I mean. im almost sure email. you would login and it would let you know you had new email. I miss the command line days.

Research for work. ISP was OCLC, no GUI, no mouse, telnet, Archie, FTP, Wais, Gopher, all that good stuff. My first email address started with X.400.

Elementary school computer lab, probably Ask Jeeves with the assignment being learning how to use a search engine.

Memorable? Neopets.

At home? I was downloading a Monster Truck Madness demo over 56k. Took 8 hours.

probably some AOL chat room.

I remember playing web games and looking up Pokemon cheats

I used Gopher to access the CIA world fact book. Don’t remember the year but I do remember it was 2400 baud.

Forum strategy guides and old PopCap games.

probably grade school learning how to use search engines like Yahoo Search (powered by Google)

I’m old enough that I was alive during the BBS golden years but my grandpa’s C64 (the first computer I ever used) never had a modem, nor did our family’s 486 PC, so my first exposure to either dialing direct into a thing or the actual internet was at school in computer lab. We didn’t get a modem until our family bought a Pentium III PC around 1999 or 2000

probably porn.

after that was probably gore like rotten.com.

after that? maybe neopets?

Pro’lly IRC.
Or porn.

It was 1992. I attended a small technical college in Norway. We would telnet to an irc server in NYC to chat. After that: email, ftp, gopher, Usenet, irc, and eventually the www and setting up the college’s first web server.

miniclip.com babyyy

edit: it’s not quite the magical place it once was, I wouldn’t bother going now

Shockwave games

I can’t be sure if this was the first actual use, but the first thing I can remember using the internet for was going to the public library to research Egyptian gods for a social studies project in Middle School.

A/S/L?