probably some AOL chat room.

I remember playing web games and looking up Pokemon cheats

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

Forum strategy guides and old PopCap games.

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

probably porn.

after that was probably gore like rotten.com.

after that? maybe neopets?

Pro’lly IRC.
Or porn.

miniclip.com babyyy

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

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.

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.

Shockwave games

A/S/L?

Internet research. Learning all about Henry VIII.

Back in 95 I used it to chat with people. Then computer games. So much diablo 1 and age of empires. Then Ultima online and started downloading warez… So games and more games. Also IRC which I still kind of use for the same chat room 30 years later.

1993. First the university bbs, then IRC, bit later Asylum MUD.