(15/11/2010 11:06 PM)ShAdY545 Wrote:  So when did you first come across the internet?

1997

Didn't do much on it back then though.  Practically nothing actually, apart from me and my dad downloading some MS-DOS games.
At home, parents would always complain if I connected, since wee had dialup and they get pissed if they can't call whenever they want to.
Only got a non-dialup connection in late 2006 (256kbps 1GB/mo limit), a few months before I started this forum actually.

Anyway, I played Neopets back in 2000, which you could actually "cheat" back then (cause their script had various issues).  Always rushed to the library computers at lunch to play it, lol.
In 2001, also played Pokemon Crater, but I realised that the script was over-trusting of user input, and you could "forge" any Pokemon into your account, so I stuck like level 10000 Mewtoo's on my account.  Was fun beating other people, but got boring fairly quickly.
I was also doing HTML/Javascript poo poo at the time, so I fiddled a bit with hosting.

My next big thing I used to do was perhaps download random programs.  Used to spend ages looking at various freeware/shareware to see what interested me.
Somewhat became interested in forums in 2004 when I was looking up guides on Final Fantasy at GameFAQs, I saw a discussion board there.  I never joined back then though.

Got a PSP late 2005 and looked around to see what stuff was available for it.  Nearly updated it to firmware 2.60, when I saw an ad for free PSP games.  Since I don't click ads, I Googled for it, and ended up finding about PSP hacks and such, and just happened to see that firmware 1.50 was required for this stuff.  Had started following the PSP hacking scene out of interest (whenever I went to the library).

(15/11/2010 11:06 PM)ShAdY545 Wrote:  What do you do while on the internet?

Waste time on forums.

(15/11/2010 11:06 PM)ShAdY545 Wrote:  What would you do without the internet

Without a home connection or if it didn't exist at all?
Former, I'd browse at work/Uni/library, which is what I did before late 2006.
Latter, I probably wouldn't have been interested in computers as much, and this may actually significantly have affected my life, so IDK.