :)
Unsure exactly. i wouldn't have thought it was the 90's since that was when our dad would be all "don't go on the PC, you'll break it", i barely remember what he actually did on it, he wasn't computer savvy now, so i wouldn't have thought he'd be on porn back then.
Sometimes our older brother would hog the PC all night doing...things whilst looking at pictures of muscly WWF Divas, hoarding the images on floppies then placing a fan on top of the monitor for about 30 mins before the parents would get back from Bingo. I mainly remember browsing random sites for Pokemon info where they'd have things like Charco(a)lt and whatever, and maybe even go on the Fox Kids site.
Definitely remember Neopets though, one time i played enough games to get 40k/80k Neopoints or so just so i could mutate my Aisha, later on i joined Runescape (and still play that) then it sorta grew organically. wasn't interested in Steam though my brother got me into it by gifting me a copy of Torchlight. also joined WoW and kingdom of Loathing. sorta at that point that im aware of the internet, including the potentially shadowy bits.
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