Me, about 18 years. I've seen a lot of changes from back then until now. A lot of things haven't changed a bit. How long have you been on and what have you seen change the most if anything at all.

10 years, the way people hide and the outlandish screen names

Me since 1999, so I have not seen many changes but still hate Vista and Aol..

I've been on it since Al Gore invented it.

I got my first email account when AOL just came on the market. Before that, I remember sitting in the college computer lab on the old dos based MUDs. I remember having to use dos based news groups because they didn't have this type of forum yet on the internet. Websites were all text based since graphics ate up so much space. A 1 gig personal computer wasn't even heard of then.

I wonder how many people will get that. FUNNY

I'm waiting for someone to tell us he was working in a lab and the computer he had to use took up the entire wall......

This time? About 4 hours now.

Damn I just remembered the huge old Apple computers in elementary school, now they have fridges with computers built into them with tv's!! All I need is a porta potty in my kitchen and I will never leave.

Danette, you just reminded me. My first computer was a Commedore Vic 20.

since win 98 i have seen a lot of changes some good some bad. i think you have to have a little comon sence now a days to play online. i do think that the internat has made life better and worse at the same time. easier to stay in touch but makes you more lazy.

DAMNIT!!! That's what I was gonna say!!! That's my line!!! Good post deluxe....good post...

Oh yes the dreaded DOS based programs. Of course back then it was all we had and your right, looking at even one pic would take forever to download. I had to deal with sending information to the RailRoad and all done on DOS. But the kicker was even though it was done on a computer I to print it out to fax the information because it was faster.

Since 1999, and the internet has become exponentially more useful on the high end, and exponentially more useless and cluttered on the bottom end.

The most significant change of the internet is its pervasiveness...it's jumping onto cell phones, blackberries, etc. It's become a social construct which is weaving itself into the fabric of our culture much the same way televisions and telephones have done in the past.

10 years,

No arguments there your dead on

18 years

ive been on since last april, been self teaching myself the computer. before that only CRT's on wall st many years ago.

Since I was about 13 or 14...so around 12 or 13 years :) Most of the changes I've seen have been of illegal ventures lol (mostly within the hacking community as compared to the spam emails telling you to send $200 so that you can recieve your check for $3.5 million that you just won) and the introduction of warez (freewarez, sharewarez) the rise and fall of Napster. Saw hackers go from very public to now, where you never see their pen names anywhere anymore and they keep themselves to their own little "underground internet"

I kind of miss the mid to late 90s internet...but then, I'm still stuck in the 90s anyway, so I just miss everything about that time period. *shrugs*